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I Doe now remember that thou hast alredy said that the body & the bloud of Iesus Christ could not be separated frō his spirit, frō whence I do conclude that the body and bloud of christ Iesus cānot be receiued but to the saluation of them which doe receiue it.
None may doubt thereof.
It followeth then further
that infidells cannot receiue them, forso∣much as they cannot receiue them except they receiue their saluation, the whyche they cannot obtaine without faith, wher∣of they are void.
This which thou say∣est dothe yet confirme more and more all that whiche we haue handled hereto∣fore concerning the corporall presence of Iesus Christ in the Supper.
It is also the cause why I did againe set foorth thys matter. For if the body and the bloude of Iesus Christ be corporally in the supper, in suche sorte, that whosoeuer receiueth bodily the bread and the wine therein, re∣ceiueth also the body and the bloud of Ie∣sus Christ corporally: there shall follow thereof many things, which séeme to me very contrary as well to the office of Ie∣sus christ as to the nature of this Sacra∣ment of the Supper.
Thou sayest ve∣ry truthe, and I am very glad to here of thée that which thou thinkest.
For the firste we shall be constrayned to confesse that a man maye in the Supper receiue the body and the bloude of Iesus Christe without faith and without his spirite, for the vnfaithfull whiche shall receiue the
bread and the wine, shall no lesse receiue the body and the bloud of Iesus Christe, than the faithfull.
Beholde there a very straunge consequencie.
Moreo∣uer, if a man may receyue them without faithe, they whiche shall receiue them in such sorte, shal receiue thē either to their saluation or condemnation, if they re∣ceiue thē to their saluation, it must néedes followe that a man maye obtaine salua∣tion without faith: if they do receiue thē to their condemnation, it must then fol∣lowe that the body and the bloude of Ie∣sus Christe do bring in this Sacramente against their nature, deathe in stéede of life, whiche is also against the nature of the Sacramente, for it was not ordeyned to bring death to man, but life.