¶ A spiritual purgation sent unto all them that labour of Luther's Error, as touching the bodily presence of Christ our saviour in the Sacrament, and to all them that have espied the liberty of the gospel as touching their flesh, yet seek not the liberty to make free their spirit from this afore said error: Ihon. xviii.  ¶ Every one that is of truth heareth my voice. 
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To the right worshipful and godly Knight, Sir Thomas wyat, thee Auctor hereof wysshet health & increase of grace to perfection in christ our Lord. Amen.  
FOr as much as the accostumable use of this our realm after the long absens of our friends returned into their native country, we seemed than with gifts and presents the only signs and tokens of their affection towards them, right worship full knight. I unable to be a friend, yet of like affection will, and heart, as friends are, have addressed this poor and rude present to welcome you with all, which coveteth not fame or estimation that commonly telleth the minds of men, but that thing only, whom I know you to be to your power, a defender & maintainer namely the glory of god & truth of his most sacred words the earnest of our salvation. Partly therefore moved by affection & duty for your benevolence towards me, and chiefly for the hearty zeal you bear unto the most sacred gospel of Christ jesus I am so bold to dedicate this, rude and unlearned, yet simple and true lucubration.  
Whom I heartily desire you to accept at my poor hands, not looking unto the gift, but unto the mind of thee giver, not forgetting the gentleness of Artaxerkices' King of Percia who refused not a draught of cold water at the hands of a poor labourer, considering his heart & not the baseness of the gift. Thus doing ye shall sharpen any desire hereafter, to visit you with such like, my poor exercises. Thus the lord god of might and everlasting power increase you with his grace and augment your knowledge in his glorious Gospel, AMEN.   

❧ The book to the Christian reader wissethe health grace & understanding in the Lord jesus.  

Like as the child doth sore lament  
And grievously take his mother's lake  
Even so am I not well content  
Mine author's hands thus to forsake   

And as the child cannot withstand  
His parent's will, but must obey  
So lieth it not within my hand  
My author will, to again say   

But the proverb in very deed  
This doubt briefly doth so discuss  
Needs shall y● must with haste & speed  
The matter in no case can refuse   

sins, them there is no remedy  
But forth to troge and haste to make  
To slack the time it were but folly  
In this that I have undertake.   

Help have I none me to uphold  
In this grievous perplexity  
But god which biddeth me be bold  
His truth to speak & verity   

Which is of force I know right well  
Me to maintain in every case  
Against the clergy & bishops cruel  
That thus gods word still do deface   

Whose tyranny & filthy pride  
Whose doubtful table Epicuriall  
Whose wealthiness and miters wide  
Whose gold rings most cynedicall   

Hath gods own word in such disdain  
And there at doth so swell and fret  
That it to colour they cannot refrain  
It casteth nought therein to sweat▪   

Their supposal & groose conjecture  
Not ruled by the testament  
They place in stead of the scripture  
Against the Lords spiritual intent.   

Which thing amongst the multitude  
As a Scorpion most cruel &   
Hath stung their hearts both blind & rude  
And drawn their faith from the gospel   

So that they now in places clatter  
Authority hath taught us so  
As for the gospel it maketh no matter  
Be it well, or be it woe   

Thus reckless in destreinte of mind  
They prefer men's blind fantasy  
Contrary to the nature & kind  
Of gods word and verity   

Wherefore as one that doth lament  
This sore disease and malady  
My brother's conscience to have rend  
And filled it with misery   

I have prepared thorough god's goodness  
For this unkind perturbation  
To the mind a gentle release  
Called a spiritual purgation   

Whose nature is to mudyfy  
And clean eschoure the conscience  
Of them whom luthers heresy  
Hath infect with the bodily presence   

Of Christ's body in the sacrament  
Under form of bread still to remain  
Clean contrary to the hole consent  
Of gods holy spirit & word certain   

Wherein they may as in a glass  
Their error try and take away  
Planting their hearts in liberty & grace  
Of our high god the assured stay   

Of all mankind that faithfully  
Upon him call with fear & trembling  
He is their lord & guide truly  
That will then lead in this good learning   

So that error & fantasy  
And greedy lucre apt to reach  
Shall not seduce them so fond  
Against the truth, this untruth to teach   

Wherefore good reader I the require  
In perusing me be patient  
sins that the prophet is my desire  
And god's glory is my hole intent   

Who hath me framed verily  
For this purpose an instrument  
Only to publish his glory  
And the truth of his holy Testament.   

And not to please the carnal eye  
Or satisfy the unkind lust  
Of our potent & mighty clergy  
Which are nothing but ashes & dust.   

That so stoutly in every place  
Defend their wicked tradition  
Dishonouring the spirit of grace  
To their most shameful confusion   

Except they do forsake their sin  
And repent of their wickedness  
Their ware to them will never win  
Any yote of the lords righteousness   

Which is our fort & saving health  
Our strong tower & treasury  
On whom dependeth all our wealth  
Exempting us from misery   

Under whose holy protection  
meekly to walk is a solas  
which leadeth to the blissful mansion  
Of endless joy & lasting grace   

Thorough christ our lord & saviour  
Our sacrifice and satisfaction  
Of Israel the only redeemer  
In whom the faithful have salvation   

To whom be praise glory & honour  
judgement dominion continually  
which raineth with the father of equal  
Fron age to age perpetually power   
AMEN   

Grace mercy and peace of conscience be unto all them from god the father, thorough our lord jesus Christ, which faithful ye without colour obey the truth in setting forth god's glory. Amen.  
BRother, for as much as our heavenvly father by the mouth of his true servant Paul, hath commanded all his adoptive heirs planted in him by y●p̄cious death & cross of our saviour christ, to exercise their tongue (whom God hath created to magnify his name) in God's holy & most sacred word, willing us the no other word should proceed out of our mouth, but that which shall edify when need is to give grace to thee hearers, & grieve not the holy spirit of god by whom we are sealed in the day of redemption: Our disobedience can not 
Ephe, iiii,  be hid from the righteous judge, which weigheth the thoughts, & searcheth the reins of man's heart, if we which covet this fellowship & society of the eternal testament of god, go about not only to burden weaklings with errors damnable, but also to grieve the holy spirit of god thorough our vain dreams or imaginations, believing creatures before the creator, wherefore good brethren diligently mark you my words and not mine, but the words of the living god, which are not sent to you at this time for rebuke rebuke or occasion (God I take to witness) but for love, that you should not be partakers with the hypocrites whose portion is 
Apoc, xxli  laid up in the lake of hell, burning with fire and brimstone, but for this cause they are sent unto you assuredly, the like as you which intend to leave in gods fear have sought a redemye for the imperfection of the flesh, & frail nature of god's word, if ye have learned to satisfy it according to his will without sin: even so to help your weak judgements, and your unperfight spirit (as touching the sacrament of the blessed body & blood of Christ our saviour, you may repair unto his word of him seeking & praying with the prophet, that he will establish your judgements in his truth & make your paths save from wicked men, that they overthrow them not. For when ye sought a phecision to ease your sick flesh, & to discharged you of a careful burden & painful yoke, that a law papistical had laid upon your neck, you counseled not thee children of the world were they never so famous, no not marten Luther, whom to be nothing else, of themself, but vanity & lies the prophet beareth you witness saying. Man is upon the waughtes lighter than vanity itself. And in another place. All men are liars, but you counseled him whom you knew could not lie, because it is truth itself, & condemneth liars saying. I will destroy all them 
Psalm. v  that speak lies, & therefore you were sure that the liberty which ye now possess, was good, because he granted it that could not be reproved: Now moche more ought ye, for the deceit that troubleth your soul, namely false judgement & error which is the best part of you, unto whom your body must both obey and serve not to stick to flesh & blood, which by ungodly living are rob of true judgement in the mystery of god's truth, but as the spirit being the best part of your body, who being lightened, your body can persever in darkness: Even so go ye unto him, which is most chief & mighty in operation able to make the blind to see, the deaf to hear, the doen me to speak, & to heal the wounds that error hath maimed you withal, nameli gods word, for it all things were created, & without it nothing was created no not luther, whom all though god's spirit ruled to speak some things right, yet when he begun to love himself & set forth his own dreams not ruled by the spirit of god, he erred as some other of his forefathers hath done, so that this sour leaven being but little in quantity, yet in quality poison sharp, hath as the scripture saith, soured his hole lump of dough. But good brethren sins ye stand free, as touching the flesh, & that by god's word, be ye not bound in the sperite to the judgement of men, call rather to your remembrance, that as the potter exceedeth the pot, the workman the work, & thee creator thee creature: Even so the wisdom of god our creator & not only ours but luthers also exceedeth our wysdo & Luther's too. Whose foolishness is more wiser than the wisdom of men. Wherefore as wisdom would let us repair unto him which is hole wise, hole good, & truth itself, that he may by his word open your eyes, that you may know your deceit & be healed by the Gospel, Which as paul saith is the power of god 
i, Corin, i.  unto salvation to all them that believe it. And who so denieth 
johan, iii  it, he is already condemned for therefore are we called the sons of god because we have beleued 
Gala. iii  in Christ jesus, whom god the father hath by his holy spirit sealed as witnesseth Isaiah the prophet to preach 
Isaiah. li.  unto this gospel namely deliverance unto the captive & healing of the sick men's wounds, only that all they which believe this most sacred word denying ungodliness should be made a righteous planting wherein god should rejoice. For god hath called us by his most glorious gospel not to allow the Imagination of flesh either to acquyet our conscience according to their opinion, polluting our faith whom hath chosen to be his spouse with the adulterynne dregs of carnal wisdom whom we know leadeth unto death. For Paul saith to be carnally 
Rom, viii  minded is death: but to be spiritually minded is life: For carnal wisdom savoureth not of god which is a spirit & worshipped in spirit & truth, and therefore it is unable to judge of the word which is spirit & life to them that stick thereunto with faith unfeignedly, and therefore let it not defile our sanctuary & faithful spirit unto whom god will declare these mysteries that are above the gripe of flesh, for as a loving husband possessing a faithful wife, whose property is to be silent, doubteth not to communicate his secrets unto her, because his love should appear Even so our messias hath not feared to communicate the mysteries of his truth unto a lowly spirit & simple heart, whom he hath married unto himself, by the lively faith which we have in the merit's blood & wounds of the anointed saviour to this witnessing the prophet Ose as, saith in the person of god I 
Osee. two  will marry the to me in faith, and thou shalt know, the I will be the lord, without faith, therefore as it is unpossible to 
Esay, seven. Hebre. xi  please god, as Paul writeth: so is it unpossible without it, to enter, to enter the depth of god's truth. And therefore saith the prophet. The wrath of the lord came upon Israel, because they believed 
psal, xviii  not in God, nor trusted in his saving health. Again woe be to the dissolute heart, the believeth not god, nor trusted in his saving health, & therefore, shalt thou not be defended of him: But unto the apostles which in faith were moved to him, he said with his own mouth. It is given unto you to know the secrets, mysteries of the gospel. Why? because ye have not taken the wisdom of men to be your schoolmaster, but by a simple heart, forsaking sin, have taken the spirit of god to be your guide. As for an example what schoolmaster had Nathaniel when at the first sight he said Rabbi, tu es ille filius dei, tu es ille 
johan, i.  Rex Israel, that is to say. Good master, thou art that son of god, thou art that king of Israel. What moved Peter to confess Christ to be the son of the living god, contrary to the opinion of flesh & blood, sundry ways prophesying of him. doubtless men taught them not this doctrine, but the spirit of God, which spoke in them, and to this Christ himself beareth witness saying. Blessed art thou Simon Peter. Quia caro et sanguis non 
math. ●●i.  revelavit tibi, sed pater meus qui est meus qui est in celis. For flesh & blood hath not revealed unto thee: but my father which is in heaven▪ Contrary wise what in structour had the high priests and pharisees when they called him Carpenter's son Samaritan & Beelzabub, saying in thee name of Beelzabub he did cast forth devils. Doubtless flesh and blood, which possess not (as Paul saith) thee kingdom of God. Quia carnalibus ad est zelus & contentio & ambulare secundum hominem. Because flesshiynges are full of 
i Cor. xv. i, Cor. iii.  contention & strife, to walk after man's doctrine▪ Therefore say I that god hath not called us by his holy Euangelion to determine our faith upon the dreams of men, for faith is a perfect gift, & all gifts that are perfect & good done, come from god which is perfect, and therefore they are not to be established upon men, which are without the grace of our heavenly father all unperfect and sin, but rather upon god's truth. For what a blindness were it (good brethren) to persuade our conscience to know the mysteries of gods truth, thinking that we possess a verity infallible: when we so openly sticking unto the judgements of earnall men, blaspheme the truth, what greater blasphemy, I pray you can there be more, than when the opinions of men which be for the most part with the spirit of god more lies & fables, shall out of the bosom of his creatures, shut out the truth of our most high god, in whose lips David faith, there was never foundgile, & seal up their ears lest they should hear the comfortable embassage of peace whom Paul calleth in the epistle unto Tim. profitable doctrine, saying. gloria dei, quod creditum est 
Timo. 1  mihi sana doctrina est. The Euamgelions of thee glory of God, which is delivered unto me, is an wholesome doctrine. And also unto the Thessalonians he writeth Verbum accepistis a nobis, non ut verbum hominem, sed si 
Thessa, 1.  cut est Vere verbum dei. (that is to say) Ye have received of us the word, not as the word of men but as it is in deed, the word of god. Again unto Tite he writeth thus, encoraginge him in his endeavour. Verbum sanum, irreprehensible loquere, quod non blasphemetur omnia, that is to say, 
Titum. 2.  Speak the wholesome & faurelesse word which will not blaspheme at al. Now brethren dearly beloved, if ye obey unto the truth, Even as Ezechiel was moved of god, notwithstanding the stubbornness of the Israelites, to preach & teach this his word, & sharply to reprove them of their frowardness, in that they saw his wonderful work, & yet believed not, neither turned from their wickedness, to declare his unmeasurable mercy that he would all to know and no man to perish thorough error, saith. Verba mea loqueris ad eos, si forte audiant & quiescant, quoniam irritarores sunt, (That is to say). 
Ezeche. 2,  Thou shalt speak my words unto them, that if it will be, they 
Ezech. two.  may give ear, for they are men that provoke me Even so moved by the spirit, I will if god be pleased, set his word before your eyes, that thereby you may perceive the mercy & grace of our heavenly father, that he is not willing to see you perish thorough this your abominable error, even the word that is of power able to save your soul. Cast away therefore thes mists and cloudy phantasyes of carnal judgement, as touching this word (For god hath said, my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither yours are mine,) And desire heartily with me that the holy on of Israel may open your gates, that the king of glory may enter in there at to discuss by his holy spirit the truth of this your doubt, that your weak conscience may no longer waver and be compelled to hang upon imperfection. But that you may not only have understanding in this, but to seek his glory which hath to all them that believe the gospel revealed life, & 
two, Tim, i.  immortality, the power of Satan, hell & death, being vaunquyshed, if you shall see for his truth sake both confute your error, & break insunder thee bastelion, whose walls are built with untempered clay, and therefore as a tottering wall must come to nought: Frayed not your hearts with disdain, willingly thorough malice procuring your own destruciton, but as the word lovingly exhorteth you, be meek and lowly to hear thee word of God, that you 
Eccle, v.  may understand, and bring forth a wise and true answer. For every word of God is pure (as the wiseman saith, and 
Prou, thirty  a shield of defence to them that put their trust in it. For assure thyself that he cannot be of God, which preferreth the dirty dregs of men's brains, before god's word, for as johan saith, every one that is of 
johan, 19  God, heareth the truth, and every one that heareth truth, heareth god. For my sheep hear my voice, and I know them and they follow me, neither shall any of them perish, nor no man shall take them out of my hand. jeremy the prophet, because he would not have us seduced by any fond Imagination, forbiddeth not only to 
jerem. 23  hear those prophets, that prophesy their own dreams, but also saith in the voice of our heavenly father, Take heed, 
jerem, 7  that ye hearken not to counsels which endeavour to deceive you, and to do you no good. Now if you will try yourselves to be as ye would be reported, abide in the word, and then shall ye be partakers of the promise that god hath made by his word, that is, ye shall know the truth and it shall make you free, for he 
johan, 8,  that is of God, heareth his word.   

