Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation, Part 2 · Division 1

Discussion of the Popish Doctrine of Transubstantiation · Part 2 · Division 1

p. 35Diuision I.

NOBLE Ladie, I finde your N. P.Diuine vtterly ignorant and vnacquainted with the Authors workes by him frequently cited.

For example, pag. 9. he tearmeth Cornelius Iansenius more then once a Iesuite: whereas the first leafe of his booke (if he had euer seene it) witnesseth him to hauehave beene a Bishop of Flaunders, and no Iesuite. Like herein to an other of his owne coate (for I guesse him to be a Minister, who to my selfe and other worthy persons confidently auerred Cardinal Bellarm. p. 36to hauehave beene an English man borne at Harr… on the Hi…; where there hath beene indeede an auncient familie of the Bellamies, not Bellarmines, as he foolishly conceiued.

Secondly, pag. 5. he citeth an authoritie out of Pope Gelasius written by a farre different Author of that name Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine mentioned together with his workes by Photius Bibliotheca sua Codice 102.

Thirdly, in his 2. page, on the false report of an other namelesse Author like to himselfe, ignorant and vnsincere in his assertions, he maketh Bishop Fisher to affirme the reali presence of Christs body in the Sacrament not to be gatherable out of any one word in Scripture, contrarie to Bishop Fishers, yea Luthers owne doctrine in innumerable places.

Fourthly, hauing traced him throughout his whole Treatise, I finde him to be a meere collector out of other Authors: and for his best Arguments be hath stolne Bellarmines obiections against our doctrine, craftily dissembling his full and solide solutions of them in those very places: which is the vsuall trade of such Protestant petie writers. His proofes are tedious, superficiall, and stuffed with impertinent allegations, maimedly and corruptly produced: with a very bad hand (which I suppose is his owne) he inserteth many notes wholy idle and impertinent to his purpose; as I hauehave in reading his papers particularly obserued: which is to me an euident signe, that he hoped his papers should neuer come to the view of other then Ladies and vnlearned pers… vnable … exam… them.

It is the vsuall manner of those that defend a bad T. G.cause, to leaue the matter, and fall foule on the aduerse party, and (like the crauen Cocke, that hauing aaforeign. Xenoph. in sympos. Et inde foreign. Aristoph. in …quitib.eaten garlicke, by his strong and stinking breath endeauoureth to driue him away from him, whom he is not able well to bicker with) by railing, re…iling and aboundance of bad language to seeke to beate off their aduersary, or by lying and out-facing to cry downe those that they deale with, when by euidence of truth and strength of Argument they are vnable to conuince them; hoping by such p. 37meanes to delude the simpler sort at least, that cannot so well discerne their shifts.

This as I hauehave heretofore by experience found to be the common practise of Popish companions; so this Defendant loath to degenerate from the kinde he commeth of, at the first dash beginneth with, charging the Diuine he dealeth with to be one vtterly ignorant, vnacquainted with the Authors workes that he citeth, a petty-writer, a meere collector, a false filcher, a foule corrupter, a superficiall disputer, and what not?

This is his charge: Let vsus heare how he prooueth it.

1. He tearmeth Iansenius, whom he citeth, more then once a Iesuite, when he is not. It is true indeede: I confesse, I doe twise so tearme him, and I tooke him to hauehave beene so: wherein if I were mistaken, the matter is not great. I hope the authoritie of a famous Bishop, and a great writer of speciall note among them, our of a worke of his written bbMagna eruditione, ac iudicio maturo Scriptum. Tho. Gozeus S. Theol. Profess. Louan. & lib. Visitat.with much learning and mature iudgement, as the Louaine professor acknowledgeth; and approoued ccCommuni doctorum virorū iudicio. Io. Molan. Cen…or Apostolicus & Regius.by the common iudgement of the learned among them, as the King of Spaines (to whom also it is dedicated) and the Popes Censurer of bookes testifieth, may well be deemed of as much weight as the word or worke, (if not of any, yet) of many a Iesuite at least.

