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.

CHALLENGE.

ONly give us leane to spurre you a Question before we end this third Booke. Seeing that Transubstantiation cannot properly be, by your owne Doctrine, except the Substance of Bread ceasing to be there remaine onely the Accidents thereof (this Position of the con∣tinuance of Onely Accidents, without a Subiect, being your Positive Foundation of Transubstantiation) Why is it that none of all your Romish Disputers was hitherto ever able to produce any one Te∣stimony out of all the Volumes of Antiquity, for proofe of this one point, excepting only that of Cyril, which * 1.1 hath beene (as you haue heard) egregiously abused and falsified? Learne you to An∣swere this Question, or else shame to obiect Antiquity any more; but rather confesse your Article of Transubstantiation to be but a Bastardly Impe.

Wee might enlarge our selves in this point of your Vnconscio∣nablenesse in obiecting Testimonies of Fathers, for proofe aswell of Transubstantiation, as of the other Articles above-mentioned;

but that they are to be presented in their proper places, to wit in the following Treatises, concerning Corporall Presence, Corporall Vnion, Corporall Sacrifice of Christ's Body in the Sacrament, and the Divine Adoration thereof; so plainly that any man may be perswaded, our Opposites meane no good Faith, in arguing from the Iudgement of Ancient Fathers.

Hitherto of the First Romish Consequence.

Notes

• * 1.1

  See above, Ch. 4. §. 4.