nd and consider breade / yea and that they will sett
before their myndes the supper of the lorde / that they wil not
confes the popishe transubstantiation / but that they do here in
acknowledge Christes Sacrament / and that they do well receyue
that spiritually in the Masse / which the prest doth offer / and
receyue bodily for the lyuing and the deade / which thinge he
beleauith not. Will not all they forthewithe crye out / that
ther holy Masse is vnhalowed / and that they which thinke so are
heretikes / and that they which do communicate with them are
excommunicated? Truly they wold so behaue themselues / that
euery man might vnderstond / that ther is a grete difference
betwene the Masse and the supper of the lorde / and that they do
embrace the Masse / but the supper of the lord they do all wayes
hate and reiect. With such a kinde of men yet do theis men
communicate / which wold thincke it a hurtefull and damnable
thinge / if they shuld admitte vnto their diuine seruice / the
companions of the religion of the gospell with their faithe. For
they do take the approuinge of their doctrine / to be the
condemnynge of the religion of the gospell: And they do take the
communion in the Masse to be a certayn confession and
approbation of their religion. Who is it then which doth not
se / that theis men do receyue no part of the lordes supper at
all in the masse / but also that by comminge to the masse they
do deny the supper of the lorde and the whole faithe of the
gospell? Theis men saye that they passe nothing what the
ceremonies be / what the ministers / for that the vertue of the
Sacrament is not the wors for them. But the cheif question heer is
not of the worthines of the ceremonies or ministers / but of the
true vse and institucion of the supper of the lorde / and
whither that the Masse as it is this daye vsed (I do not now
speake ony thinge at all of that which was vsed aboue a thowsand
yeares passed) wer so instituted of Christe / and be indeede the
very supper of the lorde? Yf the Masse be that misticall supper
of the lorde / it must needes be allowed of the lorde / and thow
(if so be thow dost come to it in faithe) canst not but receyue
therof the foode of lyfe / forsomutch as the vnworthnes of the
mynister doth not hinder the. But if the Masse be not the supper
of the lorde / if the supper of the lord be defaced corrupted
and troden vnder fote by the Masse / truly thow shalt receyue no
fruite therof / but shalt rat