An account of a disputation at Oxford, anno dom. 1554 with A treatise of…

Was Christ, saith St. Augustin, offered any more but once; and he offered himself, and yet in a Sacrament or Representation, not only every solemn Feast of Easter, but also every day, to the People, he is offered, so that he doth not lie that saith,—He is every day offered. For if Sacraments had no similitudes or likeness of those Things whereof they be Sacraments, they could in no wise be Sacraments; and for their similitude and likeness, commonly they have the names of the Things whereof they be Sacraments: Wherefore, as after a certain manner of speech, the Sacrament of Christs Body, is Christs Body; the Sacrament of Christs Flood is Christs Blood; so likewise the Sacrament of Faith is Faith, &c.

Was Christ, saith St. Augustin, offer'd any more but once; and he offered himself, and yet in a Sacrament or Representation, not only every solemn Feast of Easter, but also every day, to the People, he is offered, so that he doth not lie that saith,—He is every day offer'd. For if Sacraments had no similitudes or likeness of those Things whereof they be Sacraments, they could in no wise be Sacraments; and for their similitude and likeness, commonly they have the names of the Things whereof they be Sacraments: Wherefore, as after a certain manner of speech, the Sacrament of Christs Body, is Christs Body; the Sacrament of Christs Flood is Christs Blood; so likewise the Sacrament of Faith is Faith, &c.

After this manner of speech, as St. Augustin teacheth in his Questions Super Leviticum & contra Adamantium,—it is said, - That seven ears of Corn be seven years, seven Kine be seven years, and the Rock was Christ, Blood is the Soul. The which last saying, saith St. Augustin in his Book Contra Adamantium, is understood to be spoken in a sign or figure; for the Lord himself did not stick to say, This is my Body, when he gave the sign of his Body: For we must not consider in Sacraments, (saith St. Augustin, contra Maximinum. Lib. 3. cap. 22.) what they be, but what they do signify; for they be signs of Things, being one Thing in themselves, and yet signifying another ⟨p. 38⟩Thing; for the Heavenly Bread, (saith he) by some manner of speech, is called Christs Body, when indeed it is the Sacrament of his Body.—What can be more plain, or more clearly spoken, than are these places of St. Augustin, if Men were not obstinately bent to maintain an untruth?—Yet one place more of St. Augustin will I allege to this purpose, That Christs Natural Body is in Heaven, and not here Corporally in the Sacrament. In his 50th Treatise upon John, he speaks thus of Christ.