A defence of the true and catholike doctrine of the sacrament of the body and bloud of our sauiour Christ with a confutacion of sundry errors concernyng the same, grounded and stablished vpon Goddes holy woorde, [and] approued by ye consent of the moste auncient doctors of the Churche. Made by the moste reuerende father in God Thomas Archebyshop of Canterbury, primate of all Englande and Metropolitane.

And yf you wyll aske me the question, who be those false Prophetes and seducers of the peo∣ple,* 1.1 the aunswere is soone made: The Romishe Antichristes and theyr adherentes, the authors of all errour, ignorance, blyndenesse, superstiti∣on, hypocrisie, and ydolatrie.

* 1.2For Innocentius the thyrd (one of the moste wycked men that euer was in the sea of Rome) dyd ordeyne and decree, that the hoste should be diligently kept vnder locke and keye.

* 1.3And Honorius the thirde, not only confirmed the same, but commanded also, that the priestes shulde diligently teache the people from tyme to tyme, that whan they lyfted vp the breadde cal∣led the hoste, the people should then reuerently bowe downe, and that lykewyse they shoulde do whan the prieste carrieth the hoste vnto sycke

folkes. These be the statutes and ordynances of Rome, vnder pretence of holynesse, to leade the people vnto all errour and Idolatrie: not bryn∣gynge theym by breadde vnto Christe, but from Christe vnto bread.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Cha. 10. They bee the Pap••∣stes that haue decei¦ued the peo¦ple.
• * 1.2

  Innocentius tertius.
• * 1.3

  Honorius tertius.