M. Hardinge.
But Lorde what meant ye to allege Theophylacte, and S. Ambrose, whose Doctrine is so contrary to yours,* 1.1 as light is to darkenes? Theophylacte expoundinge these woordes of Christe in S. Iohn. As the Liuinge Father hath sent me, euen so liue I by the Father, and he that eateth me, shal liue by me, saithe thus: Doest thou not heare a dreadful saieinge? VVee eate not pure God, for he is vntoucheable, and vnbodily. Neither can he be comprehended with eies, nor teethe. Neither eate we the fleshe of a pure man: for that can profite nothing at al. But now that God hath vnited vnto him selfe fleashe after a vnspeakeable contemperament, the fleashe is also become lifemakinge. Not for that it is pas∣sed away into the Nature of God,* 1.2 beware of that, but after the likenes of fyryyron, whiche abideth yron, and sheweth the operation of fire: euen so (quoth he) the fleashe of our Lorde abidinge fleashe, is lifemakinge, as beinge the fleashe of God the worde. then as (saithe he) I liue by the Father, who is life, so he that eateth me, shal liue by me, being tempered with me, as also being transelemented into me, who haue Power to viuificate or giue life. VVhiche laste woordes your owne Doctour Oecolam∣padius hathe thus turned, Dum quodammodò miscetur, & transelementatur in me, qui viui∣ficare potest, corruptinge the sounde Doctrine of the writer with his forged* 1.3 quodammodò, whiche he founde not in the Greke there placed, and breakinge the congruitie of the Latine speache, by puttinge that in the thirde Person, that ought to be in the firste. If faithe wrought al this matter, then after your meaning, might we eate God, whiche Theophylacte denyeth. He saithe, he that eateth Christes fleash, is tēpered togeather with him, and transelemented into him, so as he is made one Body with him,* 1.4 as Cyrillus expoundeth the place of S. Paule to the Ephesians: where he saithe, that we be Concorporales, that is to say, of one Body with Christe. And an other where, fleash of his fleashe, and bone of his bones.