Roman tradition examined, as it is urged as infallible against all mens senses, reason,…

And what if a Spirit, which is circumscriptively in no place, may be said to be definitively, or operatively, in many places at once? Will you say the same of a Body, and ⟨p. 10⟩so make Body and Spirit to be the same? A Spirit is indivisible, and so is not Matter; but yet I make not this the Controversy. I know not how near Christ's Body is to a Spirit, which is called spiritual; but if it be material, and yet in many places at once, it must be by Parts; one Part in one place, and another part in another place. For a material Body not to possess its proper place according to its Quantity and Parts, is a Contradiction: And whatever you will say of Christ's Heavenly Body, sure you will not say that his supposed Flesh and Blood is not material, or a true Body: And therefore either Christ hath as many Bodies, or else as many Pieces, or Parts of one Body, as there are Consecrated pieces of Bread, perhaps many Thousand Miles distant from each other. Yet I will confess to you, that as if a Thousand visible Apples could grow on one spiritual, or invisible Tree, they would be all Parts of that one Tree; so if you could prove, that a Thousand material visible Hosts are united by apposition to one spiritual invisible Body of Christ as Parts, they would all be Parts of that one Body; but marvellously heterogeneal. But what's all this to the foresaid Contradictions?

And what if a Spirit, which is circumscriptively in no place, may be said to be definitively, or operatively, in many places at once? Will you say the same of a Body, and ⟨p. 10⟩so make Body and Spirit to be the same? A Spirit is indivisible, and so is not Matter; but yet I make not this the Controversie. I know not how near Christ's Body is to a Spirit, which is called spiritual; but if it be material, and yet in many places at once, it must be by Parts; one Part in one place, and another part in another place. For a material Body not to possess its proper place according to its Quantity and Parts, is a Contradiction: And whatever you will say of Christ's Heavenly Body, sure you will not say that his supposed Flesh and Blood is not material, or a true Body: And therefore either Christ hath as many Bodies, or else as many Pieces, or Parts of one Body, as there are Consecrated pieces of Bread, perhaps many Thousand Miles distant from each other. Yet I will confess to you, that as if a Thousand visible Apples could grow on one spiritual, or invisible Tree, they would be all Parts of that one Tree; so if you could prove, that a Thousand material visible Hosts are united by apposition to one spiritual invisible Body of Christ as Parts, they would all be Parts of that one Body; but marvelously heterogeneal. But what's all this to the foresaid Contradictions?