M. Hardinge. The .1. Diuision.
For as muche, as by the almighty power of Gods woorde pronounced by the Prieste in the Conse∣cration of this Sacrament, the Bodie, and Bloude of Christe are made (253)* 1.1 Really Present, the Substance of Breade (253) tourned into the Substance of the Bodie, and the Substance of VVine into the Substance of the Bloude: the Breade (whiche is consumed a waie by the fier of the Diuine Substance, as Chryso∣stome saithe,* 1.2 and now is become the Breade whiche was formed by the hande of the Holy Ghoste in the wombe of the Virgine, and decocted with the fier of the Passion in the Aulter of the Crosse, as S. Ambrose saithe:)* 1.3 can not be the Sacrament of the Bodie, nor the VVine of the Bloude. Neither can it be saide that the Breade, and VVine whiche were before, are the Sacramentes, for that the Breade is becomme the Bodie, and the VVine the Bloude, and so now they are not: and if they be not, then neither be they Sacramentes. Therefore that the outwarde formes of Breade, and VVine which remaine, be the Sacramentes of Christes Bodie, and Bloude, and not the very Breade, and VVine it selfe: it foloweth by sequele of reason, or consequent of vnderstandinge, deduced out of the firste trueth,* 1.4 whiche of S. Basile in an Epistle, ad Sozopolitanos, speakinge against certaine, that went about to raise vp againe the olde Heresie of Valentinus, is called, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Of whiche sequele of reason in the matter of the Sacrament many conclusions may be deduced in case of wante of expresse Scriptures. VVhiche waie of reasonninge Basile vsed against Heretikes, as also sundry other Fathers, where manifest Scripture might not be all••aged.