394 A Commentary upon tbe ,o(el Cha ,1 covenant. And asChrift faithof the Sacramentallb bread. T'hia my body, which Luther interprets fynecdochically,for in,oráunder this is my body. Calyin, after Tents/lion and eArugufline, inter- prets it metonicnícaliy, for this is the figne, or the figure ofmy body. Hence the Places prefently cry out : The fpirit of God difagreeth not with it fell. But thefe interpretations dotttterly difagree: Therefore they are nor of the fpirir. But let them firf} agree among themfelves, before they quarrel our difagreeinents : for their own Doors are exceedingly divided even about this ve- ry point ofthe Eucharifit, and know not what their holy Mother holdeth.Befarmine teacheth, that the fu3flanceof the bread, is not turned into the f ubilance of Chrifts body Prodssflive, as one thing is made of another, but that thebread goes away, and Chrifts' body comes into the room of it riddtsi, ive, as one thing fucceeds into the place of another, theñ,ft being voyded : And this, faith he, is the opinion of the Church of R,re, himfelf beingReader of Controverfier at Rame. But Suarez, Reader at Salaaeaane;a in Spain confutes Eellarmines opinion, teaming it Tran¡locati.. on not Tran.ubftantiation, and faith it is not the Churches o- .pinion. Verfe 3S. The field ix the World] The Chriflian world, the Church, not the Rotnan-Catholike Churchonly, the Popes terri- tories, as he would have ir. The Rogation Hereticks would needs havemade the worldbelieve, that they were the only Catholicks. The Anabaptifls have the fame conceit ofthemfèlves. wuncer -their Chieftain in his booke writrert againfl Luther and dedicated toChrift the moil Illuftrious Prince (ashe ftileth him) inviegh- eth bitterly at him as one that was meetly carnal!, and utterly void ofthe fpirit of Revelation. And Paresis upon this text tells us that in a conference at Frank.ondal the Anabaptifts thus argu- ed. The field is the world, therefore not the Church : that by the fame reafon they might deny, that hates breed in the Church. But tares are and will be in the vfibleChurch, as our Saviour pur- poftly teachethby this parable. The tares are the childrenof that Wickedone ] So calledpart- ly in refpeft of their'ferpentine nature, thole corrupt qualities, whertby they refemble the devil : And partlybecauie they creep into the Churchby Satans fubtilety, being his agentsand Emiil'i- maid) 24. ries. tlgnofco toprimogenitur.4diaboli faid St Jahnof that Here- tike Cerinthw, And Hypocrites are his 'formes and hcires, the very
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