A playne demonstration of Iohn Frithes lacke of witte and learnynge in his vnderstandynge of holie scripture and of the olde holy doctours, in the blessed sacrament of the aulter, newly set foorthe by Iohn Gwynneth clerke.

The argumentes of the chapiters.

• THE cause, why Frythe doth alledge the olde holie doctours, and specially Saynt Austen. Cap. 2.
• That his false vnderstandynge of Saint Austene proued, is ful proofe enough against him, in all the rest of the olde holy fathers besyde, and of the scripture al∣so. Cap. 3.
• How Fryth doth handle this text, This is my bodie: and Sainct Austen vpon the same. Cap. 4. & 5.
• How Frith behaueth him selfe in his allegacion of Saint Austen wrytyng against Adamantus. Cap. 6.
• What Frithe concludeth of the Sacrament, and what he maketh of Christe. Cap. 7.
• How frith lieth vpon the plaine litterall sence of Scrip∣ture. Cap. 8.
• How Frithe vnder pretence of Englishinge Saynt Au∣stens woordes, doth therin falsly expounde theim for his owne purpose. Cap. 9.
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• How he lyeth vpon Sayncte Austene? and what an ar∣gument he maketh betwene this worde, eate, and this texte, This is my bodie. Cap. 10.
• That this text, This is my body, hath a litterall sense pro∣ued by Saint Austen directly agaynst Frithes purpose. Cap. 11.
• How falsely Frithe dothe vnderstande this that Sayncte Austen sayth, Christe bore himselfe in his owne han∣des after a certayne manner, and what a certaine ma∣ner is. Cap. 12. &, 13.
• How Frythe pretendeth to beleue Saynt Austen, and yet beleueth him not in dede. Cap. 14.
• Of the good and perfit agrement of the wordes of Saynt Austen, where he sayth, ye shall not eate thys body that ye see, nor dryncke that bloud whiche they that crucifie me shall shede out. And where he saythe, Christe hathe geuen vs the same flesh to eate, wherin he walked here in yerth. Cap. 15.16.
• How directly Frithe in apert wordes is agaynst Christe. Cap. 17.
• How Frythe deceyued him selfe in thys text, what if ye see the sonne of man ascendynge thyther where he was before: and how he belieth Saynt Austen vpon the same. Cap. 18.
• What a parte Frithe playeth with Saynt Austen in vn∣derstandynge of this texte, The fleshe profiteth nothing. Ca. 19.
• That Frithe gathered out of the olde Fathers sayinges, not theyr meanynges, but his owne foolyshe dremyn∣ges, wherby he deceyued himselfe and other also. Ca. 20
• What the spirituall vnderstanding of this matter is. And that Frithe vnderstode it not. Cap. 21.22.
• That it is not euen properly spoken to saye, that Christe hath now a naturall body or naturall fleshe. Cap. 23.
• What spirituall vnderstandynge is, after the mynde of Chrisostome. Cap. 24
• He that vnderstandeth Christes fleshe to be immortall,

• and vnderstandeth nothing in it to the contrary, vn∣derstandeth it Spiritually. Cap. 25.
• That those whiche are and shalbe dampned in Hell and so continew for euer, can not for all that, be trewly & pro∣perly called immortall. Cap. 26
• That there is nothing now in Christes body, that may be so vnderstande, as it is now in our bodies, or was in his, before his resurrection. Cap. 27. &. 28.
• How falsly Frithe dothe vnderstande those places of S. Austen, whiche he dothe alledge out of his worke. De Ciuitate dei, libro. 21. Cap. 25. and out of his sermon (as Frithe dothe note it) De sacra feria Pasche. Cap. 29. &. 30
• How many maner of wayes the blessed body of Christe is eaten. And whether it may be properly sayde, to be any way eaten corporally or not. Cap. 31
• Of the difference that is betewne Corpus & Corporale, That is to say, betwene a body and a bodely thynge or perteynyng to a body. Cap. 32.
• That the Sacrament in respect of it selfe, is not corpus, that is to say, not a body, and yet it is corporall. And that there is no such corporalite in Christes bodie now, as is in ours. Cap. 33
• That althoughe the blessed body of Christe, be of good Ca∣tholike men, for dyuerse good causes, called corporall and naturall, yet it is not properly so, but supernatu∣rall and super corporall. Cap. 34
• Whether the quantite of Christes body now, be suche as ours is, or whether he hathe his quantite therof, as we haue ours or no. Cap. 35. &. 36
• That Frithe dothe not alledge Saynt Austen vpon certain textes of Scripture euen there, where he goeth euen purposely vpon them, but taketh hym in other places, where he toucheth but parte of the sense, to confyrme therby suche other matter as he hath in hande. And the cause why, that Frithe dothe vse hym so. Cap. 37.
• The cause why, that Saynt Austen doth some time write more obscurely to vs, then he doth to heretikes. Cap. 38
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• That, not only the very reall eatinge of Christes blessed body in the holy Sacrament, whiche is generall, but also the spirituall eating of it whiche is speciall, is pro∣ued by Saynt Austen. Cap. 39.
• That Frithe by Saynt Austen is conuinced in this, that he wolde haue none other eating of Christes very body but only spirituall, whiche he meaneth to be nothyng els in effecte, but onlie to beleue that Christ died for vs. Cap. 40. &. 41.
• That if Frithes fayth were trew, the ordinance of man in the Roode, shuld be better then the ordinance of christ in the Sacrament. Cap. 42.
• What a false parte Frithe playeth with Saynt Ambrose, and of the cause why. And what he seyth of Belasius. Cap. 43. &. 44.
• What false dissimulation Frithe vseth in the sayinges of the olde holy fathers. And how directly he is therin a∣geynst hym selfe. Cap. 45
• That this worde substance, and also this worde nature, are taken and vsed eache of them very diuersly. Cap. 46.