That this former Doctrine is fully and filthily Capernaiticall.
IN this Romish Profession every one may see, in your Corporall Presence, two most vile and ougly Assumptions; One is of your Devouring of Christ, and feeding bodily of him. The other is a pos∣sibilitie of (sauing your presence) passing him downeward into the Draught, or Seege; that being as ill, this peradventure worse, than any Capernaiticall infatuation: for which cause it was that your Ie∣suite Maldonate, although granting that you doe corporally re∣ceive it into your stomackes, yet denied, for shame, that you are Devourers thereof.
But, I beseech you, what then meaneth that, which your Ro∣mish Instructions, Decrees, and Missals (as we have heard) doe teach you to doe with the Hoast, in case that any either through Infirmitie, or by Surfet and Drunkennes shall cast up the same Hoast out of his stomacke? We demand, may your Communicants be Vomitores, to cast it up againe, and can you deny but that they must first have beene Voratores, to have devoured that which they doe so disgorge? Will you beleeve your Iesuite d Osorius? To Devoure a thing (saith he) is to swallow it downe without chewing. Say now, doe not you swallow the Sacrament with chewing it? then are you Capernaiticall Tearers of Christ's Body. But doe you Swallow it with∣out Chewing? then are you Capernaiticall Devourers thereof. Say not, that because the Bodie of Christ suffereth no hurt, there∣fore hee cannot be said by Corporall swallowing to be Devoured: for his Bodie was not corrupted in the grave, and yet was it truly buried; and his Type thereof, even Ionas, without maceration was swallowed vp into the belly of the Whale, and yet had no hurt. Notwithstanding, he was first caught and devoured, who was af∣ter cast up and vomited.