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Rh 32. The true bread.) Though the Person of Christ incarnate, even out of the Sacrament also, be meant under the Metaphores of bread and drinke from Heaven: and our beleefe in him, be signified by eating and feeding: yet the causes why they should be recommended unto us in such termes, were, that he was to be eaten and drunken indeed in the formes of bread and wine: for the which cause his body on the crosse is called his bread: and his bloud shed on the crosse, * the bloud of the grape: no doubt because the same body and bloud were in Holy Sacrament to be eaten and drunken. In which speaches, either of Christs person generally, or peculiarly of the same as in the B. Sacrament the true bread is not taken properly and specially for that substance which is of corne, and called with us bread; but generally for food or meate: and therfore it hath joyned with it lightly a terme signifying a more excellent sort of sustenance: as, the true bread, the bread of Heaven, the bread of life, Supersubstantial bread. In which sort the holy Sacrament which is Christs body, is both here, and in S. Luke and S. Paul also, often called bread even after consecration: not only for that it was made of bread, but because it is bread more truly, and by more excellent property and calling, then that which ordinarily is named bread.

44. Draw him.) The Father draweth us and teacheth us to come to his Sonne, and to beleeve these high and hard mysteries of his incarnation and of feeding us with his owne substance in the Sacrament: not compelling or violently forcing any against their wil or without any respect of their consent, as Heretikes pretend; but by the sweet internal motions and persuasions of his grace and spirit he wholy maketh us of our owne wil and liking to consent to the same.

49. Manna, and died.) The Heretikes holding the Fathers of the old Testament to have eaten of the same meate, and to have had as good Sacraments as we, be here refuted: Christ putting a plaine difference in the very substance thereof, and in the graces and effects much more at large. Manna was only a figure of the B. Sacrament, though a very excellent figure thereof for many causes. It came in a sort from heaven, our Sacrament more: it was made by God miraculously, our Sacrament more: it was to be eaten for the time of their peregrination, our Sacrament more: it was to every man what he liked best, our Sacrament more: a litle thereof served and sufficed as wel as much, our Sacrament more: it was reserved for such dayes as it could not be gathered, and our Sacrament much more: it was kept for a memorial in the arke of the Testament, our Sacrament much more: the discontented and incredulous murmured and gainsayed it, at our Sacrament much more, it sustained their bodies in the desert, our Sacrament, both body and soule much more.

52. How can this man?) It came not to their mind that nothing was impossible to God, that wickedly said, How can this man give us his flesh? but we may make great profit of their sinne, beleeving the Mysteries, and taking a lesson, never to say or once thinke, How? for it is a Jewish word and worthy al punishment. So saith S. Cyril. li. 4 c. 11 in Jo. Nevertheles if one asked only for desire to learne in humilitie, as our Lady did touching her having a child in her virginitie, then he must take the Angels answer to her, That it is of the Holy Ghost. So saith S. Damascene li. 4. c. 14.

53. Unles you eate.) Christ commending the Sacrament of the faithful unto us, said, Except you eate &c. you can not have life in you. So the life saith of life: and to him that thinketh the life to be a lier, this meate shal be death and not life to him. Aug. Ser. 2 de verb. Ap. c. 1. And S. Leo thus: Because our Lord saith, Except you eate &c. let us so communicate that we nothing doubt of the truth of Christs body and bloud: for that is received with mouth, which is beleeved in hart: and they answer Amen in vaine, that dispute against that which they receive.

53. And drinke.) This the Protestants alleage for the necessitie of receiving in both kindes: but in respect of themselves (who lightly hold al this chapter to pertaine nothing to the Sacramental receiving, but to spiritual feeding on Christ by faith only) it can make nothing for one kind or other. And in respect of us Catholikes, who beleeve Christs whole Person both humanitie and Divinitie, both flesh and bloud to be in either forme, and to be wholy received no lesse in the first, then in the second or in both, this place commandeth nothing for both the kindes.

53. You shal not have life.) Though the Catholikes teach these wordes to be spoken of the Sacrament, yet they meane not (no more then our Saviour here doth) to exclude al from salvation, that receive not actually and Sacramentally under one or both kindes. For then children that die after they be baptized and never received Sacramentally, should perish: which to hold, were heretical. * Neither did S. Augustine meane, Rh