THe disciple the first 
Exodi, 12,  day of sweet bread came unto Christ saying, where wilt thou that we prepare for thee, the easter or passover lamb to eat, for it was accostumed amongst the Israelites, that they the first month &. xiiii. day of the same at night the household of thee Isralites should thorough out all their costs & borders eat no leavened bread, but unleavened until seven days were clearly expired? And further that in the day of sweet bread a lamb necessarily should be killed, whom they eat, the night 
luke, xxii, Exodi, xii  before their deliverance out of bondage, which being a perpetual sign & token of their deliverance was continually observed among them which in very deed was a shadow and figure of god's mercy & favour towards his creatures, when we were yet his enemies, that like as they which were sealed with the blood of the lamb were preserved from dangerous plagues y● overwhelmed the first borne of Egypt, & were covered with the merciful wings of god, and set their flesh, which served in most vile servitude, or cruel bondage, under the unbelieving king Pharaoh, in freedom, whereof to assure them he gave the land of Canaan for their habitation utterly, thereout expelling the enemy's of his people, that freely without check, they might possess the promised land, that floweth with milk & honey: Even so that all souls which were in the iron chains of damnation bondaged to death, & perpetual darkness thorough Adam's transgression, should by the means of this anointed saviour, appointed of god the father before the foundation of the world was laid, be made fire from damnation which unfeignedly trusted in him. For this was the simple lamb, of whom Esay the Prophet speaketh, 
Esay, liii.  saying, that he should not strive for his flesh. Yea, thee very same, that the Evangelist hath appointed all burdened consciences to go unto, for a discharged, saying. Ecce agnus dei Christus qui tollit peccata mundi. That is to say. Behold the 
johan, i,.  lamb of god. Christ that taketh away the sins of the world. Wherefore that thou mayest by thee scripture be assured that the passover lamb eaten at the deliverance of their bodies, from a temporal bondage preached the death, and passion of christ our lamb, that made himself obedient to the most reproachful death of the cross, by whose stripes as the Prophet saith we were healed, and also the eternal deliverance of our souls from death, mark well what is written in the scripture. Agni statuuntur in testimonium veritatis & federis promise. that is 
Gone, xxi,  to say. lambs are appointed for a witness of the truth, & the covenant promised. And therefore johan saith. Agnus occisus ab origine mundi habet librum feather is, in quo scripta sunt nomina 
Apoc. xiii.  sanctorum, That is to say. The lamb that was killed from the beginning of the world: hath the book of covenant, wherein be written the names of the saints. Now to make his disciples to be more apt to receive this mystery, & to open their eyes to perceive the peace offering promised by the prophets, and now come to do the will of his father that sent him, a lamb to be slain, to appease his wrath, conceived thorough adam's fall. That, as Adam covered all flesh by his disobedience with damnation, even so the obedience that was in christ, should cover it with salvation: He said unto them, go ye into the city to a certain man whom ye shall meet, and say you unto him. Magister vicit, tempus meum prope est 
Math, 24  apud te facio pasca cum discipulis meis, that is to say. The Master saith, my time is at hand, I will keep mine easter at thine house with my disciples. As who should say, the time is come that the heavenly will of my father should be fulfilled, & by my passion wrought for the comfort and consolation of Adam, & his posterity, whose frowardness, in that he disobeyed his will, plucked his indignation and wrathful vengeance upon his head. But now behold the acceptable time that god my father thorough love, longeth for an atonement, & as a loving father glad to receive the sheep, that were lost for sin, hath not spared me, his only begotten son to throw me from his imperial throne, into the bottom of the earth, that whosoever believeth in me should have life everlasting, I am he, promised by the prophets to make this agreement of whom Esay speaketh. Ecce virgo concipiet & pari 
Isaiah. seven  et filium & vocabitur nomen eius Emanuel, that is to say. Behold a byrgyn shall conceive & bring forth a son, and his name 
Math. i.  shallbe called Emanuel. And as matthew saith. Qui saluum faciet populum suum Israel, that is to say. Which shall make false his people Israel. I am the sacrifice, yea, the only sacrifice that must in my blood wash away man's iniquity and dregs of corruption, and none but I alone. For where the priest & levity hath passed by the wounded man, unable to help him I am come to bind up his wounds, yea to make him hole, I am the mediator appointed between god and man, even the man jesus 
Timo. 2  christ, for this purpose chosen of God my father to heal the sick that need a phesyssyon, and preach beliveraunce unto the captive, without me there is no mediator, for I am come into the world for no other purpose, but to save sinners. I am that spiritual rock sent into 
i, Corin, ●  this wilderness, of whom your fathers have drunk, & so must you or else ye perish for thirst I am that pure and lively vine, whose leaves never wither 
johan, 1●  nor fall away: whoso is not planted in me, my father will pluck him up by the roots. I am the 
johan, vi  bread sent down from heaven who so is replenished with me shall never taste of death, I am the 
johan, x.  door an open entre to my father, unto whom no man cometh but by me. For he that clymmeth over the walls is as the scripture saith, a thief or a robber. I only do give life unto my sheep. I am the God of Abraham, Abraham Isaac and jacob, even their safeguard & mercy seat▪ 
Math, xxii,  I am he, which putteth a way your iniquities even for mine own sake, and being the lord your creator, for love will remember them no more, for I am the Lord, and without me there is no saviour, the path truly have I trodden to god my father, 
Isaiah, 43  that you saying my foot steps should at no time err.  
Thus good brethren, when he had by preaching of his death and merits, instilled into his disciples hearts, understanding that they might perceive their salvation, and not theirs alone, but also of the hole world, because he had even from the beginning chose them witnesses of his afflictyons, that after thee thing was finished which they personally beheld with more firm & stable faith, they might preach this desire sight & unmeasurable comfort of all flesh among the gentiles and unbelieving nations: He did not only with express words declare his going into jerusalem, his evil intreature amongst the high priests, pharisees & cruel blood suckers, and finally his death, that they hearing these words might with more diligens attend to mark the experiens thereof: but also when the passouer lamb should be eaten, which as I before said, was the token of their deliverance out of Egypt, and of the freedom of their flesh, by the which deliverance their souls were not exempted from the tyrannos gulf of hell, sin, & death, neither the father's wrath pacified dew unto them for transgression, but continually hanged, most terribly over their heads, so that they yet were the subjects if death, and damnation: he therefore to preach unto them a perfect deliverance or freedom of both body and soul, to be no more under the banners of death, but of life and salvation, at this his last supper, when the token of this body lie deliverance should be eaten which was but the signification of this lamb, that was now present among them, by whose death all mankind should be loosed from utter darkness, & unquenchable fire, to satisfy this mystery, & to make it evident, he took bread & after he had given thanks to God his father, he broke it, saying. Take, eat, 
math, 26. Luk. xiiii  this is my body which shallbe broken for you, likewise he took the cup, saying, this is my blood of the new testament, which shallbe shed for many in the remission of their sins, For if the arm of god and his mighty power was so highly esteemed in the deliverance of their mortal bodies, from a mortal tyrant, that it vouchsafed him to establish it with this sign or token, for a memorial of his grace towards them, being yet not taken out of the chains of darkness, than when soever the devil assaulted them captivating their wits with sensuality, to make them forget the lord, that the witness of his benignity should always accuse their ingratitude, & move them to repent, how much more ought this sign or sacrament of the lords death to be highly reregarded amongs us Christians, which preacheth unto us a thing far better than a bodily deliverance, from a bodily tyrant, namely the deliverance from eternal damnation & the kingdom of darkness, than whensoever the ramping lion Satan seeketh to devour our souls, by the enti●arg unto sin, and desperation, we by this holy sacrament are put in remembrance that our saviour Christ was the promised seed of the woman which should break the serpent's head, which moved our father to bannisshe us from his sight, and hath in his death, & bloodshedding, slain the levia than that had power over death Wherefore as the lamb was the sign appointed to continued till the everlasting saviour, even Christ our lamb came, to preach the deliverance of their body from the painful servitude, of the Egyptians: Even so this bread & wine is the sacrament, appointed by christ to preach his most precious death, our redemption till he come to judge the quick and the dead. And therefore good brethren after the immolation of Christ jesus, our passouer lamb the Israelites sign ceased, because the innocent lamb in very deed, appointed of god before the creation of the world (to be slain) was come, whom it signified and hath to assure us of his death, and coming again, left unto us bread and wine, as a sign and token to confirm us weaklings in faith, that he hath died for our sins to pacify the wrath of his father, and is risen for ou● justification, thee iron bands of death, braced insunder, and he with triumphant victory, by the power of god, hath penetrated the clouds to give salvation. So that the righteousness (as Paul saith) that pleased 
Roma, iii  god was the redemption that is in christ jesus, through whom the terrible vengeance of god is passed over us, and we sealed into redemption, and that ye should not doubt, but that God by him is won to be our friend, mark well this his own testimony. Hic est filius meus dilectus in quo mihi bene complacui, ipsum audite, that is to say: This 
math. iii, mark, ix  is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased, hear him. As the lamb therefore was appointed by Moses their leader chosen of god, a memorial or sign of god's goodness, in that he made them free men, as touching their bodies from pharao's yocke the night before, it came to pass: Even so this bread and wine was assigned, a perpetual sign by our Moses, chosen of god by his precious blood to lead us from everlasting death, and damnation as a sign of god's mercy towards us, in that he hath sent his only begotten son jesus, in the shape of sinful flesh being without sin, to condemn sin in the flesh, & to conquer death for their sake, that of a pure love trusted in him, even the night before his death, now by this sign bread & wine, christ to instruct his Apostles whom he had chosen to support steadfastly among the jews, the deliverance of our souls from death exhibited plainly before they eyes, that, that followed, namely his passion, and the comfort of the same, saying. Take eat, this is my body which shallbe given for you, do this in remembrance of me. That is to say, even as ye see this bread broken for the comfort of your outward man, and this wine drunk for the consolation of the same, being so necessary, that without it your outward man perisheth, for hunger, and having it, the body is defended from starving. Even so I, mine own self personally whom ye see, feel & know, being the minister of this which ye do receive, even as surely as ye behold the breaking hereof and know king hereof, and know that ye have received it, so sureli shallbe crucified, rend, and broken for your sins, and in it shall deserve free remission of all your iniquities by whose merits, thy unrighteous soul is made righteous, for ever, if thou forsakest sin: for this was given for the comfort of your inward man, whom god hated for sin, for to reconcile it to thee father's favour again, & to defend it from death eternal. Therefore, for as much as by necessity we are enforced daily to comfort our body, with bread & drink Even so are we daily enforced to comfort our soul with the eternal Testament in Christ's blood, so that now when soever our spirit, beginneth to faint for hunger, that it behoveth us to break this bread, & drink this wine in the remembrance of Christ's death and of his comfortable testament to feed our soul withal. Hoc enim est bibere de plenitudine misericordie sue that is to say. For this is to drink of the fullness of his mercy. And this opened their eyes & confirmed their faith to perfection to preach that which they afterward saw come to pass, according as the bread was broken. Paul therefore instructed by the spirit of god to understand this mystery, said, the which I received I deliver unto you, o ye Corinthians, The night before he was betrayed, he took bread, & broke it, saying, this is 