As for the idle tale hee telleth of the Bellarmines and Bellamies, which a Minister forsooth should take the one for the other, and therupon affirme Card. Bellarmine to hauehave beene borne at Harrow on the Hill; it may well be thought to hauehave beene brought in for no other end (being so little to the purpose) but to let vsus vnderstand that hee is a man of some worth; for so much hee intimateth when he saith, it was averred to himselfe and other worthy persons. Hee doubteth (belike) that his worke would scarce make his worth knowne, if hee should not otherwise acquaint vsus with it. The thing it selfe is like enough to be but a meere fiction; and might easily be requited with the tale of the Frier, that ddMarnix Beehiue.tooke Messias for the p. 38Masse, and so would prooue out of the Gospell that Christ said Masse; or of the Priest eeHundred merry Talesthat tooke vnigeniti written short, for viginti, and so read to his people, Gods twenty sonnes; or of him ffPoggii facet.that bad the Epiphanie day, but could not tell whether it weere an hee or a she-Saint; or of him **H. Steph. apolog. for Herod. l. 1. c. 39.that bad Solin Cancro for an Holy-day, because he found it written in red letters; and with many moe the like, probable enough, if the learning of their lacke-Latin Priests be well weighed.

But, had I ever seene the first leafe of his booke, I might hauehave knowne him to be a Bishop of Flanders and no Iesuite. As if as oft as one either readeth or alleadgeth any Author, hee must needes turne alwayes to the title-page, to see what his style is: or as if Iansenius might not as well be Bishop of Gaunt, as Bellarmine a Cardinall, and (if I mistake not) Arch-bishop of Capua, and yet for all that a Iesuite. His proofe therefore of my being vnacquainted with this Author, (whom, I suppose, hee will finde mee better acquainted with then he would) is very silly and slight: and the exception such, as sheweth that hee wanted matter of moment to except against.

But I hope when this Bishop of Flanders booke commeth to be reprinted againe, they will take that course with him, (if they hauehave not leaft their old guise) that they hauehave done formerly with many others; to wipe out of him whatsoeuer in this kinde or any other, either maketh directly against them, or discouereth the weakenesse of such grounds as they labour to build their grosse errors vponupon. Of which their false and fradulent dealing, it shal not be amisse to insert one Example by the way; the rather, because it concerneth the point here debated. Whereas therefore in the time of Carolus Calvus King of France and Emperour, aboue 800. yeeres since, there was ggNon paru… schis…ate diuidūtur, quide mysterio corporis sanguinisque Christi non eadem sentientes eloquuntur. Bertram praefat. ad Carol. Imper.much disputation and dissension in the Church about the doctrine of the Sacrament, one Bertram a man hhVir in diuinis Scripturis valdè peritus, & in literis disciplinarum secularium egregiè doctus; nec minus vi…â quàm doctrinâ in signis. Trithem. in Catalog.of great p. 39note in those times both for life and learning, willed by the Emperour to declare his iudgement therein, wrote a learned discourse thereof, wherein hee confimeth by the testimonies of Augustine, Ambrose, and others of the Ancients, the very same that we now hold: and among other things affirmeth that iiAppar…t quod multâ inter se differentiâ separatur; quantum est inter pignus, & eam rem pro qua pignus traditur; inter imaginem, & rem cuiu… est imago; inter speciem, & veritatem. Bertrā. de corp. & sang. Dom. quaest. 2.there is as great difference between Christs bodie that was borne of the Virgin Mary, and that which is dayly receiued with the month in the Sacrament, as there is betweene the pledge, and that for which the pledge is giuen, betweene the image, and that whereof it is an image, and betweene the type and the truth. Now the Popish purgers authorised to maine and mangle Authors, as well old as new, cum privilegio, without controll, lighting among others on this booke of Bertrams, vse these wordes of it, and of their owne confessed courses in this kinde. kkIndex Expurgat. Belgic. in tit. B.Albeit (say they) we make no great reckoning of this booke, and therefore should not greatly care if it were vtterly lost, and were no where to be had; (I cannot blame them if they wish it, and many other the like, burnt and abolished) yet seeing that the booke hath beene oft printed, and reprinted, hath beene read of very many, is knowne commonly by the name of a booke forbidden, and the Heretiques by diuerse Catalogues of Bookes prohibited, are sure there is such an one, &c. And besides, since that in other old catholique writers we beare with very many errors, wee extenuate, wee excuse them, llExcogitato commento persaepe negamus, & commodum eis sensum affingimus.with some devised shift or other we very often times deny them, and by faining giuegive them some commodio as sense, (such they meane as may serue their owne turnes) when in disputations with our Adversaries they are obiected vntounto vsus. (Marke, I pray you, the common dealing of these men in disputation, not charged on them by vsus, but confessed by themselues; and then iudge you what fidelity or sincerity in cyting of Authors, is to bee expected at their hands.) We see not, why Bertram should not finde the like fauour with vsus: The rather, mmNe haeretici ogganniant, nos antiquitatem pro ipsis sacientē ex…ere & prohibe….L…st the Heretiques should be snarling at vsus, and telling vsus that we burne vp and prohibite antiquitie, when it maketh for them against vsus. p. 40Which, you see, in this Author they would faine, if either they could, or durst do it. So at length they resol… to doe Bertram the fauour to mangle and misuse his whole booke, and hauing put in, and put out what they list themselues, to let him to passe, taught to speake for them now, that spake all against them before. I may well say heere, as Arnobius an ancient Father, sometime said; nnIntercipere scripta, & publicam velle submergere lectionē, non est Deos defendere, sed veritatis testificationem timere. Arnob. contr. gent. lib. 3.To intercept writings, and seeke to suppresse things published, what is it but to be afraid of hauing the truth told and testified?

