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

Thus the Fathers call not only the Sacrament, but also the Body and Blood of Christ it self in the Sacrament, sometimes the truth, sometimes a Figure: the trueth, that is to wit, the very and •rue Body and Blood of Christ: a Figure, in respect of the manner of being of the same there present, ⟨p. 459⟩which is Really, and Substantially, but Invisibly under the visible form of the outward Elements. And so Tertullian meaneth by his, That is the Figure of my Body, as though Christ had showed by the word (Hoc) that which was Visible,¹ which verily is the Figure of the Body, right so as that which is the Invisible inward thing, is the trueth of the Body. Which interpretation of Tertullian in deed is not according to the right sense of Christs words, though his meaning swerve not from the trueth. For where as our Lord said, This is my Body, he meant not so, as though he had said, the outward form of the Sacrament, which here I deliver to you, is a Figure of my Body under the same contained,² for as much as by these words, Hoc est, he showed not the Visible form of Bread, but the Substance of his very Body, into which by his Divine power he turned the Bread. And therefore (192) none of all the Fathers ever so expounded those words of Christ, but contrariwise,³