be vomited up, after the body and blood of Christ be gone away, and say, must be had in great reverence, because the body and blood of Christ had been “And not only the forms of bread and wine,” say they, “must be kept in great but also the ashes of them (for they command them to be burned into ashes) be kept with like reverence.” And shall you then forbid any man to worship himself, when he doth spiritually and effectually eat his very flesh and drink blood, when you will have such honour and reverence done to the ashes, which not of the body and blood of Christ, but only, as you teach, of the accidents and wine? Thus have I confuted your confutation of my second book concerning stantiation; wherein you be so far from the confutation of my book, as you that you have done nothing else but confounded yourself, studying to seek shifts and cavillations, as before your time were never devised, and yet constrained to grant such errors and monstrous speeches as to christian ears be intolerable. So that my former book, as well concerning the real presence Christs flesh and blood, as the eating and drinking of the same, and also transubstantiation, standeth fast and sure, not once
moved or shaken with all your ordinance shot against it. But it is now much stronger than it was before, being so mured and bulwarked that it never need hereafter to fear any assault of the enemies. And now let us examine your confutation of the last part of my book, containing the oblation and sacrifice of our Saviour Christ. The end of the second Book
The Confutation of the Fifth Book. Winchester
AS touching the fifth book, the title whereof is Of the oblation and sacrifice of our Saviour —— Christ,” somewhat is by me spoken before; which although it be sufficient to the matter, yet somewhat more must also be now said, wherewith to encounter the author’s imaginations and Ἢ surmises with the wrong construing of the scriptures and authors, to wrest them besides the truth of the matter and their meaning.
This is agreed and by the scriptures plainly taught, that the oblation and sacrifice of τὸς our Saviour Christ was.and is a perfect work, once conswmmate in perfection without necessity of reiteration, as it was mever taught to be reiterate, but a mere blasphemy to presuppose it. It is also in the catholic teaching, grounded upon the scripture, agreed, that the — same sacrifice once consummate was ordained by Christ’s institution in his most holy supper — to be in the church often remembered and shewed forth in such sort of shewing, as to the — Jaithful is seen present the most precious body and blood of our Saviour Christ under the forms of bread amd wine; which body and blood the faithful church of christian people — grant and confess, according to Christ’s words, to have been betrayed amd shed for the sins — ” of the world, and so in the same supper represented and delivered wnto them, to eat and feed of it according to Christ’s commandment, as of a most precious and acceptable sacrifice, acknowledging the same precious body and blood to be the sacrifice propitiatory for αἴ the sins of the world, whereunto they only resort, and only accompt that their very perfecti — body Oblation and sacrifice of christian people, through which all other sacrifices necessary on our part be accepted? and pleasant in the sight of God. And this manner of shewing Christ’s — — death, and keeping the memory of it, is grounded upon the scriptures, written by the evange- — lists and St Paul, and according thereunto preached, believed, used, and frequented in the church of Christ universally and from the beginning. This author uttering many words at large besides scripture, and against scripture, to deprave the catholic doctrine, doth in a few — words, which be in deed good words and true, confound and overthrow all his enterprise; and that issue will I join with him, which shall suffice for the confutation of this book. The Jew good words of the author, which words I say confound the rest, consist in these two points: one, in that the author alloweth the judgment of Petrus Lombardus touching the oblation and sacrifice of the church; another, in that the author confesseth the cowncil of Nice to be holy council3, as it hath been in deed confessed of all good christian men. Upon these two confessions I will declare the whole enterprise of this fifth book to be overthrown.