1, Cori. 11,  my body, which is broken for you, also by the cup he said, this is the new testament in my blood, as oft as ye eat of this bread and drink of this cup ye shall preach the lords death till he come: If now the the personal body of christ, flesh & blood had been there (as ye dream) than would not paul have said, ye shall preach the lords death till he come But rather he would have said, behold corinthes, here is christ personal body amongs you, but paul assuredly taught by the holy ghost the this was not the body, but the sacrament of the body, therefore he said, as oft as ye eat & drink of this bread & wine, ye shall preach his death, which is exalted above the clouds, till he come again, for he is departed hens to be our attorney before the throne of Majesty of the of the which departure the scripture beareth us witness, spoken by his own mouth, saying. Vado ad patrem paraturus vobis locum, that is to say, I go to my father, to prepare you a place. And again. Veritatem dico, expedit vobis ut abeam, Si non abiero consolator ille non veniet ad vos, Sin abiero, mitta ad vos, that is to say, I say for truth. It is needful that I go hence, if I go not hence that comforter shall not come unto you, but if I go hence, I will send him unto you Which spirit is not sent to cloak our wickedness, or to suffer us to dwell in darkness and in error, but as johan saith, to reprove the world of sin, of unrighteousness and of judgement. De peccato, quia non credidit 
Ioh, viii  in me. De justitia, quia ad patrem vado & post hac non videbitis me. De judicio quia princeps huius mundi iam iudicatus est.  
That is to say. Of sin, because it believed not in me. Of justice, because I go to my father, & after this you shall not see me. Of judgement, because the prince of this world is now judged. And therefore saith christ I have many things to tell you, but ye are as yet unable to bear them away, But I go unto my father which hath sent me, that according to my promise I may send you, the spirit of truth which shall without doubt lead you into all truth, to do the will of my father. The spirit received Paul when his eyes were opened, Which moved him to testify in this wise of our mediator, saying. Christ is the bishop of our souls, which with an oblation of his own 
Hebre. 10,  precious body, hath offered up himself once for all on the altar of the cross, whereon he hath made them perfect for ever whom he hath sanctified, being soche an high bishop which hath gone thorough the heavens and sitteth on the right hand of the throne of Majesty, there being the administrator of the everlasting tabernacle, whom god hath made and not man: Whose spirit hath taught paul this doctrine, that so far differeth from yours. Did not the spirit of god, whom christ promised to lead all his, in all truth? Who taught you then this doctrine that thus rebelleth against truth? the contrary unto thee truth? Which is a lie of whom the devil is father as witnesseth the scripture. Come hither all ye▪ that so stoutly stand in this Lutherian error, and reprove (as ye are shameless) thee spirit of truth, which speaketh in Paul. Debate the matter with him. Try yourselves, as ye most fondly endeavour, to be more wiser than the spirit of God, which hath manifest said that christ sitteth on the right hand of the throne of majesty, to be an advocate for man's imperfection, you say that his body is in the sacrament, under form of bread, flesh and blood even as he was borne of the byrgyn Marry: O good brethren it would pity any Christian heart to see, how with out shame ye go about with your devilish sophistry and deceivable dreams to dysorder the works of thee living god, who hath commanded his son to sit upon his righthand, according to the testimonies of the prophet David, saying, Dixit dominus domino meo sede a dextris meis, donec posuero inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum, that is to say. The lord said unto my Lord, sit at my right hand, until I shall make thine enemies thy foot stole Alas what mean you thus willingly to rejoice in darkness, sins gods word, being the light of our feet, hath openly showed us that no jot of the law or testimonies of the prophets, should escape undone in christ, the end 
mathe, v:  of the law, & prophets, whose mouths were not open to speak things in vain, wherefore, sins their testimonies are true, which of necessity must be fulfilled by Christ, for as much as god had so ordained it, how dare ye again say the spirit of truth, which affirmeth him not only to be there personally on the right hand of his father, but also hath appointed him to come again, in the confirmation of the hole world, even in the same, from that he departed to gather the corn into the barn, & burn the chaff with unquenchable fire, and yet say you that he is here in the sacrament, horribly with your lies, blaspheming the sacred Testament, sanctifying in the blood of thee lamb, being the law in deed, whom he hath delivered unto his people, to direct them in their way to perfection no more written in the table of stone, but in his beloved temple the simple hearts of the faithful, as he himself affirmeth, saying. I will give my laws 
Hebre, 8  in their mind, & in their hearts will I write them, I willbe their god and they shall be my people, even this law unadvisedly as I suppose, ye despise, and frowardly deny this truth whom the spirit of truth hath therein written, being sealed with the precious blood of christ jesus, but it is manifest in thee scripture, that he which despiseth Moses' law, dieth without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much more sorer punishment (suppose ye) shall he be counted worthy, which treadeth under foot the son of god, & counteth the blood 
Hebre, 10.  of the new testament (whereby we are sanctified) and ungodly thing, and doth dishonour the spirit of grace. Alas what dishonour can there be more to the most highest, that of mercy and of faithfulness hath send unto us silly wretches his holy spirit to guide the stern of our senses that at no time they should fall upon the dangerous rocks of error and false doctrine: than little regarding his merciful kindness, not only to speak manifest heresy against this truth, but also most arrogantly to judge our weak spirit able to confound the wisdom of God ministered unto us by his blessed word and most stoutly disdain to be ruled thereby▪ Could a ship being tossed hither and hither & thither in the tempestuous sea, & ready of the unmerciful water to be overwhelmed, be scotfree from danger, if the rude and unlearned marynors should again say, the wisdom of their  unto whom god hath revealed the craft & policy through his gracious aid to lead her from perils? No truly. Verily no more is your wisdom able, in these troublous opinions or deceitful gins of Satan where with he purposeth to overthrow the ship of your understanding, to rule her dangerles, if ye again say the wisdom of your lodesman or sterer, whom God by his almighty power hath instructed to lead you from error to knowledge, from darkness to light, & finally from a lie to infallible truth Therefore as the willing marynors that covet the safeguard of the ship (partly for the owner sake, whom they love, & chiefly for their lives sake which stand upon the ship) diligently do mark, and obediently do follow the counsel of their pilate, neither add they, or diminish they any jot of his will, lest the ship perish. Even so good brethren, if ye love god which is the owner of your souls, if they be faithful, or if ye have any respect to your own lives, which standeth in the fulfilling of his commandments, diligently both hear and follow gods word, whom he hath given the to lead thy understanding into all truth, to whom neither add thou or diminish any thing, lest thy understanding perish by error. For it is written in the scripture. If any man add any thing to the word of prophecy, I will add unto him the plagues that are written in this word. And if 
apoc. xxii  any man shall dimynysh any jot of this word, god shall take his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city. Alas why then run ye this headlong into your own confusion, loving your own fantacyes so well that in comparison unto them, ye most unkindly vilipend the truth of this his most sacred word, which teacheth us that Christ's natural body, according to the prophetual testimony, was crucified, dead, & buried, and the third day rose from death to life, and ascended into heaven there sitting on the right hand of god his father, and yet contrary to this truth: ye have added your opinion, even poison unto your own souls, except ye repent, that this natural body, whom the holy ghost affirmeth to sit on the hand of god, hath transubstanciat itself into bread & wine. Thus philantia hath bewitched you in such sort that ye think truth to be a lie, and your abominable lie, truth, but I will tell you one thing, which the holy ghost would in no cause should be forgotten. That Christ came not to do his own will, but the will of his father, which sent him▪ But his father's will was that the natural body of christ, which was crucified dead and buried, after his resurrection should ascend into heaven and sit on his right-hand, therefore must it be granted (if your lie should be the truth, as ye suppose it) that christ hath not only prevaricate his father's will, for that he hath, (as you say) disobediently forsaken his father's side, and throne of celestial bliss & transubstanciat himself, being of a nature incorruptible, into bread and wine that shall perish, (For the scripture saith) that all thing seen with our eye, shall consume, perish, & wither a way, and that nothing is for ever but the word which continually preacheth christ our saviour, but also he hath (as your truth testifieth of him) openly dissembled in that he said he came to satisfy the will of his father and that he had sent us the spirit of truth, and now your truth hath both accused him of disobediens for transubstanciatinge of his natural body into bread & wine contrary to his father's will, and also proved the holy ghost a liar, which hath testified all flesh, that faithfully believed in the son of god to be saved by the obediens of Christ jesus in whom god almighty is satisfied. But suppose you (good brethren) that god can suffer his son this to be reported of you of whom he hath so well disserued or his word thus to be slandered which is pure and truth, and that without any cohertion or telling you of your fault, no no, judge not him to be a shrinking god, or one that setteth price, by your stout looks that thereby he should fear any foot at all to stand in trial of his truth and tell you of your heresy: for his long sufferans which lusteth for repentans' that his kindness might apere, is not so slender towards you, that he will thus see you perish by error Whose conspiracy busily seeketh your damnation, all though to you his most wicked purpose is unknown, yet hath god's mercy espied it, & rejoiceth not in your death, wherefore behold the grace the it offered unto you by the holy ghost which entending to stand in trial of god's truth, by gradation refuteth your damnable error & disordering of gods will, & proveth the natural body of christ our saviour after his resurrection to sit on the right-hand of god his father, & for the proof of this matter we call Luke th●ee Evangelist to witness, where he writeth that the Maries yearly in the sabothe day came, according to the custom to embrace the body of Christ, but when they came to the monument, they found the stone rolled a way, when they entered to see, the body was away wherewith they were marvelously astonished, but in this sudden trance & fayntynes of heart, two men in whit apparel appeared unto them saying. Quid queris viventem in mortuis surrexit non est hic. That is to say Why seek you him that liveth among the dead? He is risen, he is not here. And also accusing them of forgetfulness, said unto them, have ye forgotten what he told you in Galilee, that it was expedient for the son of man, to be under thee poor of sinners, to be crucified, and rise again the third day, and so to enter into glory, Yea, & because he would not have his disciples unexpert of this his resurrection & what should become of this his body, a little before his death to reveal unto them the misery of his impassable body now glorified, he took certain of them, with him, and said some of you shall 
