Winchester.
After this the author occupieth a great number of leaues, that is to say, from the lvii. leafe vnto the lxxiiii, to proue Christs words. This is my body) to be a figuratiue spech. Sleight and shift is vsed in the matter without any offectuall consecution, to him that is learned.
First the author sayth Christ called bread his body, Confessed bread his body. To this is aunswered, Christes calling is a making, as S. Paule sayth.* 1.1 Vocat ea quae non [ 1] sunt, tan{que} ea quae sint, He calleth that be not as they were. And so his calling (as Chri∣sostome and the greke commentaries say,* 1.2 is a making, which also the Catechisme tea∣cheth, trnslated by Iustus Ionas in Germany, and after by this author in english. Ter∣tullian saith,* 1.3 Christ made bread his body, & it is all one spech in Christ being god, decla∣ring his ordinaunces, whither he vse the word call, or make, for in his mouth to call is [ 2] to make.
Cypryan saith according hereunto hows bread is by Gods omnipotency made fleshe, whereupon also this spech (bread is flesh) is as much to say as made flesh, not that bread beyng bread is flesh, but that was bread is flesh by Gods omnipotency, and so this au∣thor entreating this matter as he doth, hath partly opened the fayth of transubstantia∣on. For in dede bread beyng bread is not Christes body, but that was bread, is nowe Christes body because bread is made Christes body, and because Christ called bread his [ 3] body which was in Christ to make bread his body. When Christ made water wine the spech is very proper to say, water is made wine. For after like manner of spech we say Christ iustifieth a wicked man, Christ saueth sinners, & the phisitiō hath made the sicke man whole, & suche dyet will make an whole man sicke. Al these speches be proper and playn, so as the construction be not made captious and Sophisticall, to ioin that was to that now is, forgetting the meane worke.
When Christ said (This is my body) there is necessitie that the demonstration (this) should be referred to the outwarde visible matter, but may be referred to the inuisible [ 4] substaunce. As in the spech of God the father vpō Christ in Baptisme: This is my son.
* 1.4And here whē this auctor taketh his recreation to speak of the fainyng of the papists I shal ioyn this Issue in this place that he vnderstandeth not what he saith, and if his [ 5] knowledge be no better then is vttered herein the penne, to be in this point clerly cōdē∣ned of ignoraunce.