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R. It is utterly false: I will not abuse the Reader so as to carry him into a Wood, and lose him among a multitude of old Books, when he hath more satisfactory evidence enough at hand. But, I. As to all your Citations from true antiquity (for your forged Authors and corrupted Testimonies we regard not) they are answered by this one true observation, that when old Writers sometimes say, that after consecration it is [No more bread and wine, but the body and blood of Christ], their whole Context plainly showeth, that they mean that it is no more MERE or Common Bread and Wine; and usually they so speak. Because forma denominat, and it is the ultimate form that denominateth, all antecedent forms being but the dispositio materiae. As if the question be, Whether a Shilling be Silver or Money? Before the Coining, it was but Silver; but after, it is no more Common Silver, but Money: Silver is but the matter, and not the denominating form. Is your Garment to be called Cloth, ⟨p. 140⟩or a Cloak? Before the making it was but Cloth, but now it is not mere Cloth, but a Cloak. The same I may say of the Kings Crown and Sceptre, or of any Relative, Representative or Personating form that is added to any matter or man. This is the plain meaning of the Ancients. II. And as to what they say against you, I will now only give you a few brief instances. 1. Justin Martyr. in Dial. cum Tryph. saith, [The offering of Flower delivered to be offered for them that were cleansed of the Leprosy, was a Type of the BREAD of the Eucharist which our Lord Jesus Christ commanded us to make in remembrance of his passion, &c.] And more plainly Apolog. 2. (indeed the first) [When the President hath given thanks, and all the people acclaimed, those that with us are called Deacons, distribute to every one present BREAD and WINE and Water, and bring them to those that are absent.] 2. Irenaeus saith lib. 4. c. 34. [For as the Bread which is of the Earth receiving the divine invocation, is not now Common Bread, but the Eucharist, consisting of two things, the Terrene and the Celestial, &c.] See more out of him in Albertinus, at large. 3. Tertullian cont. Marcion l. 3. c. 19. [Calling Bread his Body, that hence you may understand that he gave to Bread the Figure of his body.] And before l. 1. [He reprobated not — Bread, by which he Representeth his very Body.] And lib. 4. cap. 40.

R. It is utterly false: I will not abuse the Reader so as to carry him into a Wood, and lose him among a multitude of old Books, when he hath more satisfactory evidence enough at hand. But, I. As to all your Citations from true antiquity (for your forged Authors and corrupted Testimonies we regard not) they are answered by this one true observation, that when old Writers sometimes say, that after consecration it is [No more bread and wine, but the body and blood of Christ], their whole Context plainly sheweth, that they mean that it is no more MEER or Common Bread and Wine; and usually they so speak. Because forma denominat, and it is the ultimate form that denominateth, all antecedent forms being but the dispositio materiae. As if the question be, Whether a Shilling be Silver or Money? Before the Coining, it was but Silver; but after, it is no more Common Silver, but Money: Silver is but the matter, and not the denominating form. Is your Garment to be called Cloth,