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