Chapter 18: The Joining of Christ's Body with the Signs
framed: For it should have been said: "This is made my body," or, "This is turned into my body:" otherwise, being said, "This is my body," the speech is improper.
Chapter 18:
The Joining of Christ's Body with the Signs They which say, that the body of Christ is really joined with the signs, the natures I mean of bread and wine being preserved, do thus argue against Transubstantiation: What dignity or privilege have accidents, that they can be joined with the body of Christ, which ought to be denied to the substance and nature of bread? And if the accidents can remain, why shall not also the substance of bread be retained? Yea rather, many of the fathers suppose, that this may be done. And thence they take a similitude, that the human and divine natures in Christ do verily remain, and so remain, as one passeth not into another: whose opinions we will bring in when time shall serve.
They fall also into another absurdity: for while they break the sacrament, we demand of them what they break there. Here they stagger and some have said, as testifieth the master of the sentences in the fourth book, that the essence or substance of the body of Christ is broken: but this opinion is by him confuted: because the body of Christ is immortal, and therefore it is not subject to these things, and to new chances. There were others which said that the same is no true breaking, but that it only appeareth to be, and so seemeth unto our senses. And this is also rejected, lest we should establish here a perpetual illusion. At length they say, that they be accidents which be broken. And when as they after a sort appoint a mathematical quantity, that is, a quantity separated from matter, which if it be divided, it is only done by the power of the mind and by the promptness of the