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.

That some Fathers understood the Apostles words 1. Cor. 10. spiri∣tually, (namely) as signifying the Eating of Christ's Flesh, and drinking his Blood; both in the Old Testament and in the Newe.

SECT. II.

VPon those words of the Apostle, 1. Cor. 10. v. 4. [They ate of the same spirituall meate, &c.] The Iewes received the same spi∣rituall meate, e 1.1 saith S. Augustine. Yea (saith your f 1.2 Cardinall) the Iewes received the same among themselves, but not the same with us Christians. So hee. Albeit the words of Augustine are plainly thus; The same which we eat: so plainly, that divers of your own side doe so directly and truely acknowledge it, that your Iesuite g 1.3 Mal∣donate, not able to gain-say this Trueth, pleaseth himselfe notwith∣standing in fancying that If August. were alive in this Age, he would think otherwise, especially perceiving Hereticall Calvinists, (and h 1.4 Cal∣vin

himselfe) to be of his opinion. So hee. Was it not great pitty that Augustine was not brought up in the Schoole of the Iesuites! surely they would have taught him the Article of Transubstantiation, of the Corporall presence of Christ in the Sa∣crament, and Corporall Vnion; against all which there could not be a greater Adversarie than was Augustine: whom Mal∣donate here noteth to have beene the Greatest Enemie to all Here∣tickes: whom i 1.5 Bertram followed in the same Exposition: and, by your leave, so did k 1.6 your Aquinas also; The same (saith he) which wee eate. Thus much by the way. Wee goe on to our Answeres.

Notes

• e 1.1

  Aug. Tract. 26. in Ioh. sup. illa verba A∣postoli. 1. Cor. 10. de fi∣delibus Iudaeis [Om∣nes eandem escam spiritualem (in Man∣na) edebant, & bi∣bebant eundem po∣tū spiritualem, &c.] Corporalem escam diversam, illi Man∣na, nos aliud, sed spiritualem eandem: aliud illi, aliud nos bibimus, sed aliud specie visibili, idem autem significante virtute, Item. Eandem quam nos escam; sed Patres nostri, (nempe fideles) non Patresillorum. Aug. ibid.
• f 1.2

  At eandem interse, non nobiscum eandem. Bellar. lib. 1. de Euch. c. 14. §. Quià.
• g 1.3

  Iudaeos eandem escam spiritualem edisse nobiscum: exposuit hunc locum de Manna Augustinus, & qui eum secuti sunt multi, ut Beda, Strabo, & Author Glossae ordinariae—repro∣batum hoc esse à posterioribus. Ego persuasum habeo, Augustinum, si nostrâ aetate fuisset, longè aliter sensu∣rum fuisse, omni genti Haereticorum inimicissimum, cum videret Calvinistás ad eundem ferè modum hunc locum interpretari. Maldon-Jes. in Ioh. 6. v. 50. col. 706.
• h 1.4

  Calvin. Inst. lib 4. c. 14. §. 23. Eandem no∣biscum—Contra Scholasticorum dogma, quo docent, veteri lege tantùm adumbrari gratiam, & novâ prae∣sentem conferri.
• i 1.5

  Bertram de Corp. Dom. p. 20. Quaeres, fortasse, quam ean∣dem? nimirum ipsam, quam hodie popu∣lus credentium in Ecclesia manducat. non n. licet—diversa intelligi, quoniam unus idem{que} Christus, qui populum in mare baptizatum carne suâ pavit, eundem{que} potum, in petra, Christum sui sanguinis undam populo praebuisse.—vide nondum pas∣sum Christum esse, etiam tamen sui corporis & sanguinis mysterium operatum fuisse: non n. putamus ullum fidelium dubitare, panem illum Christi corpus fuisse effectum, quod discipulis Dominus dicit [Hoc est cor∣pus meum.]
• k 1.6

  Eandem escam spiritualem] Id est, Corpus Christi in signo spiritualiter intellecto: idem, quod nos; sed aliam Escam corporalem, quam nos. Aquinas in 1. Cor. 10.