Nestorius. There he sheweth, that Nestorius destroyed the meane of the Vnion of be the Natures
in Christe, to thintent the Body of Christe might be founde but a common body as men haue, and not
a Body propre of the VVoorde, hauinge power to viuificate, or quicken al thinges. For Nestorius
diuided Christe, and taught the woorde to be the Sonne of God, not of Mary: and Christe Man the Sonne
of Mary onely, as Man: and dissolued the whole Mysterie of the incarnation so, as Christe shoulde be an
other certaine Sonne beside the VVoorde. And because the Nature of Godhed cannot be eaten, there∣of
he talked vainely and prophanely, that in the Sacramente wee eate Fleashe, and not Godhed. For
confutation of this detestable Heresie, Cyril bringeth him to the consideration of the Blessed Sacra∣mente,
and opposeth him, whether he thought, that in the Sacramente Christe beinge (by his Do∣ctrine)
Man besides God the VVoorde, wee eate a man, as one woulde saie, after sutche sorte, as the
Barbarous people of the newe founde Lande America, called Caniballes, eate one another. But be∣cause
that were absurde, and beastly, Cyril saithe that wee eate not a common Body, though the
Nature of Godhed properly be not eaten, but that Body whiche is Proprium verbi, the proper
Body of the VVorde, whiche quickenethe al thinges, by receiuinge whereof wee receiue whole
Christe, God, and man. And here Cyril layeth to Nestorius charge, as though he draue men to grosse
cogitations touchinge this Sacramente. The woordes be these: Num hominis comestio∣nem,
&c. VVhat doest thou pronounce this our Sacramente to be eatinge of a man (the Greeke
is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) and driueste vnreuerently the Minde of them as haue beleued vnto grosse ima∣ginations,
and attemptest with humaine imaginations, to treate of those thinges, whiche are attai∣ned
by an onely, pure, and exquisite Faithe? These be the grosse imaginations, whiche Cyrill
woulde to be bannished at the receiuing of this Sacramente, and that wee eate the Body of Christe,
not as beinge a common Body, as the Body of euery mortal Man: And though the Nature of God∣hed
be not eaten, that yet we eate that Body, whiche is the proper Body of the VVoorde, that
quickeneth al thinge. Nowe as we haue not that grosse imagination of eatinge a common Body,
(which of the Grekes, by a terme plainer to the learned, is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉) whē we receiue
this Sacramente: so it is euident by Cyril, that in the same we eate verely, and in deede the Bo∣dy
of Christe, the VVoorde incarnate. For otherwise his saieinges had not made ought againste the
Heresie of Nestorius. And thus receiuinge Christes Body in the Sacramente, we receiue it truely, and
with Faithe, and without grosse imaginations. Al this weighed, howe proue ye now, Christe to be so
lodged in Heauen, that notwithstandinge his owne VVoorde, wee lacke him here in these Holy My∣steries?
But let vs consider your other Authorities.