Chapter 23: The Continuation of the Sacrament
efficacy of the words, first and properly there is a transubstantiation made into the blood, but by a concomitance or a kind of conjunction there is had both the body and the soul and the divinity. By this subtle reasoning, they make Christ less provident, as He that hath given no more unto the two parts than is severally contained in one of them.
And from this fancy has grown the practice that afterward they divided the sacrament, and in giving only one part unto the laity, they have persuaded them that they have even as much as if they received both parts. Add that by this feigned device, they set open a window unto many counterfeit opinions: because there is no opinion whereunto they by their concomitance may not tie infinite things. And it would follow, as we above said, that all the Saints are present in this sacrament, seeing they always follow Christ.
But the only reason whereby we refute them, is this, that they teach what the scripture does not speak.
Chapter 23:
The Continuation of the Sacrament There is another false and absurd opinion that has followed this transubstantiation: in that they have thought that after the receiving of the sacraments, there remains still a sacrament, and that the bread or show of bread does really and verily contain in it the body of Christ. That this is false we will show by other sacraments, where the whole consists in action, which being taken away, it is no more a sacrament.
It appears in baptism that when a man is dipped or sprinkled with water by the words of the Lord, then it ceases to be a sacrament, the very same thing was in circumcision: for that sacrament also consisted in action. Neither will I disdain to take those which are called sacraments by them, as is