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The B. of Sarisburie.
Theophylacte saithe, The Breade is not onely a certaine Figure of our Lordes Fleashe, but the Fleashe it selfe of our Lorde. This Obiection in my For∣mer Replie is many wheres answeared. Wée graunte, The Breade is not a bare, or a naked Figure: but by waie of Sacramente, or Mysterie, it is the Body of Christe it selfe. So the Water of Baptisme, is not an emptie Figure of the Bloude of Christe: but it is Christes Bloude it selfe, bicause it is the Sa∣cramente of Christes Bloude.* 1.1 And therefore S. Bernarde saithe, Lauemur in Sanguine eius: Let vs be wasshed, (not in Water, but) in the Bloude of Christe. S. Augustine geueth this general Rule, as I haue often reported, In Sacramentis vi∣dendum est, non quid sint, sed quid Significent: In Sacramentes wee muste consider, not vvhat thei be (in substāce, & nature) but vvhat thei Signifie. Tertullian saith, Christus acceptum Panem,* 1.2 & Discipulis suis distributum Corpus suum illum Fecit, dicēdo, Hoc est Corpus meum, hoc est, Figura Corporis mei: Christe hauing taken the Breade, and hauinge deliuered the same to his Disciples. Made it his Body, saieinge, This is my Body, That it to saie, This is a Figure of my Body. And to appointe a corruptible Creature to this vse, and to make it an effectual instrumente of sutche high, and Hidden Mysteries, it is not the Woorke of any mortal man, but the onely Power, and woorkinge of the Holy Ghoste: as it shal farther ap∣peare in the nexte Clause, in mine answeare to the woordes of S. Ambrose. be∣da saithe thus,* 1.3 Panis, & Vini Creatura in Sacramentum Carnis, & Sāguinis Christi ineffabili Spiritus sanctificatione transfertur: The Creature of Breade, and Wine by the vnspeakeable Sanctification of the Holy Ghoste, is changed (not into the very Real Body, and Bloude, but) into the Sacramente of the Body, and Bloude of Christe.