Rejoinder to Bristows Reply, Part 2 · Book 1
MAN HV, what is this?
The figure. Exod. 16. This is the breade which our Lorde hath Sander.giuen, &c.
The prophecie. Prouerb. 9. Come, eate my breade, and drinke the wine which I hauehave mixed for you.
The promise. Iohn 6. The breade which I will giuegive, is my flesh for the life of the world.
The performance. Matth. 26. Luke 22. He gaue saying: take eate, this is my bodie which is giuen for you.
The doctrine of the Apostles, 1. Cor. 10. The breade which we breake, is the communicating of the Lordes bodie.
The beliefe of the Church. Hilar. lib. 8. de Trinit. Both our Lord hath professed, and we beleeue it to be flesh in deede.
The custome of Heretikes. Tertul. de resur. car. The contrarie part raiseth vp trouble, by pretence of figures.
THese notes and sentences, D. S. hath set Fulke.before his booke, as the pith and martowe of all his treatise. In which, as he pleaseth him self not a litle, so he sheweth nothing, but his ignorance, vanitie, and falshood. His ignorance in the interpretation of the Hebrue wordes: Man Hu, which doe signifie, This is a readie meate, prepared without mans labor, as euen, the author of the booke of Wisedome expoūdeth it. Which Sāder readeth interrogatiuely, folowing the errour of some olde writers, which could put no difference betweene the Hebrue, and the Chaldee tongs. For Man in Hebrewe signifieth not what, neither doth the Chaldee Paraphrase expound it so, but Manna hu, that is, This is Manna, that is to say, a ready meate. Againe, he sheweth him selfe ignorant in the Apostles doctrine, when he maketh Manna a figure of the sacrament, which the Apostle plainely affirmeth to hauehave bene the same spirituall meate, which the sacrament is to vsus. 1. Cor. 10. His vanitie appeareth, that when he can racke neuer a saying of the Prophetes to his purpose, he dreameth of a prophecie in the Prouerbes of Salomon, which booke was neuer accounted of wise men for propheticall, but doctrinall: and this pretended prophecie is an allegorical exhortation of wisdome to imbrace her doctrine, and not a prophecie of Christ instituting his sacrament: an inuiting of men in Salomons time, and all times, to studie wisedome, and not a foreshewing of a supper to be ordained by Christ in time to come. In the words which he alledgeth, for the promise of the sacrament, is discouered a manifest falsification of the text of Scripture, to peruert the meaning of Christe, which is of his passion, vntounto the institution of the sacrament thereof. For the wordes of our Sauiour Christ, Ioh. 6. 51. are these: And the breade which I will giuegive, is my flesh, which I will giuegive for the life of the world. These last words (which I will giuegive) Sander hath fraudulently omitted, yt this promise might seeme to be referred, not vntounto the passion of Christ, in which he gaue his flesh for the life of ye world, but vntounto the giuing of the sacrament of his flesh, in his last supper.
In the title of performance, he omitteth to shewe, what Christ gaue: when he saide, This is my body, that he might seeme to hauehave giuen nothing but his body, whereas the Euangelistes teach, that he brake and gaue the breade, which he tooke, affirming it to be his body. The doctrine of the Apostles Sander doth not holde, because he neither breaketh breade, which he denieth to be in the sacrament, nor acknowledgeth a communicating or participation of the Lordes body, which he alloweth to be receiued of the reprobate, which hauehave no communicating or partaking with Christ. So that he denieth the sacrament, or outward signe to all men, and giueth the heauenly matter or thing signified by the sacrament, euen vntounto wicked men. The beleefe of the Church which Hilarie professeth, Sander maintaineth not: for Hilarie saith, that we do truely eat the flesh of the body of Christ, sub mysterio vnderunder a mysterie, & per hoc vnum erimus, and by this we shal be one with him and the father, which can not be vnderstoode of the Popish corporall receiuing.
Last of all, he followeth the custome of heretikes, which is to draw mens sayings inio a wrong meaning, for Tertullian in the place by him alledged, speaketh not of such heretikes, as pretended a figure in the sacrament, where none should be acknowledged, but he him selfe, by that the breade is a figure of the body of Christ, proueth against Marcion the heretike, that Christ had a true body. ad Marc. lib. 4.