Two very learned sermons of M. Beza, together with a short sum of the…Two very lerned sermons of M. Beza, togither with a short sum of the…

2 Howbeit, that there is a change, no man of sound judgement, I think, doth, or will deny, but that is not in respect of the nature of the things themselves: for the elements of bread and wine remain in their own proper & peculiar substance, whereof not only all men may be sufficient witnesses, but almost all the senses of every man, as sight, taste, feeling, &c: but this mutation is made in regard of the use and end whereunto they are applied, because that they are by the Lords own institution and appointment, separated from the common use, yea, & as it were from common bread and wine, and applied, not only to a holy use, whilst they are used in holy assemblies, with sanctified and religious minds, but dedicated also to holy ends, that is to say, to ratify and confirm our Faith in the trueth of ⟨p. 172⟩Gods promises, and to be sure seals and pledges to our consciences, of holy things, to wit, of christs body and blood, and of the effects and fruits, that by his death & passion we receive. But that this change should be wrought, by any words, as they say, of consecration, I am so far off from allowing it as true, that I am verily persuaded, that they speak they know not what, because it is not yet resolved, not only amongst the doctors of their side, as Bessarian, Biel, Bonaventure, Catharin, Durand, Scotus, and others, which be the words of consecration, or with which words Christ, and the priest by his example, maketh the bread Christs body, but because a pope himself (who hath the fullness of all knowledge in his breast, and cannot err, if all be true that they affirm) I mean Pope Innocent the third,¹ a great favourer and furtherer of such fantasies, could not well tell how to resolve it, as appeareth by his writings. Yea, in ascribing mutation and change of things, to a form of words uttered by the mouth of a mortal man, they blasphemously rob God of that glory which is due unto him alone:² For to him only it belongeth to ⟨p. 173⟩speak the word, and to have things made, and give it to an other, to whom it at no hand appertaineth.

2 Howbeit, that there is a chaunge, no man of sound iudgement, I thinke, dooth, or will denie, but that is not in respect of the nature of the thinges themselues: for the elements of bread and wine remaine in their owne proper & peculiar substance, wherof not only al men may be sufficient witnesses, but almost all the senses of euery man, as sight, taste, feeling, &c: but this mutation is made in regarde of the vse and ende wherevnto they are applied, because that they are by the Lordes owne institution and appointment, separated from the common vse, yea, & as it were frō common bread and wine, and applied, not onlie to a holy vse, whilest they are vsed in holie assemblies, wyth sanctified and religious mindes, but dedicated also to holie endes, that is to saye, to ratifie and confirme our Faith in the trueth of