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Bernard an. 1120. Serm. de Purific. Mar. saith, [The Body of Christ in the Sacrament is the food of the Soul, not of the Belly; therefore we eat him not corporally, but in the manner that Christ is meat, in that same manner we understand that he is eaten. And Serm. de S. Martin. ⟨p. 63⟩The same Flesh is given us to this day, but Spiritually not Corporally.]

Bernard an. 1120. Serm. de Purific. Mar. saith, [The Body of Chrisi in the Sacrament is the food of the Soul, not of the Belly; therefore we eat him not corporally, but in the manner that Christ is meat, in that same manner we understand that he is eaten. And Serm. de S. Martin. ⟨p. 63⟩The same Flesh is given us to this day, but Spiritually not Corporally.]

To conclude, If the words This is my Body are to be taken literally, then so are the rest; [This Cup is the New Testament in my Blood.] And then the Cup is Transubstantiated into the New Testament.

And he that at once doth believe that Christ hath a Glorified Spiritual Body, that Flesh and Blood doth not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, that the Bread and Wine cease to be Bread and Wine, and are turned substantially into the very Flesh and Blood of Christ, and yet that the Pope and his Clergy are not Enemies of Christ and Souls, who deny this Blood to the People, and give them but a half Christ and a half Sacrifice, when he is praised by all Saints for washing them from their sins in his Blood; this Man and his Leaders seem to be Educated in such an Academy, as Festus thought Paul had been, and to be made by Satan the Stumbling-block of the unbelieving World, to persuade them to laugh at Christianity as we do at the Fopperies of Mahomet's Alcoran; and to make all the Nations of Heathens and Infidels believe that they cannot be Christians, unless they will be mad and senseless too: While Senses, Reason, Scripture, the History of the Church, and Writings of the Ancients, the Tradition and Judgement of the far greatest part of the Church, together with Charity, Humanity, and Peace, are all denied in obedience to one Man, that, because one Prince and his Clergy made him the first Bishop in his Empire and Councils, feigneth himself to be the Universal Monarch of the World; and undertaketh an Apostleship and Government at the Antipodes (when his zealousest Bishops formerly some of them thought there was no such place;) and obligeth himself to the care of Souls farther than