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These Doctours liued within these twoo, or thrée hundred yéeres, and are suche, as M. Hardinge thought not worthe the naminge. Their Doctrine in these cases is very vnsauerie, and without comforte. Generally they holde, that Christes
Bodie remaineth no lenger in our Bodies, but onely vntil the formes of the Breade, and Wine beginne to alter. Some others say, that assoone as our téeth touche the Breade, streight waies Christes Bodie is taken vp into Heauen. The woordes be these:* 1.1 Cerrum est, quod quàm citò Species dentibus teruntur, tam citò in coelum rapitur Corpus Christi.* 1.2 This Doctrine notwithstandinge, they say, That Christe is Naturally, and Corporally within vs. Here may a man say vnto M. Hardinge, as he did before to the Arian Heretique:* 1.3 What, troweth M. Hardinge, or his Newe Doctours, that Christe cometh to vs from Heauen, and by and by forsaketh vs? Or, that we eate Christe, and yet receiue him not? Or, that we receiue Christe, and yet haue him not? Or, that Christe is Corporally within vs, and yet entreth not? Is this Christes natural beinge in vs? Is this the Vert••e of the Mystical Benediction? Is this the meaninge of these holy Fathers? Or troweth M. Hardinge, that holdinge, and mainteininge suche absurdi∣ties, his Reader, be he neuer so simple, wil beleeue him?
Last of al, to declare the manner of Christes Presence in the Sacrament, he saith, it is not Local, not Circumscriptiue, not Diffinitiue, not Subiectiue. By these termes his Reader may rather wonder at his strange Diuinitie, and Eloquence, then wel coniecture, what he meaneth. And as it appeareth, he him selfe is not yet hable to conceiue his owne meaninge. For thus he saithe, This Presence is knovven to God onely. Then it foloweth, M. Hardinge knoweth it not. And so this Article at last is concluded with an Ignoramus. How be it the Olde lear∣ned Fathers neuer leafte vs in suche doubtes.* 1.4 Emissenus saithe, as it is before alleged,* 1.5 Praesens est in Gratia: Christe is Present by his Grace: S. Augustine saithe, Est in nobis per Spiritum: Christe is in vs by his Spirite.* 1.6 Likewise againe he saithe, Non hoc Corpus, quod videtis, manducaturi estis: Sacramentum aliquod vobis trado.* 1.7 Ye shal not eate this Bodie, that ye see. It is a certaine Sacrament, that I deliuer you. Thus the Holy Fathers saie, Christe is Present: not Corporally, Carnally, Na∣turally: but, as in a Sacrament, by his Sprite, and by his Grace.
De Conse. dist. 2.
Tribus gradi∣bus. In Glosa.
The absurdities of M. Hardings Doctrine.
De Conse. dist. 2.
Quta Corpus.
Augustin. de Trinita.
Augustin. in Psalm. 98.