M. Hardinge.
The woordes whiche ye recite out of S. Augustines Sermon Ad Infantes, we finde in Bedevpon the tenthe Chapter of the firste Epistle to the Corinthians. The whole place is this: This thinge which ye see in the Aulter of God, ye haue sene it also in the night paste. But what it was, what it meaneth, the Sacramente of how great a thinge it conteineth,* 1.1 as yet ye haue not heard. That then whiche ye sawe, is Breade and Chalice, whiche euen your eyes tel you. But that whiche your Faithe requi∣reth to be instructed of, Breade is the Body of Christe, the Chalice his Bloude. If the Substance of Breade remained, as before Consecration, what neede had they to learne, what it were? For of them selues, they might know we the thinges proponed to be Breade, and VVine. But S. Augustine, ye saie, calleth that they sawe Breade, and VVine. Yea Sir, so it was, so farre as theire eies tolde them. But what their faithe ought to tel them, he instructeth them, saieinge: Breade to witte, is the Holy Body of Christe. To this Construction muste wee stande, by S. Augustine him selfe so set foorthe.