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Thus the Fathers cal not onely the Sacrament, but also the Bodie and Bloud of Christe it selfe in the Sacrament, sometimes the truthe, sometimes a Figure: the trueth, that is to wit, the very and ••rue Bodie and Bloud of Christe: a Figure, in respecte of the manner of beinge of the same there pre∣sent,
whiche is Really, and Substantially, but Inuisibly vnder the visible forme of the outwarde Ele∣mentes. And so Tertullian meaneth by his, That is the Figure of my Bodie, as though Christe had shewed by the woorde (Hoc) that whiche was Visible, whiche verily is the Figure of the Bodie, right so as that whiche is the Inuisible inwarde thinge, is the trueth of the Bodie. VVhich interpre∣tation of Tertullian in deed is not accordinge to the right sense of Christes woordes, thoughe his meaninge swarue not from the truethe. For where as our Lorde saide, This is my Body, he meante not so, as though he had saide, the outwarde forme of the Sacramente, whiche here I deliuer to you, is a Figure of my Bodie vnder the same conteined, for as muche as by these woordes, Hoc est, he shewed not the Visible forme of Breade, but the Substance of his very Bodie, into whiche by his Diuine power he tourned the Breade. And therefore (192) none of al the Fathers euer so expounded those woordes of Christe, but contrarywise, namely Theophylacte, and Damascene. He saide not saithe Theophy∣lacte, This is a Figure, but This is my Bodie. The Breade, nor VVine, (meaninge their outwarde Formes) saith Damascene, is not a Figure of the Bodie and Bloude of Christe: Not so, in no wise. But it is the Bodie it selfe of our Lorde Deificated, sithe our Lorde him selfe saithe, This is my Bodie, not the Figure of my Bodie, but my Bodie: and not the Figure of my Bloude, but my Bloude, &c.
A miserable shift. By this ex¦position hovv can Christes Bo∣die it selfe be a Figure?
Tertullian vn∣derstand••th not Christes vvords.
The .192. Vn∣trueth, notori∣ous. For M. Har∣ding knovveth, that al the olde Fathers expoū∣ded it so.
In Matth•••• ca. 26. li. 4. ca. 14.
Outvvarde Fourmes▪ and Accidentes are Christes Bodie it selfe.