Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.

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Title: Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
Author: Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. Stansby, for Robert Mylbourne in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Grey-hound,; MDCXXXI. [1631]
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Our first Proposition.

The Verbe [EST] being ioyned with a thing that is a Signe, is alwayes figurative, and the very same with this word, SIG∣NIFIETH.

SECT. I.

FOr although the Verbe (Est) be indeed so absolutely simple, in it's owne nature, that it cannot be resolved into any other word (as all other Verbes may be in like Case) yet doth it (albe∣it accidentally) necessarily inferre a figurative Sence, and is as much as Signifieth, or Representeth, whensoever it ioyneth the Signe and the Thing signified together. As for Example, A man pointing at a signe hanging before an Inne, and saying, This is S. George on horse-backe, the Verbe Is can inferre no other Sence than Signifieth. Why? even because the thing, whereof it speaketh, is a Signe signifying Saint George. And Bread in this Sacrament is in all Catholique Divinity a Signe of Christ's Body. Therefore the Verbe [Is] can have no other sence than [Signifieth.]