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§ 2. The places of the Fathers here pointed at, were before answered, where by him they were a• ¹large alleged. And howsoever Augustine ^qspake modestly (after his manner) of a difficult Question, not daring peremptorily to determine by what means that was effected, that by divers other means might be: yet in his books against Faustus the Manichee he saith expressly and peremptorily, that ^rChrist in regard of his bodily presence could not be at once in the Sun and in the Moon, and upon the Cross also: as they absurdly imagined and maintained that he was. And again in his Comment aries on the Gospel of S. John; not (as Bellarmine corruptly citeth him, as he doth also many others) that ^sChrists body in which he rose again, M AY be; but (as ^tPeter Lombard, ^uand other of their own Authors acknowledge him to say) that ^xit MUST be in one place; howsoever his verity (that is, his Deity) be every where. Yea discussing the question at large in one of his Epistles, and having concluded the Negative, he saith that ^ythey take away the truth of his body, that maintain it to be in many places at once: Whereas though ^zimmortality be conferred on it, yet nature is not taken from it. To which purpose he disputeth much of the nature of a true body, and delivereth those things, which I press out of him: all which together with the testimonies of other of the Ancients this superficial Answerer passeth over with sad silence; only boldly and b•asen facedly avouching that all that is alleged out of Augustine proveth nothing but this, that Christ is not visibly but in Heaven. Did he think that his Reader would not cast an eye on them,