COnsy­deryngeprouer, if wake in the [...] aye and kepe the p [...]the of y^• righ teous, for thee iuste su [...]l [...]w [...]l in y^• land and y^e in­nocentes shall re­mayne in it, But y^• vngodlye shalbe to ted oute of y^• land and y^• wit ked doers shalbe ta­ken oute of it. thee wonderfull mutaci­on of mannes iudgementes, and also what greate hurt [...] and daun­gyer of soule ens [...]yth by the edu­catyon and teachynge of foch cor­rupt doctryne, to the congregaci­ous, as rather is to be feared su­persty cyousse than Godlye, for manye theyr bee, that thynkethe the Gospell of Chryste, In these dayes to be wrested more after the fantasses of men, than accordinge vnto the cen [...]yre truthe, of the sa­me: as sundrye persons whyche of malycyouse myndes, be not a­shamed both so to saye, & speake, & also boldlye dothe affyrme, wyth­oute all shame, that the rytes and ceremonyes vsed in the Churche, whyche cannot bee proued by the Scryptures, oughte to be taken for the worde of God vnwrytten, and that we ought to beleue them [Page] as thee holye woorde of God, con tayned in thee sacred Byble, and thee Testamente of Chryste, full well consydered the Prophete E­saye. These kynde of men, whereEsay, ii [...] ▪ he sayth, Your lyppes speake lea­synges, and youre tounge setteth oute wyckednesse. No man regar­dethe truthe, nor ryghteousnesse, and no manne Iudgethe truelye, euerye man hope [...]h in vayne thin ges, and ym [...]gineth dysceate: And therfore to peynte oute soche ly­gi [...]tmate chyldren of Sathan, the father of all lyers, whose sonnes naturall the [...]e sh:y [...]ckynge Chyl­dren be, whyche seke councell, but not at me sayeth thee LORDE▪ whych take a webbe in hande, but not after my wyll, That they may heape one synne vpon another. These halltynge generacyon, whi che of frowarde hartes, wyll not walke in the testymonye of Ihesu But treade fourthe styll in thee dampnable Doctryne of lyes, and mennes [Page] doctryne of lyes, and mennes tra dy [...]yons, vnto whom it is sayde. iii. Regum. xviii. Chapter. Howiii regum xviii. longe wyll ye halte on both par­tes, Yf the Lorde be God, folowe him, Yf Baal be God, folowe him Oh howe dothe these wycked E­domites, defende the kyngdom of Antichrist the eldeste sonne of the deuyll, By whose lyenge and most dampnable doctryne, they haue seduced the people into blindnes and errour, agaynst the veritie of the manifest truth of the scriptu­res and most godly proceadinges of the Kinges Maiesties: The ho ly Prophet Dauid in the. lii. psal.psam. lii. Maketh greate exclamatyon of these Uyperous lyers (sayinge) wherfore enforcheth y^• thy tonge to myschief, forging disceate lyke a newe set raser, wherfore loueste thou malice rather than honestye rather to lye, then to saye truthe, for thou delyghtest in peruiciouse speche. Oh fraudulent tonge, the­se blynde teachers, God shall vt­terly rote vp by the rotes, and de­stroye them, he shal throwe them downe out of theyr tabernacles, [Page] and consume theym vtterlye, for so many as make or loue leasyn­ges, [...]po, xxii shalbe caste amonge murthe­rers, and Idolaters, in the lake of hell burning wyth fyre and [...]r [...]m stone. What els be al those which goeth about to teache the doctry ne of men and soche sacramentes and lowsy ceremonyes, as be not ones mencioned, or taught vs by the woorde of God. What els I saye be these. But lyers, viperous whelpes, and the chyldren of Sa­than, whych broughte fourth the fyrstlye (for it is sayd) Set lyenggene. iii, [...]o viii. E [...]he iiii C [...]lo, iii. a syde, let euerye man speake the truth vnto hys neyghbour, for as moch as we be members together and lye not one to another. Esay lix. Chap. Hier. These dreamersEsay. iix, aleageth for the stablysshynge of thys theyr dampnable doctryne, the woordes of S. Ihon, whyche saythe that Iesus dyd many thyn ges, whyche be not wrytten, and also S. Paule commaunded cer­tayneii, thess, ii vnwrytten tradicions and ceremonies, to be obserued of the Thessaloniās and kept. And that Paule hym selfe preached not the [Page] scriptures onely. But also the tra dicions of the elders (these I say) & soch lyke doctryne, many of the se bely beastes, goeth about to tea che & instruct the people, to be the gospell of Christ, and by the same, wolde stablishe, not onely certayn sacramentes, and ceremonies vsed in the churche, but also theyr God of the aulter, to be very fleshe and bloode ryally (yea, the verye same body, that was borne of the Uyr­gyn Mary and suffered vpon thee crosse, which is blasphemious doc tryne, and mooste necessarye to be confuted amongeste all matters. Now beynge in reformacion, the­se maner of teachers sayth S. paul are allwayes false lyers, wycked beastes, and slow belys, These hy­pocrytes do affyrme, that y^• church (as they say the byshopes (as they vnderstande hath power to iudge ouer the Scripture and to examy ne it, and auctorytye to allowe or to r [...]fuse the Gospell. To dys­pence wythe the tene Commaun­demētes [Page] to alter the forme of Baptyme, and to make newe artycles of oure faythe, besydes tho­se, whyche are conteyned in the Scryptures. Thys detestable erroure and blyndnesse of soche teachers. Whose malycyouse ob­stenacye, wher thorowe they blas­pheme God, and hys woorde is to be lamented, the thynge beynge so manyfeste frome the whych to stablysshe the hartes and myndes of the godlye, whyche beleueth the woorde wrytten, to bee suffycient for theyr saluacyon and to con­tempe and abhorre these doutyng dreamers of these malygnau [...]t minysters, I wyll resyte certayne testymonyes whyche euydentelye shall approue the wrytten worde of God▪ to be the onelye and vnremoueable foundacyō of our fayth and that all the Artycles of oure salua [...]yon oughte to bee proued by the holye Scryptures, and not by thee Gloses of men, Byshopes [Page] lawes, or mans tradicions, rytes or ceremonies, which ar receiued in the church, and not conteyned in the scriptures, whych they say is the worde of God vnwrytten. The fyrste proue is the fourth ofdeu [...], iiii Deuter [...]. Wher it is sayd, ye shal not adde vnto the worde, whyche I speake vnto you. Neyther my­nishe from it, note these wordes, yf they were euer expounded to be vnderstande of the vnwrytten worde, whych these lyeng discea­uers affyrme, but ought to be vn­derstande of the wrytten scriptu­re onely, so that playnly they whi che ymagyne, y^t ther shuld be any other vnwryttē veritie, be clerly agaynst Boddes truth, for in the sixt of the same beke is wrytten.deute, vi What I chmaund you, that shalt thou do only, vnto the Lord thou shalt neyther adde, nor mynyshe, any thyng. And in the laste chap. of the Apocalips, who so euer ad­deth any thynge vnto thys. The Lorde shall sende hym the plages, whyche be wrytten in thys boke. Which place the Duns men euen Duns hymselfe, grauntethe that [Page] thys sayenge oughte to be vnder­stand of the whole scripture. Thē doo not these false teachers synne manyfestly, agaynst the commaun dementes of god, which doth affyr me, that theyr is any other worde of god vnwrytten, as they do why [...]he expounde the scriptures after theyr owne fantasses, geuing iud­gement of the wyll of god, wyth­oute the worde of God wrytten, and is it not a deueliysshe lye, to say, the scripture cannot be vnder