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…

True it is indeed, that if the bread and wine in the Eucharist be transubstantiated into the natural body and blood of Christ, and there be such a corporal presence, as Papists imagine; it must needs follow that Christs very flesh is eaten, and his very blood it self is corporally drunk in the Sacrament: And to this purpose also Pope Nicholas in that solemn form of recantation that he enjoined Berengarius inserted into the body of the Canon, avoweth that ^kthe very body of Christ in the Eucharist is broken with the Priests hands, and torn in pieces with mens teeth, not sacramentally only, but sensually: and that all that hold the contrary deserve to be eternally damned. A sensual indeed and a senseless assertion, yea an horrible and an hideous speech; full fraught (I may well say, though it proceeded from a Pope, who, they say, cannot err) with extreme impiety and blasphemy, and such as Christian e•res cannot but abhor to hear. In so much that their own Glosser upon the place well warneth us to ⟨p. 8⟩take heed how we trust him, ^lLest […] fall into a worse heresy then Berengarius ever held. But thus one monstrous opinion breedeth and begetteth another. And this indeed must needs follow upon the former. The corporal presence of Christ in the thing eaten, must needs infer and enforce a corporal eating of him: and to prove the same they press commonly our Saviours words in that place of eating his flesh and drinking his blood. Which as, with some of the Ancients indeed, they understand of the Eucharist, so they expound (though without their consent therein) of a corporal and carnal eating of Christs flesh.

True it is indeed, that if the bread and wine in the Eucharist be transubstantiated into the naturall body and blood of Christ, and there bee such a corporall presence, as Papists imagine; it must needs follow that Christs very flesh is eaten, and his very blood it selfe is corporally drunke in the Sacrament: And to this purpose also Pope Nicholas in that solemne forme of recantation that hee enioyned Berengarius inserted into the body of the Canon, auoweth that ^kthe very body of Christ in the Eucharist is broken with the Priests hands, and torne in pieces with mens teeth, not sacramentally only, but sensually: and that all that hold the contrary deserue to be eternally damned. A sensuall indeed and a senslesse assertion, yea an horrible and an hideous speech; full fraught (I may well say, though it proceeded from a Pope, who, they say, cannot erre) with extreame impiety and blasphemy, and such as Christian eres cannot but abhor to hear. In so much that their owne Glosser vpon the place well warneth vs to