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M. Hardinge.
I praie you,* 1.1 Whiche these Mysteries meane ye? Those that ye haue in your newe communion, or those that we haue at the aulter of God in the Catholike Churche of Christe? If ye meane your owne newe deuised toye, thereof ye cannot bringe any sufficient reason againste the Churche, pardy, whiche condemneth the same. If ye meane the Holy Mysteries of the Catholike Churche, ye misreporte the mater. For by that exhortation, ye speake of,* 1.2 the people are not prepared to receiue the Communion onely, nor chifely: but to dispose them selues accordingly and as it becommeth them to praie: for to that ende be these woordes, Sursum corda, vp with your hartes, pronounced by the Prieste in the Preface before prayer. Reade S. Cyprian in Sermone 6. De Oratione Dominica. And ye shal finde him to referre the whole to praier. But what if we admitte your woordes, refusinge your Heretical meaninge? VVe graunte, the people are to good purpose so exhorted, as ye saie, and that he is in Heauen, whose fleash we feede on in this Sacramente, thereby to attaine to life Euerlastinge. VVhat conclude ye of this? Ergo he is not here? For at that marke ye shoote, euery man maye see. Here we tel you, that your Rhetorike is better stuffe,* 1.3 then your Logike: for your argumente is foolishe. VVith the one ye maie leade the simple perhaps, with the other ye moue the Learned to laugh at you. For Christe is in Heauen, and also here, as Chrysostome saithe, Et hic plenus existens, & illic plenus, Vnum Corpus.* 1.4 He is here fully, and there fully, one Body. These two propositions, Christe is in Heauen, and Christe is here, may wel stande togeather, without iuttinge the one the other out of place. He is there at the right hande of the Father visibly, he is here vnder the Formes of Breade and VVine, inuisibly: there in glorie, here in Mysterie▪ yet as truly and fully here, as there, concerninge his‡ 1.5 Substance, as Chrysostome saith. Ye pro∣cede foorth, and saie.