stande wythout mens comentari­es or gloses, because the scripture is so obscure darke and doubtful, that it maye be els applyed to condeu. xxviii fyrme heresyes what benedictyōs bee appoynted of sundrye kyndes vnto them that kepeth those thyn ges, which be wrytten in the boke of the lawe, And in the. xxii. of thedeute xxii same boke, doth not Moyses saye manifestly thus. Set and fix your hartes vpon al the wordes whych I testyfye vnto you thys day, that ye maye commaunde your chyldrē to kepe & obscure al thynges why che are wrytten in the boke of the lawe, for they bee not geuen, and [Page] cōman̄ded vnto you in vayn: But that euery one of you shulde lyue after them Oh marke what these wordes importeth, that here is e­uerlastring lyfe promysed vnto all them why [...]h kepe these thynges, whych at wryetē in the scripture So that by these wordes ye maye clearly vnderstand, that Moyses, he a [...]opnteth this to be the fynall e [...] & onely cause why. That god wolde haue hys worde to be wryt tē, y^• al men, of what degre so euer they bee (myghte be saued) by the worde of god, and then the sequel muste folow to be a playn blasphe my, to affyrme and saye, that wee maye be saued, or dampned by any tradicions of mans inuentyons, beyng not expressed, in goddes bo ke, are not all those very ydiotes, and fantastycal, whych doth ascry be thys ignoraunce and negligēce vnto god (as thou [...]he) he eyther [...]l [...]t not, or els wolde not, Deter myne all artycles necessary, vnto o [...]e saluacion: to be oppressed by wrytyn [...]e wythin the holy Scrip [Page] ture, (or els) they declare thē sel­ues, to be ignoraunte of the fynal cause, why, the Scripture was [...]e uen vnto vs, he hathe not geuen vnto vs, a patched, or a worke vn parfect, but a ful and a whole glas se, wherin the par [...]ght ymagyne of hys d [...]itie, whych Saince Paul calleth the prynte of hys substaun [...]e shulde a [...]e [...] fully therin, Also S. Ihon say [...]e that thys woorde doth shyne in darkenesse, and that is the lyght which shyneth in mēs hartes, blynded of the deuel, tho­rowe synne: and that Christe doth open vnto vs, the wyll of GOD thorowe hys gospell. Therfore it is not onelye thee ignoraunce of manne, that the worde of God is thus blasphemed, But thorowe thee malyce of thee deuyll, for the deuell neuer ceaseth to dysfygure thys woorde, whyche is the testy monye of thee Sonne of god, wh [...] he dyspysed, before thee worlde was made, and shall fyghte wythe [Page] fyght with hym, euen wyth al hys power, vntyl the day of iudgemēt Thys boke, the King is commaun ded to haue alwayes in hys hādes and in hys syghte, y^• boke of y^• law and to reade out of it, al the dayesdeut▪ xvii of hys lyfe, for thys purpose, that he shuld learne to feare h [...]s Lorde god, and he delygentlye to applye hys studye, therin. And then thys promyse is made hym, that he shal lyue longe and many of his proge uy, & lynage, shal enioye his kyng dom, after hym, wolde [...]nto God, all Christen kynges, and prynces, wolde regarde the reading of this boke, and thynke it to be one part of theyr offycie, to be sometymes occupyed in the readynge therof, that they maye learne the wyll of God, how he wyl be feared by his woorde onely, and not by any po­pydeute xxx she lawes and mannes tradyci­ons, for it is wrytt [...] in the. xxx. of Deuteronomium. The commaun dement whych I geue vnto the, is not aboue thy power, neyther far re from the, it is not set in heauen neyther it is beyonde the sea, but [Page] the worde is nyght vnto the, euen in thy mouthe and in thy harte. Marke what Moyses sayth here, Remember saythe he I haue [...]et it before thy eyes, that thou mayes [...]e reade in that boke and vnderstand it also: For in thys boke, he forbid deth al maner of honour, and con­dempneth all maner of worshyppe and seruyce, to bee inuented other done vnto god, after the wyl, com maundementes, trady [...]yons and doctrynes of men, contrary to his worde or otherwyse then his wor de appoynteth, or that whyche is not ordayned by the same or com­maunded, for these seruices muste be learned out of the worde of god both what wyl please him, & what pleaseth hym not: These thynges be know [...] onely, by the holy wryt ten scripture, and yf ye beleue not thys, be sure heauen and earthe at the latter daye shall wytnesse a­gaynst vs, yf we folowe these false lyenge Prophetes of the false chri stes, whych ymagyne a new word and a new christ, as to be bounde to certayn appoynted places, day [...]s meates, vowes, to abstayne frō [Page] the lawefull creatures ordayned of god, for S. peter putteth a diffe rence betwene thee Prophetic [...]ll scripture, and an interpretacyon whyche is made, and inuenced of mans owne brayne, and s [...]ch tra­dycyons whych are made and en­ [...]oyned at mans commaundement callynge all maner of doctrynes, which be not cōteyned in the scrip ture of the holye ghoost. Ca [...]cyos and disceytfull fables, exhortyng all men diligently to trye by thys candell of propheticall scripture, the doctryne, of the false lying pro phete [...], whyche ymagyne a newe prophecy [...], or scripture, and a new worde, for by that meanes saythe h [...] ▪ [...]hall be [...]ed oute the deuyls subty [...]ie and [...]l [...]o [...]e, Callyng al m [...] doctrynes not conteyned in the scripture, very darkenesse, and the scripture on [...]ly to be thee true lyght and l [...]nte [...]ne as Dauid cal­led it sayinge) thy worde is a lan­te [...]e vnto my fete. and the lyghte vnto my path wa [...]es: Paul in both hys Epystle to Tymothy, and in hys Epystle to Tyte also doth ear [Page] nestly warne vs to be ware of the blasphemyes, whyche shulde be in thys laste tyme, o [...] these lyeng tea­chers whych shuld laye vpon our neckes newe and wycked opyny­ons, and buld and confyr me, with theyr doctrine and lawes, not con fyrmed by the worde of God, and the prophetes, but by false sygnes and lyinge myracles, to blynd and disceaue the vnfaythful and soche as haue not receaued the truth of gods worde, and he monysheth vs so earnestly of these thynges, that he calleth heauē and [...]arth, to wyt nesse wyth hym, that be [...]yd premo nyshe and declare to vs before, of these Antichristes that shuld come Declarynge therby what care and sorowe, he taketh for vs, and how sore he lamenteth, that we shulde be thus seduced and disceaued, by soche blasphemous Antichrystes, as these be, whych wold appoynte vs another Gospell, of theyr own braynes to feade vs, wyth dreges of theyr inuented Sacramentes and lowsye Ceremonyes whyche they patched vnto thee worde of [Page] worde of God, as necessarye vnto our saluaciō, hauing not the scrip [...]ures for the stablyshement of the same, and it wold then compel the people of God as well to receyue theym wyth asmoche reuerēce as those sacramēte [...] & other ordina [...] ces instytuted by the word of god, These blyndes guydes, the Pro­p [...]et Esaye threateneth the euer­lastynge nyght of infydelyte or vn belefe, and vnto them also that be leue eyther any new reuelatyons or els any apparicions of dead sp [...] rites wythoute the worde of God the wordes be these, shall the peo­ple seke counsell of theyr God: or shall they aske counsel of the dead, for the liuing, shal thei not rather loke and searche thee lawe