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NOwe séeing that that humayne flesh which Iesus Christ hath ta∣ken for vs, is exempte from all sinne, where is then that he toke it? Did he bring it from Heauen with hym, or else did he take it vppon the Earthe?
When thou confessest that hée was conceiued of the holy Ghost, and borne of the virgine Mary, thou confessest that he toke it vppon earth, in the wombe of that holye virgin.
But coulde he not haue passed thorow the womb of the vir∣gin with a heauenly fleshe, withoute ta∣king any thing of hir fleshe?
If he had brought from heauen that flesh which he hath, and that it were a flesh of a heauen∣ly and diuine nature, which he should not haue taken in the wombe of the virgin, and of the proper fleshe and bloud of hir, we could not say truly that she had con∣ceyued and borne him, and consequent∣ly that he were very man of oure proper fleshe and bloud, whiche we haue of oure first father Adam.