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A05532	Certaine tables sett furth by the right reuerend father in God, William Bushopp of Rurimunde, in Ghelderland: wherein is detected and made manifeste the doting dangerous doctrine, and haynous heresyes, of the rashe rablement of heretikes: translated into Englishe by Lewys Euans, and by hym intituled, The betraing of the beastlines of heretykes	Lindanus, Guilelmus Damasus, 1525-1588.; Evans, Lewis, fl. 1574.	1565 (1565)	STC 15653; ESTC S106730	25,509	82

of thy neare breatherne these newe made Ministers and yf you will not beleue me looke then vpon the hande of your neare neyghebour and thou shalt fynd there the note signe of thaefte infamie Exeter Gayle can testifye yt there the Bushopes pryson must needes wytnes yt but peraduenture good Reader thow wilte request to knowe the vyllanye of all the reaste of these varletes yf thou doe so I pray thee beare awhyle with me for I doe meane shortlye to shewe and make notyce of their names fylthie facte place wherein their drudgerie was cōmytted so in the meane tyme I tel thee thys that vnū cognoris omnes noueris in knowing one thow hast knowē theym all And o you Ministers what say you to hym who hathe noted all your names the place where you were bredde in borne the arte and occupaciō wherein yow were brought vpp and of some of you the fellonie for the which your handes with whoate burning yron before the iudge hath bene hardened of some other the inceste and whoredome and of the beste of you the worthye discredyte in all your countreye can not thys make you to shrynke and to be ashamed and cannot thys cause yow to change places one with an other as you haue preatelie begunne Notwithstanding all thys wyl you styll be meadling with the highe misteries of God wil you with your theevishe burned thombes fylthelie styll be fyngering of the boke of God be these y e teachers good people which this paynted false attyred truthe brought vs yea be not these the rude shameles rablement whiche vntruthe hathe brought with her as a trayne yes yes these be they good Reader whom I wyshe thee to weyghe with the wyse Fathers Doctors of the primitiue churche whose authorities in this litle boke be alleaged these be the vpholders of thys hanging looke lecherous and faynting fayth and therefore lende thow thy faythful iudgemēt iudge thow indifferētly whether y e chast godly fathers of the former tymes ought more to be credyted or els these cursed and thievish beastlye bankerupte breathren these men be they which were thought meete to be chosen into the Rome place of the graue wyse and learned labourers of the church of Christ such be the wanton wolfes which in these later dayes haue creapte into your howses to werie you these be they which with their whoores at home haue both ioye and pleasure to see your soules to peryshe foreuer Oh the howses wherein sometymes graue studētes wyse men dyd dwel doe beare recorde of the ruefull estate of the Realme of England the Colleges wherein learning of long tyme so laudablie did flooryshe be now defyled with leacherie fylled vp with the fylthie stuffe of whoores and harlottes the Personages Vicarages wherein poore folkes were wonte to haue some foode be now al fylled with the fowle defourmed broode of bastardes the holy churches sometymes duely decked with the memorial of the blessed Martyres singuler Sainctes be now with the fylth of Priestes bastardes throughout the whole chaūcell defyled and berayd I wil not speake of the spoyle made nowe by these Ministers throughout al the spiritual lyvinges in Englande I will let passe their couetous powling that only to pamper vp theyr hawtye and hyeghe mynded Helens theyr bastardes and misbegottē mynions doughters I will nothing towche their wrongeful takinges their byeng selling chopping and changing of benefices and I wyl not at this tyme rehearse the malicious and impudent madd mindes But peraduēture gentle Reader some man wyl dowbte whether I be able to stand by and proue all thys or not wel I promyse thee that the cōsciences of a number in England can testyfie yt and I wolde wyshe that I might without grynding be licēced before M. Grindal to proue it Further I doe wyshe al men to iudge whether they be wicked or no who most wrongfullie accuse the Catolykes of great crymes treason and disobedience for I assure thee that in this theyr aduersytie they doe vpō their knees pray vnto God for the preseruacion of our most gracious Prince and Quene And therefore good people yt is the false preachers of England which beareth her no good wyl yt is they that for