of thee Lorde, and take the testymony of god vnto counsell, for yf they tell you not (sayth he) accordynge vn­to thys worde. They shal haue no mornyng lyght, Oh mercyful lord what sore and greuous, saying (is thys) yea it is a threatenyug, vn­to them that vnderstād what thys voyce is, and what darkenes thys signifyeth, thys mornynge lyghte [Page] sayth Esay (is Christ) the lyght o [...] the world as he sayth hym self byd dynge vs walke in the lyght why­le ye haue it, that no darknes com passe you, thye lyght the prince of all darkenes stale fyrst from man­kynde thoro we infydelytie, & rob­bed vs of thee true knowledge of God, and brought vs into aldar­kenes of errours, and supersticiō, by these lyenge prophetes whyche wolde bryng v [...] to infydelitye by theyr darke doct [...]yne of vnwrytē veryt [...]es, but it so pleased the son­ne of righteousnes to restore thys lyght vnto the world agayne, and hys commynge was vnto vs thee bryght mornynge whych the pro­phet speaketh of in this place But alas it is no maruel that we haue so longe walked in thys darknes, for we haue bene taught by Balā [...] prophet, a new christ and haue for sakē the word of God. and sought thys lyght in the deuylles doctry­ne, and mens tradicions, hauynge oure confydence in fantasys, that wee haue beleued dead spyrytes, & made newe articles of our faythe, as that ther is a purgatorye after [Page] thys [...]y [...] out of the whych soules may be redemed thorow y^• sacrify­ce of y^• masse, whych y^• antychriste of Ro [...] & hys lying shauelinges make to be a sacry [...]yce for y^• quyck & the dead [...]trarye to y^• instituciō & ordayna [...]ce of christ. Hauīg not one word of y^• scripture [...]or the sta­blishment of these theyr dreames. A [...]d [...]t the [...] cōti [...]ue in y^• ministraciō o [...] [...] [...]asse dayly agaynst y^• kynges mai [...]e [...] most [...] godly procea­d [...]g [...]s, [...]y [...]cca [...]yon whereof the people commyt Idolatrye, alas it is to be [...]ied to [...]e y^• sturdynes of these Babilonical papistes whyche wyl not gyu [...] place to y^• truth, but shal styl cōtinue in theyr mas­kyng, & contrary to the worde of god, o most execrable antichristes which take vpō you, to offer vp a sygne for a sauyour, whych is ma­de by the handes of a wycked man and bringe m [...] to worship bread & wyne in stede of the eternall God whych ar to fals god [...] (as they are vsed, by your lyftīg vp, wher fynd you in the word of god y^• ye ought so to do but only by your Romysh fathers apoyntmēt, Christe neuer cōmaūded his word to be preched vnto bread & wy [...]e whych are but two dead thinges, but to soch people [Page] as had fayth to beleue & folow y^• same, he bad y^t faythful beleuers of this holy supper, to take & eate this bred & not to knele to it, & to worship it as god. For S. Augu, & the old doctors calleth it a sacra­mēt, a mystery & mistical meat whi che is not eatē w^t to the & bely, but w^t eares & fayth, & as touching ho nour & worship to be done to it, it is playn y dolatry. This most odi­ouse veneraciō was added by your pope, not w^t out the ꝑpetual [...]urse of god, as appereth in Deut. xii. & Apo. xxii. For in your popes masse nether is y^• lordes death set out to be vnderstand or preached nor yet his body & bloud frutfully theri [...] receaued, nether ar y^• hearers ther of [...]swaded to cōtinual thākes ge­uing, nor yet christianli exorted to a mutual loue & cōcord, but the de­uoutest y^t cometh to y^• masse of you rs, one ha [...]eth another, one dis [...]ay neth another, one troubleth ano­ther, one robbeth another, besides y^• abhominable suꝑsticious & ydo latries which ar dayly therin cō ­mitted, this your abominable ma sse bi so mani pestelēt popes dūsed which were peruerters and stin [...] ­kinge Sodomites not regardinge the sayinge of the holy Apostle S. [Page] S. Paul, but peruertyng the scrip tures for y^• mayntenaūce of theyrRom, xv▪ belies and for lucre sake, whyche sayd. Ro. xv. I dare not speake of any of those thynges, y^• christ hath not wroughte by me. O shamelesse beastes thē how dare ye be so bold as contraay to gods holy worde, inuent and make the vytuperable masse, wherin is the gloriouse sup per of the Lorde (whych was hys owne instytucyon) most blasphe­mously blemysshed, and broughte cleane out of remembraunce, in y^• christen church, wherfore a remē ­braunce of christes death to his cō gregacion was that heauenly sup per fyrst ordeyned, and a vnyuer­sall thankes geuynge for the most frutefull benefyte of the same. In that holy and sacred supper ar the mutuall members of Christes mi­stical body ther gathered together and knyt perfeyghtly together to theyr headde wyth the ioyntes of fayth, and synowes of loue, where as it is truelye mynistred. But in your popysshe masse theyr is no soche godly order, dyd not Iesus christ in the institucion of thys sa [Page] cramēt all bread symply saye vnto hys apostles (take & eate) he sayde not, behold and worshyp, dyd euer any of the Apostles prouoke anye mā to soch worshippīg as these I­dolaters do. Marke how far these tals ꝓphetes of Baal, swerue frō the doctrine of S. paul, as abhomi nable scorners & theues which pra ctyse nothyng els but the vtter de structyon of soules & inuenters of tumulte & sedicid amōges the peo ple. Brethrē sayth he I besech youRom. xvi marke thē that make diuision and geue occasiōs of euyl, contrary to the doctryne that ye haue learned and aduoyd thē, for they that are soch serue not y^• lord Iesus Christ but theyr own bellyes & wyth swe te prechinges & flatterīg wordes deceyue the hartes of the innocen tes, what may be more plainly spo ken agaynst thys your new inueu ted sacryfice of the masse as ye [...] cal it, than that ye be sowers of diuy­syon enemyes to your Kyng hur­ters of the publyke whelth & brea­kers of the cōmaundemētes bothe of god and the magestrates, now whose subiectes be you (neyther [Page] gods nor the Kynges, but obediēt ministers to your father the great anthichrist of rome, it manifestly appereth why holde ye not vp the eternal testamēt of god to be wor­shipped in the whych is christ con teyned both really & substauncyal ly, no, that were nothing for your proffect & comodytie, thys blind­nes of mē & obstenate malice wher thorow the blaspheme God & hys word is rather to be lamēted, thē to be conuict by the word of God the thīg is so vituperable, Ye blid bussardes wher haue ye one ioynt of the worde of god to make thys holy supper a sacryfyce eyther for to be worshypped but onely ye re­ceyued that doctryne of the wyc­ked lanfraneus the great enemye of gods truth & true religion and papa innocencius whyche added thys transubstancion thys vnkno wen god wherunto ye cause thee people to cōmit ydolatrye. Christe sayth math. xxviii. Teache them tomat xxviii kepe all thynges that I haue com maunded you, and I hō in the, viii chap. of his gospel sayth, yf ye abyIhon. viii de in my word, ye are my disciples in dede, and ye shal know y^• truth, [Page] and the truthe shal make you free, he that is of god, he heaxeth y^• worIhon. xix. des of god, and euerye one that is of y^• truth, heareth my voyce, now to worship here by loue any vysy­ble thynge, declareth [...]laynlye ye heare not the voyce of God, for he hath not so commaunded you (forIhon, [...]v▪ thus sayth christ) yf ye kepe my cō maundemētes, ye shal abyde in my loue, & ye ar my frendes, yf ye doo those thynges that I cōmaunded you, But and yf ye leaue the com­maundemētesmar [...], vix. of god, & mayntay­ne your own constitucions, & cast asyde the cōmaundemētes of God to kepe your owne tradicions, thē are ye false lyenge Prophetes, of whom Hieremy wold haue vs to be ware [...]