body which he speaketh of, I
have showed also that the adoring of the flesh of Christ in the sacrament
cannot be inferred upon it, wherefore he can tell us nothing which may be
thought to infer the presence of Christ's flesh in the sacrament, and the
adoration of it in that respect, save only the sacramental union of it
with the outward sign. Now adoration in this respect, and for this reason,
must suppose the bodily presence of Christ's flesh in the sacrament.
Whereupon the Archbishop of Spalato saith, "that the Papists adore the
body of Christ in the sacrament, only because of the supposition of the
bodily presence of it, and if they knew that the true body of Christ is
not under the species of the bread and wine, they would exhibit no
adoration." And elsewhere he showeth,(741) that the mystery of the
eucharist cannot make the manhood of Christ to be adored, _quia in pane
corporalis Christi praesentia non est_ implying, that if the flesh of
Christ be adored in respect of the mystery of the eucharist, then must it
be bodily present in the sign, which is false, and hereupon he gathereth
truly, that it cannot be adored in respect of the mystery of the
eucharist.

Further, It is to be remembered (which I have also before noted out of Dr
Usher(742)) that the sacramental presence of the body of Christ, or that
presence of it which is inferred upon that sacramental union which is
betwixt it and the outward sign, is not the real or spiritual presence of
it (for in this manner it is present to us out of the sacrament, even as
oft as by faith we apprehend it and the virtue thereof); but it is
figuratively only so called, the sense being this, that the body of Christ
is present and given to us in the sacrament, meaning by his body, the sign
of his body. These things being so, whosoever worshippeth Christ's body in
the eucharist, and that in respect of the sacramental presence of it in
the same, cannot choose but hold that Christ's body is bodily and really
under the species of the bread, and so fall into the idolatry of
bread-worship; or else our divines(743) have not rightly convinced the
Papists, as idolatrous worshippers of the bread in the eucharist,
forasmuch as they attribute to it that which it is not, nor hath not, to
wit, that under the accidents thereof is contained substantially the true
and living body of Christ, joined and united to his Godhead. What can
Bishop Lindsey now answer for himself, except he say with one o