And hereof ariseth all the substance of this Sacramental Action, whereby bread and wine do obtain too be called by the name of the body and blood: not because the things themselves do alter their substances, but after the usual phrase of speech, which is commonly frequented in all languages almost, & chiefly above others in the mystical Scriptures: Namely, that things *significant should obtain too be called by the things which they do signify. Which being most manifestly to be approved by innumerable testimonies of the Scripture, is above all other most justifiable, in this one Sacrament chiefly: where the name of the body is attributed too the bread, but not the substance: none otherwise in very deed, then as by like phrase of words is set down in the book of Genesis:2 where seven ears of corn are called Seven Years:3 Flesh, Hey: Seed, the Word: a Field, the World:4 the heavenly Father, an Husbandman:5 Christ named a Vine or a Lamb:6 the Apostles called Salt of the earth: Peter, a Stone: and John the Evangelist not only called of Christs own mouth,7 the son of the Virgin, but accepted of the mother of Christ as her son by the Lords commandment: Yet will no man be so mad for this cause to affirm that under the figure and form of this Disciple he either became truly and naturally her son, or the Virgin his natural mother: for it is one ⟨image 100⟩thing to be called a mother by name, an other thing too be a natural mother in deed. After the same manner fareth it with the Sacraments:8 in the which must be considered, not what they be, but what they be called, and wherefore they be so called. For even amongest us in our daily and usual speeches, as also in the Scriptures chiefly many things are many times beautified or described by strange *names, where notwithstanding no alteration is made of substance, but the reason and cause that moved the holy ghost to name it so is noted. After the same manner Christ doth call bread his body: not meaning thereby to transubstantiate the substance of the one into the other (neither was it to any purpose at all to have done so) but to express the power of his passion: for this cause therefore he took the *bread and cup of wine, and called them his body and blood, which he would give for the sins of the world.
And heereof aryseth al the substaunce of this Sacramentall Action, whereby bread and wyne doe obteine too bee called by the name of the body and blood: not because the thinges themselues doe alter theyr substances, but after the v•uall phrase of speach, which is commonly frequented in all languages almost, & chiefly aboue others in the mysticall Scriptures: Namely, that thinges *significāt shoulde obteine too bee called by the thinges which they doe signifie. Which being most manifestly to be approued by innumerable testimonies of the Scripture, is aboue all other moste iustifiable, in this one Sacrament chiefly: where the name of the body is attributed too the bread, but not the substaunce: none otherwise in very deede, then as by like phrase of wordes is set downe in the booke of Genesis:2 where seuen eares of corne are called Seuen Yeeres:3 Fleshe, Heye: Seede, the Worde: a Fielde, the World:4 the heauenly Father, an Husbandman:5 Christe named a Uine or a Lambe:6 the Apostles called Salt of the earth: Peter, a Stone: and Iohn the Euangelist not only called of Christes own mouth,7 the sonne of the Uirgin, but accepted of the mother of Christe as her sonne by the Lordes commaundement: Yet wil no man be so mad for this cause to affirme that vnder the figure and forme of this Disciple he either became truely and naturally her sonne, or the Uirgin his naturall mother: for it is one ⟨image 100⟩thing to bee called a mother by name, an other thing too bee a na•urall mother in deede. After the same maner fareth it with the Sacramentes:8 in the which must be considered, not what they bee, but what they be called, and wherfore they be so called. For euen amongest vs in our dayly and vsual spea•hes, as also in the Scriptures chiefly many thinges are many times beautified or described by strange
- *August de Civitate Dei. Lib. 8. Cap 48. All significant things do seem after a certain manner to bear the substance of the things signified.August de Ciuitate Dei. Lib. 8. Cap 48. All significant thinges doe seeme after a certaine maner to beare the substaunce of the thinges signified.
- 2genesis .41.•enesis .41.
- 3Isaiah 40.Esay 40.
- 4Matth. 13.
- 5John .15. John .10.Iohn .15. Iohn .10.
- 6Math. 15.
- 7John .19.Iohn .19.
- 8August. contra Maximinum. Cap. 22. For these be the sacraments in the which is not always noted what they be, but what they signify, because they be signs of things being in substance one thing, but in signification another.August. contra Maximinum. Cap. 22. For these be the sacramentes in the which is not alwaies noted what they be, but what they signifie, bicause they be signes of things being in substaunce one thing, but in significatiō another.
- *Bede citans August.
