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It is Confessed by Protestants, that the Fathers of the Primitiue Church beleeued and taught the Real Presence of Christs true Bodie and Bloud in the Eucharist: As also our further Catholick Doctrines of Transubstantiation, Adora∣tion, Reseruation, and the like. CHAPTER VIII.
IT is the(1) 1.1 certaine and general Decree of the Catholick Church, that in the Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist, after the Consecration of bread and wine, our Lord IESVS CHRIST God and man, is truly, really, and substantially contayned vnder the formes of those sensible creatures. And that the whole Substance of bread is conuerted into the Substance of Christs Bodie, and the whole substance of wine into the substance of his Bloud; which Conuersion is fitly called Transubstantiation. Protestants herein being much diuided amongst themselues: The(2) 1.2 Lutherans teach the Real Presence no lesse plainly then Catholicks; only with this difference, that they think withal the bread and wine to remayne after Consecration with the Bodie and Bloud; which alteration is called Consubstantiation.(3) 1.3 Zuinglians are of opinion, that Eucharist is only a signe, figure or remembrance of Christs Bodie, no wayes truly contayning the same. Caluinists(4) 1.4 seem in shew more liberal, admitting the Bodie of Christ to be truly and really in the Sacra∣ment, and that the Sacrament is not only a Signe or figure, or that thereby is only giuen to vs the fruits & merits of Christs Bodie, but euen the Bodie itself, yet with this qualification, that the same is not receiued by the bodilie mouth of the Cōmunicant, but only by his Faith: Neither that the bread & wine cease to be, or are conuerted into the Bodie and Bloud of Christ, but that, when the bread and wine are receaued with the bodily mouth, at the same time the bodie & bloud of Christ are receaued spiritually, mystically, and by Faith.
Now in one thing herein I wil accord with D. Morton, that(5) 1.5 This question of Transubstantiation being of so great consequence, that if it be defensible, Protestants must stand chargeable of Heresie; but it may be confuted, the Romanists must necessarily be condemned of Idolatrie: That therfore we (both) think it our bounden dutie to consult more exactly with the Senat of Antiquitie, which I wil now only performe from the free grants & confessions of D. Morton's owne Brethren.
And so to begin with S. Gregorie, D. Humfrey(6) 1.6 speaking of him and S. Augustin demandeth, what Gregorie and Augustin brought into the (English) Church? To which himself answereth, that They brought (with manie other Catholick poynts by him there recited) Transubstantiation.