2. From the first idle Exception I passe to a second, as false, as the former frivolous. Hee citeth, saith hee, an authority out of Pope Gelasius, written by a farre different Author of that name, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine. Had not meere malice and a minde bent to cavill, either blinded this wrangler, or made him wilfully to winke, hee might easily hauehave seene (that which he could not also be ignorant of) in my very quotation, that the style and …itle I giuegive him, is no other then is commonly giuen him by Popish writers, as among others by ooGelasii Episcopi Romani, &c. Biblioth. Patrū à Margar. la Bigne 2. edit. Paris. 1589. tom. 4. Et ib. in margine, Gelasius 1. Afer. anno Dom. 564.Margarinus la Bigne, and those with him (besides many ppSic enim in edit. Basil. 1528 & Tigur. 15…1.others) that gathered together the workes of the ancient Fathers, in the fourth T…me of their great Library sundry times printed, which … note there also in the Margine where I cite him. So that it is a meere false and friu…us cauill to taxe me for cyring Gelasius by … title that hee knew well to be giuen him, (yea and that truly too, as anone shall euidently be …ed) by those of their owne side that hauehave at sundry times set him out by no other name but of G…lasius Pope or Bishop of Rome.

But how doth this trister prooue that he was not Bishop of Rome? Forsooth, because Photius maketh mention of one Gelasius Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, that wrote against the Heretikes called Anomoei. The place wringeth them, and therefore they would faine shift off the Author, from being Bishop of Rome at least. And B…llarmine, qqBellar. de Euchar. lib. 2. cap. 27. Quā quā de Rom. Pont. l. 4. c. 10. haesitantius idem, vel Gennadii vel Gelasii Caesariensis.he telleth vsus that it was one Gelasi… a Bishop p. 41of Caesarea, of whom Iereme maketh mention. But Baronius confuteth Bellarmine; (here is Cardinal against Cardinall:) and rrBaron. … nal. tom. 6. anno 496. Opus illud Gelasio Palestino nullo modo potest asscribi.saith, it cannot be that Gelasius: their times are too farre asunder: both hee was dead and his next successor, before that businesse was on foot, that he dealeth in. Thus they sticke not to make men write bookes after they are dead, and laid vp in their graues. But who is hee then, saith Baronius? for Bishop of Rome hee must not be. Hee is ssBaron. ibid. Sed & Greg. de Valent. de Transsub. l. …. c. 7. & C…. loc. com. l▪ …. c. 8.that Gelasius (saith hee) that Photius maketh mention of: and this Defendant saith the same. Gennadius and diuers other, telleth vsus that Gelasius of the City of Rome Bishop, wrote against the Eutychians and Nestorians. And that is the very title of the book… that I cite. Now Photius telleth vsus of another Gelasius Bishop of Caesarea, that wrote against the Anomaeans. Therefore saith Baronius, and from him this Defendant, the one must needs bee the other. As if two Bishops of the same name could not write bookes against Heretiques, but they must needs be by and by the same. But obserue s Ge…nad. in Catalog. Et cum eodem consentiunt Anastasius, Platina, P…ilip. Bergom. Trithem. & alii.I pray you, how hansomely these things hang together. The ttAthanas▪ … mine contra Anomaeos d… alog. 2. quos Maximo ttibui restatur▪ Schottus ad. Photium. Chrys. contr. Ancmaeos. hom. 2. Aug. de haeres. c. 54 dissimilem per omnia p…i asserentes