The other parte of Christian questions and answeares which is concerning the sacraments, writte[n] by Theodore Beza Vezelian: to which is added a large table of the same questions. Translated out of Latine into Englishe by Iohn Field.

181. Question.

But what doest thou thinke of ta∣king the Sacrament with the hande, which also the Romish Church tooke away?

Answeare.

Albeit I wil not say, that the taking or touching with the hand is so precise∣ly necessarie, as the other Sacramen∣tall rytes (for he also receyueth that re∣ceiueth with his mouth) yet notwith∣standing, I thinke that this also ought to be restored in the Church. For it is more playne then that it can be denyed, that the auncient & Apostolical Church did the same: and it is playne, that this same thrusting of the bread into the mouth sprang first from a certaine pre∣posterous and altogeather superstiti∣ous reuerence of the Sacraments, as though men were vnworthie to handle the holy Elements, when as notwith∣standing the mouth is more impure then the hande. To be short there, is no

man but seeth, vnlesse it bee hee which hath no eyes, from whence this super∣stition cōmeth, that same doting dreame of transubstantiation once beeyng re∣ceiued.