A replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare by perusinge whereof the discrete, and diligent reader may easily see, the weake, and vnstable groundes of the Romaine religion, whiche of late hath beene accompted Catholique. By Iohn Iewel Bishoppe of Sarisburie.

M. Hardinge. The .7. Diuision.

That Tertullian in this place is so to be vnderstanded, we are taught by the greate learned Bi∣shop S. Augustine, and by Hilarius, who was Bishop of Rome nexte after Leo the firste. S. Augu∣stines woordes be these:* 1.1 Corpus Christi & veritas, & Figura est. Veritas, dum Corpus Christi & Sanguis in virtute Spiritus Sancti ex Panis & vini substantia efficitur.* 1.2 Figura verò est quòd exterius sentitur. The Bodie of Christe is bothe the Trueth and the Figure. The truethe, whiles the Bodie of Christe and his Bloude, by the power of the holy Ghost, is made of the * 1.3 Substance of Breade and VVine. And it is the Figure that is with outwarde sense perceiued.

VVhere S. Augustine here saithe the Bodie and Bloude of Christe to be made of the Substance of Breade and VVine, beware thou vnlearned man, thou thinke them not thereof to be made, as though they were newly creat••d of the mater of Breade and VVine, neither that they be made of Breade and VVine,* 1.4 as of a mater: but that where Breade and wine were before, after Consecration there is the very Bodie and Bloude of Christe borne of the Virgin Marie, and that in Substance, in sorte and 〈◊〉〈◊〉to our weake reason incomprehensible.

Notes

• * 1.1

  A Bastarde Au∣thoritie in S. Augustines name.
• * 1.2

  De Conse•• dist 2. ca∣non. Vt•••••• sub Figura.
• * 1.3

  Christes Bodie of the Substāce of Breade.
• * 1.4

  M. Hardinge shunneth his ••vvne Doctour.