¶ A brief confutation of this most detestable, & Anabaptistical opinion, that Christ did not take his flesh of the blessed virgin Mary nor any corporal substance of her body. For the main tenance whereof Ihone Bucher otherwise called Ihone of Kent most obstinately suffered and was burned in Smythfyelde, the ii day of May.  
☞ Anno domini▪ M. D. L.  
☞ Cum privilegio ad Imprimendum solum.   


SO subtle is sathan, our Enemy Immortal,  
When he is transformed into an angel of light  
He captivates our senses, so fond and fantastical  
That we doubt not to dame the day to be night. 
Histori. Ecclesi. Lib. iiii. ca xiiii   
By Such lying spirits seduced is the sight.  
And with pernicious opinions amazed in a mist  
Ace all they that believe not, the incarnation of Christ.   

¶ In the primative church, within forty years,  
After Christ's asention, this darnel begun,  
To springe up by Martion, his complices and fears  
Whom Policarpus called, the devils eldest son.  
The anabaptists hold herein, an erroneous opinion  
So did the wayward Virago, that would not repent  
The devils Eldest daughter, which lately was brent.   

¶ Beware of such errors, and reverently read  
God's word with humility, and modesty▪ of mind,  
give faith to the same, and stick to thy Crede  
For the devil now bestirs him, and doth but his kind  
To hinder the Gospel, many means doth he find.  
He rages and ranges, the wild world over  
He makes many lose with short, and some with over.   

¶ This the scripture is wrested, and all to be rack  
Of Such as with spirits of error are led  
Thassistance of God, and his meek spirit is lact  
To teach them the true sense, when his word is red  
It serves not to maintain fond toys in their head. 
three 〈…〉 nineteen.   
And where the proud spirit is halt, and void of god's fear.  
Non ibidem dominus. The Lord is not There.   

☞ God promised to Eve, that the seed of a woman 
Gen. 〈…〉   
Should tread down the head of the subtle serpent,  
This Promise was fully accomplished than  
When Christ became man and made the atonement.  
This seed was of his mother▪ and not from heaven sent 
●at●. ●.   
How can it be called the seed of a woman truly  
Which taketh no substance, nor part of her body?   

To Abraham and jacob, the same seed was promised  
The book of genesis, is plain and manifest:  
In thy seed, shall all the people of the world be blessed  
Not brought from above, but borne to perform the behest  
Was Christ of his mother, and not from heaven sent  
To this sense and meaning thy wits thou incline,  
And mark well what is meant by this pronoun thine   

How could it be their seed, which take not their substance  
But came down from heaven, and was not of their kind?  
The scripture. Containeth no such repugnance  
Who shallbe able by the same, to prove or to find  
To warrant Christ's humanyty, or believe it in his mind?  
If ye make it uncertain, of whom he did take it  
It appeareth by this opinion the devil is awaked.   

☞ God promised to raise up the same seed to david  
Of the fruit of his belly to sit on his seat.  
In the second of Samuel and the seventh ye may have it  
God is full Just and did not forget  
To conquer the devil and his devise to difeate,  
To vanquish his judgement and put away sin,  
Christ was this seed borne of his mother the virgin.   

Isaiah the prophet confirmed the same  
A virgin shall conceive and bring forth a child,  
With this the Gospel of matthew doth frame  
The fruit did grow in the womb undefiled  
And the mother waxed great, nature was begild  
This came not by fortune or casual chance  
That Christ took of his mother his corporal substance.   

☞ From the rote of jesse proceed shall a bud,  
And a flower of this rote, for so the prophet says.  
This bud was mary, of whose flesh and blood,  
Came Christ the flower, my faith shallbe always  
The fruit of her womb which never decays,  
And not as water which runs to a conduit,  
And passes thorough a pipe, as the Devil now hath found it.   

¶ To conceive and bear a child what other thing is mente,  
Than the mother to her child to give and participate,  
As the tree to the fruit? for even so did this parent,  
Of her body with this child communicate.  
Nourished him in her womb where he was incorporate.  
And not as tayne comes from heaven as Martian spoke.  
Which is as true as an orange springs of an oak.   

matthew describing the Lineal dessente  
In his genealogy, thus he writs of mary  
Of whom is borne Christ, learn what he meant  
By this term of, for he doth not say by  
Whom, or through whom: the holy ghost cannot lie.  
Believe than god's word though the devil be neverso loath  
And let thy will and thy wit gave place to the troth   

☞ As touching the flesh Christ was borne of David's seed,  
And when the time was performed, God than did send  
His son borne of a woman, let this be the Crede,  
And forget not the ave, with what words it doth end  
Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, pray to god he may defend  
The, from this error, and so from all other,  
That thou may believe, Christ took flesh of his mother.   

