A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare

That we verily, and undoubtedly receive Christs Body in the Sacrament, it is neither denied,¹ nor in question. S. Augustine saithe, Panis est Cordis: Intus esuri: intus siti. It is the Bread of the heart: Hunger thou within: Thirst thou within. And the thing, that is inwardly received in Faith, and in Sprite, is received verily, and in deed.² S. Bernard meant no falsehood when he said, Lavemur in Sanguine eius. Let us be washed in the Blood of Christ. Notwithstanding he meant not, that our bodies Really, and in deed should be washed with the Blood of Christ. ⟨p. 344⟩And whereas S. Augustine saith,³ Quid paras dentem, & ventrē?⁴ Creed, & manducasti: What preparest thou thy tooth, and thy belly? Believe, and thou hast eaten: We may not think, that he meant any fantastical, or false eating: notwithstanding he utterly refuseth in this behalf, both the teeth, & the belly, and all other office of the Body. And therefore Cyrillus saith, Sacramentū nostrum hominis manducationem non asserit, mentes credentiū ad crassas cogitationes irreligiosè introducens. ⁵Our Sacrament teacheth us not to eat a man (with the material mouth of our Body) in ungodly sort leading the minds of the Faithful unto gross cogitations. It is a holy Mystery, and a Heavenly action, forcing our minds up into Heaven, & there teaching us to eat the Body of Christ, & to drink his Blood: not outwardly by the service of our Bodies: but inwardly by our Faith, and that verily, & in deed. The trueth hereof standeth not in any Real, or Corporal Presence, but, as Hilarius saith, in a Mystery, which is, in a Sacrament: whereby outwardly, & unto our senses, we express the thing in our Bodies, that must be wrought inwardly in our minds.⁶ For this cause Dionysius saith, Regeneratio naturali illa purgatione, quae fit per aquam, Corporali quodam modo denuntiat animae purgationem. Our Regeneration, which we have in Baptism, by that Natural Purgation, that is wrought by Water,