to this Kinde, this Nature, and this Substance of his Bodie, maie not be thought to be ••owred,
and spreadde into al places. Thus S. Paule, S. Augustine, S. Hierome, and other
learned Fathers vse this woorde Forma, for Nature, and Substance: and not for
Accidentes.
And as touchinge the other woorde, Operta, Coouered, S. Augustine meaneth
not thereby, that Christes Bodie is Really conteined, and coouered vnder the saide
Fourme, or kinde of Breade: but onely that it is there, as in a Sacramente, or in a
Mysterie. In this sense S. Augustine saithe, Gratia Dei in Veteri Testamento velara
la••ebat: The Grace of God laie hidden coouered in the Olde Testamente. And againe,
In Veteri Testamento occultabatur Nouum, id est, occultè Significabatur•• The Newe
Testamente was hidden in the Olde, that is to saie, It was secretely Signified in the Olde.
Here, least M. Hardinge should take these woordes strictly, and grossely, as he
doothe the reste, and saie, The Newe Testamente in déede, & Really was coouered
in the Olde, S. Augustine him selfe hath preuented him, and opened his owne
meaning in this wise, as it is saide before: Occultabatur, id est, occultè Significabatur:
It was Coouered, that is to saie, it was secretely Signified. By whiche exposition, beinge
S. Augustines, M. Hardinge might haue learned likewise to expounde these woor∣des,
Caro operta forma Panis, id est, occultè Significata: The Fleashe coouered in the
Fourme, or Substance of Breade: that is to saie, Priuily Signified in the Forme, or Substance of
Breade.
But M. Hardinge thought it best, to leaue the mater, and to make his quarel
to the woordes, This woorde, Liethe, saith he, importeth a scoffe, wherewith to bringe his
Catholique teachinge into contempte. Uerily this must needes be a marueilous tender,
and a miserable Doctrine, that maie no waies be touched without suspicion of a
scoffe. But why is he more angrie with vs, for vtteringe these woordes, Liethe
hidden, then he is with his owne Doctours vtteringe the same?
In his Glose vpon the Decrees it is written thus, Species Panis, sub qua lat••t
Corpus: Species Vini, sub qua later Sanguis: The Fourme of Breade, vnder whiche is hiddē
the Bodie: The Fourme of Wine, vnder whiche is hidden the Bloude. These be his owne
felowes woordes: they are not ours.
VVillihelmus Hasfliginensis one of M. Hardinges Newe Doctours saith thus,
Quaerite Dominum, dum inueniri potest. In Templo inuenitur Materiali: Ibi latet sub Spe∣cie
Panis: Seeke the Lorde, while he maie be founde. He is founde in the Material Churche
of stoane: There he is hidden vnder the Fourme of Breade.
An other like Doctour saith thus, Ibi est Corpus Christi in tanta quantitate, sicut
fuit in Cruce. Vnde mirum est, quomodò sub tam modica Specie tantus homo lateat:
The Bodie of Christe is there, as greate in quantitie, as he was vpon the Crosse. Therefore it
is marueilous, how so greate a man can be hidde vnder so smal a Fourme.
Yf this woorde, Hidden, so necessarily importe a scoffe, then must M. Hardinge
needes thinke, that his owne Doctours scoffe at him, and laugh him to scorne. Cer∣tainely,
it is no indifferent dealinge, the woordes beinge al one, so fauourably to
allowe them in his owne bookes, and so bitterly to mislike them in al others.
Perhaps he wil saie, It is no Catholique Fourme of speache, to saie, Christe liethe
in the Sacramente. And yet I sée no greate reason, but it maie stande as wel with the
Catholike Doctrine, to saie, Christe liethe in the Sacrament, as, Christe sittethe in
the Sacramente. Yet Iohannes a S. Andrea, a greate Doctour, and a special Patrone of
that side, is wel allowed to write thus, and that without any manner control∣mente,
or suspicion of scoffe: Id temporis contentio nulla erat, vtrùm Corpus Christi in∣sideret
Eucharistiae: At that time there was no strife, whether Christes Bodie were Sittinge in,
or vpon the Sacramente, or no. Thus was it lawful for him to write: and his wri∣tinges
are taken for good, and Catholike.