M. Hardinge. The .5. Diuision.
These places of the Scripture, and many other reportinge plainely, that Christ at his Supper gaue to his Disciples his very Body, euen that same, whiche the day folowinge suffered Death on the Crosse, haue ministred iust cause to the (130)* 1.1 godly and learned Fathers of the Churche, to say, that Christes Body is Present in this Sacrament Really, Substantially, Corporally, Carnally, and Naturally. By vse of which Aduerbes they haue meante onely a trueth of beinge, and not a way, or meane of beinge. And though this manner of speakinge be not thus expressed in the Scripture, yet is it deduced out of the Scripture. For if Christ spake plainely, (131)* 1.2 and vsed no Trope, Figure, nor Metaphore, as the Scripture it selfe suf∣ficiently declareth to an humble beleuer, and woulde his Disciples to vnderstande him, so as he spake in manifest termes, when he saide, This is my Body, whiche is geuen for you: Then may wee say, that in the Sacrament his very Body is Present, yea, Really, that is to say in deede, Substantially, that is, in Substance, and Corporally, Carnally, and Naturally: by whiche woordes is mente, that his very Body, his very Fleashe, and his very humaine Nature is there, not after Corporal, Carnal, or Natural wise, but inuisibly, vnspeakeably, miraculously, supernaturally, spiritually, diuinely, and by way to him onely knowen.