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VVE are to insert in this place the (forgotten) Obje∣cted words, which passe under the name of Pope Hilarie, and recorded in your Papall decrees,10 where
there is part of Christs Body, (in the Sacrament) there is the whole: there being the same reason of this as there was of Man∣na, whereof it is written, Hee that gathered much had no more than others: and hee that gathered not so much had no whit lesse. Which your Romish Glosse applyeth to the Sacrament, to signifie that There is no lesse quantity of Christs Body, under a lesse quantity of the Sacrament; none greater, under a greater.
Our Answer is Three-fold. I. That your Doctors could ne∣ver yet prove the writings, which goe under the name of Popes Decret all Epistles to have beene truly theirs, whereof [ 10] many of themselves have doubted, and which some al∣so have denyed. II. That the Comparison fighteth main∣ly against your professed Romane Faith in this very point, which you contend for. For you teach Body of Christ to be whole in the whole, and in every the least imaginable part of the Hoast, without all maner of situation therein, so, as not having the Head above, and the Feete below. This you cannot deny to be your owne positive Tridentine Sense. But the Manna, which was diminished and augmented in Quan∣tity by Gods providence, had notwithstanding a certaine [ 20] determinate Quantitie, expressely mentioned in the same Text: Every man a Gomer, according to their families namely every one an equall, but yet a severall measure and Quantity; for one mans Manna was not the same which another had. This agreeth not with your Corporall eating of one, and the same Body of Christ. Next, the Granes of the same Manna (for it was like Coriander-seed) had their seve∣rall situations and distinct places in every Gomer, some lying above, and some below, some on the right side, and some on the left side of the Measure; which differences you abso∣lutely [ 30] deny to accord with the maner of Christs being in this Sacrament. III. The Comparison will farre better suite with the Spirituall soules receiving of the Body of Christ: Every Faithfull one indeed participating the same whole Christ, by Faith, whether in a Greater or lesser Hoast, without all proportioning of his Bodily Dimensions. {fleur-de-lys}
SHall not then the Novelty of your Romish Article, which was [ 40] no so much as beleeved of Romish Doctors of this last Age of Christianitie? Shall not your Contradiction to your owne Romish Principle? Shall not the expresse Testimony of Saint Augustine, who as hee was universally acknowledged to be a Catholike Father; so was hee never condemned by any other Catholike Father for this his Doctrine concerning the Exi∣stence
of Bodily parts according to proportionable Dimensions of Space? Finally, shall not the affinity, which your opinion hath with damnable Heresies, perswade you of the falsity of this your Romish Faith?
Decret. de Consecratione Dist. 2. [Vbi pars.] ex Hila∣rio Papa. Vbi pars est corporis est & to∣tum: eadem est ratio in corpore Domini q••ae est in Manna, quod in cjus figura praecessit; de quo dicitum, Qui plus collogerat' non habuit amplius: neque qui minus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 hab•••••• minus. Non enim est quantites visibilis aestimanda in hoc mysterio, sed virtus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 spiritualis 〈…〉〈…〉? Non est quantitas aestimanda, ut sub minori quantitate minus sic Corpus Christi, & sub 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
Legat qai ve∣lit nostri Roberti Coci Censuram Scriptorum.