A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation wherein the same is declared, by…A discussion of the popish doctrine of transubstantiation vvherein the same is declared, by…

2. Out of Augustine are cited two Testimonies. In the former whereof he showeth, how judicious he is in the choice of his allegations, (that for which he taxeth the Divine he dealeth with) and how well seen in and acquainted with the Authors he allegeth. There are divers Sermons set out under Augustine's name, (for this is no new thing with them to forge daily as well new works, as new writers) which they cite many of them, sometime under the name of Augustine, sometime under the name of this or that other Father: for they can find Fathers for their bastards as they list themselves. Of these many by ^aBellarmine, ^bBaronius, ^cErasmus, ^dthe Divines of Louvain, and divers others are confessed to be mere counterfeits. One whereof is the Sermon de Verb. Dom. 28. which this worthy Writer here citeth; and indeed is nothing else but a whole Chapter verbatim taken out of the fifth book of that work de Sacramentis, which he cited last before as Ambroses. So that he doth herein as Captains, that wanting of their full number borrow one of an other, and so produce the same party by one name to day as one mans soldier, and by an other name the next day, as an other mans soldier, a gun-man (it may be) to day, and a pike-man to morrow. For this Author was but even now Ambrose; and now he is suddenly become Augustine; as if some such spell had been said over him, as they suppose to be said over their Host. And thus (as their common guise is) they make their coined creatures, like players on a stage, sometime to act one part, and sometime another. And this may well give just cause to suspect the authority of the Author, when sometime he is Ambrose, and sometime Augustine, and it may well ⟨p. 63⟩be neither. For he is hardly ever believed that is taken once in two tales. And this Erasmus his annotation would have given him some hint of, had he been so well acquainted with the Authors he citeth as he would seem to be. Besides that this Ambrose, or Augustine, or what ever he be, when he is cited to give in evidence, saith nothing but this, that that which before Christs words is called bread, is after them called no more bread, but Christs body. Which unless it be meant, that it is not called only bread, but Christs body also,