Chapter 22: The Division of the Sacrament
that because Christ communicated with His Apostles, it followeth that He did eat His own self. But they have been accustomed to answer, that these things be exercises of our faith. But we reply, that we have sentences of the scripture, in which our faith may exercise itself far otherwise than in these which men have devised. We believe that the Son of God, is incarnate of the Virgin, that He was born, that He died for us, that He was raised up from the dead, and that He was taken up into heaven, and many of these kinds of things, wherein our faith doth abundantly enough exercise itself.
And seeing the sense toucheth not, the reason understandeth not, nor experience teacheth this transubstantiation, how shall it be known? I know, thou wilt say, by faith: but if we are to deal by faith, that without the word of God cannot be had, and thereof ye be utterly destitute.
Chapter 22:
The Division of the Sacrament Furthermore, seeing Christ made this sacrament of two parts, namely, of the body and blood, thereby it sufficiently appears that the thing cannot be received by this transubstantiation, because these things in the real and carnal body of Christ are not divided. But they have a shift, and they say that it is contained in one of these parts alone or in two. Indeed, we hear them affirm this, but the words of the Scripture teach it not: but about the bread only there is mention made of the body, and about the cup only is the blood specified.
They answer as touching the bread, that by the power of the words transubstantiation is made into the body of Christ or into the flesh of Christ properly and by itself, and that the blood and the soul and divinity follow by concomitance. And in like manner do they speak of the cup, that by an