CHALLENGE.
HOw might it concerne you upon these premises, if there be in you any spirit of Christianity, to suffer n S. Augustine to be your Moderator in this whole Cause? who upon the speech of Christ [Except you eate my flesh] giveth this generall Rule, That whensoever we fi•d in Scripture any speech of commanding some •eynous Act, or forbidding some laudable thing, there to hold the speech to be figurative, even as this is of eating the flesh of Christ. So hee. And what this figurative speech signifieth, this holy Father decla∣reth in the next words: It Commandeth (saith hee) that wee doe Communicate of the passion of Christ, and sweetly and profitably keepe in memory that his flesh was crucified for us. Thus you see hee exclu∣deth the Corporall, Sensuall, and Carnall Eating, that hee might e∣stablish the spirituall of mind, and Memory. If St. Augustine by this his counsell might have prevailed with your Disputers and Doctors, they never had fallen upon so many Rocks, and Para∣doxes, nor sunke into such puddles of so nastie and beastly Absur∣dites, as have beene now discovered; which by your Doctrine of Corporall Presence you are plunged into.