filium. Socrat. hist. Eccles. l. 2. c. 45. & Sozom, hist l. 4. c. 29. foreign.Sir 50:2Anomaeans were Arrians and Aetians, so called, because they held the Sonne to bee vnlike the Father. The ^u Eutychians heretiques, that held that Christs humanity was turned into, or swallowed vp of his deitie. And now marke how these men reason; Gelasius of Caesarea (saith Photius) writ against those that oppugned Christs diuinitie: and this Gelasius writeth against those that tooke away his humanity: this and the other therefore must needs be all one. Rather I reason on this manner: Gennadius reporteth that G…lasius Bishop of Rome writ against Eutyches and Nestorius: so doth this whom I cite; and all Editions of him, so stile him: this Gel…sius therefore was Bishop of Rome. And how doth this now proue, that p. 42v Theod. haeres. fabul. l. 4. Enagr. hist. l. 2. c. 16. Thedor. Rhaet. de hae…l. Isidor. Orig. l. 8. c. 5. Humanem naturam à diuina absorptam.I cite Authors, whose workes I am altogether vnacquainted with, when the worke I cite in their owne printed Editions hath no other title, then that I giuegive it?

But for the further and fuller cleering of the truth in this point, and the vindicating of this piece of Antiquity to his right Author: Besides that Phetius flatlyaffirmeth that that Gelasius that wrote against the Anomaei, is the same with that Gelasius whom they would hauehave this Author to be, to wit, hee that wrote of the Nicene Councell, but aaforeign. Pho…. bibliot. cod. 89. Et. ibid. de altero. illo; foreign &c.one that both for stile and learning goeth farre beyond him: Nor is the frame of this Authors discourse such as hee describeth his to hauehave beene in that worke, to wit, bbforeign. ibid cod 102fastidiously and childishly, or youthfully at least, full of Logicke rules and tearmes, for which himselfe maketh an Apologie; which this neither doth, nor (writing in a farre other straine) needed to doe: As also that in this very worke, the Author intimateth himselfe to hauehave beene Bishop of Rome, or (as he speaketh) of ddforeign. ibid.the Apostolike Sea: Nor is it needfull that with eeCum sedem Apostolicam vestra dilectio vnanimiter teneat, constāter praedicet, sapienter defendat, &c.Melchior Canu… we turne sedem into fidem, as (to shift off this Author) he would there do: Besides all this, I say, Eulgentius an African Bishop who liued together in the same time with Pope Gelasius, and was his owne Countriman, doth (as ffFulgentius qui codem …mpore vixit, &c. Gelas… Papae absque ulla dubitatione adscrihit. Henr. Spondan. epi…om. Baron. not. ad ann. 496.Hen…y Spondan the Popes Protonotary himselfe informeth vsus) ggBeatae memoriae Papa Gelasius. Fulgent. ad Ferrand. respons. 2.ascribe this work to Pope Gelasius, cyting out of it certaine passages; as hhIoan Pp. 2. non 1. in epist. contr. …utych. in Biblioth. Pa…r. …om. 4. edit. 2.Iohn the second, who not long after succeded this Gelasius in the same sea, also doth. That which putteth this truth so farre out of all doubt, that Spondan by such euidence vndeniable conuinced, is enforced to iiSpondan. vbi sup.controll Cardinall Baronius and those other of their owne writers therein. It is cleere therefore that this Gelasius was not Bishop of C…sare…, as this Defendant would hauehave him; but Bishop of Rome, as I alleadge him, aboue a thousand yeeres since, and both held and taught then the same doctrine of the sacrament of the E…ch…rist, that we doe at this day.

