That the same Romish manner, of Receiving it downe into the Belly, is proved to be Capernaiticall by the Iudge∣ment of Antiquity.
SECT. III.
THeophylact noted the Capernaites opinion to have beene, that the Receivers of the Body of Christ are 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Devourers of flesh, whereas the words of Christ (saith hee) are to be understood spiritually, and so will it be known that we Christians (what?) are not De∣vourers of Christ. So hee. But, that Swallowing, properly taken, is a Devouring, hath beene proved: and, if Devoured, then why not also (that which is the Basest of all Basenesse) passed downe by ••gestion into the Seege? whereof the Ancient Fathers have thus determined: Origen, that The materiall part of this sanctified meate passeth into the Draught: which (saith he) I speake of the symbolicall Bodie, &c.
Here will be no place for your Cardinal's Crotchets, who confessing Origen to have spoken all this of the Eucharist, would have vs by Materials to understand Accidents in respect (saith hee) of sanctification, which they had, and of Magnitude, which belongeth rather to the matter of a thing, then to the forme: and, by Symboli∣call Body, to conceive, that this was meant of the Body of Christ it selfe, as it is present in this Sacrament, a Signe, or Symboll of it selfe, as it was on the Crosse. So he: as if he meant to crosse Origen's intention throughout every part of his Testimony.
For first, That which he called Bread, he calleth also meate san∣ctified: Secondly, that meate he tea••meth materiall. Thirdly, This materiall, he saith, passeth into the Draught. Lastly, concluding his speech, concerning the Sacramentall Body, and saying, Hither∣to have I spoken of the symbolicall body; immediately he maketh his Transition to speake of the incarnate Body of Christ, as it is the True soules meate. But first meerly Accidents were never called by the Ancient Fathers Meates. Secondly, never Materials. Third∣ly, never Magnitude in it selfe, without a Subiect, was iudged o∣therwise then Immateriall. Fourthly, never any Immateriall thing to have Gravitie, or weight in pressing the guts to make an ege∣stion into the Draught. If every one of these be not, yet all, as a foure-fold cord, may be of force to draw any Conscionable man to grant, that Origen was of our Protestants faith. And that which is more than all, hee, in his Transition, expresly sheweth his faith, concerning Christ's Body, as Spirituall Bread, by discerning it from the Sacramentall, which he named a Symbolicall Body, as one Body distinctly differing from the other. As for your Cardinals pa∣geant