together, but the word
alone, to sanctify the bread and wine. Now, if both the word and prayer be
necessary to sanctify the creatures for the food of our bodies, 1 Tim. iv.
5, much more are they necessary to sanctify them for the food of our
souls. _Neque enim solis domini verbis consecratio sit, sed etiam
precibus._(1266) The fathers, saith Trelcatius,(1267) had not only respect
to those five words, "For this is my body," _dum eucharistiam fieri
dixerunt mystica precc, invocatione nominis divini, solemni benedictione,
gratiarum actione._ 2. That he makes not the whole word of the institution
to sanctify the bread, but only that one sentence, "This is my body;"
whereas Christ's will is declared, and, consequently, the elements
sanctified by the whole words of the institution,(1268) "Jesus took the
bread, and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat,
this is my body which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of me,"
&c.

That he acknowledged not the bread, though sanctified by prayer, to be the
sacrament, except that very word be pronounced, "This is my body." Now,
when a minister hath, from Christ's will and institution, declared that he
hath appointed bread and wine to be the elements of his body and blood,
when he hath also declared the essential rites of this sacrament.

And, lastly, when, by the prayer of consecration, he hath sanctified the
bread and wine which are present, put the case, that all this while those
prescript sentences, "This is my body," "This cup is the New Testament in
my blood," have not been pronounced, yet what hindereth the bread and wine
from being the sacramental elements of the Lord's body and blood? It is
sounder divinity to say, that the consecration of a sacrament doth not
depend _ex certa aliqua formula verborum_.(1269) For it is evident that,
in baptism, there is not a certain form of words prescribed, as Bellarmine
also proveth;(1270) because Christ saith not, "Say, I baptise thee in the
name," &c.: so that he prescribeth not what should be done. Aquinas
likewise holdeth,(1271) that the consecration of a sacrament is not
absolutely tied to a certain form of words. And so saith Conradus
Vorstius,(1272) speaking of the eucharist. Wherefore Vossius(1273) doth
rightly condemn the Papists, _quod consecrationem non aliis verbis fieri
putant, quam istis, hoc est corpus meum, et hic est sanguis meus_.

CHAPTER VIII.

THAT THE CEREMO