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Therefore that which we receive in our mouth, is natural bread: but in respect of the eating, this nature is not regarded of us, but raising our hearts much more high even into heaven, yea unto the heavens of heavens as ^*Chrysostom reporteth, it doth meditate upon far more excellent matter.

Therefore that which wee receaue in our mouth, is natural bread: but in respect of the eating, this nature is not regarded of vs, but raysing our hartes much more high euen intoo heauen, yea vntoo the heauens of heauens as ^*Chrysostome reporteth, it doth meditate vpon farre more excellent matter.

1. *Chrysost. 1. Cor. hom. 24. Ascend therefore up even too heaven gates, and there enter into dew consideration, nay rather not the gates of Heaven, but of the Heavens of Heavens, and there shalt thou see that whereof we do speak. Chrysost. in Genes. Hom. 24. When the eyes of faith do behold these unspeakable treasures, they do not perceive these visible things indeed, but only the difference betwixt these things.Chrysost. 1. Cor. hom. 24. Ascende therefore vppe euen too heauen gates, and there enter intoo dewe consideration, nay rather not the gates of Heauen, but of the Heauens of Heauens, and there shalte thou see that whereof wee doo speake. Chrysost. in Genes. Hom. 24. When the eyes of fayth doo beholde these vnspeakeable treasures, they doo not perceaue these visible thinges indeed, but only the difference betwixt these thinges.

And hereof came it that the ancient writers did so usually extol the magnificence of this sacrament with such excellency in old time. Wherein they w•re many times rapt into such a wonderful vehemency of hyperbolical speeches, as though the