Where as ye say, we do not touch the Body of Christ with Teeth and Mouth,* are ye so accustomed to swallow down whole morsels,2 as ye never touch them with your Teeth? Or have ye learned to eat that, which ye touch not with your Mouthe? If Christ said, Take, Eat, this is my Body, and the Apostles took and Eat the same, neither could they take and Eat without touching: it seemeth ye handle eating to slightly and coldly, when ye will have it without touching. Chrysostom a more Substantial handler of things then any of you is, sayeth of Christes Body, Quod omnium maximum est atque praecipuum, in terra non conspicaris tantùm, sed tangis: neque sliontangis, sed comedis, & •o accepto domum redis. Of all things that be in earth, what is the greatest, and the chiefest,‡ that doest thou not only see, but touchest: neither only doest thou touch it, but also eat it, and having received it, thou goest home again. How we touch it we know, for it is not now a mortal and corruptible Body, wherein we may fasten our Teeth, but glorious, and immortal, *and therefore we touch it by the reason of the Accidents of Bread and Wine▪ with whose Forms (as S. Augustine speaketh) it is covered or veiled,5 and so cometh it to our Teethe, and to our Mouthe, and nourisheth both our Bodies and Souls to life Everlasting. Nay but we say ye) hold him fast, and Eat him by Faith, by Understanding, and by the Spirit. I pray you be not to has••e to hold him, before the have him. How came ye by him? His grace he giveth diverse ways, but him self Bodily and presently as man, he never promised to give otherwise, then when he said, Take, Eat, this is my Body. And then Judas‡ (who had but a very mean Faith) because he received the Sacrament, received him also. And our Blessed Lady although she had a most perfect Faith, received him not after that sort, because then she received not the Sacrament. How can ye assure your selves, that your Faith taketh the Body of Christ,* which was never promised to your Faith? If your Faith take him not as he is in the Sacrament, how can your Faith hold him fast there?
VVhere as ye saie, wee do not touche the Body of Christe with Teeth and Mouth,* are ye so accustomed to swallowe downe whole morselles,2 as ye neuer touche them with your Teeth? Or haue ye learned to eate that, whiche ye touche not with your Mouthe? If Christe saide, Take, Eate, this is my Body, and the Apostles tooke and Eate the same, neither coulde they take and Eate without touchinge: it semeth ye handle eatinge to sleightly and coldely, when ye wil haue it without touching. Chrysostome a more Substanital handler of thinges then any of you is, saieth of Christes Body, Quod omnium maximum est atque praecipuum, in terra non conspicaris tantùm, sed tangis: neque sliontangis, sed comedis, & •o accepto domum redis. Of al thinges that be in earthe, what is the greatest, and the chiefest,‡ that doest thou not onely see, but touchest: neither onely doest thou touche it, but also eate it, and hauinge receiued it, thou goest home againe. How we touche it we knowe, for it is not now a mortall and corruptible Body, wherein we maie fasten our Teeth, but glorious, and immortall, *and therefore we touche it by the reason of the Accidentes of Breade and VVine▪ with whose Formes (as S. Augustine speaketh) it is couered or vailed,5 and so commeth it to our Teethe, and to our Mouthe, and nourrisheth bothe our Bodies and Soules to life Euerlastinge. Nay but we saie ye) holde him faste, and Eate him by Faith, by Vnderstanding, and by the Spirite. I praie you be not to has••e to holde him, before ye haue him. How came ye by him? His grace he geueth diuerse waies, but him selfe Bodely and presently as man, he neuer promised to geue otherwise, then when he saide, Take, Eate, this is my Body. And then Iudas‡ (who had but a very meane Faithe) because he receiued the Sacramente, receiued him also. And our Blessed Lady although shee had a moste persitte Faithe, receiued him not after that sorte, because then shee receiued not the Sacramente. How can ye assure your selues, that your Faithe takeht the Body of Christe,*
- *Heathenish, and Unchristian scoffing.Heathenishe, and Vnchristian scoffinge.
- 2That we touch Christs Body, and eat it with our mouth, and how. In. 1. Corin. Homi. •4.That vvee touche Christes Body, and eate it vvith our mouthe, and hovv. In. 1. Corin. Homi. •4.
- ‡As you See Christs Body in the Sacrament, even so ye Touch it, and so ye Eat• it: and none otherwise. S. Ambrose saithe, Fide Christus tangitur: Non tangitur Corpore.As you See Christes Body in the Sacramente, euen so yee Touche it, and so yee Eat• it: and none othervvise. S. Ambrose saithe, Fide Christus tangitur: Non tangitur Corpore.
- *Untruth, Childish, and unsavoury. The Learned Fathers never knew these follies.Vntruthe, Childishe, and vnsauerie. The Learned Fathers neuer knevve these folies.
- 5In Lib. Sentent. Prosp. The Defenders imaginary holding of Christ holdeth not Christ as he is in the Sacrament. Matth. 26.In Lib. Sentent. Prosp. The Defenders imaginarie holdinge of Christe holdeth not Christe as he is in the Sacrament. Matth. 26.
- ‡Judas had a very mean Faith.Iudas had a very meane Faithe.
- *Untruth, As shall appear. But where was Christs Body promised to your Mouthe▪Vntruthe, As shal appeare. But vvhere vvas Christes Body promised to your Mouthe▪
