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…

For example, thou makest a bargain with thy Neighbour for ¹House or Land, and receivest in earnest a piece of gold: that which thou receivest is but a piece of gold: but now it is a sign of thy bargain, and if thou keep not touch with him, happily it will clasp thee for all that thou art worth: so, that which ⟨p. 17⟩thou receivest is bread, but this bread is a sign of another matter which passeth bread.

1. 1A Similitude.

Again, thou hast an Obligation in thy hand, and I ask thee ¹what hast thou there? and thou sayest, I have here an hundred pounds: why (say I) there is nothing but paper, ink, wax: Oh, but by this (sayest thou) I will recover an hundred pounds, and that is as good. So beloved, this is as good, that under these signs, you receive the virtue of Christ's body and blood by Faith, as if you did eat his body, and drink his blood indeed, which is horrible to think that any should devour their God, thinking thereby to worship him: never nay Heretic nor Idolater, conceived so grossly of their GOD before the Papist. We read of a People which did eat Men, but never of any People which did eat their God.

Again, thou hast an Obligation in thy hand, and I ask thee ¹what hast thou there? and thou sayest, I have here an hundred pounds: why (say I) there is nothing but paper, ink, wax: Oh, but by this (saist thou) I will recover an hundreth pounds, and that is as good. So beloved, this is as good, that under these signs, you receive the vertue of Christ's body and blood by Faith, as if you did eat his body, and drink his blood indeed, which is horrible to think that any should devour their God, thinking thereby to worship him: never nay Heretick nor Idolater, conceived so grossely of their GOD before the Papist. We read of a People which did eat Men, but never of any People which did eat their God.