. Where he saythe, takeHiere. vii hede sayth he, ye trust not in coun sels that begyle you, and do [...] you no good, and further he also saythHi [...]x, xxiii heare not the wordes of the Pro­phetes that preche theyr own drea mes, and y^• prophet Ezechiel both [...]ze xviii xxxiii. in the. xviii. &. xxxiii [...]. of hys boke saythe, h [...]are o ye house of Israell sayth y^• lord / is not my way ryght or ar not your wayes rather wyc­ked. The chyldren of thy people [Page] of thy people saye (tu [...]he) the way of the lord is not ryghte, wher as theyr own way is rather vnrigh­te, what can be more playnly sette forth to declare your abhominaci on not only concerning the abuse of y^• holy supper of y^e Lord, in these thiges before spokē, but also yourma [...]. xvii. olde leuen wherwythe ye haue so sowred & poysoned the veritye of gods word, by your beggetly tra­di [...]s & vnwritten verities, that therby ye haue spoyled & robbed y^• people of the true ministracion of thee Sacramentes, as vnlawfullIhon. ii Luke. xix mar [...], xi math. xxi. biers, and sellers of gods mystery Lyke robbers & theues ydolaters & [...]urtherers whych ought to be dryuen oute of gods church wyth whyppes, for dysceauyng the peo ple as ye long haue done, & yet do to thys daye, they be not ashamed both to wryt and preche, that the very natural body of christe, both in quantite, and qualitie is cōtay ned [...]yally vnder the forme of bred in the sacramēt, and is a dayly ob­lacion both for the quicke and the dead and muste also be taken for a sacrifice, of no lesse value & effeca­ [...]ye, [Page] thē the body which christ hym self offered vpon the crosse, & who that beleueth not this, shall be an heretique, what abominable the­ues, and mockers be these whyche teache the doctryne, they practyse nothynge els, but vtter destructiō of soules, what a [...] these els, but spi rituall theues, seysmatiques and soule murtherers. Rebeles, & tray tours, to god, and to man. Neuer dyd crewell pharao, holde the peo ple of Israel in so wycked captiui tie as dothe these supersticious ge neracion these ydle Sodomyties, holde the most dearly redemed he­retage of the Lord, Yf any thynge vnder the heauens, hath neade of reformacion, let all men that myn deth any godlynes, thinke thys to be one, let vs beware of these trās­gressores of gods commaundemē ­tes,math. xvi. for theyr own tradicions, for these be they, whō S. paule dothe admonyshe vs of, in hys fyrste E­pystle to Time, [...]he. vi. chapter. Yf any man teache otherwyse and isi, Tim, v [...]. not contente wyth the Doctryne of godlynesse, he is puf [...]e vp, & kno weth nothynge, but wastethe hys [Page] braynes, about questiōs, and stry­fe of wordes, wherof spryng enuy raylinges, euel [...]urmy [...]ynges and ha [...]ne, disputacions, of men, with corrupte myndes and destitu [...]e of the truth▪ whych thynke y^t lucre is godlynesse, from soch seperate thy selfe. And say not Ihon in the se­cond pystie the fyrst chapter sayth, [...]i, Ihon. i. Whosoeuer transgresseth and aby deth not in the doctryne of christ, hath not god, He that endureth in the doctryne of christ, hath both y^• father and the sonne, Yf ther come any to you, y^• bryng not thys lear [...]ynge wyth hym, receaue not him to your house, nether byd him god spade, for he that byddeth him god spede is partaker of his euel dedes and Hebre. xiii. be not carryed a­bout wythe dyuerse and straungeHebre. xiii learnyng, here is to be perceaued, Whether thee teachynge of these mermaydes songe be swete, & ac­cordynge to the scriptures, or els full of poysone (ar not) to them y^• geue hearing to this theyr dāpna­ble meolody which ledeth to death the hearers therof. But yet neuer was Gnato vnredy of hys flatte­ryng [Page] seates, to compase his cloked [...]olusiōs, where he fyndethyching cares, by hys ypocrytical speache but now to proue by gods infalla ble word, whether Christes natu­ral body, be in y^• sacramēt as they say & wold make you to beleue, or not, you shal not ꝑceaue by y^e scrip tures, nether by y^• ordināce of chri ste, nor yet by any reason, it can so be, & now let vs heare what wyt­nesse christ him self the euerlasting word of god geueth of his scriptu re, The hyghe doctours dysputed here of euē in christes tyme, which thought y^t the scripture w^tout the tradiciōs of thelders was not suf fyciēt for theyr salua [...]iō, and for y^• enstructiō her of, one of those doc­tors came vnto christ, & said. May ster, what may I do, to inheret e­uerlastinge lyfe, Christe answered this curious doctour sending him to thee scripture, s [...]yinge what is wryttē in y^• lawe, or what doest y^• red therin, as though he shuld say thynkest y^• that god is a cha [...]gling or a wauerig red, which wil alter his mide euery hour, as mē chaūge their lawes, & ymagyn dayly new opiniōs [Page] of god thou shalt wel vnderstand that the worde of god continueth for euer. Therfore do thou nothīg but euen the selfe same thyng (one ly) that thou fyndest wrytten in y^• law and prophetes, do that & thou shalt lyue, he saythe not how thyn kast thou, or how doest thou here, the pharises, and the scrybes, prea and teache, go to theyr doctryne, but he byddeth go searche y^• scrip­ture, & albeyt the Scrybes & doc­tours, patched theyr lawes & tra­dycions vnto the word of god, as our Ypocrytes, and doctours do, in thys holy Sacrament, of Chri­stes body and bloud, and wold also preferre theyr drowsye dreames, before the worde of god, as christ sheweth in the. xv. and. xxii. of Ma thew, Yet amonges all lyenge promath▪ xv xxii. phetes, the true Churche, had one iudgement, and belefe: that y^• wyll of god must be knowē by the scrip tures onely, and that all artycles muste be iudged and examyned by it, as christe declareth, wher as he sayth, vnto the Iewes. Searche y^• scriptures, for ye beleue surely, to haue euerlastynge lyfe in them, by [Page] these woordes, Christe testifyethe playnlye that the opynyon of the olde church, was that al mē shuld iudge al articles of the saythe, ne­cessary vnto saluacion, by that on ly, and where he byddeth them exa myne hys preachynge by the scrip ture, he sheweth euydētly the who le gospell to be cōtayned in y^• olde scripture. Therfore now let vs ser che the gospell, what Christe tea­cheth, concerning thys mistery of his body & blood, whether we can fynde it to be naturally, transub­stancially, and ryally in the sacra­ment, as they say, or not. These pa pystes haue preached, put in wry­ting, & taught, that after they ha­ue blowen and spoken ouer thee bread whyche they holde betwene theyr fyngers, and breathed ouer the wyne in y^• challice. That theyr remayneth nether bread nor wy­ne, but by transformacion, or as they saye transubstanciacion, thee natural body, of Iesus christ: vn­der the accidens of the breade, is theyr inuisybly hyd, and the blood also, vnder the accidens of wyne: Yf thys doctryne be not bothe a­gaynst [Page] the verite of holy scripture and reason, you shal se it manyfest ly proued, for thys sophisticall de­terminatiō, procedeth of the vani­tie of dreames, & clearly agaynst y^• doctrine of S. paul, & the holy euā gelistes, & al y^• auncient doctours as S, Augustyn, Cyprian, & other olde wryters, as breuely I shal de­clare▪ [...]