the wearing of a cappe will comptrole her maiesties most gracious mynde cōmaundement yt is their dreamyng disobedience which dothe defye her lawes and yt is their churlyshe hateful hartes that murmure and grudge against her maiesties proceadinges For the Catholykes good Christian doe but flye from the tyrannie of these caytyfes they leave the realme to advoyde the rage of such Antichristes and they departe from their country onely to be careful for the saluacion of theyr soules And I wold to God that any indifferent Englyshe man wolde marke what kynde of men there be here they be of truthe the very treasure of our country they be grave wyse learned and godlye fathers yea and they be such as this country wondereth how that our country can wante them But now to make an ende there ys no iuste cause M. Grindall why you shoulde be displeased with me in dedicating thys vnto you for you may not thinke scorne in thys your tyme of forgetfulnes to be schooled at the handes of the right Reuerend Father the Bushop of Rurimunde and you may not dysdayne yf the way truthe be tolde you by the diuines and Doctors of the Church And therefore onles you contemne the Counsayll of such catholyke holye Fathers as Sainct Chrysostome S. Hierome and suche others And onles you wyl lytle weyghe the whole wryters of the true church you can not choyse but thanke me for my good meaning and intent but whether you doe nowe thanke me or not Yet when you haue shaken of thys heavye burthen of heresye I dowbte not but that you wyll then doe yt And thus gentle Reader I commytt thee vnto God who guyde thy harte in the knowelaige of Christ his true faythe Amen Some parte of rhe Protestantes beleefe which theyr hyghe and Archeheretykes do holde translated out of a litle booke made by Fridericus Staphylus 1. First Luther in his confession de Eucharistia aduersus Swermeros saeth that Vltichu● Zwinglius affirmed that Numa Scipio ● suche other ethnikes were receaued by Go● vnto eternall lyf for their excellent natural vertues sake this is y e heresie of y e Pelagiās 2. Luther in his sermone cōcerning Moses affirmeth that y e tenne cōmaundementes do not apperteigne vnto vs but vnto y e Jewes alone This is the heresie of the Manichees 3. Luther in his booke entituled De libertate Christiana Melancthon in his annotation vpon S. John sayth that onelye incredulitie is synne that there is no other kin● of synne This is the heresie of Eunomius 4. Melancthon in his annotations vpo● the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romaines ● Luther in his booke De seruo

❧ Certaine Tables sett furth by the right Reuerend father in God William Bushopp of Rurimunde in Ghelderland wherein is detected and made manifeste the doting dangerous doctrine and haynous heresyes of the rashe rablement of heretikes translated into Englishe by Lewys Euans And by hym intituled The betraing of the beastlines of heretykes Reade and iudge let selfe will walke Peruse the booke before thowe talke Imprinted at Antwerpe by Aegidius Diest with Priuiledge 1565. YF that thowe heretykes shalt here Beholde to playe suche parte As from the fathers of the churche And from theym selues to starte Yf playnelie thowe mayste here perceaue Theyr purpose and theyr pryde Theyr facing false in cyting here Throughe rage the Doctors wyde what wylte thowe more yt ys ynoughe Onles thowe blynded bee As nothing may perswade thy mynde Theyr madenes for to flee But I doe truste that thowe wylte doe As dyd a Minster Late who seing in wrytten hande thys booke Dyd say vnto hys mate Yf thys be true no faythe of myne Shall feede on Caluines crye Yf thys be true full tyme yt ys Our tryflinges to denye TO MAISTER GRINDAL Lewys Euans wisheth perfeicte healthe OF that mynde I alwayes haue bene M. Gryndal that I thought my selfe not well yf myne abilitie dyd not serue some kinde of waye to recompence the friendlye benefyte by others on me bestowed ▪ so that in my being before you sundrie tymes for religiō I founde at your handes a certayne kinde of fauour thoughe after a worldlie maner of waye for that cause I wished oftentymes of trothe that I cold finde out some thing wherein I might gratifye you for the same accordinglie But sythēce my being laste at Fulham before you it was my chaunce to meete with certayne Tables sett furthe by the right Reuerend Father in God VVillm̄ Bushop of Rurimunde in Ghelderlande in fowre of the which tables I thē perceaued the peruerse purpose of heretikes so painted as more then a wonder vnto me yt was howe anie man beholding the same colde longer lye in suche lothesome sinckes of