Why do ye not by your quotation direct us to the place, where this saying of Cyril may be found? Know ye not that we have good cause to suspect your dealing? Do we not almost every where find you in manifest lies?1 If ye mean plain Truth, why deal ye not plainly? Christs saying must needs be true,2 Who evil doth, hateth light. Because ye knew the place maketh directly against you, and subverteth your whole Sacramentary Doctrine, ye thought it good policy, to take a word or two for your purpose, and leave the rest, trusting it should not be espied. Wherein ye do like the Scorpion, that casteth forth his venom with the spurt of his tail, and forthwith creepeth away into a hole. Would God as ye abuse the name of Cyril, so ye would stand to the Truth by him even in that place, which ye allege, Substantially declared Who listeth to see the place, let him read Cyril's answer to Theodori•es reprehension of the eleventh anathematisme against ⟨p. 278⟩Nestorius. There he showeth, that Nestorius destroyed the mean of the Union of be the Natures in Christ, to the intent the Body of Christ might be found but a common body as men have, and not a Body proper of the Word,3 having power to vivificate, or quicken all things.* For Nestorius divided Christ, and taught the word to be the Son of God, not of Mary: and Christ Man the Son of Mary only, as Man: and dissolved the whole Mystery of the incarnation so, as Christ should be an other certain Son beside the Word. And because the‡ Nature of Godhead cannot be eaten, thereof he talked vainly and profanely, that in the Sacrament we eat Flesh, and not Godhead. For confutation of this detestable Heresy, Cyril bringeth him to the consideration of the Blessed Sacrament, and opposeth him, whether he thought, that in the Sacrament Christ being (by his Doctrine) Man besides God the Word, we eat a man, as one would say, after such sort, as the Barbarous people of the new found Land America, called Cannibals, eat one another. But because that were absurd, and beastly, Cyril saith that we eat not a common Body, though the Nature of Godhead‡ properly be not eaten, but that Body which is Proprium verbi, the proper Body of the Word, which quickeneth all things, by receiving whereof* we receive whole Christ, God, and man.
VVhy do ye not by your quotation directe vs to the place, where this saieinge of Cyrill maye be founde? Knowe ye not that wee haue good cause to suspecte your dealinge? Do we not almoste euery where finde you in manifeste lies?1 If ye meane plaine Truthe, why deale ye not plainely? Christes saieinge muste needes be true,2 VVho euil dothe, hateth light. Bicause ye knewe the place maketh directely againste you, and subuerteth your whole Sacramentarie Doctrine, ye thought it good policie, to take a woord or two for your purpose, and leaue the reste, trustinge it shoulde not be espied. VVherein ye do like the Scorpion, that casteth foorth his venim with the spirte of his taile, and foorthwith creapeth awaie into a hole. VVoulde God as ye abuse the name of Cyril, so ye woulde stande to the Truthe by him euen in that place, whiche ye allege, Substantially declared VVho listeth to see the place, let him reade Cyrilles answeare to Theodori•es reprehension of the eleuenth anathematisme against ⟨p. 278⟩Nestorius. There he sheweth, that Nestorius destroyed the meane of the Vnion of be the Natures in Christe, to thintent the Body of Christe might be founde but a common body as men haue, and not a Body propre of the VVoorde,3 hauinge power to viuificate, or quicken al thinges.* For Nestorius diuided Christe, and taught the woorde to be the Sonne of God, not of Mary: and Christe Man the Sonne of Mary onely, as Man: and dissolued the whole Mysterie of the incarnation so, as Christe shoulde be an other certaine Sonne beside the VVoorde. And because the‡ Nature of Godhed cannot be eaten, thereof he talked vainely and prophanely, that in the Sacramente wee eate Fleashe, and not Godhed. For confutation of this detestable Heresie, Cyril bringeth him to the consideration of the Blessed Sacramente, and opposeth him, whether he thought, that in the Sacramente Christe beinge (by his Doctrine) Man besides God the VVoorde, wee eate a man, as one woulde saie, after sutche sorte, as the Barbarous people of the newe founde Lande America, called Caniballes, eate one another. But because that were absurde, and beastly, Cyril saithe that wee eate not a common Body, though the Nature of Godhed‡
- 1This is a quaint east of M Hardinges Copia Verberū.This is a quainte easte of M Hardinges Copia Verberū.
- 2Cyril guilefully alleged. Johan. 5. The place of Cyril turned upon the Defenders.Cyril guilefully alleaged. Iohan. 5. The place of Cyril tourned vpon the Defenders.
- 3The Heresy of Nestorius.The Heresie of Nestoriꝰ.
- *Nestorius Heresy stood neither in Transubstantiation, nor in Real Presence.Nestorius Heresie stoode neither in Transubstantiation, nor in Real Presence.
- ‡The meaning is this: We can not be fed, or nourished by Christ, as he is in his Divine Nature: but only by the Faith that we have in his Flesh Crucified.The meaning is this: VVee cā not be fedde, or nourished by Christe, as he is in his Diuine Nature: but only by the Faithe that vvee haue in his Fleashe Crucified.
- ‡Untruth guilefully enclosed: For neither the Flesh of Christ in pro per speech can be Eaten.Vntruth guilefully enclosed: For neither the Fleash of Christe in ꝓ per speache can be Eaten.
- *We receive whole Christ, God, and Man, not with our Mouthe, but by Faith, & Sprite.VVee receiue vvhole Christe, God, and Man, not vvith our Mouthe, but by Faith, & Sprite.
