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In the year 1608. there were published at Paris certain works of Fulbertus Bishop of Chartres, ^*pertaining as well to the refuting of the heresies of this time, (for so saith the inscription) as to the clearing of the History of the French. Among those things that appertain to the confutation of the Heresies of this time, there is one especially, fol. 168. laid down in these words. Nisi manducaveritis, inquit, carnem filij hominis, & sanguinem biberitis, non habebitis vitam in vobis. Facinus vel flagitium videtur jubere. Figura ergo est, dicet haereticus, praecipiens Passioni Domini esse communicandum tantùm, & suaviter atque utiliter recondendum in memoria, quòd pro nobis caro ejus crucifixa & vulnerata sit. Unless (saith Christ) ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye shall not have life in you. He seemeth ⟨p. 16⟩to command an outrage or wickedness. It is therefore a figure, will the heretic say, requiring us only to communicate with the Lords Passion, and sweetly and profitably to lay up in our memory, that his flesh was crucified and wounded for us. He that put in those words, (dicet haereticus) thought he had notably met with the heretics of this time: but was not aware that thereby he made S. Augustine an Heretic for company. For the Heretic that speaketh thus, is even S. Augustine himself: whose very words these are, in his third book de Doctrinâ Christianâ, the 16. chapter. Which some belike having put the publisher in mind of: he was glad to put this among his Errata, and to confess that these two words were not to be found in the Manuscript copy which he had from Petavius;² but telleth us not what we are to think of him, that for the countenancing of the Popish cause, ventured so shamefully to abuse S. Augustine.

In the yeare 1608. there were published at Paris certaine workes of Fulbertus Bishop of Chartres, ^*pertayning as well to the refuting of the heresies of this time, (for so saith the inscription) as to the cleering of the History of the French. Among those things that appertaine to the confutation of the Heresies of this time, there is one especially, fol. 168. laid downe in these words. Nisi manducaveritis, inquit, carnem filij hominis, & sanguinem biberitis, non habebitis vitam in vobis. Facinus vel flagitium videtur jubere. Figura ergo est, dicet haereticus, praecipiens Passioni Domini esse cōmunicandum tantùm, & suaviter atque utiliter recondendum in memoria, quòd pro nobis caro ejus crucifixa & vulnerata sit. Vnlesse (saith Christ) ye eate the flesh of the Sonne of man, and drinke his blood, yee shall not haue life in you. He seemeth