*Thus you haue hard the cause, wherfore this opinion of transubstantiation at this present is holdē and defended among christen people, that is to saye, bicause the churche of Rome hathe so determined, although the contrary, by the Pa∣pistes owne confession, appeare to be more easy, more trewe and more accordinge to the Scrip∣ture.

But bicause to our Englishe Papistes (who speak more grossely herein thā y^e Pope himselfe, affirming that the natural body of Christ is na¦turally in the bread and wine) can not, nor dare not grounde the• faith, con•erning transubstā∣tiation, vpon the churche of Rome• whiche al∣though in name, it may be called, moste holy, yet indeed it is the moste stynking do•gehill of all Page  31 wickednes that is vnder heauen, and the very synagoge of the deuil, whiche whosoeuer folo∣weth, can not but stumble, and fall into a pit ful of errours. Because (I say) the Englishe Papi∣stes dare not now stablishe their fayth vpō that foundacion of Rome, therfore they seeke Fegge leaues, that is to say, vayn reasons, gathered of their owne braynes and authorities, wrested frō the intent and mynde of the authors▪ wherwith to couer and hide their shameful errors. Wher∣fore I thought it good, somewhat to trauaile herein, to take awaye those Fygge leaues, that their shamefull errors may plainly to euery mā appeare.