The third part of the Defence of the Reformed Catholike against Doct. Bishops Second part of the Reformation of a Catholike, as the same was first guilefully published vnder that name, conteining only a large and most malicious preface to the reader, and an answer to M. Perkins his aduertisement to Romane Catholicks, &c. Whereunto is added an aduertisement for the time concerning the said Doct. Bishops reproofe, lately published against a little piece of the answer to his epistle to the King, with an answer to some few exceptions taken against the same, by M. T. Higgons latley become a proselyte of the Church of Rome. By R. Abbot Doctor of Diuinitie.

44. W. BISHOP.

In the fourth we aske aswell to be made partakers of Christs blessed body in the Sacrament, which is the food of our souls: as for our daily corporall sustenance. For so do the ancient fathers expound that petition: as namely S. Cyprian in oratione Do∣minica: S. Hiero. in 6. Matt. S. Amb. li. 5. de Sacra. c. 4. where he hath these memorable words of the blessed Sacrament: that before the words of Christ it was bread, but after it is the body of Christ. Why then (saith hee) is it called heere bread? he answereth, that it is called bread not simply, but supersubstantiall bread. For so doth the Greeke word Epióu∣sion

signifie, as well as daily:) it is (saith he) not such bread as passeth into our body, but it is the bread of eternall life that vpholdeth the substance of our soules. Now you may be well assured, that Protestants who will not beleeue any such bodily presence, doe not pray to God to giue it them.