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 the grosse and carnal sense of these words, did [ 1] wonderfully seduce my selfe when the time was.

I say secondly, that if Saint Cyprian meant as you woulde [ 2] haue him, hee should bee contrarie to himselfe. For hee af∣firmeth it to be true wine, which Christ gaue to his Apostles. I haue already alleaged his expresse words, peruse them and marke them well.

I say thirdly, that S. Cyprian can neuer bee more truely [ 3] expounded, then when his owne meaning in one place, is ga∣thered out of his owne words in another place. That therefore

all his words may be consonant one to another, we must ioine antecedent to consequent, former to latter, and one place to another. This done, wee shal finde with facilitie, that hee speaketh onely of sacramentall alteration: and that by the word (nature) hee meaneth natural properties. Yea euen so do the papists interprete the same word in their Gelasius, concerning this question nowe in hand. Thus doeth Saint Cyprian say immediately after the other wordes:* 1.1 Et sicut in persona Christi humanitas videbatur, & latebat diuinitas; ita sacramento visibili ineffabiliter diuina se infudit essentia. Infrà: Nostra vero & ipsius coniunctio nec miscet personas, nec vnit substantias; sed affectus consociat, & confoederat voluntates. Iterum: & sicut panis communis quem quoti∣die edimus, vita est corporis: ita panis iste supersubstantialis vita est animae, & sanitas mentis. Panem Angelorum sub sacramento manducamus in t••rris; eundem sine sacramento manifestiùs edemus in coelis, non ministerio corporali. And as the humanitie was seene in the person of Christ, and the di∣uinitie hidden; euen so hath the diuine essence powred out it selfe vnspeakeably, in the visible sacrament. For both ours and his coniunction neither mingleth persons, nor yet vniteth substances; but procureth fellowship in affection, and agree∣ment in willes. And as the common bread which wee eate daily, is the life of the body: so is this supersubstantiall bread the life of the soule, and the health of the minde. We eate here on earth Angel-foode vnder the sacrament; but wee shall eate the same more clearely without the sacrament in heauen, and that without help of the body.

[ 1] Out of these wordes I note first, that Christs diuinitie is after an vnspeakeable manner in the sacrament, but so is no•• his bodie or humanitie: and consequently, that Christ is not there, in inuisible carnall presence.

[ 2] I note secondly, that this sacramentall vnion doth not vnite substances, but affections and willes; and yet should our bo∣dies be vnited, if we receiued Christ corpo••••lly into our bel∣lies. But as the same Cyprian saith a 〈…〉〈…〉; Recipitur non includitur, He is receiued, but not shut vp in the sacra∣ment▪

I note thirdly, that this bread is spirituall, not corporall; the [ 3] bread of the soule, not of the bodie.

I note fourthly, that we eate Angell-foode here on earth, in the sacrament, and that we shall eate the verie same in hea∣uen [ 4] without the sacrament. Which assertion vttered by holy Cyprian, sheweth his catholique christian meaning so plainly, as all Papistes may be ashamed hencefoorth to alleadge him, for their late inuented carnall presence. In heauen there is neither accident without subiect, nor sacrament administred, nor yet any corporall eating and drinking there vsed. Angels foode is spirituall, not carnall; celestiall, not terrestriall; eter∣nall, not corporall: Angels neither eate by dint of tooth, nor by morsels in the mouth. Their nature is not capable of anie such actions. Since therefore our sacramentall meate, is the same that Angels now eate, and the same that our selues shall eate in heauen, where all corporall, carnall and fleshy eating ceaseth: it foloweth of necessitie, that it is meere spirituall; not corporall, fleshy or carnall.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cypr. de coena Domini.