Dilucida explicatio sanae doctrinae de vera participatione carnis & sanguinis Christi in sacra coena, ad discutiendas Heshusii nebulas

insofar as the bread is a sign? Whom will he also persuade that the bread is not to be adored, which is properly Christ? For he says the locutions are improper, that the body is in the bread, or under the bread: because the substantial word obtains its proper and genuine signification in the union of the bread and Christ. In vain, therefore, he refutes the consequence, "The body is in the bread, therefore the bread is to be adored": which he himself forged from his own brain. For we have always reasoned thus: "If Christ is in the bread, He is to be adored under the bread." But now it is much more permissible to reason, "The bread is to be adored, if it is truly and properly Christ." He thinks he escapes by saying that it is not a hypostatic union. But who will grant so much right to a hundred or a thousand Heshusiuses, that they might bind adoration with whatever chains they see fit? Certainly, the conscience of no sane man will acquiesce to such a frivolous cavil, that the bread, although it is truly and properly Christ, is not to be adored because it is not one hypostasis. For the exception will immediately occur, that the same thing exists where one is substantially predicated of another. For it is not taught in Christ's words what happens to the bread: but clearly, if Heshusius and his companions are to be believed, and without ambiguity, it is asserted that the bread is the body of Christ, and therefore Christ Himself. Indeed, they affirm more about the bread than it is permissible to affirm about the human nature of Christ. How monstrous it is to defer more honor to the bread than to the holy flesh of Christ? To which it will not rightly agree what they demand to be received concerning the bread: namely, that it is properly Christ. Although he may deny that he invents μετουσίαν transubstantiation/change of essence, I will always extort this, "If the bread is properly the body, it is one and the same as the body." Meanwhile, that he subscribes to Irenæus, that there are two different things in the Supper, earthly...