Two treatises. 1. The holy exercise of a true fast, described out of God's…

In like manner is the Bread of the Lords Supper, called his Body, because, as we have said before, look what proper and peculiar office the Bread hath or yieldeth to our natural bodies; the self same doth Jesus Christs body broken, taken hold of by Faith, spiritually communicate unto our souls. And this speech is usual in the Scriptures, to attribute that to the sign, which is proper and peculiar to the thing signified, by reason of the straight analogy, proportion, and agreement, which is between ⟨p. 44⟩the sign, and the thing signified; and not in any other respect, of consubstantiation, transubstantiation, or any other such like fantastical dotage.

In like manner is the Bread of the Lords Supper, called his Body, because, as we haue sayd before, looke what proper and peculiar office the Bread hath or yeeldeth to our naturall bodies; the selfe same doth Iesus Christes body broken, taken hold of by Faith, spiritually communicate vnto our soules. And this speach is vsuall in the Scriptures, to attribute that to the signe, which is proper and peculiar to the thing signified, by reason of the stre ght analogie, proportion, and agreement, which is betweene ⟨p. 44⟩the signe, and the thing signified; and not in any other respect, of consubstantiatiō, transubstantiation, or any other such like fantasticall dotage.

Beside, the very circumstances of time, place, person, and manner of doing, do sufficiently prove the vanity and untruth of this gross interpretation. For this Sacrament being instituted by Christ him self a little before his death, in the presence of the Apostles (who had all their senses satisfied in the beholding, hearing, and feeling, of the natural body of our Saviour Christ) he him self sitting at the Table with them, and speaking these words in their presence and ⟨p. 45⟩hearing; it could not be, that that bread, offered unto them as the pledge of his body, should be his natural body, or body of flesh, unless you will say, that Christ had two bodies: one sitting at the table, instituting the action of the Supper; and an other borne in his hands, and delivered unto his Apostles: then the which, what can be, not only more absurd and blasphemous, in respect of our Saviour Christ him self; but also more unprofitable and uncertain to us, as which might provoke us to doubt, whether of his bodies were crucified for our transgressions? Now, as we do justly reject this gross sense, so for the instruction