Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…

Beside I ask them to whom Christ spake when he said, This is my Body? S. Mark saith, he spake to them, that is, to his Disciples: well then, if these words, This is my Body, were not ¹spoken to the Signs, but to the Persons: not to the Bread and Wine, but to the Receivers, as the words which follow, Do this in remembrance of me: If these words were not spoken to the Bread and Wine, then it is plain that they do not change the nature of the Bread and Wine. If the nature of them be not altered, then the substance remaineth, and then we receive no ⟨p. 16⟩other substance with them, because two substances cannot be in one place.

1. 1Mar. 14 24 Christ spake not to the Bread and Wine, but to his Disciples.

What then, is there nothing in the Sacrament but Bread and ¹Wine, like an hungry nunscion? Nay, we say not that the Sacrament is nothing but a bare sign, or that you receive no more than you see: for Christ saith, that it is his body: and Paul saith, that it is the Communion of Christ's body and blood: Therefore there is more in sacramental bread then in common bread; though the nature be not changed, yet the use is changed: it doth not only nourish the body as it did before, but also it bringeth a bread with it which nourisheth the Soul: for as sure as we receive bread, so sure we receive Christ; not only the benefits of Christ, but Christ: although not in a Popish manner, yet we are so joined and united unto him, even as though we were but one body with him.

What then, is there nothing in the Sacrament but Bread and ¹