A confession of faith made by common consent of divers reformed churches beyond the…A confession of fayth made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyonde the…

And Christ him self in that he was delivered for our sakes and is our saviour, is that principal chief thing of the supper, neither suffer we any other thing to be put in his stead. But that it may the better, and more plainly be perceived, how the ¹flesh and blood of Christ, is the meat and drink of the faithful, received of them to life everlasting, we will add these few words. There be divers kinds of eating: For there is a bodily eating, whereby meat is received into mans mouth, is chewed with the ²teeth, and swallowed into the belly. After this kind of eating, the Capernaites in time paste understood, that ⟨p. 76⟩they should eat the Lord his flesh. But they are confuted by Christ him ³self: For Christ his flesh can not be eaten corporally, without an heinous ⁴& cruel act. It is not then meat for the belly, as all men are compelled to confess. We disallow the Popes Canons, in the decrees of the bishops of Rome. Ego Berengarius, de conse. dist. 2. For neither the godly in time pass, nor we do now believe, that Christ his body is eaten, with the mouth of the body, corporally, or essentially. There is also a spiritual eating of Christ his body, not that, whereby we ⁵think, that the very meat is changed into the spirit, but whereby (the body and blood of the Lord, keeping still their essence and property) we receive them, not after a corporal, but after a spiritual sort, by the working of the holy ghost, who doeth bestow upon us those gifts, which were purchased by the flesh and blood of Christ, who was delivered, and put to death for us, granting us remission of our since, deliverance from Satan, ⟨image 122⟩and life everlasting, so that Christ liveth in us, and we in him. For he bringeth it to pass, that we receive him ⁶