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A43220	The speech of Nicholas Heath Lord Chancellor of England, Lord President of Wales, Bishop of Worcester, and afterward Archbishop of York and ambassadour into Germany / delivered in the Upper House of Parliament in the year 1555 ; proofs from Scripture that Christ left a true church and that there is no salvation but in the Catholick and Apostolick Church ; proofs from the Fathers that there is no salvation to be expected out of the true Catholick and Apostolick Church ; certain principles of the first authors of the Reformation not so well known to many of their followers ; the principle of the Catholick Apostolick Church ; testimony of the Fathers concerning the real presence.	Heath, Nicholas, 1501?-1578.	1688 (1688)	Wing H1337; ESTC R35988	79,776	181

a Decree rather be assented to than the contrary Decree of the forementioned Synod called at London Now for a further Confirmation of This Doctrine I will here deliver Evident Testimonies of most Eminent Fathers and Doctors of the Church concerning it The Truth of the Eucharist and Real Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist Confirmed by the Testimonies of the Fathers MAny of the Holy Fathers have taught That the Faithful partake of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist not with a mental mouth by Faith only as Calvin would have it but even with a Bodily Mouth in the way of a true and proper Eating So St. Augustin l. 2. contra Adversarium legis Prophetarum c. 9. We receive with a faithful heart and mouth Christ Jesus giving us his Flesh to eat and his Blood to drink and St. Leo Serm. 6. de jejunio mensis septimi where he Writes thus We ought so to communicate at the holy Table as that there be no doubt of the truth of Christ's Body for the same is taken with the Mouth which is believed with the Heart In like manner Calvin's Errour is Excluded by St. John Damascen for he tells us De Orthodoxa Fide l. c. 14. The Bread and Wine are no figures of the Body and Blood of Christ far be this from us to imagine but the very Body of Christ our blessed Lord himself testifying this is not a sign of my Body but my Body nor a sign of my Blood but my Blood The like hath Theophylact in S. Matth. 26. and St. Mark 14. where explaining the self-same Words of Christ he adds He shews that the Host which is offered upon the Altar is the very Body of our Lord and no Figure for he said not this is a Figure of my Body but my Body hence is it that the Holy Fathers Teach that by receiving the Eucharist Christ is truly incorporated with us and not by Faith only or Figuratively but united to us indeed so speak the Holy Fathers For thus says St. John Chrysostom Homil. 3. on St. Matth. He incorporates himself says he with us and not by Faith only but he makes us his Body verily and indeed So St. Cyril of Alexandria in St. John l. 10. c. 13. tells us We are not only united to Christ spiritually by a true Faith and sincere Charity but Christ also dwells in us Corporally by Communication of the Flesh of Christ and that Corporal Union of Christ with the Faithful therein by participation of the Eucharist he Illustrates by this Instance Like as says he if one blends one piece of melted Wax with another so as one lump seems to be made up of both the pieces even so by Communication of the Body and Blood of Christ he is in us and we in him for the corruptable Nature of a Body cannot otherwise pass over to Life and Incorruption unless a body of Natural Life be joyned with it St. Gregory Nyssen uses another instance in Orat. Catech. cap. 37. where he speaks thus In like manner as a little Leaven as the Apostle Testifies 2 Cor. 11. Leavens the whole Lump even so that Life giving Body passing into our Bodies Translates it self wholly into us and changes us as it renders ours like it and immortal in due time for it is necessary that our Nature so far as may be should admit so Efficatious a power into our Bodies where he also teaches us that it behoves us to believe that like as the forbidden Fruit was corporally eaten by Adam even so that the Body of Christ is taken of us corporally and received in the Belly so that it is not only mentally by Faith or Figuratively as Calvin would have it so as the wholsom Medicine be in us be no otherwise in us than the Destructive poyson which was bodily received to Repeal the same by a contray Action Read that whole Chapter then which nothing can be more clearly against the Errours of the Calvinists maintaining the Body and Blood of Christ to be taken by us Spiritually and not Corporally Last of all the Holy Fathers Teach that the Sacrament of the Eucharist for the sake of Christ's being there is to be Adored but Adored it ought not to be nay such Adoration would be Idolatry if Christ be not truly and really there contained for that Worship or Adoration that is called Latria is to be given to God alone whence it is plain that in the opinion of the Holy Fathers Christ is truly and really contained in the Sacrament of the Eucharist now that the Holy Fathers every where teach that the Sacraments of the Eucharist is to be Adored because of Christs being there appears plainly from St. Austin Epist 120. cap. 27. Where he tells us That the Faithful came to the Table they eat and Adored the same he maintains in his Comment 82. that place Psalm xcviii upon Worship his Foot-stool where the Foot-stool he explains by the Earth and the Earth by the Flesh of Christ Because says he he walked here in our Flesh and gave his very Flesh to be eaten by us for our Salvation and no man eats that Flesh unless he hath first Adored it It is discovered how such a Foot-stool of our Lord may be Adored and we shall not only not Sin in Adoring but we Sin in not Adoring and St. Ambrge de Spiritu Sancto l. 13. c. 11. upon the same words says thus By the Foot-stool is meant the Earth and by the Earth the Flesh of Christ which we daily Adore in the Mysteries Thus St. Ambrose The like hath St. Chrysostom in Epist ad Eph. homil 3. where he hath it thus Adore this and Eat And St. Cyril of Hierusalem Catech. 3. Mystagog hath these words Make thy approach to the Chalice of his Blood in the manner of Adoration This the Church has constanty held from the beginning and hold even to this day as appears from the General Council of Trent Sess 13. Cap. 5. where it requires the Worship of Latria to be given to the Sacrament according to the custom ever received in the Church Many more Testimonies of the Holy Fathers are yet behind which to produce were easy if there were no pains in Transcribing them and those already produced are sufficient for the truth of the Eucharist and for the Real Presence of the Body of Christ there Jo. 6. v. 54. Who Eates my Flesh and Drinks my Blood hath Eternal Life and I will raise him up at the last day And the Council of Nice calls the Eucharist Symbolum Resurrectionis a token of the Resurrection and St. Ignatius M. Epist 14. ad Epes termes it Pharmacum Immortalitatis A Medicine of Immortality Now if you ask the manner how it serves as an incorruptible food for a Glorious Resurrection I Answer The Species being altered by the heat of the Stomach the Body of Christ ceases to be here but his Deity remains after a special