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2. That this whole Discourse of our Saviour is not to be understood of any Sacramental or corporal, but of ⟨p. 9⟩spiritual eating only, it is likewise apparent.

2. That this whole Discourse of our Sauiour is not to bee vnderstood of any Sacramentall or corporall, but of ⟨p. 9⟩spirituall eating onely, it is likewise apparent.

For 1. None are saved, but such as so feed on Christ, as is there spoken of. ^oExcept you eat the flesh of the Son of man, (saith our Saviour) and drink his blood, you have no life in you. ^pHe hath not therefore life eternal, (saith Augustine,) that eateth not this bread, and drinketh not this blood. For temporal life men may have without it; but eternal life without it in no wise can they have. But many are and shall be saved by Christ, that never Sacramentally fed on Christ in the Eucharist, yea that never eat at all of the Eucharist, or saw it, or knew of it: as not only the ancient Fathers that lived before Christs Incarnation, who yet, (as Augustine well observeth) ^qdid eat the flesh of Christ spiritually as well as we do now, and were saved by the death and passion of Christ, which, as Bernard speaketh, ^rwas effectual even before it was actual; and the Thief on the Cross, that ^spassed thence to Paradise the same day that he dyed: but many Infants also that die ere they come to years of discretion, as the Council of Trent acknowledgeth,