p. 43But let him giuegive me leaue here to tell him of a tricke too common with him and those of his coate; to wit, as to coine and forge Fathers, such as neuer were, not a few; so to cite oft in their discourses in matters of cōtrouersie Authors and writings, either iustly suspected, or evidently spurious and counterfeit. In which kinde this Defendant is more then once or twice faulty. To omit Cyril of Ierusalem his Catecheticall Sermons, which euen uuMarc. Vd. ser. Catalog. Codic. MS. apud Posseuin. Quem Cytillum esse puto.Popish writers themselues dare not confidently auow; and diuerse passages in them bewray to be of a later date, then that Cyril whom they are fathered on. As also his citing of the very selfe same Author sometime as xxAug. de verb. dom. serm. 28.Augustine, and sometime as yyAmbr. de sacram. lib. 5 cap. 4.Ambrose, which it may wel be was neither, and may the rather bee so deemed euen for this cause, because hee beareth the name of both; which both sure he could not be: He citeth these confessed counterfeits as authenticall Authors;

1. Di…nysius Areopagita, branded long since in Photius his time, aaVt pseude…igrapha videntur à Ph…ti… n…tari. Posseui… ▪ i… apparat.as Posseuine confesseth, for a counterfeit; bbCaietan … Act. 17.Acts 17doubted of by C…ietan; cc… schol▪ ad …ieron▪ de Scrip. Eccl… & in decla… a… Paris. cens.denied by Grocinus; ddValla in Act. 17. & Erasm. praefat. ad paraphras. in 1 Cor.Acts 17derided by Ualla and diuerse others.

2. The passion of S. Andrew pretended to be written by the Ministers of Ach…ia: which D^r. White (not ours but theirs) writing of this very Argument, confesseth to be eeSed sit apo…, …t est abs que controue…ia, … Quod diuus Andreas locutus ad Patres Memoratur, &c. Wh… diacos. M….without controuersie an Apocryphall storie: and containeth manifest vntruth, if Bellarmine himselfe may bee beleeued.

3. Cyprian de cardinalibus Christi operibus; which ffFalsò tribuitur Cypriano. Posseuin. in apparat.Posseuine, ggNon esse stylus arguit. Erasm. not. in ….Erasmus, hhCypriani. non est, Po. … de Commun. sub vtr. spec.Hesselius, and many other P…pish writers flatly deny to be Cypriaus, yea or any one iiAu… ▪ ris Cypriano, imò & Augustino posterioris. Beliarm. de am…. grat. l. 6. c. 2. … ▪ …or ignoratur. Bellar. de script. Eccles.n…ere Cyprians time.

4. Eusibius Emissenus his Homelies; which whose they p. 44are, saith Bellarmine, is not knowne; llBaron. annal. tom. 6.Baro…i…s con…th to hauehave beene foolishly set out vnderunder his name; and mmSixt. Senēs. bibloth. l. 4.Six… S…sis (besides many others) affirmeth to hauehave bee…e patched together by some Latine Author out of other mens writings, whereas E…sebi…s was a Greeke.

