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M. What doest thou call to eat and drink spiritually?

M. What doest thou call to eate and drinke spiritually?

Peter. To speak properly, to eat and drink is understood of the body and of the bodily meat and drink, but when we speak of spiritual things, we take those words for a figure, by the which we declare the spiritual things by the bodily things, because of the similitude and agreement that they have together.

Peter. To speake properly, to eate and drinke is vnderstoode of the body and of the bodily meate and drinke, but when we speake of spirituall thinges, we take those wordes for a figure, by the whiche we declare the spirituall thinges by the bodily thinges, bycause of the similitude and agremente that they haue togither.

M. Why is that done?

Of the true spiritual eating and drinking.

Of the true spirituall eating and drinking.

M. Declare this to me yet somewhat more plainly.

M. DEclare this to me yet somewhat more plainely.

Peter. Thou mayest well understand that the soul and the Spirit do neither eat nor drink corporally and materially as doth the body.

Peter. Thou mayest well vnderstande that the soule and the Spirite do neyther eate nor drinke corporally and materially as dothe the bodye.

Matthew. I do well understand at the least, that they have ⟨p. 308⟩neither mouth, nor teeth, nor stomachs, nor bellies corporal whereby they may do the same.

Mathevve. I doe well vnderstande at the leaste, that they haue ⟨p. 308⟩neither mouth, nor téeth, nor stomackes, nor bellies corporall whereby they may do ye same.

P. And therefore it must needs be that if the soul and the spirit do eat and drink, they eat and drink in an other sort than doth the body, the which is proper and agreeable to their nature.

P. And therefore it must néeds be that if the soule and the spirite do eate and drinke, they eate and drinke in an other sorte than doth the body, the whiche is proper and agreable to their nature.

M. There is reason in that which thou sayest.

M. There is reason in that whiche thou sayest.

P. And on the other side thou mayest well know also, that the flesh of Jesus Christ is neither eaten nor chewed, neither is swallowed down into the stomach and belly, neither is it digested, as is the corporal and material meat.

P. And on the other side thou mayest well knowe also, that the flesh of Iesus Christ is neyther eaten nor chawed, neyther is swalowed downe into the stomacke and bellie, neyther is it digested, as is the corporall and materiall meate.

M. For what cause is it then that Jesus Christ hath used that manner of speech, saying, he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood,¹ hath eternal life?

M. For what cause is it then that Iesus Christ hath vsed that manner of spéeche, saying, he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud,¹ hath eternall life?

1. 1John. 6. f.Iohn. 6. f.

P. It is to give us the better to understand the communion and conjunction which we have with him, and how that his flesh and his blood do the very same toward the soul, and also toward the body touching the spiritual life, being received with a true and living faith, as do the bread and wine towards the body touching the bodily life, when they are bodily eaten & drunken.

P. It is to giue vs the better to vnderstande the communion and coniunction whiche we haue with him, and how that his flesh and his bloud do the very same towarde the soule, and also toward the body touching the spirituall life, being receiued with a true and liuing faith, as do the bread and wine towards ye body touching the bodily life, whē they are bodily eaten & dronken.

The sixteenth Dialogue is of the transubstantiation & con substantiation, and of the true presence of Jesus Christ in the Supper.

The sixtenth Dialogue is of the transubstātiation & cō substantiation, and of the true presence of Iesus Christ in the Supper.

Of the error of transubstantiation, and how the Supper cannot be a Sacrament, if the bread and the wine do not there remain in their proper substance.

Of the error of transubstantiation, and hovv the Supper cannot be a Sacramente, if the bread and the vvine do not there remayne in their proper substance.

MATTHEW. How is it that men do eat the flesh of Jesus Christ, and do drink his blood, as thou hast even now said? It is to be understood that the bread and the wine be transubstantiate and converted into them, or else that they be joined and united with the bread and the wine.

MATHEVV. HOw is it that men do eate the flesh of Iesus Christ, and do drinke his bloud, as thou hast euen nowe saide? It is to bée vnderstoode that the breade and the wine be transubstantiate and conuerted into them, or else that they be ioyned and vnited with the bread and the wine.