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