Yet a thyrde reason they haue,* 1.1 whyche they gather out of the syxte of Iohn,* 1.2 where CHRIST sayeth:
I am lyuely breade, which came from heauen. If anye manne eate of thys breade, he shall lyue for euer. And the breadde whiche I wyll giue, is my fleshe, whiche I wyll gyue for the lyfe of the worlde.
Than reason they after this fashion. If the breade whyche Chryste gaue, bee his fleshe, that it canne not also bee materiall breade, and so it muste needes folowe, that the mate∣riall breade is gone, and that none other sub∣staunce remaineth, but the fleshe of CHRIST onlye.
To this is soone made answere:* 1.3 that Christ in that place of Iohn, spake not of the materiall and sacramentall breade, nor of the sacrementall eating, (for that was spoken two or thre yeares before the sacramente was fyrste ordained) but hee spake of spirituall breade
(manny tymes repetynge,* 1.4 I am the bread of lyfe, which came frome heauen)and of spirituall eating by faith, after whiche sorte, hee was at the same presente tyme, eaten of as manye, as beleued on him, al∣though the sacramēt was not at that tyme made and instituted.* 1.5 And therefore he saide:
Your fa∣thers did eate Manna in the deserte, and died, but he that eateth this bread shall lyue for euer.