. corin. xi, & fyrst S. paul, sayth thus to the Corinth, our lord Iesus christ the same nyght in whyche he was betrayed toke bread, and geuynge thankes, breake it, and sayd, take & eate thys is my body: which is bro ken for you, S. mathewes wordesmath x [...]vi be these and as they supped, Iesus toke bread, blessed it, and brake it, and gaue it to his disciples, & sayd take and eat, this is my bodye, S.marc, xiiii. Luke. xxii Mark. and S. Luke, affyrmeth the same wordes, wryttē in theyr gos­pels, expreslye namynge it bread and not the substaunce of breadde, S. Paule in thys place, sayth mani. corin xi, approueth hym selfe, and so eateth of this bread, and drinketh of this challice: he saythe not eate ye thee body of christ whych is hyd vnder the accidens of bread, and drynke [Page] ye hys blood hyd vnder y^• accidēs of wyne, But openly and symply, sayd he, (eate of thys bread) These woordes certaynlye declareth the scripture to vse no faynīg, nor dis ceyt, & here it doth approue, what bold and presumptuous teachers thys be, whyche durst dyffyne and determyne, agaynst thys doctryne of S. Paul, & the euangelistes that ther is nether bred nor wyne, but the symylitude of bread and wyne where as it is also wrytten, in theact. xxviii Actes of the Apostles, on a saboth daye, when we ware assembled, to breake bread, here it is not sayd of the lykenes of bread, and S. Pauli, Corin. x sayth also, the bread that we brea­ke is it not the participacion, of y^• body of Iesus christ, by these scrip tures, it is perceaued playnlye to all true beleuers, that it is expres­lye pronoūced to be bread & not a shap lykenes or apparēce of bread these scriptures ought euery chri stian to beleue vpō: payne of eter nall dampnaciō, for the holy scrip ture vseth no fayning, and truely euery faythfull christian man, wel vnderstandynge thee mysterye of [Page] of this sacrament, doth take it to be a sacramētall bread, and not as comyne and vsyall bread, a bread sanctifyed, and ordeyned to deuy­ne vses, bycause that in thys most holy action, the spirite, and soule, of the faythfull, shuld be noryshed vnited, and knyt to christ by fayth by y^t inuisible sygne, in thys mor­tall lyfe, whych in the lyfe to co­me, shalbe openly shewed to hys e­lectes, wythout any sacrament, or couerynge, (at all) whych our re­demer, and hyghe [...]yshop, hath or­dayned for a memory all of hys de­athe, vnto the consumacion of the worlde, and as the faythful recey­ue that breade into theyr belly, by eatyng it, so vndouptedly, they re ceaue the frute of hys deathe, into theyr soules by thee beleuynge in hym, for a remembraunce, impor­teth the thynge, to be absent, and therfore thys holy mystery, beyng but a remēbraunce of christe. Thā can he not be here present, for tru­lyBarthrā prieste yf the mistery be▪done, vnder no fygure, than do we naught, to call it a mystery, for that cannot haue the name of a misterye, wherin no [Page] thynge is hydde, where nothynge is remoued, from our corporallen cis where nothynge is couered, wyth any veale, But that bread whych by the mystery of the word is made the body of Christ, & doth showe one thynge to thee externe sences, and another thynge soun­deth to the inward mynd of fayth, for outwardlye, the bread remay­neth bread styll, as it was before, the same shape is euydente, the sa­me collour is sene, the same tast is tasted, But wythin is a thynge moch more precious, moche more excelent, that is to saye, the bodye of chryst shewed, not wyth the sen ces of the fleshe, but wyth the eyes of a faythfull mynde, is sene recea ued or eaten, the wyne also which by the consecracion of the prieste, is made the sacramēt of the blood of christe, whych setteth forth one thynge, outwardly & contayneth another thynge wythin, for what other thyng is superfycially loked vpon, but the substaunce of wyne, Tast and it sauereth▪ wyne, smell & it smelleth wyne, loke on it, and y^• collour doth argue wyne, but yf a [Page] man do consyder it inwardly, thē not the lycour of wyne, but of the blood of Christ, it sauoreth to the beleuinge people, whē it is tasted now that no man can denye thes thynges to be true, it is manifeste that the bread & the wine be called the body and blood of christ fygu­ratyuely, for notwythstanding af­ter the mystical consecraciō, bread is not called bread, nor the wyne, wyne, but the bodye and blood of christ, yet after y^t which is s [...]ne, ne ther is theyr any kynd of flesh kno wen in the bread, nor in the wyne any drop of blood, for yf nothynge were takē here fyguratyuely, thā shuld here be no place for the wor kyng of fayth, because y^• nothinge shuldbe spiritualli done, but what soeuer it be, we shuld take it after a fleashely intellectyon, and what fayth is, by the sentence of S. paul is an argumente of thynges that appere not, that is not of these sub sta [...]nces, which ar sene, but of tho se whych are not sene, yet shall we here take nothynge, accordyng to [Page] faythe, for what so euer it be, wee maye see and diserne it, after oure corporall sences, and what I pray you can be more foolyshe to take bread for fleshe, & call wyne blood and a mysterye we cannot call it, wher no hyd or secret thyng is she shed▪ here is to be vnderstande, in thys holy supper of the lorde, that it representeth to vs an inuisyble grace, and therfore it is not alone thyng, that is sene, and that is be­leued, for these thynges that bee sene, doo onelye feade the corrup­tyble bodye, beynge corruptyble thē selues. But these thynges why chear not sene, do fead the immor­tall soules, they beynge immortall them selues. Oure fathers in the deserte, by a spyrytuall meat, and a spyrytuall▪drynke, dyd eate Chri stes bodye and drynke hys blood as thee Apostle dothe wytnesse, oure fathers saythe he, haue eaten the same spyrytuall meate, & dron ken the same spyrytuall dryncke, as ye wold say, So could he in the deserte, turne the manna, and the [Page] the water of the roke into his fle­she and bloud. Notwythstandyng hys fleshe was hāged on the crosse for vs, longe after, and hys blood shed, and here you shall consydere what is ment by these wordes spo ken▪ by christ, except you shall eate the fleashe of the sonne of mā, and drike his blood, you shal not haue lyfe in you, he sayd not y^t his fleshe whych hāged on the crosse shuld be cute in pecys, and eaten of hys A­postles, nor that hys blood whych he shed for the redemption of thee world, shuld be geuen his disciples to drincke, for it were a wycked thynge yf hys fleshe shuld be eaten and hys blood dronken, as the ca­pharnetes and infidelles toke it, beynge offended wyth hys sayin­ges, therfore he sayd to hys dysci­ples, yf you shall see the sonne of man ascendyng thyther where as he was before. &c. (as thoughe he shulde saye) You maye not thynke my fleshe, to be eaten of you corpo rally, neyther my fleshe, to be deuy ded into peces, for asmoch as after my resurrection, ye shal se me vy­syhly ascend into heauē, wyth the [Page] fulnes of my hole body and blood Then ye shall perceaue my fleashe is not to be eaten of these that be­leue as the infidels thynke. But that the bread and the wyne chaū ­ged by a mysterye into my body & blood, is to be receaued of y^• fayth full, for he saythe consequentelye. The spirite is he that quickeneth, the fleshe profyteth nothing, after any soche sorte as the vnfaythfull vnderstande, but otherwyse it ge­ueth lyfe as the faythefull take it by a my sterye. So in thys mystery of the body and blood of christ her is spirituall operacion, whych ge ueth lyfe, wythout the whych ope racion, the mysteries be vnprofy­table, for wel may thei fead the bo dy, but the soule they cannot, here the papistes saye, that those thyn­ges be done in veritie, but not in a mysterye, wherin they repuge a­gaynst the wrytynges of the holy [...] i [...]