SECT. VIII.

THe Iudgement of a whole Councell of Greeke Fathers may well suffice for the manifestation of the Iudgement of that Page  94 Church; They in Constantinople at Trullo, alluding to these words of Christ, [This is my Body] saying, Let nothing be offered, but the Body and Blood of Christ, that is (say n They) Bread and Wine, &c. If we had not told you that this had been the speech of Greeke Fathers in a Councell, you would have conceived they had beene ut∣tered by some Heretique, as your Charity useth to cal us Protestants. Neither may the Authority of this Councell be rejected by you, as unlawfull in the point of the Sacrament, both because it is obje∣cted by your selves, to prove it an vnbloody Sacrifice (whereunto you are * answered) as also for that your Binius, in opposing against some things in this Councell, yet neuer tooke any Exception a∣gainst this Canon.

We may not let passe another Testimony used by the Antient Fa∣ther o Theodoret, namely, That Christ called the Bread his Body, as he called his Body Bread, Matth. 12. saying thereof, Except the grane of wheat die, &c. insomuch that Interchangeably in the one place He gave to the Signe the name of his Body, and in the other, He gave to his Body the name of the Signe. So hee. As Protestantly as either Calvin or Beza could speake. And you cannot deny, but that when Christ called his Body Bread, it was an improper and figurative speech. And therefore, if you will believe Theodoret, you are com∣pellable to confesse, that Christ, in calling Bread his Body, meant it not in a proper and literall sence. Hitherto of the Greeke Fathers.