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Now are we come to your next accusation of the auncient Church, concerning Sacrifice, & concerning the dead. The name of Sacrifice, which they cōmonly vsed for the celebration of the Lords supper, they tooke vp of the Gentiles: so you say, but you proue it not. You might as well say, that they or the Apostles had it of the Gentiles, to name that Sacrifice which Christ offered vpon the Crosse. No syr, they named it so, because it was so: and therfore Christ also said not, This is I that was borne of the vir∣gine, though that were true, but, This is my body, vpon the one, and, This is my bloud, vpon the other. The Apostle also for the same cause saying of him that commeth therevnto vnworthily, not that he is guyltie of Christ, though that be true, but that he is guyltie of his body and of his bloud, because it is such a celebra∣tion of his death. Wherevpon if you knew what is the sacrifi∣cing of a liue thing, you should sée, that how properly he was sa∣crificed on the Crosse in an open maner, euen as properly he is sacrificed here in a mysticall maner. The same Apostle therefore agayne saying, that we haue an a Altar to eate of, (which place your blindnesse b alleageth against this Sacrifice) and also cal∣ling it c The table of our Lorde in that forme of speache as he calleth c The table of the diuels the sacrifice of the Gentiles, and the Leuiticall sacrifices likewise the Leuiticall c Altar. Yet you can not find d one word, nor one syllable in the Scripture, of any Sacrifice instituted by Christ at his last Supper. Whereof we shall say more Cap. 10. Dem. 24.