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Again, every Sacrifice was ¹offered upon an Altar. Now, mark the wisdom of the Holy Ghost, least we should take this for a Sacrifice, he never names Altar ⟨image 77⟩when he speaks of it, but, the table of the Lord. Therefore it is no doubt but the devil hath kept the name of Altar, that we might think it a Sacrifice. Again, if the bread were Christs flesh, and the wine his blood, as these two are separate one from the other; so Christs flesh should be separate from his blood, but his body is not divided, for them it were a dead body. Again, that which remaineth doth nourish the body, and relish in the mouth as it did before, which could not be, but that it is the same food which it was before. Again, I would ask, whose are this whiteness, and hardness, and roundness, and coldness? None of them say that it is the whiteness, and hardness, and roundness, and coldness of Christs body: therefore it must needs ⟨image 77⟩be the whiteness, and hardness, and roundness, and coldness of the bread, or else qualities should stand without substances, which is, as if one should tell you of a house without a foundation. Again, as Christ dwelleth in us, so he is eaten of us, but he dwelleth in us only by saith, Ephe. 3. 17. Therefore he is eaten only by faith. Again, none can be saved, without the communion of the body: but if all should communicate with it corporally, then neither infants nor any of our fathers, the Patriarchs or the Prophets should be saved, because they received it not so.

Againe, euery Sacrifice was ¹offered vppon an Altar. Now, marke the wisedome of the Holy Ghost, least wee should take this for a Sacrifice, he neuer names Altar ⟨image 77⟩when he speakes of it, but, the table of the Lord. Therefore it is no doubt but the diuell hath kept the name of Altar, that wee might thinke it a Sacrifice. Againe, if the bread were Christs flesh, and the wine his bloud, as these two are separate one from the other; so Christs flesh should bee separate from his bloud, but his bodie is not diuided, for thē it were a dead bodie. Againe, that which remaineth doth nourish the bodie, and relish in the mouth as it did before, which could not be, but that it is the same foode which it was before. Againe, I would aske, whose are this whitenesse, and hardnes, and roundnes, and coldnes? None of them say that it is the whitenesse, and hardnesse, and roundnes, and coldnes of Christs bodie: therefore it must needes