The grand sacrilege of the Church of Rome, in taking away the sacred cup from the laiety at the Lords Table: detected, and conuinced by the euidence of holy Scripture, and testimonies of all ages successiuely from the first propagation of the catholike Christian faith to this present: together with two conferences; the former at Paris with D. Smith, now stiled by the Romanists B of Calcedon; the later at London with M Euerard, priest: by Dan. Featly, Doctor in Diuinity.

Bellarmines answer.

Bellarmine cauilleth x 1.1 at the last passage saue one, viz. where Clemens saith, to drinke Christs blood is to bee partaker of his incorruption. First he saith it doth not follow, that because he that drinketh Christs blood hath immorta∣lity or incorruption: therefore hee that drin∣keth it not, hath not incorruption: for he may haue it otherwise, namely, by the bodie.

Secondly, he saith, that Christs blood giueth in∣corruption or immortall life, not because it is drunke

but because it is taken. Now it is truly taken of them, who communicate in one kind onely, because the blood is not seuered from the body, which they partake of.

Notes

• x 1.1

  Non sequitur illa negatiua ex affirmatiua, qui bibit Christi sanguinem, ha∣bet incorruptio∣nem, ergo non bibit, potest enim aliunde habere, nempe à corpore. * Sanguis Do∣mininon dat in∣corruptionem, quia bibitur, sed quia sumitur: sanguinem autem verè sumunt, qui sub vni∣ca specie communicant.