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The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times…The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times…
The relics of Rome containing all such matters of religion, as have in times past been brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherents: faithfully gathered out of the most faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and now newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singular profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.The reliques of Rome contayning all such matters of religion, as haue in times past bene brought into the Church by the Pope and his adherentes: faithfully gathered out of the moste faithful writers of chronicles and histories, and nowe newly both diligently corrected & greatly augmented, to the singuler profit of the readers, by Thomas Becon. 1563.
London: printed by John Day, 1563London: printed by Iohn Day, 1563
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Both the good and the evil eat the body of Christ:1 but the good unto salvation, the evil unto condemnation. For except the evil also did eat the ⟨p. 262⟩body of Christ, the Apostle would not have said: He that eateth unworthily, eateth his own damnation, because he maketh no difference of the Lords body. Ibidem.
Both the good and the euil eate the bodye of Christ:1 but the good vnto saluation, the euell vnto condemnation. For excepte the euill also dyd eate the ⟨p. 262⟩body of Christ, the Apostle woulde not haue sayd: He yt eateth vnworthely, eateth hys owne damnation, bicause he maketh no difference of the Lordes bodye. Ibidem.
- 1Corin. xii.
But what becometh of the body of Christ, when it is received and eaten? It may be answered: That if the corporal presence be sought, it must be sought in heaven, where Christ is sitting on the right hand of God. Notwithstanding for a time he did exhibit his corporal presence, that he might provoke & allure the Communicants unto the spiritual presence. Therefore when the sacrament is holden, tasted, and eaten: Christ is corporally present in sight, in touching, in savour. And so long as the corporal sense is affected, the corporal presence is not taken away. But after y• the corporal sense in receiving faileth: the corporal presence is no more to be sought, but the spiritual presence is to be retained. For when the dispensation is ended, Christ goeth from the mouth to the heart. For it is better that he goeth forth unto the mind, than that he should go down unto the belly. For he is not the meat of the flesh, but of the soul.