though we can scarcely express it in words, yet can and we ought most firmly to believe, to be possible DOCTRINE OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION 39 carry with them that proper and most manifest mean- fictitious and imaginary metaphors, whereby the verity things. For neither are these things mutually repug- the Last Supper, when, after the blessing of the bread be, in many other places, sacramentally present to us unto God. and wine, he testified, in express and clear words, ing in which they were understood by the Fathers it we conceive, by the understanding illuminated by faith, in his own substance, by a manner of existing which, For thus all our forefathers, as many as were in the and afterwards repeated by Saint Paul, whereas they Redeemer instituted this so admirable sacrament at is indeed a most unworthy crime that they should be the universal sense of the Church, which, as the pillar true Church of Christ, who have treated of this most nant, that our Saviour himself always sitteth at the of the flesh and blood of Christ is denied, contrary to natural mode of existing, and that, nevertheless, he right hand of the Father in heaven, according to the that he gave them his own very body and his own wrested by certain contentious and wicked men to blood ; words which recorded by the Holy Evangelists holy sacrament, have most openly professed, that our