A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to…A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to…

We affirm that Bread and Wine are holy and heavenly Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ, and that by them Christ him self, being the true Bread of Eternal Life, is so presently given unto us, as that by Faith we verily receive his Body and his Blood. Yet say we not this so, as though we thought, that the Nature and Substance of the Bread and Wine is clearly changed, and goeth to nothing: as many have dreamed in these later times, & yet could never agree among them selves upon their own dreams. For that was not Christs meaning, that the wheaten Bread should lay apart his own Nature, and receive a certain new Divinity: but that he might rather change us, and (to use Theophylactes words)¹ might transform us into his Body. For what can be said more plainly, then that, which Ambrose saith, Bread and Wine remain still the same, they were before: and yet are changed into an other thing: Or that which Gelasius saith, ⟨p. 231⟩The Substance of the Bread, ²or the Nature of the Wine ceaseth not to be: Or that, which Theodoretus saith, After the Consecration, ³the Mystical Signs do not caste of their own proper Nature: for they remain still in their Former Substance, Form, & Kind: Or that, which Augustine saith,