Chapter 13: Baptism and Eucharist
converteth the bread and wine into the flesh of His own body and into the water of His own blood: even He then invisibly wrought the manna which was given from heaven to be His own body, and the water which was poured from heaven to be His own blood.
Chapter 13:
Baptism and Eucharist We see moreover in the sacrament of baptism, that the Holy Ghost and remission of sins is given: yet do we not say that these things lie hidden in the waters: yea and we put on Christ, yet doth not any man say, that water is transubstantiated. Christ (they say) is after one sort in the Eucharist, and after another sort in baptism. As touching the manner, I confess that in baptism Christ is given as a mediator, as a reconciler, and to speak more properly, as a regenerator: but in this, He is distributed unto us as a meat and nourishment.
Furthermore, with this their transubstantiation, they come near unto a figure of the Marcionites: for they say: It seems to be bread and is not: The very which thing Marcion affirmed of the flesh and body of Christ, that it was not true flesh, but that it only appeared to be flesh. Christ is no juggler, neither doth He delude our senses, but by the senses He proved the Resurrection. "Feel" (saith He) "and see, for a spirit hath no flesh and bones." The Apostles might have said: we feel and we see, it appeareth to be flesh and body, but it is not: and in vain had that proof been, whereby
Christ proved that He was not a fantastical body, but that He had a true body. And that He had received His own proper body, and not another, He showed by the wounds of the nails, and by the gap that was in His side.
Which argument of His, if place should be given to these juggling knacks, it would be of no force.