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A11189	A way of reconciliation of a good and learned man touching the trueth, nature, and substance of the body and blood of Christ in the sacrament. Translated out of Latin by the right honorable Lady Elizabeth Russell, dowager to the right honourable the Lord Iohn Russell, Baron, and sonne and heire to Francis Earle of Bedford.	Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby, Lady, ca. 1540-1609.	1605 (1605)	STC 21456; ESTC S101217	72,992	116

therefore the manner and nature of the flesh of Christ is common with the flesh of other men as Lombardus saith and such flesh as Aquinas affirmeth commeth not into the Sacrament it followeth by their testimonie that these two kindes of flesh differ much And that this may the better appeare and bee laide vp in memorie I thought it not without profit to adde of such things as we haue spoken of before a certaine distinction which the Greekes call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by comparison 1 The proper bodie of Christ hath the naturall forme of a mans body The mysticall bodie hath not 2 The proper body hath a head breast members seuered The mysticall hath not 3 The proper body hath bones vaines sinewes The mystical hath not 4 That may bee seene and touched This can neither be seene nor touched 5 That is indued with the true sences of a body This is without sence as Epiphanius saith 6 That is organicall This is not 7 That is no figure This is a figure of his proper body 8 That is not in mysterie This is in mysterie 9 That of his owne nature is humane and bodily This is heauenly diuine and spirituall 10 The matter of that is not subiect to corruption The materiall part of this is bread and is corrupted 11 No man may eate that by it selfe This both a man may and ought to eate 12 That is contained in one place This wheresoeuer the Sacrament is ministred is present but not as in a place 13 That is not a Sacrament of another body This is a Sacrament of another body 14 That being taken of the virgin Maries bodie was once create This is not taken of the Virgin but daylie by the mysticall benediction is create potentiallie by the testimonie of Augustin and Cyprian 15 That is a naturall body This is aboue nature 16 Finally that is simply This is after a sort 17 That properly perfectly This is a bodie vnproperly Hitherto wee haue spoken of the difference which the auncient Fathers haue godly and diligently obserued betweene Christs proper bodie and the Sacrament of the same bodie In the which although many things haue beene spoken which doe not only declare that there is a difference which in this place we meant to doe but also doe admonish vs vvithall what manner of bodie that is in the sacrament Yet because wee haue not hitherto so fully expressed this point as the weightines of the matter requireth We haue thought good from hence-forvvard to intreate of this part more fullie Namely in vvhat sort this Sacrament is the Lords bodie and wherefore our Lord himselfe at the first as the Euangelists make mention aftervvard Paul the Apostle lastly all they of old time following the authoritie of them haue left in writing that it is so called and is so indeed not that this manner which is a spirituall and hid thing can be found out by mans reason or that wee goe about to search out curiously such things as bee forbidden and denyed but that all mans inuentions set apart we may follow those things that haue bene left vs by the authoritie of Scriptures and auncient Fathers that agree with them and that manner which the Lord himselfe would wee should know and the Church instructed by him and his Apostles hath receiued not to depart from that This is to bee holden fast which wee proued before that not onely the Lordes wordes which be spoken in the 6. Chapter of Iohn Vnlesse yee eate the flesh c. And My flesh is verily meate and the rest that followeth in the same place but also these wordes of the Lords supper Take ye eate ye this is my body and This is my blood are to bee vnderstood spiritually not carnally and that one maner of eating is meant in both places When I say Not carnally I meane Not according to the letter nor as the words doe properly sound for this is to vnderstand carnally as Chrysostome witnesseth vpon Iohn of these words The flesh profiteth nothing What is it Chrysostom in Ioan. Hom. 46. saith he to vnderstand carnally To vnderstand the things simply as they be spoken and nothing else For those things that be seene are not so to be iudged but all mysteries are to be considered with inward eyes that is to say spiritually Let not this rule of Chrysostome go out of our minds But these two Carnally and Spiritually are contrary when the one is forbidden the other is commanded and contrarywise And that carnall sense hath no place in this mysterie not onely Chrysostome is the Author as we recited euen now and Cyprian where he saith Neither doth carnall sense pearse the vnderstanding of so great a depth and Theophylactus writing thus But because we vnderstand it spiritually we be neither deuourers of flesh and yet be sanctified by that meat But to be short I may in maner say that all the ancient Fathers with one voice do forbid vs to vnderstand the wordes of the Lords Supper carnally and command a spirituall meaning The which by many testimonies repeated in this peece of worke euery man may readily perceiue Neither is this sufficient if we auoyd one maner of vnderstanding carnally and fall into another For he that doth vnderstand the eating of Christs flesh after the letter and as it were a proper kinde of speech he is a carnall Capernaite whether he suppose it to be done properly one way or another That is plaine by these wordes of Augustin vpon the 98. Psalme Augustine in Psal 98. It seemed a hard matter to them that he said Vnlesse a man eate c. They tooke it fondly and imagined of it carnally and thought that the Lord would haue cut out peeces of his body and haue giuen to them And a little after That which I haue spoken vnderstand ye spiritually You shall not eate this body which you see I haue commended to you a certaine sacrament if it be spiritually vnderstood it will giue you life Here Augustine calleth carnall vnderstanding foolishnesse and appointeth spirituall vnderstanding as necessary And his meaning is not that this is onely a carnall sense if a man should imagine of the cut pieces of the Lords body albeit he rehearseth but this one carnall way of vnderstanding but also of all other the like For it is a likely matter that euen all the Capernaites did vnderstand it carnally and yet not all after one way Cyprian For one maner is rehearsed of Cyprian writing thus It seemed to them a horrible and wicked matter to feed of the flesh of man imagining that this had bene so spoken as though they should haue bene taught to eate his flesh either sodden or rosted or cut in gobbets Cyrillus And Cyrillus doth impute to them another kinde of carnall vnderstanding for he saith For after they had heard Verily verily I say to you vnlesse ye eate the flesh c. they thought Christ had called them