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The Pope confuted The holy and apostolic Church confuting the Pope. The first action.…The Pope confuted The holy and apostolique Church confuting the Pope. The first action.…
The Pope confuted The holy and apostolic Church confuting the Pope. The first action. Translated out of Latin into English, by James Bell.The Pope confuted The holy and apostolique Church confuting the Pope. The first action. Translated out of Latine into English, by Iames Bell.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Richard Sergier, 1580
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Lo, this now is your gay divinity in describing the Sacrament: the which how agreeth with the Scriptures, with the judgements of the ancient Fathers, with the antiquity of the purer primitive Church •nd with faith it self, nay rather how far and wide ⟨p. 90⟩it is dissonant and di•crepant from all truth and reason, it shall not be amiss to discover in few words, for I think it not convenient to use many words herein. And first when we hear that saying of Paul,1 Let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. &c. May any man be so boyde of reason to affirm this to be spoken touching the forms and not the material part of bread and wine? for what shall we say? may any man imagine that to eat, to break, to eat of the bread, to drink of the cup, is to be referred to empty and bare shadows of bread and wine only, and not to the natural bread? In the Decrees is a certain sentence extant, vouched out of Hilary, whereof we made mention before.2 The body of Christ, saith he, that is received of the altar, is a figure whiles the bread & wine are apparently seen with eyes: but it is the very body, when the inward faith apprehendeth it for the body and blood of Christ. &c. To the same effect, and in like plain phrase of speech writeth Cyprianus:3 The Lord saith Cyprian, did vouchsafe to call wine by the name of his blood, the liquor which was enforced by the press out of the grapes and clusters, and made into wine, &c. For what shall we say? do we easily wring accidents of wine out of grapes & clusters, & not rather the very substantial liquor of wine? What? when you heat out of Origen:4 Not the matter of bread, but upon the bread the word was spoken, which is profitable to him that eateth in the Lord not unworthily. And above all other chiefly, what will you answer to these words of Gelas. who w••ting of the Sacraments of bread & wine. Howe that we are by the same made partakers of the heavenly nature, yet doth boldly pronounce that the substance of bread & wine do nevertheless remain still. Besides these when ye read also the words of August.