A Golden Chain

3. The article, conceived by the holy Ghost, is overturned by the transubstantiation of bread and wine in the mass, into the body and blood of Christ. For here we are taught to confess the true and perpetual incarnation of Christ, beginning in his conception, and never ending afterward: and we acknowledge the trueth of his manhood, and that his body hath the essential properties of a true body, standing of flesh & bone: having quantity, figure, dimensions, namely length, breadth, thickness: having part out of part, as head out of feet, & feet out of head, being also circumscribed, visible, touchable: in a word, it hath all things in it, which by order of creation, belong to a body. It will be said, ⟨p. 1020⟩that the body of Christ may remain a true body & yet be altered in respect of some qualities, as namely circumscription. But I say again, that local circumscription can no way be severed from a body, it remaining a body. For to be circumscribed in place, is an essential property of every quantity: and quantity is the common essence of every body. And therefore a body in respect of his quantity must needs be circumscribed in one place. This was the judgement of Leo, when he said, The •odie of Christ is by no means out of the trueth of our bod••. And Augustine, when he said,¹ Only God in Christ so comes that he doth not depart• •o returns, that he doth not leave us: but man according to body is in place, and goes out of the same place, and when he shall come unto another place, he is not in that place whence he comes. To help the matter, they use to distinguish thus. Christs body in respect of the ^awhole essence thereof may be in many places; but not in respect of the whole quantity, whereby it is only in one place. But as I have said, they speak contraries: for quantity (by all learning) is the essence of a body, without which a body cannot be.

3. The article, conceiued by the holy Ghost, is ouerturned by the transubstā tiation of bread and wine in the masse, into the bodie and blood of Christ. For here wee are taught to confesse the true and perpetuall incarnation of Christ, beginning in his conception, and neuer ending afterward: and wee acknowledge the trueth of his manhood, and that his bodie hath the essentiall properties of a true body, standing of flesh & bone: hauing quātitie, figure, dimēsions, namly length, breadth, thicknes: hauing part out of part, as head out of feet, & feet out of head, being also circūscribed, visible, touchable: in a word, it hath al things in it, which by order of creatiō, belōg to a body. It wil be said,