And of thys sprynge the maner of speakynges that the olde fathers do somtyme vse, which at the fyrste syght mought seame contrarye to our sentence. But yf they be well pondered, it maye soone be seane, how they shulde be taken. For manye tymes when they speake of the sacramente and outwarde eatynge, they applye vnto the sacrament and outwarde eatynge, the frute and condycyons of the inwarde eatynge and thynge it selfe, because that in a faythfull man they are so Ioyntlye Ioyned, that the one is neuer without the other. As by example. Marye is named the mother of God, and yet she is not the mother of hys Godhed, by the which parte onelye he is called God, but because she is hys mother, as towchynge hys manhode, and the Godhed is so annexed with the manhode that they both make but one parson, therfore is she called the mother of God, whiche in dede yf it be wyselye weyed, shalbe founde to be abvsed speache. And yet neuerthelesse it maye verye well be vsed, yf men vnderstonde what is ment therbye, but yf through the vse of thys speache, men shulde fall in to suche an erroure that they wolde affyrme our lady to be in dede the mother of hys Godhed, then necessyte shulde compell vs to make a dystynccyon betwene the nature of hys Godhed and the nature of hys manhod, and so to expounde the matter vnto them, and brynge them home agayne in to the ryght vnderstondynge. As we are now constrayned to do in thys sacrament, because you mysconstrue the sayenges of the scrypture ād Doctours. Which notwythstondynge (yf a man vnderstōde them) saye verye well. And manye soche maner of speaches are contayned in the scrypture: As where Christ sayeth in, Iohā in the .iii. chap. There shall no man ascende in to heauen, but he that dyscendeth from heauen, the sone of man whiche is in heauen. Thys texte doth saye that the sonne of man was then in heauen, when he spake these wordes vnto Nicodemus here vpon earth, whiche thynge all wyse men consente to be vnderstonde, _propter unitatem personæ_: That is to saye: for the vnite of the parson. For albeit hys Godhed was in euerye place at that tyme, yet was not hys manhod (by the whiche he was called the sonne of man) in heauen at that tyme. And yet Christe sayde that it was in heaven for the vnite of hys parson. For hys Godhed was in heauen, and because the Godhed and manhode made one parson, therfore it was ascrybed vnto the manhod which was onelye verefyed vpō the Godhed, as [Sidenote: August.] S. Austen ad Dardanum doth delygentlye declare. And lykewyse in the sacrament of baptyme, because the inwarde workynge of the holye Goste is euer ānexed in the faythfull vnto the outwarde ceremonye: therfore somtyme the frute of the inwarde baptyme is ascrybed vnto the outwarde worke. And so the scrypture vseth to speake of the outwarde baptyme as though it were the inwarde: that is to saye: the spyryte of GOD. And therfore Saynte Paule sayeth that we are buryed wyth Christe through baptyme.