M. Hardinge. The .3. Diuision.
And if it appeare strange to any man, that S. Basile shoulde calle those Holye Mysteries Antitypa, after Consecration, let him vnderstande that this learned Father thought good by that woorde, to note the greate secrete of that mysterie, and to shewe a distincte condition of present thinges, from thin∣ges to come. And this consideration the Churche seemeth to haue had, whiche in publique praier af∣ter holy mysteries receiued,* 1.1 maketh this humble petition, Vt quae nunc in Specie gerimus,* 1.2 certa rerum Veritate capiamus: That in the life to come we maie take that in certaine trueth of thinges whiche nowe we beare in shape, or shewe. Neither doo these woordes importe any preiudice against the trueth of the Presence of Christes Bodie in the Sacrament: but they signifie, and vtter the most principal trueth of the same, when as al outwarde Forme, Shape, Shewe, Figure, Sampler, and coo∣uer taken awaie, wee shal haue the fruition of God him selfe in sight face to face, not as it were through a glasse, but so as he is in trueth of his Maiestie. So this woorde Antitypon, thus taken in S. Basile, furthereth nothinge at al the Sacramentaries false Doctrine against the trueth of the pre∣sence of Christes Bodie in the Sacrament.