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ERRONEOVS PROPOSITIOVNS. 63
micht haue fallin in Idolatrie, the tenour of his words is this
O grit miracle ? O grit benignitie of God ? that the Sone
quha sits in the heauens with the Father, in an moment of
tyme is on the tabill and touched be the hands of the com¬
municants and thair is also present the Priest not bearing the
fyre but ye halie Gaist. Chriso. meaneth not heir of Christs
real presence bot onlie he wrytes figuratiuely, for the halie
Note. Gaist realy can not be borne. Zea him self mair plainlie
testifies in his xi. homilie vpon S, Mat. saying, In the sanctifiet
vessels Christs bodie is not thair in dead: bot a misterie of
that bodie is contenit and vpon the 22. psal. Christ ordayned
the tabill of his halye Supper for this purpose, that in the
sacraments he suld dayly schawe vnto vs bread and Wyne,
for ane simihtude of his bodie.
cap 9, de Ad. Lykwayis Aug testifies that the bread is changit in Christs
iis qui mi bodie & the wine in his blood abone the ordour of nature be the Word
nist. ini- of Christ this is my bodie.
An. Recognose thy errour, and confesse thy ignorance, in
aledging false autorities, for thair is not an worke of S. Au.
extant with sic an inscriptioun. Bot we reid in Ambro. indead
of sic a place, saing if that in so much Elias speiking did
awail that the fyre thairby came doun from the heauens,
how mekil mair sulde Christs saying awaill to make mutatioun
in the forme of the elements . thir ar his words, quhilks
subuerts zour errour, for ze affirme yat the forme remanis,
Note. bot the substance perisheth, contrair vnto his assertioun,
quhilk appeareth by this place and many vthers. as in his 4.
buik of Sacra. & 4 ch. As thou hes raceaued in Baptisme
the similitude of his deith: so lykewayis in this sacrament
thou dois drinke the similitud of Christs blood.
In psal. Adversar S. August, saith suppose it be impossibill that Dauid
[?] or sic any vther man berit him self in his awin hands zit Christ in his
[P 27 ] 'attar Supper berit himself. / quhan he said this is my body !
F. ij. An. That quhilk Aug. conditionarlie did speik thou affirmes
it as if it war absolutlie spokin, for he him self in the second
sermon vpon the 33. psal. exponis how he spake in the former,
Christ was borne sayis he in his awin hands, because in com¬
mending his body he did tak his flesh and bluid in his hands
quhilk the faithfull knawis & did beare himself. Qvodamodo.
efter a certen maner in making that bread & wine a sacrament
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