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

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 ⟨p. 46⟩of the ignorant, and strengthening of the weak, we will in a few lines put down the true meaning of these words. For the better performance whereof, I would have this to be noted.

Beside, the verie circumstances of time, place, person, and manner of doing, doe sufficiently prooue the vanitie and vntruth of this grosse interpretation. For this Sacrament being instituted by Christ him selfe 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 naturall body of our Sauiour Christ) he him selfe sitting at the Table with them, and speaking these words in their presence and ⟨p. 45⟩hearing; it could not bee, that that bread, offered vnto them as the pledge of his body, should be his naturall bodie, or bodie of flesh, vnlesse 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 handes, and deliuered vnto his Apostles: then the which, what can be, not onely more absurde and blasphemous, in respct of our Sauiour Christ him selfe; but also more vnprofitable and vncertaine to vs, as which might prouoke vs to doubt, whether of his bodies were crucified for our transgressions? Now, as we doe iustly reiect this grosse sense, so for the instruction