DOCT. IV. Why the bread is called the body of Christ.
FRom whence also we may learn, why Christ calleth this bread his body: Not so as if it were either pro∣perly his true body; or as if his body were included in it: or so, as if it were but a bare and naked signe of his body which was broken and cru∣cified for us: But because it is a Sa∣crament thereof (and Sacraments, as St. Augustine saith, are often called by the names of those things, where∣of they are Sacraments) and so is made an instrument of the holy Ghost, for the communicating unto us the true body of Christ, and for the confirming us in the commu∣nion thereof. As also the Apostle for the same reason, speaking of Ba∣ptisme, called it not a signe of rege∣neration, but the very laver of rege∣neration: