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THe passages or places before alleadged, seeme not to bee to the purpose of this question, neuerthelesse they satis∣fie sufficiently. We search out in this Treatise the Traditi∣on of Christian people, and because that this question hath not bene disputed vpon before this time, a man cannot finde any expresse testimonies: in so much that it must be gathered from the practise of the Church, what her beleefe is. Some man will aske, whether Christian people doe beleeue or haue
beleeued, that after the vsage of the Sacrament, the body of the Lord be in the rest of the bread and wine consecrated, and whether the rest of the bread and wine bee holy things, or whether they haue no holinesse in them, euen as the water of Baptisme, which is not scrupulously kept, after it is once v∣sed. The Romane Church holdeth the affirmatiue, that is to say, that the bread being lost, the wine being shed or soaked into wood, are and still remaine the true bodie of Christ, as is to be seene by the cautions of the Canon before alleadged. But seeing that other people take not such care to keepe the rem∣nants, and to gather them vp religiously; it followeth, that they beleeue not that it is in any wise the body of our Sauiour Iesus Christ. When we speake of the remnants, we meane not that which is pretended to be kept for the sicke: for that re∣mainder is thought to abide still chaunged in those places where that custome is, to wit, in the East: but not in the Churches of the Abyssins, or Aethiopians. The Maronites of Ierusalem, who sucke the Sacrament of blood with a pipe, cannot draw out all. Those that doe eate with little reuerence, and doe cast away the rest of the sacred bread, attribute no more to it. The Abyssins although that they wash the basen wherein the Sacramentall bread was, and doe drinke the wa∣ter, and also seeme to doe it with reuerence and care: yet ne∣uerthelesse seeing that they cause the little children perforce to eate this sacred bread, it cannot be otherwise, but they must needs loose some of it. As touching that which is practised amongst other nations, to vse wooden Chalices, that sheweth manifestly that they attribute not, or that their Ancestors haue not attributed any diuine vertue to the leauings which soaketh into the wood. Howsoeuer the law of Pope Pius be, it is not obserued: for the wooden Chalices nor the pipes are
not scraped nor burned, neither the ashes kept within the Al∣tar. From thence may be gathered,
That they beleeue not, that the Remainder of the Sacrament (wherewith no man meanes to serue his turne any more) is the body of Christ.