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THe Sacrament is not consecrated (say they) by al the words of the institution, [error 88] but by a certain forme of speech to be vsed ouer the elemēts: as these words to be said ouer the bread, This is my body: & the like ouer the wine, This cup is
the new testament, &c. And in Baptisme these: In the name of the Father, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost. These are the formes of the Sacrament, and very words of consecration, though spoken in a strange tongue, without further in∣uocation of the name of God, or giuing of thankes, or without a Sermon, which we require (as they say) as necessarie to the essence of a sacrament, Rhemist. 1. Corinth. 11 sect. 11.15. Bellarm. lib. 1. de Sacrament. cap. 19.
Argum. S. Paul sayth, The cup of blessing which we blesse, 1. Corinth. 10.16. The Apostle referreth the benediction or blessing to the cup or Chalice, which is nothing els but the consecration thereof, Rhemist. ibid.
Ans. First, wee denie not, but that to blesse here doth signifie to sanctifie or consecrate: but that is not done by a magicall murmuration of words ouer the Sacrament, but by the whole action according to Christs institution, in distri∣buting, receiuing, giuing of thankes. Secondly▪ as for the words which Christ vt∣tered in the institution, we rehearse them not, as a magicall charme to be sayd o∣uer the bread and wine to conuert their substance: but to declare what they are made to vs by force of Christs institution, namely, his bodie and blood.