I adde onelyonly what Bellarmine saith of the most of these Auth…rs together. Di…nysius his booke (saith hee) Eusebius his Homilies, and Cyprians Sermons of Christs Cardinall workes, nnApud nonnullos dubiae su…, sc…ipturae, vel etiam supposi…. Bellar. de saerā. confi…. l. 2. c. 7.are with some counted doubtfull, yea or counterfait writings: … nor is it certainē whether they bee theirs, whose names they beare. Yea of some of them hee o Licet non sit certum an sint illi quorū no…ina praeferunt. Ibid.saith else-where, that ppReuera …, s…, Emiss… non po…u…e ess… … Bellrr. in recogni… & d… Euchar. l. 2. c. 30.it is certaine qqReuera no… est Cyp…. Idem de confirm. l. 2. …. 7. & de E…ha…. l. …. c. 13…they are not. And yet are these of the principall Authors that this Defendant to vphold his tortering fabrique produceth; albeit the things alledged out of them doe not greatly stand him in steed, as shall appeare when wee come at them. But such counterfeit feips doe they commonly tender vsus, and will needs enforce vsus to accept them for curr…nt …; when they know that their owne Criticks hauehave marked and bored them for such, neither will they passe in payment among themselues.

§ 3. His third Exception is that hee citeth a namelesse Author, ignorant and vnsincere, like himselfe; who m…keth Bishop Fisher affirme the reall presence of Christs bodie in the Sacrament not to be gatherable out of any word in Scripture. True it is, I say, that I finde Bishop Fisher all…adged to affirme, that there is no one word in the Gospell, from which the true presence of Christs flesh and blood in their M…sse may be proued. Which because I had not the … my selfe, nor knew where to hauehave it, I thus only alledge. And now, to put the matter wholy out of suspence; that ignorant and vnsincere Author like my selfe, as … …rmeth him, who shall no longer be namelesse, is that right Re…erend Prelate, now Lord Bishop of Winchester, rrIn Respon…. …d Apolog. Card. Bellar. …. Praefat. monitor. Se…nis Princip. Iacobi Reg. cap. 1.in his elaborate worke against Bellarmines Apologi…; who (I doubt not) both had the booke by him there cited, and cited the wordes no otherwise then they are in the booke. No… (I p. 45thinke) is this Popish Doctor so extreamely brazen-faced (though they hauehave many of them in their browes too much of that mettall) that he dare challenge that M…rour of learning for an ignorant Author. I should esteeme it but to great a grace to be counted ignorant as he is.

§ 4. Fourthly, hauing traced him through his whole Treatise …e findeth him to be a meere collector out of other Authors, & to hauehave stol…e out of Bellar. his …bi…ctions, cōc…aling his answeres: and in a word all so poore & so weake, that it may seeme written onelyonly for Ladies and ideotes, vnable to examine. I say no more here in way of defence for my selfe but this onelyonly; that this should hauehave beene rather discouered by him in particular, then thus charged in generall, vnlesse he could in the prosecution of it hauehave better discharged himselfe then he hath done hitherto. The truth is; he himselfe is so much beholden to Bellarmine, that he is faine euer and anone to referre his Reader to seeke in him what he should say (if he thought it at least worth the saying) himselfe. As if it were a good proofe of what he auerreth, or a sufficient resutation of what he findeth obiected, to say, that Bellarmine hath largely prooued the one, or Bellarmine hath sufficiently answered the other. Which if he hauehave done either, he hath done more by much then he oft attempteth once to doe. And surely his manner of dealing, beside the slightnesse and slendernesse of his Answeres, with a wet finger (as we say) passing by the manifold allegations produced as well out of the Auncients, as out of their owne Authors, doth giuegive a shrewd suspition, that he thought this his writing would neuer be examined by any either learned or vnlearned, vnlesse they were such as wanted euen common sense, sufficient to discouer the absurditie of diuers passages therein.

To giuegive your Ladiship a taste of some of them before hand.

Absurd Positions, and Contradictions.

p. 461. He saith, that ssDiuis. 4. § 1.a Testament, as all learned know, may well signifie a Legacis.

