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…

It is not bread, but God and Man my Redeemer, who hanged on a Cross, and died in flesh for me. He is not increased on multiplied by Consecration, nor divided in breaking of the Host, but God full in stature. So likewise S. Andrew in his passion authentically (as ^lBellarmine proveth) written by the Clergy of Achaia present thereat, told the Proconsul Egeus; I daily offer to God, who is one and omnipotent, not the flesh of Bulls & blood of Goats, but the immaculate Lamb upon the Altar, whose flesh when all the multitude of faithful people hath received, the Lamb sacrificed integer persevere at ac vivus; doth live and remain entire, &c. So as Pope Nicholas doctrine understood of Christs flesh being eaten in the Sacrament, needeth not Gratians Gloss to save it from heretical blasphemy and the danger of a worse opinion then Berengarius renounced, unless he had taught Christs flesh in it self to have been torn with teeth and bloodily eaten, as the Capharnites imagined; and ^mthe Gentile persecutors were went to object against poor Christians, that they did eat the flesh of a certain man in their synaxes and meetings; calling them men eaters, &c. to wit, because they did eat bread and drink wine consecrated by the miraculous force of Christs words into his natural flesh and blood; as Saint Justine that holy Martyr and great Christian Philosopher told Aurelius the Emperor in his second Apology for Christians; where he describeth (as much as it was fit for him to open the heavenly mysteries of our faith to the Gentiles) the whole order of the Sacrifice and distribution of the Sacrament as it is now celebrated by us: this being the new Oblation of the New Testament, as ⁿS. Irenaeus termeth it, instituted by Christ in his last Supper, and that clean Sacrifice which Malachi foretold should succeed in place of the Jewish Sacrifices, and be offered by the Gentiles in all places.

It is not bread, but God and Man my Redeemer, who hanged on a Crosse, and died in flesh for me. Hee is not encreased on multiplied by Consecration, nor diuided in breaking of the Host, but God full in stature. So likewise S. Andrew in his passion authentically (as ^lBellarmine proueth) written by the Clergie of Achaia present thereat, told the Procounsul Egeus; I dayly offer to God, who is one and omnipotent, not the flesh of Buls & blood of Goats, but the immaculate Lambe vpon the Altar, whose flesh when all the multitude of faithfull people hath receiued, the Lambe sacrificed integer perseuer at ac viuus; doth liue and remaine entire, &c. So as Pope Nicholas doctrine vnderstood of Christs flesh being eaten in the Sacrament, needeth not Gratians Glosse to saue it from hereticall blaspemy and the danger of a worse opinion then Berengarius renounced, vnlesse hee had taught Christs flesh in it selfe to haue beene torne with teeth and bloodily eaten, as the Capharnites imagined; and