Caunterbury.
* 1.1THe Scripture is playne, and you confesse also, that it was bread that [ 1] Christ spake of, when he sayd, This is my body. And what nede we a∣ny other scripture to encounter with these words, seyng that all men know that bread is not Christes body, the one hauing sense and reason, the other none at all? Wherfore in that speach must nedes be sought an other sence & meanyng, then the wordes of themselues do geue, which is (as all olde wri∣ters do teach, and the circumstances of the text declare) that the bread is a figure and sacrament of Christes body. And yet as he geueth the bread to [ 2] be eaten with our mouthes, so geueth he his very body to be eaten with our faith. And therfore I say, yt Christ geueth himselfe truely to be eaten, chaw∣ed, and digested, but all is spiritually with fayth, not with mouth. And yet you would beare me in hand, that I say that thing which I say not: that is to say, that Christ did not geue his body, but the figure of his body. And because you be not able to confute that I say, you would make me to say that you can confute.
* 1.2As for the great power and omnipotency of God, it is no place here to [ 3] dispute what God can do, but what he doth. I know that he can do what he will, both in heauen and in earth, & no man is able to resist his wil. But the question here is of his will, not of his power. And yet if you cā ioyne to∣gether these two, that one nature singuler shalbe here and not here, both at one time, and that it shalbe gone hence when it is here, you haue some strōg syment, and be a cunning Geometrician: but yet you shall neuer be good Logician, that woulde set together two contradictories. For that the scholemen say, God cannot do.