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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07967	The Christians manna. Or A treatise of the most blessed and reuerend sacrament of the Eucharist Deuided into tvvo tracts. Written by a Catholike deuine, through occasion of Monsieur Casaubon his epistle to Cardinal Peron, expressing therin the graue and approued iudgment of the Kings Maiesty, touching the doctrine of the reall presence in the Eucharist.	R. N., fl. 1613.	1613 (1613)	STC 18334; ESTC S113011	204,123	290

id est animam c. He that laid downe a greater thing for thee to wit his soule why should he disdayne to deliuer to thee his Body Therfore let vs Priestes as well as others heare how admirable a thing is graunted to vs Let vs heare I beseech you and let vs tremble therat for he hath deliuered his Flesh to vs he hath laid downe himselfe to be sacrificed And the same Father l. 3. de Sacerdotio O miraculum ô Dei benignitate c. O the Miracle ô the goodnesse of God! He that sitteth aboue with his Father euen in the very same instant of tyme is handled with the hands of all and deliuereth himselfe to such as are willing to entertaine and imbrace him Gaudentius tract 2. in Exod. saith Quod annuntiatum est credas c. Thou maist belieue that which is shewed thee for that which thou takest is the body of that Heauenly Bread and the bloud of that sacred Vine for when he deliuered conseerated Bread and Wine to his Disciples he said Hoc est Corpus meum Hic est Sanguis meus Let vs belieue him whom heretofore we haue belieued for Truth knoweth not to lye S. Ephrem lib. De Natura Dei minimè scrutanda c. 5. thus writeth Quid scrutaris inscrutabilia Si ista curiosè rimaris iam non fidelis sed curiosus vocaberis Esto fidelis atque innocens participa immaculato corpori Domini tui fide plenissima certus quòd agnum ipsum integrum comedis Why doest thou search things which are inscrutable If thou doest weigh these things curiously then thou shalt be called not faithfull but curious Be thou Faithfull and Innocent participate thou of the immaculate Body of thy Lord being assured through a most strong faith that thou doest eate the very whole Lambe it selfe And the same Father after in the said booke Hoc sanè excedit omnem admirationem c. This verily exceedeth all Wonder all Thought and all Speach which the only Begotten Sonne of God Christ our Sauiour hath performed to vs. He hath giuen to vs fire and the spirit to eate and drinke to wit his Body and Bloud Heere the Myracle exceeding Mans capacity the difficulty of belieuing it and the inscrutablenesse therof do proue that the Eucharist in his Iudgment was not only materiall bread signifying the body of Christ S. Gregorie Nazianzen Orat. 2. de Paschate thus writeth Absque confusione dubio come de corpus sanguinem bibe si saltem vitae desiderio teneris neque sermonibus qui de carne habentur fidem deneges neque ob passionem offendaris Constans esto firmus stabilis in nulla re propter Aduersariorum sermones fluctues Eate his body and drinke his bloud without any confusion or doubt if at least thou haue any desire of health neither deny thy faith herein for any speaches which may proceed of flesh neither be thou scandalized by reason of his Passion Be thou constant firme and stable neither fluctuate nor doubt thou by reason of any speaches of the Aduersaries where we are to note that he persuadeth his Reader to this so great a Mystery though the Aduersaries to wit the Gentile Philosophers doe scoffe thereat meaning in that the Christians belieued that they did eate the Flesh of Christ which cohortation of Nazianzene were needlesse if only we doe eate the flesh of Christ in signe and Figure S. Gregorie Nyssene Orat. Catechetica c. 36. 37. thus writeth Considerandum est quomodo fieri queat vt cùm vnum illud corpus assiduè per totum orbem terrarum tot fidelium millibus impertiatur totum cuiusque perpartem euadat in seipso totum permaneat It is to be considered how it can be effected that that very one same Body can dayly throughout the whole world be distributed to so many thousands of the faithfull it notwithstanding remayning whole in it selfe and whole or entyre in euery part But this were idely demanded if the Body of Christ were eaten only in signe since there is no difficulty in apprehending the eating of it in signe and figure S. Ambrose l. 4. de Sacramentis c. 5. saith Deinde ipse Dominus Iesus testificatur nobis quòd corpus suum accipiamus sanguinem numquid debemus de eius fide t●st●ficatione dubitare Et infra Dicit tibi Sacerdos Corpus Christi tu dicis Amen Hoc est verum Quod confitetur lingua teneat affectus Furthermore euen our Lord himselfe doth testify vnto vs that we take his Body and Bloud What ought we to doubt of his credit and testimony And afterwards The Priest sayth to thee The Body of Christ thou sayst Amen This is true therefore let thy affection hold that which thy tongue confesseth The first Councell of Nyce as it appeareth in the Acts of the said Councell thus saith Item etiam hic in diuina Mensa c. Furthermore in this diuine Table let vs not only with humility consider the Bread the Cup but lifting vp our mind in faith let vs vnderstand that in that sacred Table there is placed that Lambe of God who taketh away the sinns of the world that he is vnbloudily sacrificed by Priests and we truly taking his precious Body Bloud do belieue the taking therof to be a signe of our Resurrection and therfore we take not in a great quantitie but in a small that therby we may know it to be taken not for society but for sanctification In these words the Coūcell perswades vs that we should not rest in the formes of Bread Wine as if nothing were there else but that we are to consider that there is the true Body and Bloud of Christ though to our Eye it seemeth otherwise Now that this is the meaning of the Coūcell appeareth First because it there teacheth that we do take Preciosum Corpus eius verè his precious Body truly where the word Verè doth beare an opposition to that which is in Figure Secondly in that the Councell saith that the Lambe of God is sacrificed by Priests vpon the holy Table which wordes cannot extend to Christ as he is in heauen only Thirdly in that the Councell saith that we are to apprehend by faith that the Lambe of God is placed vpon that holy Table therfore the Councell did teach that Christ himselfe was vpon the Altar and not only in Heauen as our Aduersaries do hould So forcible and strong is this graue Testimony of so Ancient and Reuerend a Councell in defence of our Catholike doctrine heerin OF THEIR TESTIMONIES EXPRESSING The effect of the Eucharist and the veneration exhibited to the same CHAP. VI. THE fifth Mount of the Fathers Authorities in this Controuersie is gathered or heaped togeather out of such their Sentences cōteyning the Effect Vertue and Energy of the Eucharist as also their care reuerence and veneration exhibited to the same Concerning the first point they teach that it is the