The B. of Sarisburie.
M. Hardinge would séeme, to haue trained al the Ancient Doctours vnto his side, and to that ende hath mustred them here in an armie al togeather. How be it of them al, there is not one, that teacheth vs one woorde of the Adoration of the Sacrament. Wherefore, if he bringe them foorthe onely for a Shew, they are to many: but if he bringe them, as Witnesses, they are to few: for, touchinge the case, they say nothinge. Yet M. Harding, as a man muche doubtinge his Readers me∣morie, whatsoeuer he hath shortely alleged here, hath els where repeted, and dou∣bled the same in other places of his Booke: so that, if I would answeare al in par∣ticulare, I should be ouer tedious. For auoidinge whereof, it shalbe sufficient, to referre mee selfe ouer to suche places, where as these Authorities are answeared seuerally more at large.
First, as I haue saide before, there is not one of al these Fathers, that willeth vs to Adoure the Sacrament with godly honour. Which thinge notwithstanding they were hable to haue written, if it had béene then either vsed, or thought conue∣nient: and M. Hardinge was hable to haue founde it, if it had béene written. The Bread of the Sacrament is not that Breade,* 1.1 of which Christe speaketh in the sirth of S. Iohn: but very material Breade in déede, and, as S. Cyprian saith, Ex mul∣torum granorum adunatione congestus, Moulded togeather of the minglinge of many cor∣ues, and a Sacrament of that Breade, that came from Heauen. But this mater is answeared in the fifthe Article, and in the First, Seconde, and Thirde Diuision.