But now seyng that it is so euident a matter,* 1.1 bothe by the expresse wordes of scripture, & also by all tholde authors of the same,* 1.2 that our sauior Christ (as cōcernyng his bodely presence) is as∣cended into heauē, and is not here in yerth. And seyng that this hath been the true confession of the catholike fayth euer sithens Christes ascen∣cion, it is nowe to be cōsidered, what moued the Papistes to make a newe and contrary fayth, & what scriptures they haue for their purpose. What moued them I knowe not, but their own iniquitie, or the nature and condicion of the sea of Rome, whiche is of all other most contrary to Christ, and therfore most worthy to be called the sea of Antichrist. And as for scripture thei allege none but only one, & that not truly vnderstāded, but to serue their purpose wrested out of tune,* 1.3 wherby they make it to gerre & sound cōtrary to al other scriptures partainyng to that matter.
Christ toke bread (say they) blessed, and brake it, and gaue it to his disciples, saiyng: This is my body. These woordes they euer styll repeate and beate vpon, that Christe sayd, This is my body. And this saiyng they make their shote an∣ker, to proue therby, aswell the real and nataral presence of Christes body in the sacrament, as their imagined Transubstantiation. For these woordes of Christ (say they) be most playne and