The book of Ratramn, the priest and monk of Corbey, commonly called Bertram, on the body and blood of the Lord : to which is added, an appendix, containing the Saxon homily of Aelfric = Ratramni presbyteri et monachi Corbeiensis, qui vulgo Bertramus

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inely, as the Spirit os Christ is thereis, that is, the pomer of the divine Word, Which doth not

LXVI. For the foui, Which is meant by the heari of man in this Place, is not sed by corporealmeat, or corporeal --, but is nourished by the Word of God, and grometh thereby. Which the fame doctor ammeth yet more clearly in his fifth book of the Sacraments ', Where he salth, ' It is not stat h ad Which Meth into the boh, but stat Broad

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faithful, are spiritual; While the Flein, Which was crucified, and the Blood, Which mas mured out by the soldier's wear, are not said in he spirituat, ordirine; openly doth he insinuate, that these two dissor Dom one another no less than inings com real and spirituat, visitae and invisibie, divine and human. And, because they differ, they are not thesame; but the spiritual Breari Which is tinen by themouths of the fiathsul, and the spiritual Blood, which is Mily presented to be Munk by bellevers, differ Dom the Flein, Whicli mas crucified, and the Blood, which Was Ρoured out by the soldier's speis,as the testimony of this author inemeth; ther ore

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ine substanee M lise, in ita pomer is spirituat, in usessi cy invisibis, in iis virtve divine. It is sardifferent, as in ira out ard ais rance, and as tothat, Which in the mystery is helieved. More Verithe Flesh of Christ3. Which mas erucifieri hin noother o Ward ino. than what it in ard* Was, in muta as it Was the very fleah of a Very man, atrue -- consisting in the nature M a true hody. The sa- LXXIII. It is further in he considereri that in Mu..d that Boad; not the Body of Christ alone is figureria Mum but aiso that of the morie Who belleve in Him.

LXXIV. For Which reason, as that Bread istinen to the Body of Christ in a mystery, soli Wise are the membera of the peopte that b lieve in Christ signifieo in a mystery. And asinat B ad is cassed the Body of bellevera notcorporally, but spiritually; so also me must unde stand the Bois of Christ not eo oratim but spiritually.

wine. Thia custom pravailed univereatly, and hom the earliest times, in the Christian Chureh, both in the East and West. Iustin

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fore that Wine, When consecrared by the ossice of

inrtyr of Syria, St. Irenaeus os Gaul, and St.Cyprian M Ca age, bear testimony to the saei in tha - ω and thies eanturies. Itis probabie, that the cup Which our Savisur blessed at the Last supper, contained .atar as weli as Wino; sor the Paschal cup, .hlah m used in instituting tho Eucharist, Was alWays soprepared by the Ie s. The maso hiin St. Cyprian Ep. lxiii. oves sor this custom are the fame M thosa os Ratramn. in inith; Holy Scripture declareth that Wator signifiest thopeople ' quoting Rev. vii. 16. V Which me me iso in the Sacra- ment of the Cup. For since Christ, Who bore our sim, beareth us ali alao, me pererive that in the water the psopia is undar. Mood, in the mine the Blood os Christ is represent . But .hen in the cup water is mixed With .ine, then the peopte is uested is Christ, and the company os bellavere is closely joi d to Him, in Whom they bellave. Which union os Water and V .inu in the eup of tha Lord is so intimate. that the elements

Loes, water cannot be offerta alone, as also Wine eannot be

offered alone; sor is the wina be offered by ilaeis, the Blood os V Christ be nneth to be without us ; and is tha water alone, the perele Monneth to M .ithout Christi but .hen both are minglia together, and joined each to each by an intimate union, then a spiritual and heavenly Sacrament is produced. Binoam oves a surther account os this custom. Ant. b. xv. e. ii. g. 7.

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the Μinister, is corporally changed into the Blood a Christ, the mater also, Which is mixed With it, must necessarily be corporassy changed into theblaod of the fait ut people. For Where the con- seexation is one, there soliometh also one operation; and where the cause is the fame, the mysterywhiin followeth is the fame also. But me See nochange made in the mater, as to hodij substance; and ther ore, there is no corporeal change in themine. Whatever in the mater signifiein the Ρeopleos Christ, is tinen spiritually; Whatever ther ore in the wine representeth the Mood of Christ, mustbe t en spiritualty toin LXXVI. Again, inius that differ Dom Eachother, are not the fame. The Body of Christ, Whichaeed, Which rose again, and being made immortal dilath no more, nor hath death any more dominion over filii that Body is eternia, and no longer subject in suffering. But the Body, Which is cel brated in the Churct, is temporal, noe eternal; Co ruptibis, not incorruptibie. They differ then Dominin Other, and ther ore are not the fame. Νοκά they he not the fame, hoW are they said to be

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Blood of Christ, satin thus; Moses ais manna, and Aaron ais, and minees ais, and many more ais

50. y St. Augustiae on St. John, eh. vi. Tract. 26. g. ll.

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- which came do- Dom heaven, that a man may eat thereos and not die.' But this halli referenceto the virtve of the Sacrament, not to the visibie part of the Sacrament; in him, Who eateth in ardin

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