The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously…The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously…

15 This also did help very much to drive them into this error: that consecration was as much among them, as Magical enchantment, not knowing in the mean while this principle, that the bread is a Sacrament, to none but to men, to whom the word is directed: ⟨image 259⟩their starting hole which they take out of the word of Moses & place of Jeremiah, is of no weight. The water springing out of the Rock in the desert was to the fathers a token and sign of the same thing which the wine doeth figure to us in the Supper,^{1 2}for Paul teacheth that they drunk the same spiritual drink, but it was a common watering for beasts and cattle of the people, so that the earthly Elements when they are applied to a spiritual use, there is made no other turning but in respect of men, insomuch as they are to them seals of the promises. Where they allege that which the Prophet complaineth of,³ that wood is put in his bread: thereby is meant nothing else, but that by the cruelty of his enemies his bread was infected with bitterness, the like complaint hath David,⁴ that his meat was corrupted with gall, and his drink with Vinegar.

15 This also did helpe very much to driue them into this error: that cōsecratiō was as much among them, as Magicall inchantment, not knowing in the meane while this principle, that the breade is a Sacrament, to none but to men, to whome the worde is directed: ⟨image 259⟩their starting hole which they take out of the worde of Moses & place of Ieremy, is of no waight. The water springing out of the Rocke in the desert was to the fathers a token and signe of the same thing which the wine doeth figure to vs in the Supper,^{1 2}