math 17, mark. ix Luk. ix.  not see death, until ye see the son of man in his glory, and forth with upon the hill thabor in the presence of Peter, james, & johan, he transfigurated his natural body by the power of his godhead, not as ye dream into bread and wine which shall putrefy, but into an immortal shape, the phisnamy of a manremayning, 
Apoc. i. Dan, xvii  commanding them that it should be unknown, till after the testimony of the prophet, were fulfilled which spoke in Christ to his father, saying. Thou hast taken my soul out of hell, and hast not suffered thy saint to se corruption. And after this, they were called to testify of Christ crucified & preach even upon the house top the resurrection of our saviour being the first fruits of them 
i: corin: 15:  that slept in him, of the which resurrection Paul speaketh in this wise, saying. Resurrexit Christus a mortuis per gloriam patris 
Roma, vi  iam non moritur mors illi ultra non dominatur, that is to say Christ is risen from among the dead, through the glory of the father. Now dieth he not, death shall hence forth have no more power over him. Now good brethren sins that the spirit of truth hath assuredly taught, that the same body which was crucified, dead, & is risen again according as the apostles have witnessed of him, if you diligently attend, & awake out of your sleep he will also reveal unto you, what body this was after his resurrection, & what became thereof so evidently that except thou repent, & turn from your wicked Imagination, & all other of your faction of the clergy, which thus spurneth against god's truth, it will pluck a hood over your heads furred with fearful judgement & unquenchable fire, Wherefore give ear unto thee Evangelist which more plain liar expresseth this body than ye have cause to doubt. After these women had thus talked among the disciples, that at their coming his body was absent out of the monument there arose among them a sudden wondering how this might be, & behold. two. of the company that thus talked of jesus, went from jerusalem until a certain village, called Emaus, unto whom Christ appeared being even the last man they talked of, ask them what communication this was, etc., as followeth in the text. Read & judge In conclusion night drew on, they compelling him to tarry with them. And it came to pass as he sat at thee table with them personally he took bread broke it, and gave it them, where upon they knew him, and so he vanished away, here note good friends, that the scripture speaketh as yet of no transubstantiation, For the body that broke this bread was a personal body, having flesh and bones; & the senses of a natural body. As you shall manifest perceive hereafter, appointed without any alteration to enter into glory. They here upon calling to mind this sign, wherein before his death he vouchsafed to preach his precious death, the deliverance of our souls from eternal captivity, straight forth they knew him, saying. Did not our hearts burn within us, when he thus talked with us of the scripture. Now good brethren, because the subtile serpent shall not by error deceive your wits, to surmyce that which is not, bringing upon yourselves swift damnation, it hath to confirm you in this truth made plain what body this was, far otherwise than ye dream, no such body that was willing to transubstancy at itself into a dead thing, which could neither feel, taste, see, go nor speak, in whom there is neither life, nor soul, mark therefore how the holy ghost handleth this matter, by his holy Evangelion. After these two men, that were at Emaus, knew him by the breaking of bread, they returned unto jerusalem from whence they came, where there were gathered together of the disciples eleven in number coming & talking of their Master christ, lately rysed from the dead and sayne of Peter, whose talk to confirm, these two begun to declare what had be fallen them in their journey to Emaus as touching his resurrection. And while they thus talked of him, he appeared again amongst them, saying. Peace be with you: But they somewhat fearful with this strange sight, supposed him to be some spirit, whom to put out of doubt, he spoke in this wise, saying. Why are ye thus troubled or what moveth your hearts thus fondly to imagine fantasies, be hold my hands, my feat, am I not even he, that hath cast your account & discharged your det between my father & you, as my spirit at the hour of my most bitter affliction, uttered saying. Consummatum est, etc. Man thy matter is at issue, thy salvation is made perfect, if thou abide in me. If you mistrust me prove handle me, and ye shall no less do but confess my body far to dissent from a spirit, which hath neither flesh, and bones as ye see me have, when he had thus destorbed his natural body unto them to confirm their faith he showed them both feat & hands: Yet not withstanding this manifest demonstration, some of them doubted, partly for joy and partly for the strange sight whom to set free without suspicion, he demanded of them, we there they had any meat to eat, unto whom, soon after his demand, they offered part of a broiled fish and an honycombe, and in presence before their eyes he eat it. Thus you see that he had not only flesh, bones, and a personal body, like unto them, but also all the senses of a natural body namely feeling, seeing, hearing, tasting, & goyinge. Et hec omnia que scripta sunt ad nostram doctrinam 
fo, 15,  scripta sunt ut per patientiam scripturarum spem habeamus that is to say, All these things that are written, are written for our learning, that through the patience of thee scriptures, we should have hope. Which alway willbe of force strong enough to confute this error, which by enchantment would have there a fantastical body, that is a body by conjecture whom ye say, can neither be felt with hand neither said with eyes of the body, but only with the eyes of your faith. O good brethren how long will ye play the part of jamnes and jambres which with most deceitful sorcery have resisted the will of god think you that the wrathful vengeance of god, which fell upon them, can miss you playing the same part, no truly, for against soch thar stouburnely withstand the truth without repentance, god sharpeth his sword and bendeth his law, & shall look narrowly with his eyes, that he miss not his mark, but that he may hit them a right for I am sure that ye are not ignorant, How that moyses rod 
Psal, viii  hath devoured their feigned serpent and that dangerles, even so shall truth vaunquishe your error and condemn your folly, in that ye love your wits so well, that shameless ye withstand the glorious gospel and openly accuse truth of a lie, hath not Christ even with his own mouth, lineally describe his body to be flesh & blood, & also to possess all the senses of a natural body & that to the eyes of his disciples, yet contrary to this truth, say you, that his body is in form of bread, which is dead, and vade of senses, also he showed himself after his resurrection in the shape & stature of a man, and yet against his own will, ye will compel him to transubstanciat himself, into a new shape, bringing a man with all his members into the straight room of a piece of bread, or singing cake (as ye better allow it) judge you now how your Sophistry, and the spirit of truth agreeth▪ But with your paciens suffer me, (I pray you) to reason with your fantacye, that ye may perceive the building of your opinion unable to stand in trial with the scripture because it lacketh a groundfyll. Answer me therefore Luther & your adherentes, would ye that Christ's natural body, borne of the virgin Mary very flesh & blood should be transubstanciate into this bread or no? if ye so would, manifest unto me, I pray you the time of this alteration, for as much as nothing can be without instance of time. If ye say it was done at this his last supper, when he instituted this sacrament by this text. Hoc est corpus meum, quod pro vobis traditurun. That is to say. This is my body which shallbe given for you. Than the scripture blanketh you, for it teacheth us that the natural body of Christ which broke this bread, afterward to be slain upon the cross, & buried Again, if ye affirm this alteration of his body to have chanced after his resurrection, than the scripture replieth again giving you a fair checkmate, saying, that after he was risen, he brack bread amongst his apostles, in the form of the crucified body, having nothing thereof altered, saving that now it was immortal no more subdued to our carnal passions. Then to conclude if neither before his death, nor after his resurrection he entered into this bread, than is your Imagination false, But now peradventure ye will demand of me, which have disproved this magical transubstantiation, What became of this body thus risen, the scripture maketh you this answer After he hath continued in the earth. xl. days when he was risen, the disciples, but then gathered together at jerusalem, abiding as they were appointed, the coming of the promised comforter, assoon as he had repeated unto them the comfortable promise of the Testament, suddenly, even in their sight he entered into his glory, a cloud taking him out of their eyes. And while they yet stood wondering at the mighty arm, and incomprehensible power of god: to take from them all occasions of doubting or supposal what should follow of Christ thus taken from their eyes Behold an angel appeared unto them, instructing their spirit with this consolation, saying, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye here gazing, the same christ which is nowtaken from you, into heaven, shall in the same manner apere again, wherefore what is he y● dare boldly usurp the name of a Christian & hateth to be reform by the holy ghost, whom god hath left unto us to instruct us in Christ, by whom we hear openly that his body is not only in glory w●●he his father, in the everlasting kingdom, exempt from trouble & misery, in whom reigneth nothing but righteousness & peace, where it shall reign in power and glory until he hath brought all his enemies into subjection, which stouburnly upon a froward spite, with hold his truth in unrighteousness, but also according to the scripture shall come again, to judge the quick, & the dead, as daily we lay in our creed, of whom the prophet david thus speaketh▪ Deus manifest veniet deus noster & non silebit, Ignisin conspectu eius exaudestet & in circuitu eius tempestas valida quia deus judex est. That is to say 
Psal. 49.  The god that is our god, shall come openly, and shall not keep silence. In his sight shall fire consume, & round about him shallbe a mighty tempest: because god is a judge. And Paul saith also in this wise testifying of his coming. Ipse dominus cum hortatu & voce archangeli, ac turba dei, descendet 
Math, ●● johan. 5 Thessa: 4 2: Thes: ●  de celo & mortui in Christo resurgent etc. That is to say. The lord himself shall descend from heaven, in the encouraging & voice of an Archangel, & with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise. etc. And this coming was also revealed unto daniel the prophet in a vision by night where he saw one like to the son of man coming out of the clouds, unto whom the aged man gave power and dignity regal, that all people, tribes & 
Dani. seven apoca, i. Philip, two  tongues should serve him, whose power is an everlasting power which shall never be put down, and his kyndgom endureth in corrupt. Because therefore that we should assuredly pronounce him to be the end of the law, and of the Prophets, that nothing testified in them should be left undone, but fulfilled by him, to assure us that he would come, that we might at no time be careless, and unprovided as were the foolish virgins, and so thorough our negligens be shut out, he gave us certain signs, and tokens that 
joel, xxxii Math, 24 jerem 25, Esay, xiii mark, 13, luke. 21,  should come to pass, before the day of his coming evidently testified by thee prophets & the Evangelist as the alteration of the son and moon, and the decay of the brightness of the stars with such like, many testified in the Scriptures: For like as the lightning goeth from the East, and shineth 
math, 24  into the West, so shall the coming of thee son of man be, and when be cometh, he will not tarry. Quem quidem adventum (ut refert Paulus) narret temporibus suis beatus & solus potens Rex regum & 
