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Of the Resurrection of the flesh attributed to the worthy receiuing of the blessed Sacrament. The 13. Chapter.
I Said, the Resurrection of the flesh is attributed in the Scriptures not only to the spirite of Christ, that dwel∣leth in vs, but also to the real eating of Christes fleshe in the Euchariste, bicause in S. Iohn Christe saith,* 1.1 he that eateth my flesh, and drincketh my bloude, hath life euerla∣sting, and I wil raise him againe in the last daye.
Iewel. Pag. 324.VVhere is your real, and substantial eating?
Harding.
The eating of Christes supper was a real eating, and thereto the wordes of S. Iohn doo apperteine, as the ve∣ry circumstance, and also as al the olde Fathers declare, namely S. Chrysostom, and Cyrillus vpon that chapter.
Iewel. Ibidem.S. Augustine expounding the same vvordes, saith, beleue,* 1.2 and thou hast eaten.
Harding.
S. Augustine saith it, though not vpon those wordes. But he meant of the spiritual eating by Faith only. You stil confounde eating by faith, with eating really at the Sacrament.
Iewel. Ibidem.Nicolas Lyra,* 1.3 one of your ovvne Doctours, saith, these vvordes of S. Iohn perteine nothing to the Sacrament. Thus he saith, Hoc verbum dire∣ctè nihil pertinet ad Sacramentalem, vel corporalem manduca∣tionem. This saying (of the sixth of Iohn) perteineth nothing directly to the Sacramētal, or corporal eating. It vvas some ouersight of your parte M. Harding, to seeke to proue the eating, of the Sacramēt by those vvordes that by your ovvne doctors iudgemēt perteineth nothing to the Sacramēt.