A manifeste detection of the notable falshed of that part of Iohn Frithes boke whiche he calleth his foundacion, and bosteth it to be inuincible: newly set foorthe by Iohn Gwinneth clerke.

Cap. 6. (Book 6)

HERE.

Well sir, yet I pray you here farder of his mynde, and then will I tell you more of mine.

CATH.

With a good will.

HERE.

In the seconde leafe of his booke his wordes be these.

The foundacion (he saieth) of that little treatise was, that it is none article of our feith necessary to be beleued vn∣der peine of damnacion, that the sacrament shuld be the naturall body of Christ: which thing is proued on this maner.

CATH.

Softe, stay there awhile: for it is mete and conueniente, that before we entre into the profe of a matter, we shulde first perpende, weigh and consider the matter it selfe, and be certaine therof, lesse otherwise, we should goe about to proue, we can not tell what. Therfore the matter (as I take it) is this, that he saith, it is none article of our feithe, necessarie to bee beleued vnder peine of damnacion, that the sacrament shulde be the naturall bodie of Christe.

HERE.

The same is it.

CATH.

And this he calleth his foundacion.

HERE.

All that is trewe.

CATH.

Then hath he leid two foun∣dacions. For this and the other before, whiche we haue tried all redie, are not bothe one, but farre vnlike, and differeth muche. for that before was, that the sacrament it selfe, is no article of our feithe necessarie to be bele∣ued. &c. And this nowe is, that it is none article of our feithe necessarie to be beleued, that the sacrament is the naturall bodie of Christe. Wherfore these bee two foundacions.

HERE.

Sir that same other before, he did not laie for a foundacion.

CATH.

That is not so, his owne woordes doothe proue the contrarie. For, in satisfiyng the requeste of his brother in Christe, as tou∣chyng this sacrament, his owne woordes (thou knowest)

be these.

First I proued vnto hym (he saith) that it was none arti∣cle of our feith necessarie to be beleued. &c.

Here thou seest no lesse, but of all that buildyng, this parte he laied firste, as he saith hym selfe. And in all buildynges, that is the foundacion, whiche is first laied. Therfore other he laied that, for a foundacion, or els thou must nedes graunt, that there he builded without any foundacion at all: as the moste foolishe builder ne∣uer dooeth. And therfore although he dooeth not pro∣prely name but one foundacion, yet two (as I said) he hath laied for all that, wherof sith we haue tried the one alredie, let me nowe here what profe he maketh of this other?