Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

Thirdly: The manner of Predication, it's Meat indeed, and Drink indeed.

First: The subject, my Flesh, and my Blood, (i. e.) my Humanity; this is meat and drink, true spiritual food. If it be demanded why he had not said, I am meat and drink indeed; but rather chooses to say, my flesh and blood is so; the reason is evident, saith Learned Camero, because if you take away Flesh and Blood from Christ, he cannot be Food or Life to us. For in order to his being so, he must satisfy God for us, and obtain the Remission of our sins; but without shedding of Blood there is no Remission. Now for as much as by the offering up of his Body, and shedding of his Blood, he hath obtained pardon and life for us; therefore his Flesh and Blood is called our Meat and our Drink, that by which our souls live. Which brings us to the second thing.

First: The subject, my Flesh, and my Blood, (i. e.) my Humanity; this is meat and drink, true spiritual food. If it be demanded why he had not said, I am meat and drink indeed; but rather chuses to say, my flesh and blood is so; the reason is evident, saith Learned Camero, because if you take away Flesh and Blood from Christ, he cannot be Food or Life to us. For in order to his being so, he must satisfie God for us, and obtain the Remission of our sins; but without shedding of Blood there is no Remission. Now for as much as by the offering up of his Body, and shedding of his Blood, he hath obtained pardon and life for us; therefore his Flesh and Blood is call'd our Meat and our Drink, that by which our souls live. Which brings us to the second thing.

Secondly: The Predicate, it is meat and drink, (i. e.) it is to our souls of the same Use and necessity that meat and drink is to our natural life, which cannot be sustained or continued without them.