heresie synne For shold not theyr falling out against the diuines and Doctors of the primitiue churche cause vs to forsake them sholde not theyr owne diuelishe dissention and stryfe make vs to aduoyde them shold not their wylie whispering with olde condemned damnable heretikes moue vs to hate them and sholde not their manifeste wrongfull allegacions and sclaunderinges of Doctors and Scripture driue vs to defye them wherefore seing that I founde in suche of the sayd Tables all the diuelish doting of harebrayne bolde heretikes so manifestly expressed I thought it not a mysse aswell to translate the same whereby your ouermeane Englishe Mynisters might before their eyes beholde the haynous errours hatefull heresies wherein they are in these our dayes more then drowned that the people oppressed with the poyson of false doctrine might perceaue the plague wherewyth they be daylie vexed vndone and that all men might vnderstande the detestable doinges the lyeng lecherous spirite facing filthynes of heretykes as also to dedicate the same vnto you that so the poore people and feeble newe fangled folkes throughe the preachinges of yowe and your onmanerlie mowthed ministers infected might nowe receaue as yt were at your handes a salue and medicine to heale their inwarde most greuous and synfull sores And thus I ende wishing to youe as to myne owne soule that ys saluacion before the iuste iudge at the daye of iudgement From Antwerpe the 29. of Iune ¶ L. Euans to the Reader AFter that I hadde here gentle Reader read ouer certaine tables sett furthe by the right reuerend father in God Willm Bushopp of Rurimunde in Ghelderland and by him specially written for the instruction and proffytt of the people of Germanye I adiudged fowre of the same to be a trymme token and meete for me to send in to the coūtrey of England for the behooue and auayle of Englishemen wherefore I thowght it my parte duetye to bestowe some piece of my smale talent on such profitable such pleasaunt and suche passyng excellēt a fielde For in this fielde I meane in these tables are founde suche trymme touchestones as therewith we maie trie the true faithe from the false true dealinges frō deceitfull godlines from vngodlines good people from badd and true Christians frō raging Antichristes In these tables is orderlie comprehended the disorder and harebraine bolde beastlines of heretickes herein is declared theyr most filthie falling out iarring and debate herein is cowched the sundrie sortes of their cursed hainows heresies and herein is opened their vtter brutishe ignorācie and selfe will in wayng of the Doctors and scriptures yea thow maist hence as from an high towre behold the runneagate course and restles race of theym For in the first Table thow seest their wilful departing from the Catholyke faithe and from the mynde of the Doctors Martirs of the primatiue churche In the seconde thow perceauest the bitter brawles and mutuall madnes not onlye of the one against the other but also which of all rage is most beastlie of euery one against him selfe In the thirde Table as the prodigall child who forsaking his tender and louing parētes at the leangth is fallen into the handes and cōpanie of pernicious parasites heapes of hell howndes so these men hauing forsakē their faithfull deare frendes the learned Doctors and meeke Martirs yea running away from their most louing mother the Churche are now as in the thyrde Table appeareth fallen in to the handes of suche hateful rakehels as are not onlie content with the welthe goodes and bodyes of these poore blynded protestantes but to shewe further their onsatiable wicked crueltye all those olde I say cancred heresie and heretickes which were in any corner and at any time nowseled by anie noughtie poysonfull and past shame person they now bring with them these theyr yong whelpes ah las vnto the fierye furnace of hell there most miserablye with onspeakable tormentes to murther theyr seelye sowles Further in the fourthe Table they haue as yow see vttered theyr hole streangthe they haue shewed all theyr shiftes they haue bewraid all theyr wickednes and to the open shame of theyr successors they haue left them selfes all bare in the playne fielde to be most worthelye flowted and spitted at For whereas the ignorant people by them seduced thought allwayes that they had scriptures and doctors on their syde nowe they haue wrought so fondlie as the scriptures and doctors them selfes doe testifie the cōtrarie in so much y t truelie it were inowgh for anye that hadd but one droppe of grace yf he perceaued them to varie from the Apostles and from twoe hundreth diuine Doctors of y e church then to cause him to abhorre their beastlines But wee see here that they varie from all godlie men and from God him selfe that like theues they fall out amongst them selues and betray one another we see that they followe the

