of Bread and Wine to be the materials of this Sacra∣ment, and some with too much fancy, The repre∣sentation of his Body broken, and of his Blood shed. The participation of his Body and Blood for soul∣strength, and soul-refreshment, could not be better shadowed forth than by the staff of Bread; and chear∣full Wine; which as they are the most common▪ so the most necessary and prime materials that are used at our tables, answering both our appetites of hun∣ger and thirst; weakness is strengthened by bread, faintness cherisht by wine, the faint and feeble soul by Christ. Famine and thirst are importunate things, no delights of the eye, no Musick to the ear can satis∣fie them. Violent desires towards Christ are not to be excused, but praised: For his Flesh is meat indeed, his Blood is drink indeed, Joh. 6. 55.
2. Bread and Wine severally and asunder, to set forth his death, wherein Corpus a sanguine separa∣tum fuit, saith Jansenius, his Body and his Blood was sundred. The Papists, as to their Priests and some Kings or Princes, will allow bread and wine, but as to the common people, bread or wine they say by concomitancy, the blood is in the bread virtually, and so they shut up the wounds of Christ by their dry Mass. But Christ would represent himself here not as a Lamb, but a Lamb sacrificed and slain; and therefore the blood is severed from the body, as the money is not a prisoners ransom, while it lies in the chest, but when it's paid: So the blood of Christ as shed is our ransom. As Israel in the wil∣derness had a type of Christ, Manna which they did eat, and the rock also of which they drank, so have we the memorials of his body and blood, that we may eat and drink.