Meditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many years sinceMeditations on the holy sacrament of the Lords last Supper Written many yeares since

Letting go then this opinion, there is a third Presence of Christ, which is a carnal Physical, local Presence, which we affirm his humane nature to have only in Heaven: The Papists attribute it to the Sacrament, because Christ hath said, This is my Body: and in matters of fundamental consequence, he useth no figurative or dark speeches; to this we say, that it is a carnal Doctrine, and a mistake like that of Nicodemus, and of Origen, from the Spirit to the letter. And for the difficulty, ⟨p. 93⟩it is none to men that have more than only a carnal ear to hear it: for what difficulty is it to say that then the King gives a man an Office when he hath sealed him such a Pa•ent in the right whereof that Office belongeth, and is conveyed unto him? And if Christ be thus locally in the Sacrament, and eaten with the mouth, and so conveyed into the stomach: I then demand what becomes of him when and after he is thus received into the stomach? If he retire from the accidents out of a man, then first accidents shall be left without any substance at all under them to sustain them, and which is (if any thing can be) yet more absurd, bare accidents should nourish, be assimilated and augment a substance; for it is plain, that a man might be nourished by the Bread; yea, the Priest by intemperate excess made drunk with the consecrated Wine; unto which detestable effects we cannot imagine that God by a more especial concurrence and miracle would enable the bare accidents of Bread and Wine. But if Christ stay, and do corporally unite himself to the Receiver; then I see not how all they that receive the Sacrament, being physically and substantially united to Christs Body have not likewise a natural union to his Person too, that being no where separated from this, which is blasphemous to affirm.

Letting goe then this opinion, there is a third Presence of Christ, which is a carnall Physicall, locall Presence, which wee affirme his humane nature to have onely in Heaven: The Papists attribute it to the Sacrament, because Christ hath said, This is my Body: and in matters of fundamentall consequence, hee useth no figurative or darke speeches; to this wee say, that it is a carnall Doctrine, and a mistake like that of Nicodemus, and of Origen, from the Spirit to the letter. And for the difficulty, ⟨p. 93⟩it is none to men that have more than onely a carnall eare to heare it: for what difficulty is it to say that then the King gives a man an Office when hee hath sealed him such a Paent in the right whereof that Office belongeth, and is conveyed unto him? And if Christ bee thus locally in the Sacrament, and eaten with the mouth, and so conveyed into the stomacke: I then demand what becomes of him when and after hee is thus received into the stomacke? If hee retire from the accidents out of a man, then first accidents shall be left without any substance at all under them to sustaine them, and which is (if any thing can bee) yet more absurd, bare accidents should nourish, bee assimulated and augment a substance; for it is plaine, that a man might bee nourished by the Bread; yea, the Priest by intemperate excesse made drunke with the consecrated Wine; unto which detestable effects wee cannot imagine that God by a more especiall concurrence and miracle would enable the bare accidents of Bread and Wine. But if Christ stay, and doe corporally unite himselfe to the Receiver; then I see not how all they that receive the Sacrament, being physically and substantially united to Christs Body have not likewise a naturall union to his Person too, that being no where separated from this, which is blasphemous to affirme.