M. Hardinge.
As ye procede foorth, ye geue warninge to your Readers, not to take you so, as though ye held with transubstantiation. And here ye speake thereof as best becommeth your scoffinge sprite, callinge it a dreame of men of later times, whereof they coulde neuer yet agree within them selues. By whiche woordes your eloquence hath set foorth your spite and lieing at once. For albeit the terme of transub∣stantiation be* 1.1 of no greater antiquitie,* 1.2 then the Councel Laterane vnder Innocentius the thirde, where it was by the Holy Ghoste, and the Fathers there deuised, as very fitte for opening of the Truthe impugned by the Berengarians: yet is the Doctrine thereof no lesse Auncient, then the Gospel it selfe. For maugre the malice of the Deuil, and of al the Sacramentaries, the Olde Truthe shal preuaile, by whiche we are taught, that, whiche was Breade, by the Mystical blessinge to be‡ 1.3 made Christes Body: and that whiche was wine, to be made his Bloude, as I haue other wheres sufficiently declared. And the Churche hath* 1.4 alwaies hereupon perfitely accorded, touchinge the Substance: though certaine schoolemen in their Scholastical Disputations, where oftentimes victorie is sought, and Faith not im∣pugned, about discussion of somme schoole point, haue without preiudice of our belefe disagreede.