. iii. d [...] doctryna christians fathers. S. augustin sayth. Except ye eat sayth our sauyour, the flesh of the sonne of mā, and drinke his blood, ye shal haue no lyfe in you, (he seameth sayth he) to commaūd a wycked thynge. Therfore it is a [Page] fygure commaunding vs to be cō ­municators of hys passion, this is profytable to prynt in our memo­ries, that hys fleshe was woūded and crucifyed for our sakes. S. au gustyn doth thus affyrme the my­sterye of the body & blood of christ to be a fygure, for it is no poynte of religion sayth he, but rather in [...] quitie to take hys fleashe and hys blood carnally as they dyd whych vnderstode not Christes woordes spiritually, but carnally, and wēt backe therfore and departed from hi. Now, here is playnly se [...] forth vnto you, that thys holy sacramēt of the bodye and blood of christes, is a mystery certifieng thy weake cōsciēce, that as that sacramentall bread is brokē, [...]o was christes bo dy brokē, for your synnes yf ye be faythful, abyding in christ & he in you, but yf you be wicked & vnfay thful, ye do not eate hys fleshe nor drynke his blood, although ye eat the sacramēt of so great a thynge, These be bedes wordes vpō the. i. epistle to the Corinth. the. x. chap.i, Corin, x Now where as these dasyng drea mers & lowsy locustes, doth teach [Page] that the presentes of christes natu ral body is holy, cōtayned in y^e sa­cramēt that is easyer sayd, thē pro ued For this sayth S. aug. to Hie to. his body wherin he rose muste be in one place, but his truth is di spersed in al places. & also writing vnto Dardamū doth proue that y^• natural body of christ, must neades be in one place onely) & also y^t his soule can be but in one place, at o­nes, & further saythe, yf we shulde graunt christ to be in al places, as touching his manhode, we shulde take awaye the truthe of his body for he playnly affyrmethe, as tou­ching his godhode he is in euerye place, & as touching hys manhode he is in heauē, as this doctryne of christ doth playnly proue, spokēto his disciples, sayig, yet a lytle whiIhon. vi le I am with you, & thē I depart to him y^t sent far, & he sayd agayne, it is expediēt for you, that I depart,Ihon, vi▪ for except y^t I depart, that cōforter shal not come vnto you. And yet he sayth further, & forsake y^• world, & goo to my father / & more fully to touche thys matter / he also saythmath. x [...]v mar [...] xiiii Ihon xii. poore mē ye shal euer haue w^t you / but me you [Page] shall not euer haue, here it appe­reth as touching hys godhead, he forsoke not the world, whē he as­cended, vnto hys father, and ther­for it must neades folowe, that as touching hys fleshe, and manhede he fors [...]ke the world, as al the old doctours and faythfull fathers de fyne that christ ment not that hys natural fleshe, shuld be present in the sacramēt to be eaten with our teth, and therfore whoso beleueth hys body naturall, to be theyr, is begyled, and is robbed of the true beleue therin, wyth theyr craftye cōueyaunces & vnwryttē truthes, by whyche they brynge the people into bondage, and captyue theyr consciences, in blyndnesse / to the vtter destruction of soule & body. Teachyng them a straung doctry­ne, contrary vnto the gospel. But euery plant that my heaueuly fa­thermath. iv. hath not planted, shalbe pluc­ked vp by the rootes, sayth christ, and now accordynge to my fyrste parte and preposicion of thys mat ter, I saye, y^• ther is sufficiēt scrip tures wrytten, for our saluacion. aud for the probatiō therof, I wil [Page] lay this sentence of the old church confyrmed of christ agaynste these blasphemouse teachers, of these vnsauerye sacryfyces of Baal and Bel of theyr holy fathers of rome inuented contrarye vnto the cen­ser word of god, which is wrytten in the▪ xii. of Ihon. The word whiIhon xii. che I haue spoken, shall iudge thē in the last daye, sayth christ. Now thē these enuyous Edomites, whi che teache the people a new found doctryne made of theyr own bray nes, as thys is, to cause the people to beleue that the natural body of christ is in the sacramēt, or to ma­ke it an oblacion propiciotorie, or expietorie, and to be worshypped, this teachyng, is not found in the scripture of god, but in theyr own ymagynacions, and priuate inter pretacion, for the mayntenaunce of theyr owne bellyes. S. Peter sayth, that the scripture is not ex­pounded after the appetyte of any pryuat persone, but euē as it was geuen by the spyryte of god, & not by manes wyll, so must it be decla­red, by the same spyryte, full well knew the Apostle S. Paule when [Page] he sayd to the Thessaloniās. The [...]. [...]hes. ii, mystery of iniquitie, euē now be­gynneth to worke, and also pro­phesyed what shulde folowe after hys tyme, saying. Take ye hede toactu, xx your selues, and to all the flocke, ouer whych the holy ghost, hathe put you ouersears to fead the congregation of God, whych be pur­chased wyth hys owne blood, for I know thys well, that after my departynge, shall entre in greuouse wolues among you, whych shal not spare thee flocke, and euen of your selues, shall aryse men, spea­kynge peruerse thynges, to draw disciples after them, and therfore watche. &c. What more euident to kē can be geuen of you, & set forth by Paule, ar ye not rauening wolues, what els doo you, but spoyle and robbe the people of God, whē ye teache and instruct them, con­trarye to the verytie of the gospel to folowe your lying sygnes and beggerly ceremonies, as S. Paulgala, iii. calleth them, to reherse thē it shal not nead, but touchynge thys ho­ly mysterye of Christes bodye and blood, which ye haue so sore defor­med, [Page] blemyshed & spotted by your straunsubstanciatyon, and other abuses to the destructyon of the people, & fyrst institucion of christ I muste of verye sorowfulnes, of harte, approue you by thee scrip­ture to bee verye theues, murthe­rers, and deceauers, and where I haue already declared and appro­ned, by the worde of god, and thee olde wryters, whose sayingee I haue in maner but gleyned, wyth ruthe the mohabite, as the history maketh mencyon, what that most holy & blessed sacrament of the bo dye & blood of our lord is, it is to be beleued but as a mystery, & fy­fygure representynge to the eyes of our faythe, the death and passi­on of christ, crucifyed for our syn­nes and rose agayne for our iusti­fication, & as verely as that bread is broken emonge [...] vs, so vetriye was christes