as it were all one if a man lacking a knife, and going to his Oysters would say unto another whom he saw to have two ⟨p. 24⟩Knives, Sir I pray you lend me the one of your Knives; were it not now all one to answer him Sir, hold, I will lend you [this] to eat your meat, but not to open Oysters withal; and—Hold, I will lend you this Knife to eat your meat, but not to open Oysters? This Similitude serveth but for this purpose, to declare the nature of speech withal, whereas the thing that is demonstrated and showed is evidently perceived and openly known unto the Eye. But, O Good Lord? what wonderful thing it is to see how some men do labour to teach what is demonstrated, and showed by the pronoun Demonstrative - This - in Christs words, when he saith—This is my Body, This is my Blood. And here the Transubstantiators do not agree among themselves, no more than they do about the words which work the Transubstantiation; some attributing the work unto the word - Benedixit; and the most part to [Hoc est corpus meum.] Innocentius therefore, Duns, and that Sect, which putteth the change in the word - Benedixit - say, that this word - This, was then indeed Christs Body, tho' the word did not import so much, but only one thing in substance, which (after Duns, now the Bread being gone) must needs be the substance of Christs Body. The other which do say that this change is made, when the whole Sentence - This is my Body - is fully finished, and not before, cannot but say, that Christs This did demonstrate, and show Bread indeed, which so remained till the Sentence was fully pronounced. But how can they make and verify Christs words to be true, demonstrating the substance of Bread, and saying thereof - This is my Body; that is, as they say, the Natural substance of Christs Body, except they will say, that the Verb (is) signifieth is made, or is changed into, and then, in Christs words upon the Cup rehearsed by Luke and Paul, the ⟨p. 25⟩Cup, or the Wine in the Cup, must be made, or turned into the New Testament, as was declared before. There be some amongst the Transubstantiators, which would! be Mediators, yea, rather Neutrals, or Ambidexters, which can shift on both sides; for where the one saith that this word This demonstrateth the substance of Bread, the other saith, No, not so; the Bread is gone, and it demonstrateth a substance which is Christs Body.
as it were all one if a man lacking a knife, and going to his Oysters would say unto another whom he saw to have two ⟨p. 24⟩Knives, Sir I pray you lend me the one of your Knives; were it not now all one to answer him Sir, hold, I will lend you [this] to eat your meat, but not to open Oysters withall; and—Hold, I will lend you this Knife to eat your meat, but not to open Oysters? This Similitude serveth but for this purpose, to declare the nature of speech withall, whereas the thing that is demonstrated and shewed is evidently perceived and openly known unto the Eye. But, O Good Lord? what wonderfull thing it is to see how some men do labour to teach what is demonstrated, and shewed by the pronoun Demonstrative - This - in Christs words, when he saith—This is my Body, This is my Blood. And here the Transubstantiators do not agree among themselves, no more than they do about the words which work the Transubstantiation; some attributing the work unto the word - Benedixit; and the most part to [Hoc est corpus meum.] Innocentius therefore, Duns, and that Sect, which putteth the change in the word - Benedixit - say, that this word - This, was then indeed Christs Body, tho' the word did not import so much, but only one thing in substance, which (after Duns, now the Bread being gon) must needs be the substance of Christs Body. The other which do say that this change is made, when the whole Sentence - This is my Body - is fully finished, and not before, cannot but say, that Christs This did demonstrate, and shew Bread indeed, which so remain'd till the Sentence was fully pronounced. But how can they make and verifie Christs words to be true, demonstrating the substance of Bread, and saying thereof - This is my Body; that is, as they say, the Natural substance of Christs Body, except they will say, that the Verb (is) fignifieth is made, or is changed into, and then, in Christs words upon the Cup rehersed by Luke and Paul, the ⟨p. 25⟩Cup, or the Wine in the Cup, must be made, or turned into the New Testament, as was declared before. There be some amongst the Transubstantiators, which would! be Mediators, yea, rather Newtrals, or Ambidexters, which can shift on both sides; for where the one saith that this word This demonstrateth the substance of Bread, the other saith, No, not so; the Bread is gone, and it demonstrateth a substance which is Christs Body.
