M. Hardinge. The .14. Diuision.
Certaine fathers vse the woordes,* 1.1 Signum, & Sacramentum, that is, Signe, and Sacrament, in the same signification. S. Augustine. In Libro Sententiarum Prosperi, saith thus, Caro eius est, quam forma Panis opertam in Sacramento accipimus: & Sanguis eius, quem sub vi∣ni specie & sapore potamus: Caro videlicet Carnis, & Sanguis est Sacramentum Sangui∣nis: Carne & Sanguine, vtroque Inuisibili, Spirituali, Intelligibili, Signatur visibile Domi∣ni nostri Iesu Christi Corpus, & palpabile, plenum gratia omnium virtutum, & Diuina Maiestate. It is his Fleashe, that we receiue coouered with the Forme of Breade in the Sacrament, and his Bloude, that vnder the shape and sauoure of wine, we drinke. Soothly Fleashe is a Sacra∣ment of Fleashe, and Bloude is a Sacrament of Bloude: by the Fleashe, and the Bloude both Inuisible, Spiritual, intelligible, our Lorde Iesus Christe his visible and palpable Bodie, ful of the grace of al vertues, and Diuine Maiestie is Signified, or, as it were, with a Signe noted.
In these woordes of S. Augustine, we see the fleashe of Christe called a Sacrament of his fleashe, and the Bloude a Sacramente of his Bloude, in as muche as they be couered with the Forme of Breade and VVine, yet verily, and in Substance present: And likewise he letteth not to calle this Veritie or Trueth of the thinges them selues thus couertly exhibited, a Signe of Christes Visible, and Palpable Bodie: so that the naminge of a Signe dooth not importe a separation from the Trueth, but sheweth a distincte manner of the Truethe exhibited: And therefore accordinge to the Trueth of the manner of exhibitinge, it is not the Fleashe of Christe, but the Sacrament of the Fleashe of Christe, for that