Timo.  dominus dominantium, qui solus habet immortalitatem & lucem habitat in accessibilem, quem nullus videt. That is to say, Which coming (as Paul declareth) the king of kings, & Lords of rulers, who only hath immortality & dwelleth in light, that noman can come to, whom noman seeth. Paul therefore saying the imperfection of our flesh, which is given to feed that lust of our corrupt afflictions, exhorteth to look diligentli for his coming of our saviour saying▪ Conuarsatio vestra erit in 
Celo  celis unde faluatorem adventurum spectatis. That is to say. Your conversation therefore shallbe in heaven, whence ye look for a saviour to come, If he be to come, he is not yet come, for when he cometh he will not tarry, If he be not yet come, he is not here, If he be not here, than it followeth that his body is not really in the sacrament. Now good brethren ye have hero the doctrine of god's spirit, what it hath taught of the natural body of christ jesus, how it was not only crucified dead & buried, & rose again the. three day, but also that ye should fantasy nothing of this body with your groose carnality it hath expressivelye showed, what body this was, weather it went, where it is & from whence it shall come, for as much therefore as this is the spirit of truth, whom christ at his departure promised to his faithful followers as a governor to lead them into all truth, we the covet to be called Christians, must of necessity believe it, if with christ we do intend, to have any society, for who so believeth not this his soul shall not prosper, but the 
a●at. ●● Gal. ●3 Roma. ●●  just shall live by faith. Christ therefore thus speaketh in johan Verily, verily I say unto you, whoso heareth my word & believeth him that seen me, hath everlasting life, and cometh not into damnation, but is passed thorough death unto life. judge you now what shall become of those which dispyce, and believeth not this truth. Now as touching Luther's error, if that under the form of bread the natural body of christ should be, it appeareth his civility to be very slender for as much as he hath so unreverently handled this body not according unto his worthiness, but unkindly rob him of his honour which is his, as nativelye, as the brightness is the son, and as dangerous to be dissevered, Quia ipse est glory 
Hebre, i  splendour & figura substancia patris, That is to say. For he is thee brightness of the glory, and the Image of the father's substance What is he therefore that will say Christ's body to be inglorious lyns he is the brightness of his father's glory, for in the scripture it is called the glorious day star, and therefore Peter knowing assuredly, glory to belong unto this body said. Gloria 
2. Pet. 3.  Christo, nunc & in diem eternitatis. That is to say, Glory be to Christ, now and ever. Again johan not intending to withdraw any thing from this body said. Gloriam honorem & virtutem dignus es accipere insecula, 
apoca. 4.  seculorum. That is to say, Thou art worthy to have glory, honour, & power for ever. Christ also hath said by the mouth of his evangelist, that who so honoureth not the son, the same honoureth not thee father, for this cause verily hath god given all judgement to his son 
mathe, 11 luke. 10, johan. 5.  that all men might honour the son, even as they honoured the father. sins then that ye dream Christ's natural body to be here presently ●n the Sacrament, why shall we not then fall down, and worship it. For if at the name of jesus all knyes shall bow (as saith the scripture) both in heaven and in earth, how much more ought they to bow, if they see his body (as ye say) in the sacrament. for this we see even among us mortal creatures daily in experience, that when the name of a prince or emperor in any civil matters appertaining to a common weal is named among his subjects, they all uncovet their heads: But when the person or body of the king is present, they fall down upon their knies and honour him? How moche more ought we, if it were true as ye say, Which as is a very lie in deed, to fall down & worship the everlasting prince & immortal body of Christ jesus But Luther himself hath forbid the worshipping of this body, ergo, he must of force either deny the bodily presence of christ not to be in the sacrament or else rob the body of his nature and dishonour the spirit of grace, for glory doth willingly follow this simple and innocent body of Christ, because he humbled himself to death, for the safeguard of his, as it becometh a good shepherd, whereof the wiseman hath thus testified saying Glorian precedet humilitas. That 
Prove-15  is to say, Humility goeth before glyrye, Towhom subscribeth the prophet in this wise saying Gloria dominum magna est, quia 
Psa, xviii Prou-15-  excelsus dominus. That is to say▪ Thee glory of the Lord, is great, because he is high▪ For his body now is a glorified body, reverently to be worshipped of Christians. Therefore to conclude, it were very absurd and out of frame to say, that there is his body, and deny him that, that his body hath deserved of us unto whom belongeth thee kingdom, power and glory for ever, and ever. Amen. Again Luther would have the letter to be simply understand, without any interpretation or troup, that because Christ said. Hocest corpus meum, That is to say. This is my body. Therefore it is his body. Surely if the will of God had refuced the interpretation of his word: than was he much to blame to send his holy spirit to minister such gifts unto men. But who is he that accuseth the majesty of god, or reproveth him in his doings, therefore they are not all faultless that reproveth the interpretation which agreeth with the will of God, For if ye stand upon this narrow ebb, that otherwise than the letter, there should be no interpretation, ye should not only accuse christ himself, which to his disciples mystically speaking many things very hard, for them to understand according to the letter, to make it plain unto them diverse times and oft expounded unto them: But also the spirit of truth, for we read that where as Matthew & Mark the Evangelists have written of this Sacrament in this wise. Drink hereof all, this is my blood of the new testament, Luke and Paul are so bold by the same spirit to interpret and make plainer the same words saying, this is the new testament in my blood, not that the sense differeth, but too interpret thee words more plainer, to the flesh & blood which always not led by the speryt of God, by false judgement is a stumbling stock to herself. If thou by the same speryt hath manifestly declared the same body, being now in glory with his eternal father, not to he in the sacrament, but hath by his chosen minister paul, interpreted the words of the evangelists saying, as oft as ye eat of this bread & drink of this cup, preach ye the lords death, till he come, why rebelleth Luther & his adherents against the will of god, or why prefer they their Imaginations, before the the purpose of our heavenly father, seeing that he unsealed Paul's lips, for this cause to preach this saying, unto the rude corinthians, the thereby they might understand, for what consideration this visible sign bread & wine, was instituted of christ our saviour, namely to preach this invisible grace that the breaking of Christ's body & shedding of his precious blood, hath pacified the vengeance of his father which was devised against Adam 
johan. ●.  & his of spring, & cleansed us from our sins, so the to them the with assured affiance without wavering are planted in this his body, 
Rom, viii  there remaineth no damnation, for he came to seek, and save that was lost, that all that believed 
●uke. ix.  in him, should have life everlasting, according to the testy 
johan. 3.  to the testimony of the prophet Oseas. Thy damnation oh Israel, came of thy self▪ but thy salvation of our lord jesus christ If the letter, good brethren, should be simple understand. Alas what should our carnal wisdom and dull senses, make of christ our mercy seat and living saviour which daily nourisheth us with his abundant grace hath he not called himself in the letter, a door, a vine and away with such like phrases, in the scripture, ye truly I pray the then good congregation, Answer me, Wherefore hath he thus called himself. Because thou shouldest judge him a material door, a vine or way? no truly, wherefore than? doubtless 
Osee. 14:  because thy mortal eye perceiveth that the property of a door is to open the way into the mansion place, & without the door noman can enter dangerles Even so it vouchsafed Christ by his holy spirit to instruct the immortal eye of thy soul, namely thy faith, that christ is the only door that leadeth us unto god his father, with whom as many as believeth in his only son shall ●ātifye the everlasting sabaoth of endless joy, for he alone hath made this entre by whom all christians must enter, and who so clymmeth over the walls, and goeth not thorough the door, surely he is a thief and a robber, and as a thief or robber, for his transgression is subject unto judgement. Even so shall that soul be endangered in judgement that seeketh in any otherway to god the father that christ jesus, for by him we have knowledge of god, & without him we shall never know god, verily thus hath he spoken with his own mouth. If any man knoweth me, the same knoweth him that sent me, wherefore as the door is the entry to the mansion place. Even so Christ is our door to the father, again: as thou daily by experience seest the branches of the vine which taketh moosture of the body out of whom they issue never to die, but continually according to his nature, grow green, & flourish bringing forth the fruit of the vine. Even so as many as are unfeignedly graffed in the precious body of christ our saviour shall never taste of death, but perpetually by his abundant grace grow and flourish in virtue and bring forth fruit in him, agreeing to his nature, that is, the denying of ungodliness & doing good, as the prophet writeth, Declina a malo & fac bonum That is to say. Decline from evil, and do good. Last of all, as the way leadeth the pilgrim or wayfaring man to his journeys end that he may there rest from weariness: so doth this our advocate & mediator christ jesus lead us which here are but pilgrims in this strange land compassed about with all miseries and death to our own country whom he hath purchased, for his faithful flock with his holy and santyfyed body, offered once for all, for the remission of our sins, which country endureth for ever exempt from all trouble, wherein reynethe the peace of god for ever. where we shall enjoy the fruit of our labour, and attain the goole whereat all the faithful even from the beginning that hath been, are, and shallbe to the confirmation of the whole world hath willingly directed thee course of their life, namely life everlasting, the port of christian, travail without weariness thorough Christ our lord as saith the evangelist johan. Hec scrip si vobis qui creditis in nomine filii 
johan, v,  dei, ut sciatis, quod vitam habetis eternam. That is to say. These things have I written unto you that believe in the name of the son of god: that ye may know that ye have everlasting life. Now to conclude christ is not a material door, way, or vine but hath in him the qualities of these vicible things, & thus it pleased his most glorious Majesty to inform us in the knowledge of the virtue of his most precious body by this visible signs to augment our hope to salvation. Even so hath he done in this his sacrament saying. Hoc est corpus meum, That is to say. This is my body, not that it is his personal body, no more than it is a door or vine, but as he hath the quality of a door or vine, so like casen hath he the property of this bread, for bread by nature nourisheth the body, so christ by nature nourisheth the soul. If therefore the letter should be simply understand without interpretation, how much should it abhor the spirit of god, which teacheth us that Christ is our everlasting priest, according to the order of melchisedeck, without beginning, & without end Alpha, & Omega, yea how moche should it make faint our hope to believe the incorruptible body of christ our saviour to be transubstanciat into a massy peace, of bread without life or soul and made of corruptible elements But here may you see good brethren as it were in a mirror or glass the groose capacity of our indocible judgement of froward flesh which seeketh not heartily to be instructed in the truth or savour of the light, but rather to be wise in his own conceit and worder at the wisdom of god, namely the truth of his word. As the malicious pharaces or stubborn jews among themselves wondered at the comfortable words of christ, whanhe said his flesh was meat & his blood drink & that it gave life everlasting, groosely pondering the letter & not the spiritual intent of christ, intending to preach remission of their sins by the offering up of his precious body, whereby the tyrannous works of cruel sathan were loosed & hell sin & death clearly vanquished: said how can this man give his flesh to eat & his blood to drink supposing as Luther & his adherentes that they with their teeth should eat the flesh of christ, & drink his blood esteeming it only meat to feed the belly withal, but christ to condemn their fond suspicion & to make plain his meaning as touching the eating of his precious body being the foread sent down from heaven to give life unto all the world, said. Spiritus est qui qui vivificat, caro non prodest quic quam verba que loquor spiritus & vita sunt. That is to say. It is 
