Two notable sermons. Made

To this objection I first answer, that in deed neither the scripture nor Christian faith will give us leave to make any carnal, real, natural, corporal, or any such gross presence of Christs natural body in the Sacrament For it is in heaven, and the heavens must have it (as saith Peter) till Christs coming to judgement, except we would deny the humanity of Christ, & the verity of mans nature in him. The presence therefore which we believe and confess, is such a presence as reason knoweth not, & the world cannot learn, nor any that looketh in this matter with our eyes, or heareth with other ears, then with the ears and ⟨image 84⟩eyes of the spirit and of faith. Which faith though it be of things hoped for, & so of things absent to the corporal senses, yet this absence is not an absence in deed, but to reason and the old man, the nature of faith being a possession of things hoped for. Therefore to grant a presence to faith, is not to make no presence at all but to such as know not faith. And this the Fathers taught, affirming Christ to be present by grace, and therefore not only a signification, but also an exhibition and giving of the grace of Christs body, that is, of life and of the seed of immortality, as Cyprian writeth. We eat life and drink life saith S. Augustine. •efecle a presence of the Lord by grace or in grace saith Chrysostom. We receive the celestial ⟨image 85⟩food that cometh from ¹above, saith Athanasius. We receive the property of the natural conjunction and knitting together saith Hylerius. We perceive the ²nature of flesh, the blessing that giveth life in bread and wine, saith Cyrillus. And else where he ³saith, that with the bread and wine we eat the virtue of Christs proper flesh, life, grace, and the property of the body of the only begotten Son of God, which thing behimselfe expoundeth to be life. Basilius saith, that we by the Sacrament receive the ⁴mystical Advent of Christ, grace; and the very virtue of his very nature. Ambrose saith, that we