2. He maketh ttIbid.our Sauiour to say, This my Blood is the Testament in my blood.

3. He saith, that uuIbid.Christs blood is offered in the Eucharist, vnbloodily, or not as blood.

4. He expoundeth a place of Theod…ret thus; * The x Ibid. §. 4.Sacramentall Signes, that is, the Accidents, retaine still the same Substance, that is, the same Accidents,

5. He saith that yyDiuis. 6. §. 3.Christs Body is in the Eucharist, but without bodily existence, that is, his body is there, but not as a body.

6. That zzIbid.it is there, and yet it followeth not that it is eaten, though that that is there be eaten.

7. He maintaineth aaIbid.a corporall eating of Christ in the Sacrament, and yet that he is not there corporally eaten.

8. He affirmeth that bbIbid. ad Arg. 2.all are not saued that beleeue in Christ, and so fe…de spiritually on Christ.

9. He saith that ccDiuis. 8. §. 1.the Sonne of God is contained in the bread that is ea…en in the E…ch…rist; whereas they dery any br… at … to be there.

10. He maintaineth that ddIbid. §. 3.a thing may truly be said to be turned … that that commeth onelyonly in the place of it.

11. He affirmeth that eeDiuis. 9. §. 1.one and the selfe same thing may ….

12 That ffDiuis. 11. §. 4.Christs bodie in the Sacrament hath no exte… bignesse a… ….

13. He affirmeth ggDiuis. 14. §. 1.Christs very bodie to be present in the Sacrament but in a spirituall manner, or as a Spirit; and therefore can no more there be broken, then Angels wounded i…b…di…s …ffirmed, or then his De… on the Crosse; and that nothing but acc…nts are broken in the Euch…rist.

14. That hhIbid. §. 3.Christs hiding himselfe in the Sacr…ent is … ex…ion of him.

15. He saith, that iiDiuis. 14. §. 3.Christ is not touched in the Sacrament, and yet we touch him: that he in…th … there, and yet he cannot be touched of vsus.

p. 4716. He saith, that kkIbid. §. 1.Christs body is not abused, though mice and Rats eate it.

17. That llIbid. §. 4.their Masse is the very selfe same with Christs Sacrifice on the Crosse, and yet it is vnbloodie.

18. He maketh mmIbid. §. 8.Christ himselfe a memoriall of himselfe.

Crosse and wilfull falshoods and falsifications.

1. That nnDiuis. 4. §. 2.I affirme Sacraments to be nothing but bare Signes and Types: and that, ooDiuis. 14. §. 8.we make the Sacrament but a bare Memoriall of Christ.

2. ppDiuis. 35. §. 1.That I affirme them to bee nothing but bare bread and wine.

3. That qqIbid. §. 2.I affirme Caietane, Bellarmine and Gratian to say the same.

4. That rrDiuis. 6. §. 2.Iustine Martyr describeth the Celebration of the Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Eucharist iust as they now celebrate it.

5. That ssDiuis. 13. §. 1.the Fathers affirme that I…das receiued Christs naturall body.

6. That ssDiuis. 14. §. 5.all Christians in the World celebrate as, they doe.

7. That ttIbid. §. 7.Augustine and all the auncient Fathers vnderstand Christs words Iohn 6. literally, and not figuratiuely.

8. That uuIbid. §. 8.all the Fathers expound those words property, This is my bodie.

9. That xxIbid.Christ did not say of the Eucharist Cup, I will drinke no more of this fruit of the vine.

10. That yyIbi. §. 11.the Centurists blame all the Fathers almost of Constantines time vniuersally for teaching Transubstantiation, and adoration of the Sacrament.

11. That zzIbid. §. 12.the auncient Britens held the same.

12. That **Diuis. 8. §. 1.Origen, Basil, Ierome, and Augustine make the sinne of such as come vnworthily to the Sacrament equall with the sinne of those that betraied and kild Christ.

But passe we from his Preamble to the Worke it selfe.