Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.

Is not the Supper of Christ made voide, if the very flesh of Christ be determined to be so farre essentially absent from this action, as the heauens are from the earth?

In no wise: because the bodie it selfe and bloud of Christ are set forth in these mysteries not simply and so farre forth as they are things subsisting in themselues, but to be cōsidered intellectu∣ally, and are offered to the minde, not to the bodie, to faith, not to the senses, to be taken also in the mind & by faith alone. For true∣ly like as those things which are heard, are to be perceiued by the hearing, those things which are seene by the sight, so also those things which are vnderstoode by the vnderstanding, & so those things which are beleeued, by faith: neither are these things alike present to their obiects. But the perceiuing of faith is a great deale more certain, then all comprehension of the senses, or of reason: & how faith can make a thing present, Paule declareth, Gal. 3.1. where hee saith that, Christ was described in their sight, and among them crucified.