Of the Lordes Supper.
AS often as we be made partakers of the Lordes Table, wee receiue the Lords body, because he hath saide it his owne selfe. We receiue it with reuerence and deuotion, because it is his body. For we must not, as the Apostle speaketh, eate it vn∣worthily, lest so we be guiltie of the Lords body, neither will we eate our owne damnation, for not discerning the Lordes bodie. But how it is his body we cannot see by the eyes of our bodies, or humane reason, neither can they, onely wee discerne it by the eyes of faith, and so ought they to do. Stephen Gardiner, and the learned of their Church were wont to say, it was his bodie ineffa∣bili modo, after an vnspeakable maner, after such a maner as mens tongues could not vtter. And therefore, as the Vniuersitie of Tiguri putteth them in minde, they seeme to haue forgotten what they said before when they take vpon them to farimodum, that is, to expresse in plaine terms of logicke, & yet cleane contrary and repugnant to the rules of logicke, his body to be really, naturally, and substantially hidden and comprehended vnder the acci∣dents of bread. It is very strange, both to expresse that which they say cannot be expressed, and that the accidents of bread, can haue their being, when the bread it selfe hath no being, in whose only being their essence and being doth consist.
But be it as it is, no man can know more or sooner than God wil reueale, what expositions soeuer the subtitle and varietie of mens wits do deuise; this sacrament is in our Church administred by vs as it was by our Sauior Christ, and is set downe in the story of the Gospel. I would know therefore what exception they