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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certain sori; namely, in that they are Spirit and Lise. LXXXIV. Again: things Whicli are the sam are comprehended under one definition. of the

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fore the morius; Μan, bom of the Virgin Mamin the End of the w ld. But since this cannot hemid of the Body of Christ, .hich in the Churct is mysticaHy celebrateri .e know that it is the Bodyos Christ aster a certain manner, the manner namely

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is another.

LXXXVII. Wher ore that, Which the Churincelebratest, is both the Body and Blood a Christ;

but yet M a Hedge, as an imam. The Truth me stan then possem, When Hedge and imam inali beno more, but the ining nsere in veri inau a ear LXXXVIII. And in another river o Lor me beseech Theri let Thy Sacraments Work in us, that Which they contain; so that, What me no ' celebrate in figure, me may receive in Vm y truth 'He satin that these inius are celebrated in figure, not in truth, that is, in the likeness, not by the exhibition of the ining itself. Ν- figure and truthdiffer Dom one another; Wheres e the Body and the Blood, Which is celebrated in the Church, differs m that Body and that Blood, Which is achnowledged to be Hready glorified in Christ's Body. This Body is the pleve and figure, but that is the truth itself. This mill continue to he celebrated

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tili κε eome to that oster; but When me come to

r hi hand of the Father. For that which is doneon Our joumen is in be spiritualty received, b cause satin belleveth that, Which it Meth not; uspiritualty see in the foui, and maheth Had the Mari, and inveth evertasting lise, and incorruption, While κε look not Mon that, Which see in the hody, Which is pressed by the Meth, Which is divided intoparis, but Mon that, Which is spiritualty received in faith. But that Body, in Which Christ sufferedand rose again, stili existeth as His proper Body, which He took of the body of the Virgin Μary,

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ceaseth not to offer the sacrifice of Bread and Wine in faith and love. In those carnal Vic- tims there mas a signification of the Flein of Christ, Which Ηe Without sin Was in offer for o sins, and of that Blood, which for the remission of our sins He was to potir forin. Whilst in this sacrifice there is the thankWiving, and commem

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sacrifices, ther ore, What Was to M ψVen us' mas figuratively signised; but in this sacrifice, What has Hready been gium us, is eridently

XCI. When he missi, that in those sacrifices there mas a signification of What inould be invenus, but in this sacrifice a commemoration of Whathas Men gium us, he clearly implieth, that, as theone had a figure of thius in come, so this sacrificetoo is a figure of things pasti XCII. By these Words he most evidently ine et hoW great is the difference belween the Body, in Which Christ suffered, and this Body, Which is forine commemoration of Ηis passion and Math. Forthe one is His proper and true Body, and Min uot in is of mystery or figure; the other is mystical, and shemeth one ining by a figure ou Wardly, While it represente in another ining inwardlythmum the understandiu of faith. XCI II. Let me allege one oster testimony of the St. Auia Father Augustine, Whicli mill confirm What I havesaid, and conclude my dis urse. In his sermon in again. the Deopte concerning the Sacrament of the altar ,

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int in .hich Due satin requiroth instruction is this; that tho Mein is the Body of Christ, ste

Sacraments for this reason, cause in them one

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auteth at the right hand of the Facter, and in Which He mill come in judge the quich and the

ad, and What of that, Which is placed on thealtar, and received by the people. The former isentire, is nesther cui nor divideri nor velled underany figure; the lauer, Which is set on the Loro sTahis, is a figure, hecause it is a Sacrament: as it iso mar&y seen, it hath a corporeat nature, Whichiae in the body; as it is inmardly undersis , ithath a spirituat Duit, Which quiekeneth the foui XCV. When he would spein some hat more openly and clearly of this mystical body, he ad ththe following mortis, ' Wher ore is ye Wisti to undercland the Body of Christ, he.ken to the

scribe thereis. Thou hearest, The Body of

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member of the Body of Christ, stat this Amen' may be true. But Why so in bre-ρ Let us allege

XCVI. St. Augustine suffciently Macheth us, that, in the bread Which is placed on the altar, the BodyM Christ is signifieri as meli as the hoh of the opte Who receive, to the intent he might Halalyahem Christ's proper Body in be that, in Which Hewas bom of the virgin, in Which He mas suckled, in Which He suffered, in Which He dieri in WhlehΗe Was burieri in Which He rose again, in WhichΗe ascended into heaven, in Which He sitieth atine right hand of the Father, and in Which Heshali come in judgment. But that, Which is placed

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cause it is a mystery; and that the difference is notsmali belmeen the Body, Which existetit in mystery, and the Body, whiis suffered, Sed, and rose again. For the one is the proper Body of our Saviour; no figure, no hidden signification, but the manifestation of the reality itself is there achnowledged, and the vision of this helievers stili destre; for Heis our Head, and with the vision of Him our destreshali he satisfied; in much as He and the Fatherare one, not in respeet of the Body, Whicli the riour hath, but in respect of the fulness of the Godheta, Which dwelleth in the Man Christ. XCVIII. But in this other, Which is celebrated in a mystery, there is a figure not oesy of the

proper Body of Christ, but also of the γπle that belleve in Christi For it Marini the figure ofelther hody, that is, of the Body a Christ, Which

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