body broken for our synnes, & as verely as we receaue that sacramentall bread into our bellye, thorow eating it, so verely do we receaue y^• frute of his death & meretes into our soules, by be­leuyng in him, so that the body of christ [Page] in thys sacrament, is not corporal but spiritual, and the blood of chri ste is not ther corporal, but spiri­tual. So that nothynge is to be ta ken in this holy mystery, but spiri tually, Here is the bodye of christ, but not corporally, here is y^• blood of christ, but not corporally. The­se be the▪ woordes of Barthram, a learned Priest, wrytten. Lvii. yea res here to fore, so nowe, thys is proued sufficient to stablysshe the faythe of all men I truste in thys poynt. And as to the worshipping therof, or to be a sacrifice, as they saye, You shall haue the scriptu­res to confute that doctryne, suf­ficientlye, fyrste the supper of thee Lorde, ought to be done after thee ordinaunces of christ, as appereth the fyrst Epystle to the Corinthi.1, Corin i [...] the. xi. chap. And vpon those wor­des, to it is a memorial of y^• death of Christe. whych brought saluaci on, and not a sacrifyce, but a remē braunce of the sacrifyce, that was once offered vp vpō the crosse, for therin is a promyse made, as appe reth in the. C. and. it. Psal. Christpsal, [...]. it, shalbe our bishop, for euermore or [Page] dayned of the father, and thys pro mes is performed, for christ hathe entered once into the holye place, by an oblacion makynge perfecte for euermore, so that we nead notheb. ix. [...] ▪ x to haue hym offered vp for vs a­gayne, the whyche dyeth nomore, We know that the oblaciō whych Moyses made, was for synnes, as appereth in the leuitical law, whē the oblation dyd sanctifye, & thee blood dyd wasshe Thē yf this one sacrifice (in the whych christe dyd offere vp hym selfe) dyd satisfy for the synnes of the whole world, ac­cordinge to the seyenge of Esaye.Esay▪ iiii He dyd bear our synnes, & he was torne for oure wyckednesse, As S. Ihon sayth, he is our satisfactionIhon, ii. and so forth so that all oblations whych ar besydes thys, is but vay ne, as to rear an new oblatiō, and to set lytle by y^• fyrst, to make god a lyar and to denye Christ, whych bought vs after the wordes of S. Peter, For yf the synnes be relea­sed [...]. p [...]it. ii. and forgeuē in the sacrifyce of the masse, it foloweth that, that on ly sacrifyce of the crosse dyd not sa tisfye, for all synnes, & is not that [Page] to deny the lorde, whych dyd rede me vs, not wyth corruptible thin ges, as with gold and syluer, but wyth hys owne precyouse blood, so that thys holy sacrifice, whych is Iesus christe, the verye lambe, and most holy Enocēt, & wythoutIhon, i▪ spotte. The whych alone taketh a­way the synnes of the world hath offered for vs, to God the father, hym selfe, hath geuen his lyfe, and shed hys blood, for our redempti­on▪ Makynge an ende and consu­mation, of all outward and vysy­ble sacryfyces, and S. Paul to the Hebreus wryteth, it is cōuenableHebre. vii to haue a byshop holy, innocente. seperate frome synners, & hygher then the skyes, and in the. ix. chapHebre. ix. ter of y^• same Epystle, is sayd thus christ y^• bishop of goodnes, came in presence, by a greater and a perfy­ter tabernacle, not made wyth hā des, not by the blood of gotes, or of calues, but by hys owne precy­ouse bloode is ones entered into the sanctuarye, & hath founde eter nall redemption, here is playne & euydent that for our saluation, & [Page] redemption, we haue no neade of any other sacrifyce, or dayly offe­ringe. for them selues, and for vs Except we wyll haue them our re demers, and to renounce the obia ciō of Iesu christ, and yet furtherHebre ix it is sayd, in the same chapter. Ie sus is not entered into the sanctu arye, made with handes, but chefe ly in heauē, to thende that now he may appere for vs before the face of hys father. & not by [...]au [...]e that he offered not hym self oftē tymes and after he [...]ayth, he shulde haue suffered oftē, [...]y [...]he the begynning of the worlde. Thys [...]exte dothe clearly expresse, that Iesus christ, offereth not hym self many tymes or that he shulde dye many tymes, for Iesus christe to dye, and to be offered vnto hys father, is al one Nowe shall he neuer dye more, wherby he shal neuer be sacrifyced and in sacryfyce, he wyl neuer of­fer hym self more, thā it foloweth that no man can offre and sacryfy ce hym agayne, for yf he offre not hym selfe, [...]howe maye other offre him, for certaynly sythe the death [Page] death of christ, all vysyble sacrify­ces, is ceased, and the state of sacri fyces is appered, wherfore they a [...] vayne seductors, begylers & lyars & may be knowen to be fooles, vn­wytty, vnhappy, & voyd of brayne Now [...]or a more ampie probacionHebre. x. pounder well the. x▪ chapter of the same Epystle, whych maketh men­cion, thorowly of thys sacry [...]yce,psal. xclii of Iesus christ, the whyche hathe made an ende of all vysyble sacry­fyces, so that none doth abyde for synne. Behold I come lord god, to thende, that I may do thy wyll, by the whych wyll we be sanctyfyed, by the oblacyons made, by Iesus Christe, for by one oblatiō, he hath made the sanctifyed, y^t is, the faith full perfyte, for euer eternally, for after he sayth, I shal haue no more mynd of theyr sinnes, and of theyr iniquities, and where there is re­myssion of thē, ther is no more ob­lation for synne. But S. Paul de­clareth vnto vs, what sacrifice we shuld offer, let vs folow hys deuy­ne,Rom▪ xii, & councell, I praye you my bre thren, by the mercy of god, that ye offre youre bodyes, in a lyuely sa­cryfyce holylye and pleasaunte to [Page] god. &c. To offer thys sacryfyce We be all ordeyned of God Kyn­ges, and priestes, wythoute any soche disguysed, shauen, shorne, ce remonies, for we be to vyle, & vn­worthi to offer vnto god, ani new sacryfice for synne, for asmoche as christ hath offered vp hym selfe to hys father for vs, as touchyng to worshyp the sacramēt, In the who le scriptures, nother by any wry­tyng of the old holy fathers, & doc tores, as S. Augustyne, Ambrose, Hierome, Cypriane, Chrisostome, Fulgēcius, and soch other, neuer taught men to worshippe it, for yf these holy fathers, had taken these textes before resyted carnally, as they toke it spirituallye, then in theyr workes they wold haue tau ght mē to worshypped it, but they neuer taught mē to worshyp thys sacramēt, bycause they toke it spi­ritually, and therfore to worshyp it, it is dampnable Idolatrye, for god wyl gyue hys honour to non other, for thys holy supper of the lord, is takyng for a plege of euer lastyng lyfe, whych the faythefull desyre moste humblye to receyue, wyth a manyfest perticipation, e­uen [Page] that thynge whyche we touche in the Image of the sacrament, whi­che is the pledge and the Image, of another thynge (that is to say) they represent another thing, but not thēselues, yea they whyche is shewed vnto the beleuers, y^• death of christ inui [...]ybly, for a perpetual remembraunce of hys passion, for christ sayth in the gospel, Do this in my remembraunce and S. paul expoundeth it thus. So ofte as ye eate of thys bread, and drynke of thys wyne, you shall shew y^• death of the lord, tyll he come. Thus we be taught, both of Iesus Christe, and S. Paul. That the bread, and