☞ But if froward fondness, have so wedded the to thy will,  
Both pivyshe and perverse, that these will not persuade  
The fourth of the Galathians I will write in my bill  
The place is pithy, to turn the from that trade.  
But when the full time was come, God sent his son made  
Of a woman, the greek hath it made, written by Poll,  
And not bourn: believe this scripture, and damn not thy soul.   

☞ Time will not serve to utter the store  
Of sundry texts, which scripture contains  
Against this opinion, and most devilish error,  
Lately maintained by a sort of Idle brains.  
And all to seem singular but mark well their gains  
They are so sturdy and stout, they will be take for no starters  
They had rather go to the devil, like stinking martyrs.   

☞ Scripture disdains not, to call Christ the son 
●●he. i 〈…〉. two.   
Of mary his mother, in Luke and in matthew,  
But their hearts are so hardened they will not be won  
They make a tush at a text, be it never so true.  
They will believe Paul no more, than a turk or a jew,  
To allege them scriptures, it greatly skilleth not  
There is none so blind as they that can see, and will not.   

☞ This doubt were discussed if they understood  
And would read and believe, the second to the hebrews,  
Forasmuch as the children were partakers of flesh and blood,  
He also himself likewise did not Refuse  
But took part with them, whereby he subduse  
Through death the devil, our mortal adversary  
Where had Christ his flesh, but of his mother Mary?   

☞ Christ took the seed of Abraham, he took it not of Angels  
So that be became like to his brethren in all things  
Sin only except, thus plainly Paul tells,  
Where came he by this flesh, which amongst us he brings?  
Had he feathers as well as flesh, and came down with wings?  
Christ came to be a mediator, it was requisite that he  
Should be partaker of the godhead, and of our humanity.   

Christ preached the word, and sowed forth good sedes,  
The Apostles travailed, and took great pains,  
But Belsebub bestirred him, and up came the weeds  
Which shortly sprung up in fantastical brains.  
Such devilish deceivers the devil entertains.  
Many entered in john's time which would not confess:  
That our saviour jesus Christ was come in the flesh.   

☞ It seemed most meet to gods high providence  
And also most necessary for our redemption,  
That where the first man in our nature committed disobedience.  
The second Man Christ should make satisfaction.  
Repair and recompense in the same nature and parson  
And pay the pain of sin this was not omitted  
In the flesh of man wherein it was committed.   

☞ How standeth to the Corinthyans' Paul's disputation  
If Christ had not his nature common with us?  
In whom now risen Paul proveth an universal resurrection  
It were easy to reply against the same thus:  
If it might: be alleged (as it cannot) that jesus  
Brought down from heaven an heavenly body  
In to the womb of the virgin Mary.   

☞ What marvel is it, if an heavenly substance,  
Be utterly void and exempt from corruption  
It cannot well follow there must be variance,  
That our bodies subject to putrefaction,  
Should rise up again without corrpution  
That we doubt not hereof let us believe sure  
That Christ took part with us in our nature.   

☞ Esay the Prophet said he was made Emanuel,  
The word sounds and signifieth God is with us,  
How it should be other wise, I cannot tell.  
But I am assured that david in the parson of jesus 
●●alme   
Read the xxii Psal. where he this doubt doth dyscus  
Thou took me from my mother's womb to perform the behests  
Thou wast my hope when I hnaged upon my mother's breasts.   

☞ Let us pray unto god long to maintain and defend  
The state of this realm and gods true religion,  
Let us also give thanks to god which hath send  
Us a king to all princes a precedent and patron, 
〈…〉   
A counsel most catholic for a christian congregation.  
To surcease all sedition to punish false teachers  
And to stablish true doctrine god send us good preachers.   ☞ By me Edmon Beck.  

(?) Imprinted at London by john day dwelling over Aldersgate, and William Setes dwelling in Peter College.