things. For neither are these things mutually repug- nant, that our Saviour himself always sitteth at the right hand of the Father in heaven, according to the natural mode of existing, and that, nevertheless, he be, in many other places, sacramentally present to us in his own substance, by a manner of existing which, though we can scarcely express it in words, yet can DOCTRINE OF TRANSUBSTANTIATION 39 we conceive, by the understanding illuminated by faith, and we ought most firmly to believe, to be possible unto God. For thus all our forefathers, as many as were in the true Church of Christ, who have treated of this most holy sacrament, have most openly professed, that our Redeemer instituted this so admirable sacrament at the Last Supper, when, after the blessing of the bread and wine, he testified, in express and clear words, that he gave them his own very body and his own blood ; words which recorded by the Holy Evangelists and afterwards repeated by Saint Paul, whereas they carry with them that proper and most manifest mean- ing in which they were understood by the Fathers it is indeed a most unworthy crime that they should be wrested by certain contentious and wicked men to fictitious and imaginary metaphors, whereby the verity of the flesh and blood of Christ is denied, contrary to the universal sense of the Church, which, as the pillar