beholde the very woordes translated out of the booke which Luther wrote against the Zwinglians The woordes are these These dissensions and diuisions amongst those Zwinglians doe not procede from the holye spirite but from Sathan because the spirite of suche geaddynes doth cōtrarye him selfe Wherefore yt may be cōcluded that the dyuel the father of al dissension stryfe is the doctor teacher of those Zwinglians But the Zwinglians doe aunswere him thus O Luther vse and turne these woordes to thee and thy fellowes whiche doe varye more amongst your selfes then wee doe then shalt thowe speake most truely Wherefore as in the first Table is plainelye declared vnto thee the frowardenes varieng and iarring of Luther Zwinglius Melancthon and suche others against the tradicions of the Apostles and doctrine of the Catholyke churche so here in this second Table is conteyned most manifestlye the rancour incōstancie stryf and controuersye concerning the chiefest poincte of faythe betwene those faytheles foes and enemies of Christianitie wherein they not only write say and preache the one against the other but also in one and the self same yeare eache one against him self Luther this yeare writeth against Zwinglius Zwinglius against him and Melancthon against them bothe Luther will haue at the first .vij. Sacramentes then loasing fyve he alloweth but twoe and at the lenght he affirmeth to be but one or none at all Melancthon will cast a better accompte for twoe he avowcheth to be at the first then three afterwardes fowre but in the ende he flyeth vnto the fonde fancie of them of Saxonie and so denieth all that he before hath done Thirdly William Postellus one of the self same companie and of the lyke cōcorde alleageth .vj. Sacramentes and somewhere .vij. Thus so wavering you see ys ther waywarde wilfullnes and so onstedfast ys this their strange fancies as they are lead from one self wil to another from one shamefull secte to a nomber and from extreme folye to rage and meare madnes Lo suche is the deceateful spirite of the dyuel as alwaies hating vnitie still nowseleth his schollers children in the noysom damnable doungeon of stryf and dissention being so I think there is none onles he be benoōmed and there is none onles he be desperate and bewiched but will beholde the headdy inconstante counsaill of heretickes and whether he ought to beleue their blind oncertaine fantasies orels the vniforme plaine and perfecte doctrine of Christ and of his Catholyke churche ❧ This table treateth of the hatefull heresies once sprong vpp in the primitiue churche and then condemned by the holy and learned Doctors and Apostles of Christ all which heresies nowe budding againe be vpholden and imbraced by Luther Zwinglius Bucer such other like newe fangled fond felowshipp of Sathan CCC.L. yeare after Christ as S. Hierome in a Preface to the dialogue against Pela doeth witnes y e Manichees did affirme man to haue no free will so dothe Luther Brentius Illyricus Caluine also at the first Melancthō but againe he denieth it as appeareth in his cōmune places in the .52 yeare The Cerdionistes as S. Augustine doeth witnes ad Quod vult affirmed Christ his spirite to haue bene in none of the Prophetes so doth Michael Seruetus as Caluine dothe witnes CCC.L. yeare the Manichees did affirme it impossible for man to kepe the lawe of God so doth Luther and Caluine in his institut CCC.XC yeare the Pelagians as S. Augustine in sundrie places doth witnes affirmed no original synne to be in infantes so doth Zwingliꝭ Seruetus and the Anabaptist The Pelagians as S. Augustine in his .iij. booke .iij. chapiter against Iulianus dothe witnes affirmed the Christians childrē not to be maculated with synne but to be pure from the same so doth Zwingliꝭ Caluine ● Bucer CCC.L. yeare the Massilianistes as Damascenꝭ towching heresies doth witnes affirmed that baptisme maketh a man neyther ꝑfect nor holy nor that the Diuine sacramentes receaued doe purge vs from synne so dothe Luther and zwingliꝭ The Pelagians as S. August ad Quod vult doth witnes affirmed the infantes of y e Christiās to be borne good and heires of lyf euerlasting that they are not new borne againe to lyf by Baptisme so dothe Bucer Caluine CCC.L. yeare y e Massilianistes affirmed originall synne not to be forgyuen in Baptisme but so to remaine