THE SECOND CHALLENGE.
In respect of the necessitie of a Lowde voice, especially by the Romish Priest, in uttering the words of Consecration.
THe greatest silence, which is vsed by the Romane worship∣pers, is still in the Priests vttering, or rather muttering the words of Institution [Hoc est corpus meum: and, Hic est sanguis meus:] albeit here is the greatest and most necessarie Cause of ex∣pressing them, for the satisfaction of euery vnderstanding Hearer among you. For those you call the Words of Consecration, the iust pronunciation whereof you hold to be most necessarie: because if the Priest, in vttering of them, faile but in one syllable, so farre as to alter the sence of Christs words (which as you say may happen by six manner of Defects) then the whole Consecration is void; and the thing, which you adore, is in substance meerely * Bread still. If therefore the People shall stand perplexed in themselves, whe∣ther the words, which are concealed, be duely vttered by the Priest to himselfe, how shall it not concerne them to heare the same ex∣presly pronounced, lest that (according to your owne Doctrine) they be deluded in a point of faith, and with divine worship adore Bread instead of the person of the Sonne of God? Whereof we are to entreate at large in due * place, if God permit.
