* 1.1The same authors did say also, yt whē Christ cal¦led the breade his body, and the wine his blud, it was no propre speache that he than vsed,* 1.2 but as al sacramentes be figures of other thinges, and yet haue the very names of the thinges whiche they do signifye: so Christ institutinge the sacra∣ment of his most precious body and bloode, dyd vse figuratiue speaches, callynge the breade by the name of his bodye, bycause it signified hys body: and the wyne he called his bloude, bicause it represented his bloude.
* 1.3Tertulian herein writing against Martion, sayth these wordes.
Christ did not reproue bread wherby he did represent hys very body. And in the same booke he saith, that Iesus taking bread, & distributing it amonges his disciples, made it his body, saying, This is my body. that is to saye, (saith Tertulian) a figure of my body. And there∣fore saithe Tertuliane, that Christe called breade his body. and wyne his bloode, bycause that in the olde Testament breade and wyne were figures of his body and bloode.
* 1.4And sainct Cyprian the holy martyr saythe of this matter,
that Christes bloode is snewed in the wyne, and the people in the water, that is mixte with the wyne: so that the mixture of the water to the wyne, signifieth the spirituall commixtion and ioynynge of vs vnto Christe.
By which similitude Cyprian ment not, that