johan. vi  the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you are speryt & life. As who should say it is a spiritual matter that I speak of, nothing appertaining unto the flesh, for the spirit of god of nature endeavoureth to instruct the silly poor and faint spirit of man, to be apt to comprehend the will of his creator, for this speryt feedeth the soul, and maketh the heart of man joyful, and therefore may it very well be assembled unto this word meat, for as an hungry stomach being by long fasting feebled in straineth & out of courage, rejoiceth when it is satisfied with meat Even so the heart, and soul of man, being long feebled with the wrathful displeasure of God, unto whom it was subject by disobedience: after the abundant mercy of Christ freely offered herself, to appease this wrathful indignation, by whom it was nourished, it joyfully looked up, & praised his saviour. And therefore it is a spiritual meat which I speak of, given only of the spirit, which feedeth nothing but man's mind. And thus answered he the error of the jews, which understood him to speak of his personal body, because we should not dream, as Luther hath done any thing of this corporal presence to be in the sacrament. But in this opinion, Luther, & you all which most unadvisedly have subscribed unto his error, have with your carnal wisdom exceeded the policy of the wicked worldlings, which put christ to death. For if they either by power or persuasion could have the multitude or comen sort of people believe that his body had been amongst them in form of bread they would never have bribed the knights of the sepulture with money, to say that his body was stolen away by his disciples in thee night: but because they were unable to prove his body to be in their possession: therefore they fyed them with largition to blear the people's eyes that they might never see but still stand in unbelief. Even so you with might & main have endeavoured to save their eyes from the light of god's word, lest peradventure they might happily see & condemn your heresy & for this ye think it no shame to set this detestable error as a curtain between the people's eyes, & the spiritual eating of this body, wherefore understand you all that labour of this frenzy so that ye wax wroth with the spirit of the most highest, for speaking truth, understand I say, what is meant by the eating of this spiritual body, verily not thee tearing with the teeth, nor dysmembring of Christ's body, but only that we should assuredly trust that by his own blood he entered once for all into the holy place & hath found eternal redemption & also being perfect, became the cause of everlasting salvation unto all them, that obey him by the sacrifice of his precious blood thorough the spirit offered without spot, unto god, he hath given remission of all our sins if we repent, hating ungodliness, & holy trust unto this anchor of our soul, sure & stead fast by hoop which leadeth us to take this hold, that where as our unperfect flesh was unable to do or satisfy the will of god the father, he hath by his precious death & cross, not only fulfilled the will of god, appeased his wrath, and become life everlasting to them that trust in him, but also is become the entry of the eternal kingdom of endless tranquillity, the place daily received of them that are santified in him, for here on standeth the law & thee prophets, Wherefore when soever ye break this bread & eat it, wherewith ye assure your conscience the being turned into your substance, it nourisheth your body, so at the breaking hereof ye must assure your conscience, that if ye forsake sin & unfeignedly believe that thee breaking of his body hath purged away our sin by the which we have possessed all the merits of his precious body, namely remission of all our sins and life everlasting, He is turned into the immortal incorruptible and impassable substance of such a faithful soul and without doubt continually nourisheth it. Quicunque ergo panem hunc commederit & ex novo testamento in sanguine suo sanctificatio, hoc exhanserit, morte non morietur sed vivent in aeternum, That is to say. Who soever therefore shall eat this bread, & shall drink of this new testament, sanctified in his blood: the same shall not die the death but shall live for ever. For when he saith whoso eateth my flesh & drink my blood hath life everlasting. And whoso believeth in me hath life everlasting. What dullard is there that pertaineth not the eating of this body, & faith in his blood shedding to be both one, except he would most wickedly appoint us. two. ways unto salvation one by eating of the Sacrament, another by faith, but if by eating alone the disciples should have had life everlasting, assoon as they had received this body at the supper, what had the cross and death of Christ availed, But god forbid that the minds of godly men should at any time be entankeled with such strange learning & cumbrous doctrine: which I fear me would soon come to pass, if the words of our redeemer should carnally according to the letter be understand, but Christ calleth himself both health & life to all them that trust in the consummate sacrifice of his body once offered for all sin & unto them will 
Hebre. ix  appear again without sin unto salvation sending unto them by his bounteous grace the only & most beautiful ambacetor of peace, the importible crown of everlasting glory which with a sure hope diligently look for the appearance of his most glorious face, Who will draw us with him to the immutable kingdom of his father with whom we shall with joy inexplicable live eternally, for he hath said this word, which returneth not unto him empty. Vbi ego sum ibi erit minister meus That is to say. Where I am, there shall my minister be, for he enjoyeth glory, and liveth for ever, and so shall we do that trust in him for this is the will of God, As johan saith.  qui vidit filium et credit în eum habeat vitam aeternam & Christ's resuscitabit eum in novissimo die. That is to say That he that seeth the son & believeth in him, may have eternal life, and christ shall raise him in the last day, Christ's flesh therefore, that it was delivered unto death for our freedom, is called the meat of our soul & his blood, forasmuch as it was shed upon the cross is called therefore thee drink most healthful and necessary of our soul, without whom our soul could not have been saved, but in this doctrine of the spirit of truth is found no transubstantiation into bread nor wine, neither yet a personal body, therefore ye must needs grant all though it before against your wills that your Imagination cometh of yourselves, and not of god, therefore it must be untrue. Name oins homo mendax, deus verus est in cuius labiis nuncquam inventus erat dolus. That is to say. For every man is a liar, but God is true, in whose lips was never found deceit. Good brethren yet once again patiently suffer me to ask you a little question the knowledge of whom can by no means hinder you, profit you it may, to discern your grief & be healed by the gospel, Have ye forgotten good brethren how that our saviour christ in his peregrination in the earth to certify his faithful disciples of the will of his father & of his favour towards them in that he had sent the promised salvation to all them that would receive him & believe in his name, left, if. sacraments to preach his precious death the lavacre of our souls, by whom alone we were purged from sins, nameli baptism, & the sacrament of his body, for this case only that we always should have before our eyes and firmly print in our hearts his death & passion by whom we were sealed into redemption no more under the danger of the law which offered unto our conscience for transgression, nothing but dampnatyon but under liberty & grace, lest peradventure the ramping lion which buseli seeketh our destruction should at any time, snatch this christ out of our remembrance (as he is always redi) by sundry inchynes that he layeth to snare our minds whereby they might forget their salvation, therefore of, two. necessary things he made them of whom we have in this our mortal life, such necessary use, that without them we cannot sustain our mortal bodies nameli water & bread, whereby he showed us that as oft as we sought by this outward things to comfort our body to maintain life & the vital sperites thereof, even sow aught by seeing of this to preach unto our souls the most glorious death & passion of christ our saviour which sustaineth, comforteth, & continually causeth it to live, Wherefore for as much as he before his death istituted thes, two sacraments, I demand of you which of them ye think most honourable or meetest to be preferred before tother peradventure ye would say, the sacrament of the body is most highest to be esteemed, but if ye stand to that, ye are like to have a sudden fall, for the scripture affirmeth them to be equal in this wise saying, their ends are one, and the promise annexed unto them both, is one and therefore the sacraments are of equal force, that they are of one strength the scripture proveth in this wise, saying, Quicun● credit & baptizatus fuerit saluus erit. That is to say, He that believed and shallbe baptized: shallbe 
johan. 6  safe. Again Qui manducaverit carnem meam & bibit meum sanguinem habebit vitam eternam. That is to say. He that shall eat my flesh, and drink my blood: shall have everlasting life. Now ye see the life everlasting, is the end of them both, therefore they are of one strength, and differ no jot, as touching their end. If ye grant them both to give one gift, & to preach one thing, whereby according to the doctrine of the scripture to be equal, than I demand of you, why bit standeth not with truth to call the water blood, aswell as the bread thee body, but that ye judge to be far out of frame, and very absurd to be spoken and no marvel at all though ye so judge, forasmuch as ye understand the one, and not the other, for if ye understood the breaking of bread to be thee sign that preacheth to our conscience the breaking of his body, as ye understand the water to be a sign that we are washed in Christ's blood, then would ye not thus imagine, but because ye will not admit the sacrament of the body to be a sign or token of the crucified body of christ but rather the very body itself making the sign to be the thing signified, therefore the misunderstanding of this word sacrament is the cause of this your forged losing, favour not so much your enemy which more delighteth at your death, than to so you live & enjoy good days, suffer him not thus to corrupt both your ground & the good sede offered thereunto with his most pestilent & infectious tars of unbelief his treasure that furnissheth the stinking gulf of hell, his inheritance, lest ye at the coming of the husbandman, whose intent is to purge his corn & gather it together into the garnard be with chaff & weed burned in unquenchable fire, receive the light that ye may walk therein, for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not wither to go. S. Austyne hath given you this glass to pluck out the moot out of your eyes, tha● causeth you to wink at truth, & thus craftily to shut it up in hoodymocke, because the peril should not so overgrow your eyes, that when shame compelleth you to see, ye cannot see, so much is this godly father and ancient writer your friend, saying. Sacramentum est visibile sign  invisibilis gratiae. That is to say A sacrament is a vilible sign, of an invisible grace, that is, a sacrament is visible, a sign of an invisible grace & in another place he calleth it Signum sancti rei. That is to say. A sign of an holy thing, the sign of an holy thing. As for an example water is a visible thing subjecteth to the senses of man to see, feel, and taste, whose property is to mundify and scour the corruption, and froth that hangeth upon our visible flesh, & to make pure our outward man, so that our eye being judge thereof is certified that it is clean & with out spot, which water for these native qualities, being a thing seen with our eye is instituted of god to be a sacrament or sign to preach an invisible grace not seen with our bodily eyes, nameli the property of Christ's precious bloodshed for our redemption, & salvation, that only lavacre of our soul by whom it is escoured from sin that so hath festered it to death? our only hyloe which hath cleansed our leprosy that had so enfeebled our weak spirit so that we are now regenerate into the lively hope of life everlasting by the blood of this undefiled lamb in such sort now, that if the devil would lay assault unto our conscience with his instruments of desperation to make our hope faint that we have broken the law, & therefore must of force be condemned, or that god is unable to remit our iniquities if we repent never so sore, we have to vanquish his tyrannous persuasions this promises annexed unto these visible signs or sacraments, which are only seen with the eyes of our faith & tasted with soul, nameli that 
