On the three principal effects, and each is worth three things. xxv.
On the effects of the body of Christ taken from its three names. xxvi.
On the effects taken from three other names of the body of Christ. xxvii.
On the consideration of the blood of Christ in three ways, and first of the first, where it is poured out on the cross and is commended for its inestimable preciousness. Concerning which four things are noted, from which two are spoken of here, which are the proof of great preciousness and the reason for giving such a price. xxvii.
On two others to be noted concerning the preciousness of Christ's blood, which are the magnitude of its power and the multitude of the redeemed. xxviii.
On the consideration of the blood of Christ in the second way, namely as it is taken in the sacrament. Concerning which three things are asked, and two are spoken of here, which are why the sacrament of the altar is given under a double species and why the people do not receive the blood under one species. xxix.
On the third thing that is asked concerning the blood of Christ, which is concerning the utility of the blood worthily taken. xxx.
On the consideration of the blood of Christ in the third way, namely as it is drunk spiritually by the faithful. xxxi.
On the threefold drink of the most sacred blood of Christ. xxxii.

On the three causes of institution. Theme proper or general. First Sermon.

A threefold cause of institution against a threefold evil.

Come, eat my bread and drink the wine which I have mixed for you Proverbs 9. With these words, the Lord invites us to a salutary banquet, in which he prepared a precious food and drink: his body and blood. Treat your cause with your friend and do not reveal the secret to a stranger Proverbs 25. The sacrament of the altar is a secret thing, as if a holy secret, whose cause is not to be revealed to the unfaithful but to the faithful. Do this in my remembrance Luke 22. Item, Psalm: "The just shall be in everlasting remembrance." Item, "Be ready, for at an hour you do not think, the Son of man will come" Luke 12, or another in which the memory of the Lord can be noted. First, principally, concerning the sacrament of the Lord's body, the cause of institution must be noted. This is threefold: the memory of the Savior, the sacrifice of the altar, and the food of man. The wisdom of God disposed these three in this sacrament against three old evils, namely against the forgetfulness of God, against the debt of another's rapine, and against the corruption of the deadly fruit. For the first parents fell into these three evils, deceived by serpentine fraud, and through them their successors are depraved. Of the first: "The beginning of the pride of man is to apostatize from God, for his heart departed from him who made him" Ecclesiasticus 10, namely through forgetfulness in the occupation of harmful negotiation with the serpent, which often still happens to some. Of the second: "The woman sees the wood that it is good" Genesis 3