The suruey of popery vvherein the reader may cleerely behold, not onely the originall and daily incrementes of papistrie, with an euident confutation of the same; but also a succinct and profitable enarration of the state of Gods Church from Adam vntill Christs ascension, contained in the first and second part thereof: and throughout the third part poperie is turned vp-side downe.

The answere.

I say first, that most ancient approued antiquity beareth wit∣nesse [ 1] of both kindes sent and carried to the sicke and to such as were absent. S. Iustine the martyr hath these words: Diaconi distribuunt vnicuique praesentium, vt participet eum in quo

gratiae actae sunt panem,* 1.1 vinum, & aquam, & ad absentes per∣ferunt. The deacons distribute to euerie one that is present a portion of the consecrated bread, wine, and water, and they also carrie thereof to those that be absent. Againe he writeth thus; Distributio communicatióque fit eorum in quibus gratiae a∣ctae sunt,* 1.2 cuique praesenti, absentibus autem per diaconos mitti∣tur. A distribution and communication is made of those things that are blessed, to euerie one that is present: and the same is carried by the deacons, to those that be absent▪ Saint Hierome greatly commendeth saint Exuperius, for his singular zeale in this behalfe:* 1.3 these are his words; Sanctus Exuperius Tolosae e∣piscopus viduae Sarep••ensis imitator, esuriens pascit alios: & ore pallente ••eiunijs, fame torquetur alienâ omném{que} substantiā Christi visceribus erogauit. Nihil illo ditius▪ qui corpus domi∣ni canistro vimin••o, sanguinem portat in vitro▪ Saint Exupe∣rius the bishoppe of Tolose imitating the widow of Sarepta, feedeth others euen when himselfe is hungrie: his own mouth is pale with fasting, & yet it grieueth him to behold others fa∣mine: al his substāce he bestoweth on Christs members. None more rich then he; he carrieth our Lords body in a wicker bas∣ket, [ 2] and his blood in a glasse. I say secondly, that Serapion re∣ceiued both kinds,* 1.4 though in some thing different from Christs institution. For the bread was first infused into the consecrated wine, and so receiued: which manner of receiuing was a little corruption, though farre different from the popish practise, which altogether abandoneth the perfection of the holy sacra∣ment. This their owne Durand telleth them: and if they will not heare mee, yet must I request them to hearken to his words.* 1.5 Thus doth he write; Etsi in hostiâ consecratâ Christi sanguis sit, non tamen est ibi sacramentaliter eò quòd panis cor∣pus▪ non sanguinem; & vinum, sanguinem significat & non cor∣pus▪ Quia ergo, sub alterá tātum specie non est completum sacra∣mentum, qu•• ad sacramentum vel signum▪ debet hoc sacramentum compleri prius, quâm presbiter eo vtatur. Although in the con∣secrate host there bee the blood of Christ, yet is it not there sa∣cramentally:* 1.6 because the bread doth signifie the bodie not the blood; and the wine doth signifie the blood, not the body. Ther∣fore because the sacrament is not complete vnder one only kind

in respect of the sacrament or signe; this sacrament must bee first complete, before the priest vse it. Thus saith our popish Durand. Out of whose wordes I note to the great comfort of good christians,* 1.7 that the aduersaries vnwittingly are beaten with their owne swords. For though their doctour Durand, onely intend to make good the priests receiuing; yet is his rea∣son generall, forcible, christian, insoluble, & vtterly ouerthrow∣eth al communicating vnder one kind. Which hee proueth vn∣wittingly and vnwillingly, (such is the force of truth) by three reasons: first, because the bloud is not in the consecrate host sa∣cramentally: [ 1] secondly because the bread cānot signifie the blood: [ 2] thirdly, because the sacrament is not perfit vnder one kind. [ 3]

Now that to vse dipped bread in stead of the blessed wine, is a corruption; I haue already proued by pope Iulius,* 1.8 who telleth vs that none receiued dipped bread, but only Iudas the traitor.

Notes

• * 1.1

  ••ustinus apolog. 2▪ ••ag. 76.
• * 1.2

  ••dem ibid. pa. 77.
• * 1.3

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. ad Rustic. ••••onach. tom. 1. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 23.
• * 1.4

  ••eephorus con∣••esseth that hee ••eceiued the eu∣••harist. lib. 9. ca. 6
• * 1.5

  Durand. lib. 4. ca. ••4. in ration. ••iuinorum.
• * 1.6

  ••ee Durands ••ordes in the conclusion 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.7

  The Laical com∣munion vnperfit.
• * 1.8

  De consecr. dist. 2 cap. cum omne.