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

Again, whereas the ancient and great learned Bishop Cyrillus teacheth plainly and at large, the marvellous uniting and joining together of us with Christ, and of our selves into one body by this Sacrament: seeing that all so united and made one body, be not for all that brought together into one place, for they be dispersed abroad in all the world: thereof we may well conclude, that to this effect the being together of Communicants in one place is not of necessity. His words be these much agreeable to Dionysius Ariopagita afore mentioned. Ut igitur inter nos & Deum singulos uniret,¹ quamuis corpore simul & anima distemus, modum tamen adinuenit, consilio patris & sapientiae suae conuenientem. Suo enim corpore credentes per Communionem mysticam benedicens, & secum, & inter nos, unum nos corpus effici•. Quis enim eos qui unius sancti corporis unione in uno Christo uniti sunt, ab hac naturali union alienos putabit? Nam si omnes unum panem manducamus, unum omnes corpus efficimur: dividi enim atque seiungi Christus non patitur. That Christ might unite every one of us within our selves, and with God, although we be distant both in Body and also in Soul, yet he hath devised a mean covenable to the counsel of the Father and to his own wisdom. For in that he blesseth them that believe, with his own body through the mystical Communion, he maketh us one Body both with himself, and also between our selves. For who will think them not to be of this natural union, which with the union of that one holy Body, be united in one Christ. For if we eat all of one Bread, then are we made all one body: for Christ may not be divided nor done asunder.