Roma. x.  christ is the fulfilling of the law to justify all that believe, again, christ hath put out the handwryting that was against us conceived in the law written, & that hath he taken out of the way, & hath fastened it to the cross, & hath spoiled rule 
C●l●, two  & power, & hath triumphed over them in his own person. And last of all paul saith, that we are 
Roma, vi  not now under the law but under grace, for it is written, to the only consolation & comfort of all afflicted consciences, that willingly repent them of their wickedness That christ for no other purpose 
i, Timo. i  came into this world but to save sinners. For he hath confessed himself to be such a god, so merciful so kind, & loving to them that repent their wickedness, that he will not remember their iniquities which they have wrought but they shall live because of the righteousness that he hath wrought. And therefore, thus writeth Ezechiel the prophet of of him even in his own person speaking. As truly as I live, I 
Ezech, 33  have no pleasure in the death of a sinner, but much rather y● the wicked turn from his way & live, & to declare his mercy how it lusteth to see all men saved behold how friendly he speaketh unto 
jerem. ●,  Israel saying. Return o thou rebel from sin, & I will not turn my face from thee, for I will not then be angry with the for ever. Thus ye see good brethren, how mercifully the almyghtyest hath wrought with us mortal creatures▪ being but dust & ashes, that it hath pleased his divine majesty, so much to tender our weak sperites compassed about with the prison & infectious dungeon of flesh and blood, that in the receit of this visible signs, we have wherewith to comfort strengthen & augment augment our hope to salvation, namely the promises of his most sacred word, which never faileth the faithful that assuredly trusteth therein, for god is the word, & the word is god, And as god is an everlasting god without beginning & without end, even so this word is a perpetual word, & endureth for ever: For he hath said the heaven & earth shall perish & come to ruynne, but the word of the lord endureth for ever Wherefore as the lord in this visible sacraments hath preached unto us the invisible grace mercy & favour of his spirit, even so with his spiritual consolation unseen with our flesheli eyes hath he confirmed the hope of our forefathers in the promises of his holy word by visible signs or sacraments. As for an example it pleased our heavenly father to leave unto Abraham & his posterity circumsition with certain sacrifices in moyses law to be sacraments & tokens, by whom they should be led, as it were by the hand to Christ of all flesh, thou trusteth in him that only saviour. That as the sacrifices of the Jews done with blood wherewith all things in the temple was sprinkled being a visible sacrament unto their mortal eyes, preached the invisible grace of the promise that Isaiah prophesied, namely that god would send a lamb so pure, innocent & simple into the earth that butter should not melt in his mouth, neither yet he should be able to break a reed, whom his will was to be slain, a satisfactory & perfect sacrifice, for man's transgression & remission of his sins. Even so circumsytion was a visible sacrament to confirm them in this invisible grace. That god the father had prepared for them an instrument to cut away the froth & corruption of Adam, & of them all that issued out of his loins, which instrument is 
Rom. iiii  Christ the promised seed to Abraham in whom all nations be blessed. Therefore as it is evident by the scripture their sacraments were of equal force with ours, saving that theirs preached unto them the coming of Christ, and ours, that christ is all ready come and is ascended above the clouds to give salvation unto men, but all according to truth hath taught jesus to be our peace offering and satisfaction. Thus is marten Luther's opinion with all his scholars in this point chieffely reproved that if the body of Christ should really be in the sacrament of the altar▪ as featly ye name it, than were not the sacraments of equal force, But we only possess this Christ of whom their sacraments testified and not they, & consequently that we only are saved, because we are only partakers of this body, and not they, for their sacraments led unto christ, and our Sacrament is (as ye say) Christ himself, O blasphemy most horrible, that the precious blood of Christ our saviour universally shed for all flesh, shall thus by your most devilish imagination, be made insuffycyente? Think you that truth can thus be thus be outfaced of your heresy, no it will condemn your wickedness justly & prove you as ye are untrue in deed. And for the proof of this. What meaneth the mercy seat to be placed upon the ark, & the two cherubins to be set upon this mercy seat one against another, & both looking down into the mercyseat But that our forefathers, abraham, Isaac, & jacob, which slept many a day before Christ's incarnation by faith assured themselves to be purified in the precious death & cross of christ our saviour & of their wretchedness, in him to have free remission, so that there by evidently it is declared, that their sacraments & ours are of one force, & as touching their end they differ not for aswell their sacraments as ours preach Christ crucified, which with the only sacrifice of his body hath made all them perfect for ever, whom he hath sanctified. That ye may therefore understand this example of the law, mark diligently what it signifieth that thereby your hearts may be opened to believe thee most sacred word of God thee joyful tidings of your deliverance from death thorough. Christ jesus. The ark figured the law, which without partiality condemneth all flesh for sin, so that thereby could no man be made righteous, neither yet safe from the vials of God's wrathful indignation whom he powered as a just reward, upon adam's disobedience for after that he had prevaricate this law. Eat of all the fruit within this garden, only excepted the fruit of knowledge, of good & evil, straythforth with the apple, he devoured death and damnation, and could no longer be herbored under the pleasant shadow of the fruitful trees of Eden, but was bannysshed thee presence of the lord his god with glistering sword of flaming fire as a traitor most rebellious, & disobedient against his law. Now when the law being by nature an exact judge & one that useth no percialitye in rewarding every one according to his deserts, had for sin dishereted Adam, & thrown him into this most wretched vale of all misery, where the curse of god with out all resistance came upon his head, he could not for shame seek friendship of the law▪ whose straytenes he had tasted and so well knew to abhor, hate, and condemn sin, for the law entreateth no man friendly, but him which diligently observeth all thing written therein, to whom it hath made this promise, that if he shall do all things contained therein he shall live in them and see good days, but if he break this law and let the covenants thereof be undone, then will the Lord bevyse against him this plagues following for the abbreache thereof, he will visit him shortly with fevers & swellings which shall destroy the eyes & 
metif, xvi●● and, xxvi Ez●●: xviii Duty. 28.  consume away the heart (that is to say) the soul which hath sinned against this law, shall die the death, Adam therefore for asmuch as he disobeyed the statutes of this law was now overwhelmed with death, and darkness having no friend that would or could be found that was able to burst thee intolerable and most painful yoke of thee law, which had so grievously wounded his conscience, until such time that God of his mere benignity, (not willing that the adveysarye should possess the creature, whom he had made to magnify his name,) spared not his only begotten son jesus Christ, to make him partaker of our vile flesh and all natural infirmities thereof sin except, that by his glorious death and resurrection, he might tread him under foot which had power over death, and deliver them that sat in darkness & in thee shadow of death from this terrible captivity, and bind up the wounds of Adam and his posterity because therefore that the law by the mean of disobedience had covered all mankind with damnation, he came as a lamb most innocent and by his obedience unto the death of the cross he exempted not only all men from the curse of the law, but also he covered them with salvation that without wavering trusted in him, and therefore he is called the mediator of God and man in thee holy scripture, because he being both God and man not only satisfied the law, but also mollified the anger of God his father, conceived against Adam for thee trangressyon of the law, for it was not one nature I mean man, that was able and of power too observe this law of his proper strength, sins that the law hath confounded sin from the beginning, under whom Adam an all flesh that issued out of his loins, was shut in, but of necessity there must some such one be found, which being coupled together two natures & without spot of sin, should satisfy for sin & please god for transgression. Mercy therefore pytyfully lamenting the fall of Adam and very Loath to see thee Image of God thus bondaged to death, by the subtle enticement of thee cruel serpent, and an outcast by the law, for asmuch as it perceived in earth, thee impotency of flesh and blood, how weak & unable it was to break this serpent's head, it anointed even Christ jesus to preach good tidings unto thee poor, healing up the wounded hearts and deliver thee captives from 
Isaiah, 61,  death destroying that had power over death, that mankind might be made a righteous planting of the Lord for him to rejoice in. Christ therefore nothing rebellious unto the will of his father, who thorough his favourable mercy had appointed him a saviour before the foundation of the world were laid, came and was incarnate for our sake subjecteth unto all our miseries without sin that by the sacrifice of his most precious body might become a refuge and bastillion unto all faithful & penitent sinners, that believed in him so sure and strong, that the device of the law should not hurt them, that were marked with his blood, neither yet the locusts whom the star let out of the bottomless pit, should work their commission upon them nor spew out the devised vengeance of thee God of jacob against 
Apoca, ix.  them, which he hath devised to fall upon all flesh that had not the seal of this lamb in their fore heads. Therefore is he called in the holy scripture, our mercyseat for as much as all they that believe in him, are defended by his bloodshedding, Now is christ become our peace offering and perfect sacrifice: our mediator and only advocate, which hath delivered us from under the law, and graffed us in liberty and grace, being so firmly & stable a mersyate, that he not only standeth between us and the law, but also assureth the cherubins of an everlasting seat which never shall decay because they have hooped in him, for these cherubins sat face to face upon the mercyseat, signifieth the fathers, and their offspring that have slept from the creation of the world until the most glorious death of christ jesus. And all these that shall sleep till the appearance of the son of man in his glory at the consummation. And their looking down into thee mercyseat, signifieth the confession of their faith, that they in him are both holy and righteous for as much as unfeignedly they believed that, that the prophets have testified, that as 