as it be not imputed vnto vs. so doth Luther The Seleucianistes and Herminians as S. Augustin in his worke ad Quod vult doth testifie alleaged the Baptisme of water not to be necessarie so dothe Caluine in his instituciōs CC.X. yeare the Nouatianistes as Theodoretus doth witnes affirmed confirmacion not to haue any anoynting of holy oyle so dothe Bucer Caluin CCC.XXX yeare the Donatistes as Optatus Mileuitanus alleageth did saye y e holy vnction ought not to be vsed so doth Luther Caluine in his institutiōs 1000. yeare Berengarius dyd affirme y t the sacramente of the Aultar is but a sygne of the Lordes bodye so doth Zwingliꝭ Occolampadius Caluine 1000. yeare y e Gerengarians as recordeth Guitmundus Auersanus affirmed that the sacramēte of the aultar hath the very body of Christ w t very bread so doth Luther his adherentes CCC.XXX yeare y t Massilianistes as Theodoretus saeth affirmed y t the Eucharist vnder y e forme of bread hathe not the verie blood so dothe the Luthera● in Polonia as the confesion of Polonia declarethe And that the sacramēt eaten doth neither preuaile nor hurt so doth Bucer XL. yeare the Nestorians as S. Cyrill in an epistle ad Col. doth testifie affirmed that the sacrament had not the body of Christ without the vse of the sacrament so doth the Lut●●ran● CCC.L. yeare Aerius as witnesseth S. August Epiph. affirmed that no sacrifice ought to be done for y e dead so dothe the Lutherā● Zwinglius CCC.X. yeare the Jouinistes as witnesseth S. Hierom. in his second boke against Jouinianus affirmed that good men cold not synne nor be at any tyme voyde of the holy ghoast so dothe the Anabaptistes CCC yeare the Audianistes as Theodoretus doth witnes affirmed that y e sacramental confession is not necessarie so dothe the Lutherans and Zwingliās CCC.L. yeare y e Massilianistes as Damascenus in haeresib doth record alleaged y e Sacramēt of order to be no sacramēt of a true name y t the cleargie are not coparcioners of y e holy ghost by ther ordinaūce which thing also affirmed y ● Alpigenistes in y e. 1250. so dothe the Lutherās zwingliās CCCC.L. yeare the Armenistes Catharistes affirmed the sacramentes to be faigned by man and that they worke no grace so doth the Lutherans the Zwingliās vij c. LXXX yeare the Felicianistes the Waldenses affirmed y t the images of Christ and his Saincts are Idololatrous so doth Zwingliꝭ Caluine the Lutherans in the highest Bauaria CCC.L. yeare Porphyrius Eunomicus Eustathiꝭ affirmed as the Counsaile Gangrensis doth witnes

but of Christe him selfe because shee ignorante in the meaning of the Scriptures dyd marye an other He sayeth moreouer that shee was therefore gilte of synne ☞ The assertion of heretykes Philipp Melancthon affirmed that the oblation of the Sacramēt of Christe his bodie for the dead was not vsed in the tyme of S. Augustine That is vntrue For the hole Churche of Africa in a Synode dyd forbyd that the Sacrament sholde be offered for some sortes and this was done in the tyme of S. Cyprian as he him self witnesseth in the .ix. epistle of his .j. boke which Cyprian was the space of C.Lxx. yeares more before the tyme of S. Augustine Also Tertullian in his woorke concerning Chastitie S. Ambrose in the funerall Oration vpon the deathe of Satyrꝭ his brother S. Chrysostome in the Lxix Homelie vnto y e Antiochians and S. Augustine hym self in his .xxij. Sermone de verb. Apost doe wryte likewise ynoughe at large to the manifest confounding and shame oft Melancthon and suche others ☞ The assertion of heretykes Philipp Melancthon alleageth that the invocaciō of Sainctes creapte into y e church after the tyme of Gregorie the first That is an vntruthe For in the tyme of S. Cyprian that is in the C.LX. yeares after Christ his incarnacion our Ladie the virgin Marye was prayd vnto as Nazianzenus in oratione in Cyprianū dothe witnes Also Nectarius Constantinopolitanus prayd vnto S. Theodorus S. Augustine de cura pro mortuis in the .iiij. chap. of the first sermone prayd vnto S. Laurence Also S. Ambrose de viduis and S. Hierome invocated one Paula in the Epitaphe of the same ☞ The heretykes assertion Philip Melancthon in the Apologie of the confession of Auspurge dothe affirme that no other auncient writer before the tyme of Gregorie y e first dyd make any mencion of the invocation of Sainctes That is false For S. Cyprian in a booke concerning his lyfe in the yeare of our Lorde C.LX. as Nazianzenus dothe declare affirmed that a certayne Christian mayden dyd devoutlye praye vnto the blessed virgin Marye Origines in the CC.xx. yeare of our Lorde in his commentarie vpon Job dothe