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THis Sacrament then being a Spirituall thing must be spiritu∣ally deserned, for the food of the Sou••e upon earth, is no other then the food of Angels, which is the joy, and delectation which they have of Gods glory; and therefore not to be fed with cor∣porall food, such as they would make Christs body: and seeing that all corporall food is digested into the stomack, and so cast o••t into the draugh••, I blush to think of their audacious blasphe∣••••••s, who doubtlesse cannot be ignorant, that if they eate him ••••rnally, that they doe also expell him in that manner as they doe other meat, which thing is a shame to any Christian to con∣ceive, much more to expresse and vindicate. And it may very ••ell be thought, that though the Apostles of Christ would have been ••••y s••r••pilous to have drunk Christs very blood, seeing it was so plain against the Law of Moses, (and their owne decrees, A••••, 15. 29.) if they had understood him in that grosse sence which these Papists doe.
Ag••in, the writers of Scriptures must be examined as Spiritu∣all men, and not as Carnall men, in regard they were delivered by holy men of God as they were moved by the Holy Ghost; and therefore one taking upon him the person of our Saviour (to whom in the sixtieth verse of the sixth of John, who is said to murmur•• at his sayings) answereth them thus (by expounding of our Saviours words in the 63. ver.)
"You (saith he) shall not ••at•• this body which you see, nor drink this blood in my v••••nes; but I shall give a certain Sacrament unto you, which if it be spiritually understood quick••••th you, otherwise it profi••eth nothing.