Answer to the Devilish Detection of the Bishop of Winchester, Treatise · Part 15
❧ Of the name breade.
VVHer you ſaie that we dallie with this worde breade, and would in the meane tyme, your ſelfe proue that it is no bread: we dare (becauſe Paule calleth it bread) take any chriſtiā herte …. Corh. xxi.to iudge, who doeth more dallie and trifell. Wil you reaſon in like maner of the cup, and ſaie, that becauſe in the ſame place he calleth it, this cup: it is not the cup? And a little after he calleth it that cuppe and that breade: ſhall they nowe continue in theyr owne kynde ſtyll?
What if he calle it breade wythout any addicion, as he doeth in the ſame Chapiter? Ieſus Math. xvii.the ſame nyght he was betrayed: toke the breade. And the Euangeliſtes do name it breade wythout any addicion. ſhall it yet Marke. xiiii. Luc. xxii.be breade? You hauehave your▪ excuſe in redineſſe
It is not conſecrated for ſo the. Well goe to foxes, ſeeke your holes. What is it in the breakeinge? is it not then▪ conſecrated? You can not for verie ſhame denie that. Heare what Paule ſayeth without addicion of this or that. Panis quē frangimus nonne cōmunicatio i. Corh. x.corporis Chriſti eſt? The bread that we breake, is it not the partakeinge of the bodye of Chriſte? Wyll you nowe ſtriue for the breade as you dyd for the Lorde? ſcrape it Wyncheſter would hauehave vsus ſaye our lorde and not the Lorde.out thē, if you luſt. You are to much a wrāng lynge ſophiſte. Wyl you heare no ſcriptures that you maye ſeke ſome ſtarteynge holes? we are one bread and one bodie (ſaith Paule) ſo many as are partakers of one breade. Againe, he was knowne vntounto them in the breakeinge of breade. They did continue in the Luc. xxiiii. Act. ii.doctrine of the Apoſtles, in feloweſhipe and breakeing of breade. Dailie continuing with one accorde in the temple, and brake breade frome houſe to houſe.
But lo nowe the wylie foxe, ſtealeeth into agreate borough where he waloweth at wyll, ſayeynge that it beareth the name of breade, becauſe it was ſo before the chaung.
But if a man kepe hym frome takeynge ayre at thys chaunge: he wylbe ſmothered and kylled in hys hole. For thys chaunge is it that ſuccoureth the foxes. They are ſo wylye, ſubtyle and chaungeable: that they can chaunge the thynge that they doe but once breath vponupon. Proue it once to be chaunged: and I wyll neuer call it breade agayne.
But becauſe you can proue no chaunge: Nothing like Exod. iiii.your ſimilitude of the rodde of Moyſes (which was turned into a ſerpent & ſtrenght waye retorned to a rod agayne) is not lyke. For the ſame rodde was afterwarde declared (euer in the ſight of Pharao and al the Egiptians) to be the aduengeing rod of God wherby al the waters of Egipt were turned into bloude, and all the wonderfull plages wroughte, whiche are terrible vntounto vsus, vntounto thys day. Worthely therfore, was this called a rodde, for it was the chaſteſyng rodde of God, and alwayes returned into a rodde agayne, ſo often as Moyſes or Aaron dyd take it in their handes.
Nowe for that you bryng Iacob for your purpoſe, ther was no chaunge of ſubſtaunce in hym: for he was ſtyl Iacobbe, & his houſe was ſtyll called the houſe of Iacob through out all the prophetes, as wel as Iſrael.
Micheas ſayth. I am full of ſtrength to ſhewe the houſe of Iacob their wyckednes, and the houſe of Iſrael their ſinne. Agayne, ye rulers of the houſe of Iacob and ye iudges of the houſe of Iſraell.
You are far deceiued in the Etimologie and true ſignificacion of this worde Iſraell. For the name was geuen him not of ſeinge the Lorde, neither wyll the Hebrue word Iſraell ſerue therunto, but as is plainely declared in the text of Geneſis? it was becauſe he had ſtriued princely wyth God and with Gens. xxxii.men, and had preuailed: therfore was it ſayed vntounto hym. Thy name ſhalbe Iſraell that is to ſaye, one that hath myghtilye preuayled againſt God and mē, for this is the true The etimologie of this worde IſraelEtimologie of the worde Iſrael.
All your other exemples make for vsus, but that we wil not be tediouſe in appling them to oure purpoſe, becauſe the tyme is to little for your other mattier.