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THE Bread and Wine in the LORDS Supper is ho∣ly Bread, holy Wine, turned in vse, but not in shape, but not in substance, remaining what they were, yet being what they were not. They haue eyes, and see not; eares, and heare not; touch, and feele not; mouthes, and taste not; noses and smell not; reason, and vnderstand not, which say it is not Bread, it is not Wine, when once the words of Consecration are pronounced.
Yet are they truely, but Sacra∣mentally, the Body and Bloud of our LORD and SAVIOVR IESVS CHRIST: Euen as the Circumcision was the Coue∣nant, as the Paschall Lamb was the Passeouer, As the Rocke was CHRIST. Parchment and the Waxe sealed put vnto it in a Bond, Lease, or Deed of Con∣ueyance, wherein is made an assurance of money, goods, or houses, or a Collation and Con∣ueyance of Lands in Lincolne∣shire to a man in London, is still Parchment and Waxe, yet more then Ordinary in respect of vse; and hauing these things in his hand, he can say, here is my mony, House, or Land; not that they are turned into money, Houses, or Lands, but because by them he hath assurance, or an assured conueyance of these
things vnto him. And so is it with Sacramentall Bread and Wine: Yet here our Assurance is firmer, the Conueyance is more vndoubted: because man may deceiue, and the greatnesse, or malice of aduersaries may op∣presse; but GOD, who by these things doth offer and exhibite CHRIST and His benefites to vs, cannot deceiue, will not fal∣sifie His Couenant, but will most certainely performe all His pro∣mises; prouided that we stand vnto the conditions, to which we are tyed: Neither man, nor diuell, nor any creature, can hinder or keepe vs from recei∣uing CHRIST in the Sacra∣ment, if we stand not in our owne way, and let our selues.