the wyne, is set furthe to our eyes for a fygure, or a memorye of the lordes deathe, (That) as often as we shal receyue thys holy supper, of the lorde, it may put vs in remē braūce, in this tyme present, what Christ hathe done for vs in tymes paste, that we maye be made mynd full of hys paynefull death, & pas­sion, whyche he suffered for vs: & that we may be made also worthy partakers, of that godly commu­nion, [Page] by the whych we are delyue red frō death, and knowinge that after thys lyfe, we shall come to y^• vysyon or Christe, where we shall haue no neade of any soch instru­mentes, to put vs in remembraun ce any more, by any ext [...]r [...]ll syg­ne, what cor [...]st [...]the [...]o [...] for [...]s, for we lokyng of hym face to face, shal not be a [...]moni [...]ed by any out warde or iemporall thyng [...]s out onely to be fully certy [...]yed by the contemplacion of the truth it self and to geue glory [...] and prayse to the auctour of our helth▪ for euerNote▪ Now it is to be noted that y^• faith full receaueth not the thynge lo­ked vpon wyth our carnall eyes, in the mystery: of thys sacrament but that whych is beleued for the meate is spyrytuall, and the d [...]yn­ke is spirituall, and fead [...]th y^e sou le spiritually, and y^• g [...]ueth euerla stynge lyfe to the beleuers secret­l [...]e, as [...]e [...]a [...]youre saythe hym sel [...]e, [...]e spyryte is he that quycke neth. The [...]easshe profyteth no­thynge [...]h [...]n. vi▪ [Page] proffeteth nothyng. Here breuely haue I declared vnto you, y^e true vnderstanding of the most blessed sacrament, of the bodye & blood of christ, both by the mynd of christe hym selfe. S. Paul, the euāgelistes and the olde fathers, and holy doc tors, as here is recyted, and yf any wyll diligētly read the scriptures they shall fynde and clearly percea ue, that for the space of. L. ix. yea­res, al the doctors to affyrme this sacrament to be a mysterye, & ne­uer knew of thys transubstancia­tion of the bread and wyne, as the se deuelish dreamers dothe teache, therfore beleue them not, for they are blynd leaders of the blynde, so that the leader, & the folower, shal fal bothe into the pyt, And as it is mencyoned in the. i. of Sapience,Sapien i what a terrible sentence they shal geue agaynst thē selues, in the lat­ter daye of iudgement, in horrible fear, shal they confesse openly befo re the hyghe iudge Iesu Christ, to whom is generall power bothe in heauen, and earthe, that all hathe bene dampnable follyshenes, that they haue gone aboute, that they [Page] haue erred from the truth, & haue bene wilfully ignoraunt, and that they haue tyred thē selues, in thee waye of wyckednes & destruction and so forthe. Thus these vngod­ly teachers, of theyr own dreames shal why she the great mountayns to ouer whelme thē, in that dread­full daye, therfore heare what S.galathi. i. Paul sayth. Thoughe we our sel­ues, or an angel from heauē, prea­che any other Gospell, vnto you, then that wee haue preached vnto you, hold him accursed: Now hath paule preached vnto you as ye ha­ue harde, (and we) sayth he (y^t is) all those whych hath preached the same gospel. But these lordly lub­bers, as glorious glottones, haue preached vnto you, (and do) The Gospell of theyr father the Anti­christ of Rome, that is a great tab bel, of ceremonies as rynging, syn ging, knelyng / kyssyng / mocking mowing / lyenge / and sellinge the holy sacramentes / as it is wryttē none may sel or bye / but he haue y^• apoc. xiii. marke of the beast▪ these be the ly­cherouse locustes / of Egypte, thee vpholders of Sodome & Gomor / [Page] The popes owne cattell [...], tokened wyth hys owne marke, I cannot terme them as they oughte to be, do you consyded that ye [...] notwith standing, the word of god is now so p [...]y [...]en [...]yrly & symply caught as thākes be vnto the lyuyng god and our yong Dauid & your grace it now is. And that it hath pleased the Kynges Maiestye, and his ho norable councel to set it fourth ac cordynglye, and specially in thys hyghe mystery of the supper of the Lorde, wherof we symple soules, haue longe bene robbed of th [...]ne part of that holy sacramente, that nowe it shulde be restored vnto vs hole, and not thee priestes, to eate by the hole thē selues, as they yet dayly do contrary vnto the word of god, and the Kynges godly pro ceadinges, & in as moche as in thē lyeth, dothe not onelye seduce the people styll, to folow ther maskīg masse, whych was not knowen in the church of the faythfull (as Be da sayth) whych was four scoore & x. yeares after y^e death of Gregory thē such masking was not knowē [Page] tyll monckerye of benedictes rule came in, and than began pryuate masses, a scripture of the popes in uentyon, an vnwrytten very [...]ye: whych they wold make vs to bele ue, as an article of our fayth, But heare what christ sayth, Serche y^e scriptures for they beare wytnes of me, and S. Peter saythe also, al the Prophetes do wytnesse wythe hym, that God forgeueth all thee synnes of them, which beleue and put theyr confydēce in christ And now to make an ende, I wyll resy te two faythful witnesses, against thys deuelysshe cauillatyon, that these fals prophetes teache y^• peo­ple concerninge thys mystery, afo re spoken of, as vpō all other ther dampnable doctryne whych they grounde vpon mane tradycions, whych S. Peter and S. Paule cō futeth. Peter in hys fyrste Epyst­le, [...]aileth soche blasphemers, as do ymagyne a newe worde of god besydes that whyche is wrytten, and he calleth them lying prophe­tes, whych teache any thyng con­trarye to thys propheticall and [Page] Apostolicall prophecy / and a rule wherby we shuld auoyd all maner of lyes / and to haue a special eye vnto the candel whych is y^e word of the propheticall scripture whi­che dryueth oute and banesheth a­waye / al darkenes and lyes of the deuell and hys Doctours / these be hys woordes. I wryte vnto you thys secōd pystle / to pryck you vp & to quyckene youre hartes / that ye myght remember the woordes whych haue bene tolde you before by the holy prophetes / and also y^• wordes of our message / and com­maundemente whyche be the apo­stles of the lorde our sauyour / for ye muste knowe / that in the latter dayes, ther shal com mockers, thei shal bryng in sayth he) perniciou­se and dampnable sectes. And now S. paul saith they shal speake lyes in hypocrysy / vnder the colloure and pretence of holynes / forbyd­dyng to mary / & to absteyne from meates whych god hathe created / to be receyued of the faithful with thankes geuing / and they shal de­ny the lorde sayth he whych hath bought and redemed thē, and thee [Page] way of the truth shal they sclaun­der, & reuyle, do not oure papistes euen so now a dayes, Let all men that knowe God iudge, and they shall fynde both theyr doctryne, & lyuing, lyke as these two holy A­postles hath paynted thē vnto the worlde, I could haue declared ma ny thynges more of the sayeng of these Apostles, to haue bene more circumspecte of these dampnable bypers, whych were superfluus. but the whole world hathe than­ked be God, receaued knowledge by the word of God, to know thē, and to beware of theyr leuen, and here wyth S. Paule, I commytte you vnto the word of grace whych is able to edyfye you, & to geue you an inheritaūce wyth all thē that be san­ctyfyed