S. Ambrose as this author saith in an other place saith thus: Before the Benediction of the heavenly words, it is called an other kind of thing, but after the consecration is signified the body and blood of Christ. And an other speech thus. Before the consecration it is called an other thing, but after the consecration it is named the blood of Christ and yet a third speech where the word (call) is used before and after both, as thou reader mayest see in this authors book in the 83. leaf. Now good reader, was there ever man so overseen as this author is, who seeth not S. Ambrose in these three latter speeches to speak as plainly as in the first. For in the last speech S, Ambrose saith, it is called bread before the consecration and called the body of Christ after the consecration. And I would demand of this author, doth not this word (call) signify the truth that is bread in deed before the consecration? which if it be so, why shall not the same word (call) signify also the very truth added to the words of the body of Christ after the consecration? And likewise when he saith, speaking of the body of Christ the word (signified) or (named) which is as much as (call). The body of Christ is signified there, for Christ said this is my body. &c. using the outward signs of the visible creatures to signify the body & blood present,1 & not absent. Was not Christ the true Son of God, because the angel said, he shall be called the Son of God? But in these places of S. Ambrose, to express plainly ⟨p. 186⟩what he meant by (calling) he putteth that word (call) to the bread, before the consecration, aswell as to the body of Christ after the consecration, thereby to declare how in his understanding the word (call) signifieth as much truth in the thing where unto it is added after consecration as before, and therefore as it is by S. Ambrose called bread before consecration, signifying it was so indeed, so it is called signified or named (which three thus placed be all one in effect) the body of Christ after the consecration and is so in deed agreeable to the plain speech of S. Ambrose, where he saith: It is bread before consecration and it is the body of Christ after consecration.
S. Ambrose as this author saith in an other place sayth thus: Before the Benediction of the heauenly words, it is called an other kind of thing, but after the consecration is signifyed the body and bloud of Christ. And an other speach thus. Before the consecration it is called an other thing, but after the consecration it is named the bloud of Christ and yet a third speech where the word (call) is vsed before and after both, as thou reader maist sée in this authors booke in the 83. leafe. Now good reader, was there euer man so ouersene as this author is, who seeth not S. Ambrose in these thre latter speaches to speake as playnely as in the first. For in the last speach S, Ambrose saith, it is called bread before the consecration and called the body of Christ after the consecration. And I would demaund of this author, doth not this word (call) signify the truth that is bread in deed before the cōsecration? which if it be so, why shal not ye same word (cal) signify also the very truth added to the wordes of the body of Christ after the consecration? And likewise when he sayth, speaking of the body of Christ the word (signified) or (named) which is as much as (call). The body of Christ is signifyed there, for Christ sayd this is my body. &c. vsyng the outward signes of the visible creatures to signify the body & bloud present,1 & not absent. Was not Christ the true sonne of God, because the angell said, he shalbe called the sonne of God? But in these places of S. Ambrose, to expresse plainely ⟨p. 186⟩what he ment by (calling) he putteth that word (call) to the bread, before the consecratiō, aswell as to the body of Christ after the consecration, thereby to declare how in his vnderstanding the word (call) signifieth as much truth in the thing where unto it is added after consecration as before, and therfore as it is by S. Ambrose called bread before consecration, signif•ing it was so indéed, so it is called signifyed or named (which thrée thus placed be all one in effect) the body of Christ after the consecration and is so in deed agreable to the playne spech of S. Ambrose, where he sayth: It is bread before consecration and it is the body of Christ after consecration.
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