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Leauinge a number of places that might be alleged out of the Auncient Fathers, for the Confir∣mation of this mater, to auoide tediousnesse, I wil conclude with that most plaine place of Theodore∣tus, who speakinge of the outwarde signes of the Sacrament, saithe, that notwithstandi••ge they re∣maine
after the Mystical Blessinge, (171)* 1.1 in the proprietie of their former Nature, as those that may be seene and felte, no lesse then before: yet they are vnderstanded, and beleeued to be the thinges, whiche they are made by vertue of Consecration, and are woorshipped with Godly Honour. His woordes be these.* 1.2 Intelligūtur ea esse, quae facta sunt, & creduntur, & adorantur, vt quae illa ••••nt, quae creduntur. These Mystical Signes (saithe he) are vnderstanded to be those thinges, whiche they are made, and so they are beleeued, and are Adored, as beinge the thinges which they are beleeued to be. VVith whiche woordes Theodoretus affirmeth bothe the Real Presence, and also the Adoration. The Real Presence, in that he saithe, these outwarde Signes, or Tokens after Consecration to be made thin∣ges whiche are not seene, but vnderstanded, and beleeued, whereby he Signifieth the Inuisible thinge of this Sacrament, the bodie and Bloude of Christe. Adoration he teacheth with expresse termes, and that bicause through power of the Mystical Blissinge, the Signes be in existence, and in deede the thinges whiche they are beleued to be, soothely the Bodie and Bloude of Christe. For otherwise God forbidde, that Christen people shoulde be tought to Adore, and woorship the insensible Creatures, Breade, and VVine. Of whiche he saith, that they are Adored, not as signes, not so in no wise, but as be∣inge the thinges, whiche they are beleeued to be. Now I reporte me to the Christian Reader, whether this Adoration of the Sacrament, whereby we meane the Godly woorship of Christes Bodie in the Sacrament, be a newe deuise, or no, brought into the Churche but lately, aboute three hundred yeeres past, as M. Iuel maketh him selfe suer of it in his Sermon.
The .171. Vn∣trueth, for The∣odoretus saith, Manent in pri∣ori Substantia. By M. Hardinges constructiō, the outvvarde Sig∣nes are Christes Bodie, and must be vvoorshipped vvith Godly Honour.
Dialo. 2.