( 53) congefed by the adunation of many Grains, he ge'ceth the Union of the People whom he bare : and when he called his blood wine, expreffed out of .-many bunches' of Grapes and Kernels, and made up into one, hefgnified one Flock uni- ted, &c.] And EpiJi. 63 .Ad Cacilium de Sacram. Proving that the Sacrament fliould not have water alone without wine, he fiith cap. i. [ That the cup which is offered in commemo.. r:ati9n of him be o'"erect mixt with wine. For when Chrijifaith, I am the true Vine, his blood is not water,, but wine. Nor c.?n his blood, by which, we are redeemed and fanclifed, be Peen to be in the cup, if'wine be not ia the, cup, by which Chrifl s blood is [Dewed, &c. And c. 6. we frnd the cup mixt which Chrifl òfered and that it was wine which he called his blood.. Whence it is apparent that the blood of Chrífl is not offered, if wine be wanting to the cup ; nor is the Lords sacrifice celebrated by duefanc`lification, unlefs our Oblation and Sacri rice Per his Pa/fion. And cap. 9. In the wine is /hewed the bloodof Chri¡t, in the water is underftood the People. (Is the water turn!' ed into the People ?.) And ca9. to. So the cup of the Lord is not water alone, nor wine alone, bat muft both be mixed ; even .1,s the body of the Lord cannot be meal (orflower) alone, or water alone, but both mull be united, conjoined, and be bread by compoetien folidated. And cap. 12. ['As oft as we offer the cup in commemora- tionof the Lord and his Peon, let us do that which is m :'nifefl'the Lorddid.] So muchof cyprian. V. The next cited byhim is Tertulian, Paying, [The {lefh is fed with the body and bloodof Chriff, that the-Saul may be-madefat with God.]
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