invocate the Sainctes Nectarius Constantinopolitanus in the yeare of our Lorde .iij c. Lx. prayd as before vnto Theodorus the Martyr Nazianzenus in the funerall song prayd vnto S. Basil in y e yeare of our Lorde .iij c. Lx. S. Chrysostome capitulo primo ad Philip. in the yeare of our Lord .iij c. Lxx. dothe teache that the Sainctes ought to be prayd vnto S. Ephrem in the yeare of our Lorde .iij c. Lxx. dyd pray vnto the virgin Marie S. Ambrose in the yeare of our Lorde .iij c. Lxxx. de viduis saeth that Martyrs ought to be prayd vnto Prudentius in the yeare of our Lorde .iij c. Lx. prayd vnto S. Laurence S. Hierome in the yeare of our Lorde .iij c.xc S. August in the yeare .iiij c. after Christe Vigiliꝭ Tridentinus in the .iiij c.xx. yeare and Theodoretus in the .iiij c.xxx yeare all these holy Fathers Doctors and Martyrs haue prayd vnto the Sainctes and doe teache that wee ought likewise to doe the same Therefore you may see howe Melancthon hathe belyed them with his most impudent lyes would abuse bothe them and vs. ☞ The heretykes assertions John Caluine in his institutions doth alleage that the auncient writers when they spake properlie of the Sacramentes dyd acknowlege to be but twoe That is false For S. Cyprian in the .xij. epistle of his first booke and in his sermone De ablutione pedum dothe affirme that there be more Sacramentes then the Sacramentes of Baptisme and of our Lordes bodie so dothe Tertullian in his boke De poenitentia S. Hierome against the Luciferans Leo Magnus in his xc epistle and S. Augustine in places hereafter recited ☞ The heretickes assertions John Caluine in his institutions doth alleage that S. Augustine dyd acknowelaige but twoe Sacramentes the one of Baptisme and the other of our Lordes bodie That is false For S. Augustine in the .xx. chapiter of his .v. booke against the Donatistes dothe alleage confirmation to be a sacrament and in the .xiij. chapiter of his .ij. booke cōtra epist. Perme he likewise alleageth holy order to be a Sacrament and also in the C.xviij. epistle vnto Januarius he affirmethe that there be more Sacramentes then twoe so he dothe likewise in many other places ☞ The heretickes assertions John Caluine in y e same institutions doth affirme that S. Augustine cōcerning the sacrament of thalter is wholy on his syde That is false For S. Augustine doth teache vs to adore th● same body of our Lorde Christ to eate it in the misteries of Christians being the same bodye that was borne of y e virgine Marie and crucified by the Jewes And vpon the .xcviij. Psalme he saeth becawse he walked here in the same fleash he gaue vs y e selfe same flesh to eate And also in a sermō vpon the .xxxiij. Psalme he saeth For Christ did beare the same bodye in his owne handes And so in like manner he doth most clearly expresse the same in sundrie other places ☞ The heretickes assercions John Brentius with his adherētes in theyr confession of Wirtembrige doe alleage that Transsubstantiation was not knowen vnto the auncient writers That is false For Sainct Cyprian in a sermon of the Lordes supper in the yeare of our Lorde .ij c.xxx saeth this flesh not in forme but in nature changed is become flesh Eusebius Emissenus the yeare of our Lord ij c. L. in his .iiij. Homelie in Pascha affirmeth that these earthlye thinges doe passe over be altered from theyr former being Agayne he saeth these creatures are converted into the substaunce of the body of Christ. Sainct Chrysostome in the yeare of our Lorde iij c. Lx. de Encenijs alleageth the nature of the bread to passe or wast away in Liturgia he saeth y e Priest blessinge with his hand consecratinge those holy thinges saeth altering these o Lorde with thy holy spirite Sainct Ambrose the yeare of our Lorde iij c. Lxxx. lib. de his qui c. the .ix. chap. saeth that remaineth not which nature fourmed but which the blessinge hath cōsecrated For greater saeth he is the power of the blessing then of nature because throwghe the blessing nature it selfe is altered Saint August y e yeare of our Lorde .iiij c. in his .xxviij. sermone de verb. Dom. saeth now it is not bread but the body of Christ. Joannes Damascenꝭ the yeare of our Lord iiij c.x. in the .iiij. chap. of his .xiiij. booke doth affirme that the bread and wyne are super-naturally chaunged into the body and blood of our Lorde Hesichius the yeare of our Lorde iiij c.x. in the .xxij. chapiter of his .vj. booke vpon Leuiticus affirmeth a transferring or changing of the substance Gelasius saeth Transeunt in diuinam naturam that is they passe ouer into a diuine nature And Theophilactus in the yeare of our