that lie before us, but holding fast his words; for his word cannot deceive; but our sense is very easily deceived. That never failed: this often. Since then his word says: This is my body; let us assent, and believe, and view it with the eyes of our understanding. Christ left to us nothing sensible (no object of the senses) but things intellectual under sensible forms. Thus the blessing of Baptism is given by water, which is corporeal; but what is done by it, namely, the regeneration and renovation, is incorporeal or intellectual. If you were incorporeal, he would have bequeathed to you gifts purely incorporeal; but as your soul is united to a body, those gifts are to be comprehended under corporeal signs.” Homil. lxxxii. in Matt. T. vii. p. 787.-“How many persons are heard to say: I would willingly behold his figure, his shape, his attire! But thou seest him, thou touchest him, thou receivest him into thy breast. Yet thou desirest to see his garments. He gives himself to thee, not to be looked on only, but to be touched, to be eaten, to be admitted into thy breast.” Ibid.—“These are not the works of human power. He, who in that supper, made these things himself, now also does them for you. We hold the order of ministers; but the sanctifier and changer of them is himself.' Ibid. p. 788.-—“Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled ? (Job. xxxi. 31.) This, Christ has done-not only allowing himself to be seen, but to be touched too, and to be eaten, and teeth to pierce his flesh, and all to be filled with the love of him. Parents often give their children to be nourished by others : not so, I, says Christ; but I
