M. Harding. The .3. Division.M. Hardinge. The .3. Diuision.

M. Harding. The .3. Division.

M. Hardinge. The .3. Diuision.

And if it appear strange to any man, that S. Basil should call those Holy Mysteries Antitypa, after Consecration, let him understand that this learned Father thought good by that word, to note the great secrete of that mystery, and to show a distinct condition of present things, from things to come. And this consideration the Church seemeth to have had, which in public prayer after holy mysteries received,¹ maketh this humble petition, Ut quae nunc in Specie gerimus, ²certa rerum Veritate capiamus: That in the life to come we may take that in certain trueth of things which now we bear in shape, or show. Neither do these words import any prejudice against the trueth of the Presence of Christs Body in the Sacrament: but they signify, and utter the most principal trueth of the same, when as all outward Form, Shape, Show, Figure, Sampler, and cover taken away, we shall have the fruition of God him self in sight face to face, not as it were through a glass, but so as he is in trueth of his Majesty. So this word Antitypon, thus taken in S. Basil, furthereth nothing at all the Sacramentaries false Doctrine against the trueth of the presence of Christs Body in the Sacrament.

And if it appeare strange to any man, that S. Basile shoulde calle those Holye Mysteries Antitypa, after Consecration, let him vnderstande that this learned Father thought good by that woorde, to note the greate secrete of that mysterie, and to shewe a distincte condition of present thinges, from thinges to come. And this consideration the Churche seemeth to haue had, whiche in publique praier after holy mysteries receiued,¹ maketh this humble petition, Vt quae nunc in Specie gerimus, ²