H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which novve at length being 70. yeares of age, he caused to bee published in the name of himselfe & his family. Englished in sense agreeable, and in words as answerable to his ovvne latine copie, as in so graue a mans worke is requisite: for the profite of all the vnlearneder sort, of English christians, that desire to know his iudgement in matters of faith.

XVI. VVhat kindes of presence we denie, and vvhat kindes we graunt.

Wherefore albeit we disallow, that the sub∣stance of the bread being changed, or wasted into nothing, there should succeede in place

thereof, the true flesh of Christ, and that so to bee present vnto vs, that vnder the accidents of bread should lie hidden the true substance of Christs bodie; and albeit we also denie the flesh of Christ to be really and in it owne sub∣stance, present in the bread, which bread hath no other vnion with his flesh but the sacra∣mentall vnion, which is made by a misticall relation; and albeit, wee also gainsaye, that he is present to the wicked, which haue not that spirituall communion with him, nor can bee said truely to eate his flesh; And albeit we doe not graunt such a presence of Christs bodie, namely that he is now present with the faith∣ful vpon earth in the time of the supper, visibly to bee seene of them, as he was in the first sup∣per present at the table, visibly to be seene of his Apostles (for this doth plainely disagree not onely frō the nature of the body of Christ, but also frō the scripture it selfe) but do graūt that he is present with them onely in an vnui∣sible manner, and such a manner as is not to be perceaued by our senses; Lastly albeit wee detest that presence, wherein some doe faine the flesh of Christ really & in it owne substāce to be euerie where: yet wee beleeue and ac∣knowledge such a presence, as is no lesse essen∣tiall, for the things which are truely present vn∣to vs (seing we are indeed made partakers of them) then spirituall for the manner, where∣in they are made present, and are truely com∣municated vnto vs. Yea wee also doe little

doubt, but the flesh of Christ is present in the bread, and his blood in the wine: but after no other sort, then as wee vse to say, that what so is declared and offred in the word of the gos∣pell, the same is present and is contained in the word: sith euen the sacraments are visible words, and euerie thing that is signified, is (in some sorte) in the signe thereof, and is giuen with it.