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The. 5. Diuision.
T. C. Pag. 129. Lin. 11.
A man would not thinke, that one that hath beene the Queenes Masesties publike professor of diuinitie in Cambridge, should not know to distinguish, & put a difference betweene ministring the sacrament, & helping to distribute the bread & the cuppe of the sacrament. And if M. Doctor could not learne this in bookes, yet he mighte haue eyther seene it, or at least heard tell of it, in all refor∣med Churches almost, where the Deacons do assist the minister in helping of him to distribute the cup, and in some places also the bread, for the quicker and speedier dispatche of the people, beeing so many in number, that if they should al receyue the bread & the cup at the ministers hand, they should not make an end in eyght hours, which by that assistance may be finished in two, whych is that that M. Caluine sayth. For he sayth, the deacons did reach the cup, & maketh no mention of the bread. And if this be to minister the sacramēt, then they that cut the loafe in peeces, they that fetch ye wine for the supper, they that poure it foorth from greater vessels into glasses & cuppes, or whosoeuer ay∣deth any thing in this action, doe minister the sacrament, than the whych thing there can be nothing more ridiculous.
A man would not haue thought, that one which hath ambitiously desired to be the Quéenes Maiesties diuinitie reader, & yet pretēdeth such puritie & simplicitie, would vpon any occasion (muche lesse of none) vse suche contēmptuous & deriding spéeches towards one not so muche his inferiour. But I passe all ouer quietly, desiring only the Reader to take these & such like notes of your mortification, modestie, & playne dea∣ling. And marke I pray you, howe many words he spendeth in this place to confute me, which speake no otherwise than he would haue me to speake. Surely it is very like that (when you were answering this parte) the olde griefe conceyued for missing the diuinitie Lecture came into your minde, & so much ouercame you, that you coulde not vnderstande what I had sayd: otherwise it coulde not haue béene possible that a man in his right wittes should so farre haue béene ouershot. For marke my saying that you confute, and you shall finde it to differ very little in wordes, but in effecte nothing at all, from that which you in confutation héereof affirme to be the vse in reformed Churches.