Maister Heskins inferreth, that the wordes of Christe are manifest, and so to be taken in the literall sense with∣out figure, bicause he vseth these wordes, Christ saide ma∣nifestly, this is my body: but this is a childish mockerie. Christe saide manifestly, I am the doore. Doeth it there∣fore followe, that it is no figuratiue speach, and that the woordes of Christe are manifest, and therefore to bee ta∣ken in the literall sense? And yet I beleeue, bicause Christ saide manifestly, I am the doore, that he is in deede the doore, though not literally but figuratiuely taken. It gre∣ueth M. Hes. that the proclamer should play with Duns his indiuid••um vagum, saying, that by the like meanes, hee might disgrace the faith of the trinitie, to open the quid∣dities of distinctions, and relations of persons, that bee spoken thereof. And I thinke the same, if hee shoulde teach that holy mysterie after the schoole manner, & not after the word of God. But he returneth to an other place of Cyrill. Ne horreremus carnem & sanguinem. Bicause this place is already rehearsed more at large, and answered in the 51. Chap. of this booke, I will send the reader backe, to consider it in that place.
Gregorie is cited Lib. 4. dialog. cap. ••8. Debemus ita{que} prae∣sens sęculum &c. We ought therfore, seing we see this present world to be passed away, with al our mind to contemne it, to offer to god the daily sacrifices of teares, the daily sacrifices of his body and bloud. For this sacrifice doth singularly saue the soul from eternal destruc∣tion, which repayreth to vs the death of the only begotten, by a my∣sterie. Who although since he arose from death, he doth not now dy, and death shal haue no more dominion of him: yet liuing in him self immortally & incorruptibly, is sacrificed againe for vs in this my∣sterie of the holy oblation. For his body is there receiued, his flesh is diuided for the health of the people, his bloud is shed, not nowe vpon the hands of the Infidels, but into the mouthes of the faithfull. Hereof therefore let vs consider, what sacrifice this is for vs, which for our deliuerance doeth followe the passion of the one∣ly begotten Sonne. For which of the faithfull ought to haue any doubt, that in the same houre of the immolation, the heauens are opened at the Priestes voyce? that the companies of