The first paragraffe, of the forme of con∣secration.
The papistes defending the bread to be made Christes natu∣rall body, by vertue of consecration; are at variance among themselues, and cannot tell in the world, which are the precise words of that their putatiue consecratien.* 1.1 For the common opi∣on among the papists, (to which their practise agreeth) holdeth the consecration to consist in these words: This is my body. But their learned pope Innocentius, telleth them another tale; to wit, that Christ consecrated by the power of excellencie, which is not tied to the Sacramentes: and consequently, that hee first consecrated it, and afterward pronounced the words, which the other papistes will haue to be essentiall to the conse∣cration.* 1.2 Iosephus Angles telleth vs very grauely, that this opi∣nion of Innocentius is not hereticall, although it cannot be de∣fended without great temeritie. But by our friers good fauour, if the wordes of the consecration be as they defend;* 1.3 then must the bread perforce be broken, before it be Christes body; then did Christ breake bread, and not his body; then did Christ deliuer bread, and not his bodie. For Christ first blessed the bread, then brake it, then gaue it to his apostles, and after said, This is