●e●u, 13  many as trust in him shall have remission of their sin, for there is no health in any other, neither is there any other name given under heaven unto men, whereby they might be saved, but only the name of jesus Christ, In conclusion the fathers & we, holy cleave unto this christ, for asmuch as in him we have life everlasting & without him there can come no salvation unto men, for he is the giver thereof as witnesseth his own spirit, saying. Ego do vitam ovibus meis. That is to say, I give life to my sheep. Wherefore paul to declare that the fathers which sleep in the lord, to have eaten the same body & have drunk of the same cup which is preached unto us in this Sacrament whereof we also are partakers sayeth, we have all drunk of one spiritual rock, and are partakers of one bread, by whom we are made one body. Et hic erat ille panis qui de celo descendit ex quo, Si quis ederit vivet in aeternum. That is to say. And this was that bread that came from heaven, whereof, if any man shall eat, he shall live for ever. Which is the head of the faithful congregation, Even Christ the mediator between god and man, in whom as many as faithfully believe are buried from their sins, and risen again with him in newness of life, and he that doubt the not this, but with an assured affiance hopeth thereafter, hath already eaten his body and drunk his blood and hath in him life everlasting. Contrary he that believeth not the most sacred and eternal Testament, sanctified in his most precious blood, but casteth it behind his back as a word doubtful and not to be trusted, let him eat this sacrament five thousand times where in ye feign more like infidels than faithful christians the body of christ our saviour to be contained really, it shall asmuch avail him to salvation as a dyrgies penny or a mass of requiem, for it is not thee sacramental eating that giveth the salvation, but to believe god's word, that is the safeguard of the soul, neither is it the Sacramental eating that condemneth thy soul, but the unbelief of god's word covereth the with death. For the eating of the Sacrament without faith in the promise advexet there unto, profiteth nothing, but to eat the sacrament and steadfastly to believe the promise, he receiveth not only the Sacrament, worthily, but hath also life everlasting not for eating the Sacrament but because he believeth in him whom the sacrament figureth, who is life everlasting as johan witnesseth saying. God hath given us life everlasting and this life is in his son, he that hath the son, hath life, and he that hath not the son of God, hath not life in him, Wherefore to eat this Sacrament 
i, Ioh, v.  reverently according to the holy scripture, is in breaking of the bread to preach, unto our conscience the lords death, by whom we are sealed unto redemption, And in drinking of the cup, that is in obeying to his word, to have remission of all our iniquities, and life everlasting. Now good brethren, because I will not be tedious, I heartily desire you in the Lord jesus, & if by his death & bloudshedinge ye have received the hope of salvation do also require you not, as one having any authority of himself, but as an instrument nowstered by the loving kindness of god to call you from your heresy, to consider the Embacetour & high priest of our profession christ jesus being the brightness of god's glory & the very Image of his substance, bearing up all things with the word of his power how he hath in his own person purged our sins & is set on the right-hand of the majesty on high, being even as much more excellent than the angels, & also how he hath sanctified the testament in his precious blood to the comfortable health & spiritual rejoicing of all these that covet the immutable or everlasting heritage attained by christ, for them whom steadfast faith in his blood hath made the adoptive heirs of god, in the which testament ye may evidently perceive, if the burden of sin hath not seduced you from the grace of god, how this adulterian learning, I would say, Lutherian doctrine is reproved thereby, being the promised spirit of truth sent of god to the consolation of them that trust in his name, the dispicing of whom killeth the souls drawing upon them the curses of god & his hateful vengeance as is manifest in the holy scripture spoken, both in the law and by the holy prophets, for what a grief was it unto Moses, when the children of Israel would not hear him, neither believe the m●ssiage from thee Lord their God, which he brought, think you that it petyed him not to see the word of his majesty in so little regard, yea truly but how moche more shall it grieve thee living God which of favour humbled his only son christ jesus unto death, for the safeguard of mankind to see the blessed Testament of his kindness towards us, and most heavenvly speryt so little esteemed pronounced by him, which far exceedeth Moses in worthiness and honour even jesus Christ. Think you that he▪ can suffer truth thus to lose his honour and be evil entreated at the hands of flesh & blood, no truly he can, for it abhorreth his nature, & therefore he withdraweth not his indignation, but suffereth it, root them out of the earth that despise it. And to this deareth the Prophet 
Esay. ii●●  Isaiah witness, saying. Because they have offended the law, changed the ordinance & made the everlasting Testament of none effect. Therefore shall the curse devour the earth for they that dwell thereon have sinned & kindled the wrath of the holy one of Israel, which shall so smite the hills that the carcases of the ungodly shall lie in the street for because they have neglected this word (saith jeremy) the Lord will send upon the sword, hunger & pestilens for he hath already prepared himself against 
jerem, 29  them to battle, & set up the power of his voice to declare his terrible arm, with his angry countenance, yea & the flame of the consuming fire, whom he hath made both large wide and deep the noryshing whereof is wood innumerable, whom the breath of the almyghtyest shall kindle as 
Esay, 30,  a smatch of brimstone, what moved the lord to threaten the ungodly that he would make heaven unto them as Iron, and the earth as brass that it should not bring forth her increase to their sustentation? thee despising of his word, what provoked him to send wild beasts to devour them, & make waste their lands? the despising of his word, what caused him to to send a sword, & a consuming pestylens upon thee stubborn to avenge his Testament, the contempt of it, what drew the wonderful plague of penure upon them, so that they eat the flesh of their sons and daughters and causeth the soul of the lord to abhor them, The despising of god's word: wherefore as Paul saith, we ought to give the more heed unto things which we have herd, lest we perish, for if the word which was spoken by angels was steadfast, & every transgression & disobediences received a just recompense, how shall we escape if we despise so great a salvation, which (after it was begun of the Lord himself to be preached) was confirmed upon us by them that herd it, god hearing witness thereunto, with tokens wonders & diverse powers & gifts of the holy ghost according to his own will, forget not good brethers, how sore the lord was but to revenge the disobediens of the cruel Pharaoh, & the wonderful plagues that his soul had devised against him so heinous they were & intolerable, that the poor beasts of the field & fishes of the see, yea the hole land was laid waist & became a wilderness, for the sin of this king Egypt most horrible in the sight of god, namely the despising of his word. Cal to your remembrance the continual captivity & most filthy death that happened to passure the son of Emmerchief in the house of the lord for the contempt of god's word 
jerem, xx  preached of jeremy the lords Prophet, where josyas, Iconias, & the false prophet Hana●nas which with such violence reproved the prophet, & cast the word of the lord behind their backs preserved from peril, no truly, for the lord commanded the earth by the mouth of his prophet that their names should be written among the outlaws that in their life they might have no prosperity, & that none of their seed should be so happy as to sit upon the seat of david, or bear rule in juda, but should most shamefully die among the Babylonians. sins therefore god of his mere benignity hath left in his most blessed word, the intreature of such rebellions the hath so frowardli despised their own salvation, & willingly for saken their lord, & creator in that they have presumptuously set the witless Imagination of dust & ashes to contemn the wisdom of the god of jacob, the creator of the whole world, in whose hands standeth the borders & coasts thereof to rule it as his most godly will is: only for love sake, that we thereof shuldbe nurtured, & take a dissiplyne not to commit any such offence against Christ our saviour, lest as they came to nought, so we perish in our guiltiness, Turn therefore good brethren from your stubbornness & resist not his holy word, which is of power so mighty & strong that he is able with the breath thereof to consume you as lightly as fire doth dry kyckes or stubble but rent and tear your hearts & daily bewail your sin, magnifying the living God thorough your advocate & mediator jesus christ that his long sufferance which loveth not to see your destruction, but rather that ye repent, and live hath so long withhold the violent arm & wrathful, displeasure of our heavenly father from you that sudden destruction had not devoured you in your wickedness, suffer not this his merciful favour to cause you to be more careless than the fowls of the air for the stork knoweth his appointed time, the Turtyl, the swallow, and thee crane, consider the time of their travel, should not then the people of God, both know & fear the time of the lords vengeance? Now therefore if ye willbe thee sheep of his pasture, and be be fed of his plenteousness, harden not your hearts as the heddi people did in the wilderness provoking thorough your disobediences the God of all meekness in his heavy displeasure to swear unto you as he did unto them, which there were overthrown for their sins, ye shall not enter into my rest, but gently hear the voice of your shepherd, (as is thee prophecy of his chosen sheep) so lovingly speaking thus unto your conscience. Children if ye will receive my words & keep my commandments, them shall you understand the fear of the lord & find out the knowledge of god, them shalt thou understand righteousness judgement & equity and every good path, for thereby wisdom entereth into your hearts, who 
Prove, two,  by counsel, & understanding preserveth you from the evil way & from the man that speaketh froward things. And therefore the prophet david saith, Blessed is y● man which seeketh after the testimonies of the lord & diligently obeyeth the word of god, whom he hath sent to heal them & to 
Psal, 17,  deliver them from destruction that delighteth therein. To this staff did Abraham & all his posterity, (than were sanctified in the promised seed even Christ jesus) leave unto, in all adversity, and never were deceived of their hope, nor forsaken of the lord in time of trouble, for this word causeth a fountain of living water to flow out of their bellies that trust therein & for this have many taysted of mockings scourgings, of bonds of of prisonment were stoned, were hewn asunder, were tempted, were stain with thee sword, And these all thorough faith in this eternal testament, attained in this life not only a good report but have received the promise of the word, life everlasting Wherefore deny sin and all ungodliness, & without doubt ye shall not only have the understanding of this word whereby ye shall be able to vanquish all assaults of our mortal enemy the devil, but also shallbe able by it to discern this your wicked error and condemn it & with a pure heart magnify the truth of our heavenvly father which thorough his son Christ our lord hath pardoned all our sins and in him given all them that faithfully believe the breaking of his precious body, and most glorious bloodshedding upon the cross to be the perfect sacrifice of our redemption, and the only atonement between God the father and man's consciences thee importyble crown of everlasting glory, with him to rejoice in thee heavenly Kingdom continually, and this is thee true and infallible eating of his body and brinking of his most precious blood thee endless comfort of our souls, which will never suffer them to see death neither corruption, but to be incorruptible and of the same immortal substance that christ our saviour is, not withstanding Luther's error, whom he hath already condemned with the promised brethe of his mouth, namely the spirit of truth, whom he promised all his faithful, to lead them into all truth being the Testament sanctified in his precious blood the soul & only effect of our redemption.  
¶ Wherefore the God of peace that brought again from the dead our lord jesus Christ the great shepherd of the sheep thorough the blood of the everlasting testament, make you perfect in all good works, to do his will, working in you, that which is pleasant in his sight thorough jesus Christ our lord, to whom be praise, honour & glory forever and ever. Let all people say. Amen. Amen.  
¶ God save the King.  
☞ Grace be with you.  
¶ Yours as charity bindeth. T. C:   

¶ Imprinted at london by Hugh syngelton at the sign of saint Augustyne in paul's church yard