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Division 13.

Diuision 13.

MY Adversaries next Argument from the quality of ¹the Communicants, page 18. is this; If Christs body be really and corporally present in the Eucharist, then all that eat thereof must of necessity eat Christ in it. But many eat of the Eucharist, that yet eat not Christ in it: for none but faithful and lively members of Christ eat him in this Sacrament. In which Argument he endeavoureth to prove one falsehood by another, equally by us denied; because the holy Fathers expressly affirm that Judas and the Corinthians blamed by Saint Paul received, albeit unworthily, and to damnation, the body of Christ, as the Apostles words 1 Cor. 11. evidently import; and when S. Augustine and others seemed to deny them to receive Christ in the Sacrament, they speak not of bare sacramental, but of profitable and fruitful receiving of him.

MY Aduersaries next Argument from the qualitie of ¹the Communicants, page 18. is this; If Christs body be really and corporally present in the Eucharist, then all that eate thereof must of necessity eate Christ in it. But many eate of the Eucharist, that yet eate not Christ in it: for none but faithfull and liuely members of Christ eate him in this Sacrament. In which Argument hee endeavoureth to prooue one falshood by another, equally by vs denyed; because the holy Fathers expressely affirme that Iudas and the Corinthians blamed by Saint Paul receiued, albeit vnworthily, and to damnation, the body of Christ, as the Apostles words 1 Cor. 11. euidently import; and when S. Augustine and others seemed to deny them to receiue Christ in the Sacrament, they speake not of bare sacramentall, but of profitable and fruitfull receiuing of him.

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