I neuer hearde that any learned man as yet mislyked this place of Augustine, but I knowe they haue vsed it as a moste manifest testimonie, agaynst Transub∣stantiation, and the Reall presence, and as a true declaration wherefore the sacra∣mentall breade and wyne be called the body and bloude of Christe, beyng but the sacramentes of the bodie and bloude of Christe. And nowe you with vnwashed handes not vnderstanding the place, presume to giue a blinde and vnlearned cen∣sure, vpon so worthie and learned a Father, euen there where he speaketh moste soundly and learnedly: But howe should your arrogancie else appeare? The supper is a sacrament bothe of the body and bloud of Christe, the breade of the body and the* 1.1 wine of the bloude, as S. Augustine there sayeth: and Baptisme is truly called by him the Sacrament of fayth, bycause it is Signaculum iustitiae fidei, as Circumcision the figure of Baptisme was, accordyng to the worde of the Apostle ad Rom. 4. and therefore in reprouing S. Augustine, for callyng it the Sacrament of fayth, you séeme to be ignorant of this place of the Apostle. To this saying of Augustine, doth that of Tertullian in his booke De Poenitentia very well agrée, where he speakyng of Bap∣tisme* 1.2 sayeth, Lauacrum illud obsignatio est Fidci, That washyng is the sealyng of faythe. And Chrysostome opere imp. Homil. 5. in Matth. sayeth also that Baptisme is the seale of* 1.3 fayth, neyther did euer any man before you mislike this kinde and phrase of speache, that baptisme is the sacrament of fayth.
S. Augustines woordes be euident, that there were questions in Baptisme mo∣ued in the name of the infant, whiche coulde not be, vnlesse there were also answe∣ring to the same.