stratively those
words, "This is my body," in the very act of distribution,--for not
speaking in the plural number, "Take ye," &c.--in the very act of
distribution, as Christ did, having no other reasons to move him than such
as concern us. Why, then, did not the Bishop say something to the point
which we press him with? or shall we excuse him because he had nothing to
say to it?

_Sect._ 5. Now, last of all, we find yet another point, whereby the
Bishop(1260) departeth from the example and mind of Christ. He saith that,
by the sacramental word, "This is my body," the bread is made the
sacrament, &c.; and that without this word, &c., all our prayers and
wishes should serve to no use. Where he will have the bread to be
otherwise consecrated by us than it was consecrated by Christ; for that
Christ did not consecrate the bread to be the sacrament of his body by
those words, "This is my body," it is manifest, because the bread was
consecrated before his pronouncing of those words; or else what meaneth
the blessing of it before he brake it? It was both blessed and broken, and
he was also distributing it to the disciples, before ever he said, "This
is my body." Beza saith, _Benedictionem expresse ad panis consecrationem
et quidem singularem, refert; et omnes nostri referunt, consecrationem
intelligentes, &c._ Pareus saith,(1261) _Qua ex communi cibo, in
spiritualis alimoniae sacramentum transmutetur._ Wherefore we must not
think to sanctify the bread by this prescript word, "This is my body," but
by prayer and thanksgiving, as Christ did. Our divines hold against the
Papists,(1262) _Verba illa quoe in sacramento sunt consecrata, non esse
paucula quoedam proscripta; sed praecipue verba orationis, quoe non sunt
proescripta_; and that, "through use of the prayers of the church, there
is a change in the elements."(1263) Dr Fulk objecteth(1264) against
Gregory Martin, "Your popish church doth not either as the Greek
liturgies, or as the churches in Ambrose and Augustine's time, for they
hold that the elements are consecrated by prayer and thanksgiving." I know
none who will speak with Bishop Lindsey in this point except Papists: yet
Cornelius a Lapide could also say, _Eucharistia conficitur et conditur
sacris precibus_.(1265)

_Sect._ 6. I say not that these words, "This is my body," have no use at
all in making the bread to be a sacrament; but that which giveth us
dislike is,

1. That the Bishop maketh not the word and prayer