Also we graunt that a sacrifice is there, in respect that there is a com∣memoration of the true sacrifice: and the sacraments, that is the outwarde signes which are proposed, are signes of the same true sacrifice, and by the institution of the Lorde, doe set foorth the same vnto the Communicants.
The sentences which I haue now rehearsed, the prudent and gentle rea∣der of my Booke shall finde not onely to be handled therein, but also to bee confirmed by many testimonies as∣well of the Scripture as of the Fa∣thers. Wherefore, if it shall like him to haue all this whole cōtrouersie plain∣lie and euidently described as it were in a certaine table, let him with an at∣tentiue minde and often repetition make himselfe well acquainted, fyrst with these sentences, and then with the reasons which I haue brought in this Abridgement: for in so doing, I hope he shall both reape profit, and it shal ne∣uer repent him of the labour he hath bestowed. 1561.