Chap.26. according to St M w T T H II vv. 579 the gender ( the like whereof we finde, Eplaefg.6. ) and fo the Të'TO referral. Apoftle interpreteth it, i Cor. t o. i 6. & i 1.26. The fenfe then is, al 419- 4 ". This bread is my true effentiall body, which is given for you : mdse <generr that is, by anordinary metonymy. This bread is thefgne of my Lat°t. body, as circumcifion is called the covenant, that is the ligne of the covenant, and fealofthe righteoufnesof faith, Rom..¢. ti. And - <.«.varçxbgv. as Homer calls the facrifices, covenants; becaufe thereby theco- Kes «yswei o? venants were confirmed: Virgil calleth it fallere dextraa, to x,"n$4©auv deceivethe right hands, for to break the oath that was taken, by the taking of right hands, &c. Tranfubftantiation is a meet fitti- on : and the learnedeft Papifts are not yet agreed whether the fubftance of the bread in this Sacrament be turned into the fubftance of Chrifts body prodsrttivè, as one thing is made of a- nother, or whether the bread goes away, and Chrifts body comes into the room ofit addeellivè, as one thing fucceeds into the place ofanother, the firlt being voided. Suarez is for the firf't, Bellar- mine for the latter fenfe.And yet becaufe Luger and Calvinagree not upon themeaning of thefe words, This is my body,the Jefuites cry out,Spiritus rinfius afeipfi nor difcordat,Hn interpretatienes difcordant, Ergo:for Luther interpreteth the words Synechdochi- cally, Calvin Metonymically, after Tertullian and AuguFtine ; This is my body ,for this is a findeor figure ofmy body,a feat alto to every faithfull receiver, that Chriff is his, with all his benefits. Verfe 27. And he rook the cup] Anciently ®f glaffe, after- wards ofwood, and laftly of fiver or gold. Whence that Paying of a Father, Once there were wooden cups, goldenpreifts : now there are golden cups, but wooden preifts. Drinkyeall of it ] Thisisexpreffe againft that Antichrifhan facriledge of robbing the people of the cup. Eckiun faith the peo- ple ought to content thcmfelves with the bread onely, becaufe, Egni donati non Ant in.ffiiciendi dentes, Agift-horfe n not to be Apul minutia lookedin the month. He thought belike that Lay-men could not inWawa, claim any right to the bread neither. Bellarmine, a littlewifèr, grants they have right to the bread, but adds, that in eating the bread tranfubftantiated by the Priest into the body of Chrift, they drink his blood alto. But Lombard (hismatter) denies this : faying that the bread is not turned but into Chuffs flefh, nor the wine but intohis blood. And thus thefe Babe/-builders are confounded in their language, and hard it is to know what the Church of Rome holdeth. The counfell of Confiance fpeakech PP 4 our,
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