The first obiection
S. Austen alluding to the facts and wordes of Dauid,* 1.1 by which Christ was prefigured, writeth in this maner: Manibus aliorum potest portar•• homo, manibus suis nemo portatur: quo∣modo intelligatur in ipso Dauid secundum literam non inueni∣mus, in Christo autem inuenimus. Ferebatur enim Christus in ma∣nib••su••s, quando cōmendans ipsum corpus suum ait. Hoc est cor∣pus meum Ferebat enim illud corpus in manibus suis; ipsa est hu∣militas Dom. nostri Iesu Christi. A man may bee carried in the hands of others; but no man is carried in his own hands. How this may be vnderstoode in Dauid literally we doe not finde, but in Christ wee doe it finde. For Christ was borne in his owne hands, when he commended his owne bodie, and saide: This is my body. For he helde that body in his handes; such is the humilitie of our Lord Iesus Christ. Thus saith Saint Austen. By whose words it is euident, that that which Christ at his last supper gaue to his disciples, was his true, reall, & naturall body, euen that which was borne of the virgin Mary. For first, he telleth vs that Christ did that which Dauid could [ 1] not do; to wit, that he did beare himselfe in his own hands. Se∣condly [ 2] he saith, that this was done literally, euen as the words do sound. Thirdly, he cōmendeth Christs great humility in that fact. Now it is cleare, yt if this could be vnderstood figuratiuely [ 3] it might be well verified in Dauid: for Dauid might haue born the picture, figure, or image, of his owne body in his hands: yea, this he might haue done literally, & haue shewed no humi∣litie