A detection of sundrie foule errours, lies, sclaunders, corruptions, and other false dealinges, touching doctrine, and other matters vttered and practized by M.Iewel, in a booke lately by him set foorth entituled, a defence of the apologie. &c. By Thomas Harding doctor of diuinitie.

Iewel. Pag. 297.

The most catholike pillers of your catholike Church (as namely Caie∣tanus) haue said, that faith is not necessarie for him, that receiueth the Sacrament of thankesgeuing: notvvithstanding he acknovvlegeth this vvas an errour.

Harding.

What vanitie is this, to laie that to Cardinal Caietane, which your selfe cōfesse, he defendeth not, but acknow∣legeth to be an errour? The wordes by you alleged out of a booke made by one, that was as false a brother, as your selfe, do meane no more, but that a man may receiue Christes body, albeit he haue no faith, as Iudas did. What is this to the purpose, that we speake of? Moreouer, if Caietane once had thought (which he neuer did) that by the Masse we applie Christes merites to menne not wel disposed: yet seing you say, he tooke it for an errour af∣terward, by this meane I might prooue, that M. Iewel were a Papist, bicause once he professed the beleefe of the Catholike Church, when verely that Church was only meant by Godfathers, Godmothers, and the Ministers, which had the Sacrifice of the Masse, and praiers to the Saintes, and Praiers for the Dead.

But you can not M. Iewel allege vs any one man, that

saith, that by the Masse we applie the merites of Christ to menne, howsoeuer they be disposed. Neither doth Gabriel Biel, nor Iacobus de Valentia, nor S. Thomas teache so, whose wordes you corrupt with false transla∣tion, englishing, Pro quotidianis delictis, for the debte of daily sinnes, where debte is not in the Latine. And in deede the debte of al sinnes, as wel actual, as original, was taken awaie by the Sacrifice of the Crosse. But we see euidently, that the acte, or actual doing of al sinnes was not then taken awaie. For euen now faithful menne do sinne daily. Therefore wee neede stil a dayly Sa∣crifice of none other substance, then that of the Crosse was, but euen of the very same substance, which sub∣stance hath in it al his merite of the Crosse. And thus we offer Christes body, and bloude, not now in truth by bloudshedding (as once only vpon the Crosse it was of∣fered) but in mysterie, by changing the breade, and wine into his body, and bloude. We offer it thus I saie, to ap∣plie vnto deuoute persons by faith, and sacramentes, the merite of the Crosse, praying vnto God, that the death of Christ, which is euer auaileable in it selfe, may (through his bloude, which we offer in the chalice, and drincke with our mouth, and partake in our soules by faith and charitie) be made auaileabe vnto vs.

Notes

• Paralip. Vrsper. an∣no. 1518.
• De vene∣rab. Sacra¦mento al∣taris. c. 1.