First it is not absurd that our Sauiour deliuering some precept, article, or Sacrament, should vse words that are figuratiue and exorbitant, accor∣ding to the rules of Grammer, if they be not figuratiue nor vnusuall, but ordinary, playne, manyfest, perspicuous, according to the common phrase and vulgar manner of speach. This speach, This is the cuppe of my bloud which is shed for you, if it be figuratiue according to Grammer, yet is it playne, ea∣sy, & cleere according to common speach; for no man hearing these words This is the cup of my bloud shed for you, can thinke, that the cuppe, and not the bloud contayned therein, was shed for vs.
Secondly, I deny that any word of this speach, This is the cuppe of the new Testament in my bloud which is shed for you, is figuratiue. This is the cup of my bloud, is not figuratiue, seing Christ had in his hand a true cup, not the figure of a cup, and the thing contayned therein was truly and properly bloud. The bloud of Christ is also truly and properly sayd to be the new Testa∣ment, for it is the thing required by the new Testament, & Couenant for the re∣mission of sinnes; but commonly and vulgarly men say of the thing re∣quired by Couenant, this is our Couenant. Finally, the cup in his bloud is properly sayd to be shed, seing the bloud was truly and properly shed, & so the cup properly shed in that respect, as to say of a cup of wine, this cup is spilt in the wine therof, is not figuratiue, but rather a speach vnneces∣sarily playne.