Of the institution of the sacrament of the blessed bodie and blood of Christ, (by some called) the masse of Christ eight bookes; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abominations of the Romish masse. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By the R. Father in God Thomas L. Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield.
Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.

Our Third Reason is taken from the Existence of Bread in this Sacrament, after Consecration.

But first of the State of this Question.

SECT. III.

VVE wonder not why your Fathers of the Councell of Trent were so fierce in casting their great Thunderbolt of m A∣nathema, and Curse upon every man that should affirme, Bread and Wine to remayne in this Sacrament after Consecration: which they did, to terrifie men from the Doctrine of Protestants, who doe all affirme the Continuance of the Substance of Bread in the Eucharist. For right well did these Tridentines know, that if the Substance of Bread, or Wine doe remayne, then is all Faith, yea, and Conceit of Transubstantiation but a feigned Chimaera, and meere Fancy, as your Cardinall doth confesse, in granting that n It is a necessarie Condition, in every Transubstantiation, that the thing, which is Con∣verted, cease any more to be; as it was in the Conversion of Water into Wine; Water ceased to be Water. And so must Bread cease to be Bread. This being the State of the Question, we undertake to give