A04468:2329
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…
A defence of the Apology of the Church of England containing an answer to a certain book lately set forth by M. Harding, and entitled, A confutation of &c. By John Jewel Bishop of Salisbury.A defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande conteininge an answeare to a certaine booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and entituled, A confutation of &c. By Iohn Iewel Bishop of Sarisburie.
Imprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the sign of the Elephant, by Henry Wykes, Anno 1567. 27. OctobrisImprinted at London : In Fleetestreate, at the signe of the Elephante, by Henry VVykes, Anno 1567. 27. Octobris
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Some say, The Body of Christ in the Sacrament is Torn, and crushed with Teethe: and some deny it. Yea forsooth, say you, and both mean right well. Thus would ye not say, M. Harding, if ye know, what it were to Eat the Body of Christ.
Some saie, The Body of Christe in the Sacrament is Torne, and crusshed with Teethe: and somme denie it. Yea forsoothe, saie you, and bothe meane right wel. Thus would ye not saie, M. Hardinge, if ye knowe, what it were to Eate the Body of Christe.
S. Cyprian saithe,1 Est Cibus Mentis, non ventris• It is the Meat of our Mind, not of our Belly: we Eat it with the Spiritual Tooth of our Faith, not with the Material Tooth of our Body. Your very Gloss, be it never so blind, was able to see, that these words, To tear, and to Crush Christs Body with your bodily Teethe, can hardly have so Catholic, and so good a meaning, as you imagine.2 The words thereof be these, Nisi sanè intelligas verba Berengarij, in Maiorem incides Haeresim, quàm ipse habuit. Et ideò omnia referas ad Species ips•s: ⟨p. 349⟩Onlesse thou discreetly understand these words of Berengarius, 34thou shalt fall into a greater Heresy, then he had any. Therefore these words must have relation to the Forms, and not unto Christs very Body. It followeth therefore that the Catholic Construction, that you gather hereof, must needs be this: Christs Body is Crushed, and Torn with Teethe, that is to say, Christs Body is not Crushed, nor Torn with Teethe. Germans lips be not so far a sunder, but ye may easily join them together by such Constructions.