congruence It doth extende farther or els I haue mist Ye for soth quod he who wyll that resyst For when Christ offered him selfe by his passion He became for euer our propiciation In consideration wherof we do here Offer to the father this swete sacrifice Of his blessed sonne to him moost dere Whose death for mercy for vs dayly cryes For workes haue we none that before his eyes Are worthy of mercy therfore we do all In that same death for mercy dayly cal The next figure quod he to this agreeth wel Where as the Iewes the paschal lambe did eate In the remembraunce as scripture doth tell Of their deliueraunce by myracle great Out of Egypte of whiche figure to entreate It wyll require a longe circumstaunce But lette not the tyme to the be greuaunce Egypte the darknes of synne doth signifie In the whiche man was after his fall And by Pharao is figured the deuill truely Under whom man was both subiecte and thral And Moyses in figure Christ I may call Whiche Moyses ledde the children of Israel Through the redde sea from Pharao cruell Euen so our Moyses Christ our sauiour Deliuered his people through his redde bloud From Pharao the deuill and all his hole power Under whom man then in great daunger stood Now when God by Moyses was to man thus good He wilde man yerely for a memoriall To eate a lambe which they named the paschall Then for as muche as our lord did fore se How the nature of man was corrupted With forgetfulnes for the whiche he For mens coÌ„moditee this ordeined That they shoulde eate a male lambe vnspotted In a remembraunce how they deliuered were From wicked Pharao as ye before did here In like maner our sauiour Christ Iesu Ordeined for a perpetuall memorye A lambe to be eaten our mindes to renewe In dayly remembraunce of his mercy Whiche he procured by his death truely The lambe that he lefte was himselfe in dede As in the Euangelistes plaine we do reade That christ is the laÌ„be it doth plaine appeare Beholde the lambe of God saint Iohn doth say That taketh awai the sinnes of the world cleare Which he did truely by his death that day That his fleshe was brokeÌ„ none can this denay Now then to Christes maundy let vs resorte And se there what weight his wordes doth importe Christ at his last supper toke bread in his hand He blest it and brake it and those wordes saied This is my body thus doth his wordes stande The whiche for you saith he shal be betrayed These were his wordes it can not be denaied But he spake thus quod I only in figure That doth not quod he agree with scripture Thou must nedes grauÌ„t ê™ he that christ came here The figures of the olde lawe to fulfyll Cheifely all suche as of his coÌ„ming were And that not with figures to thinke so were yl Whoso affirmeth that can litle skyll In the scripture for thus writteth saint Paule That the lawe to the Iewes was in figures al. And yet this same sacrament is a figure But not only of Christes body naturall For y t it coÌ„taineth but this we read in scripture That the fourme of bred which we se material Is a figure of Christes body mysticall As to the Corynthes we do plainely reade To recite the wordes I thinke shall not nede But now to note christes words how thei were spokeÌ„ Thê is my body that geueÌ„ for you shal be Whiche the next day on the crosse was broken For the sinnes of all men this by faith we se. Now that christ is trueth needes we must agre Wel theÌ„ of the bread truth these words did say Which truely was true if he died the next day Thus is Christ the lambe that continuallye Is eaten of vs in his memoriall Because we should not forget his mercy Whiche by his death he purchast for vs all This to his comming truely continue shall The Iewes then eate the lambe in figure onlye But we eat the true laÌ„be the scripture doth try The Manna also which came from aboue To feede Gods people in the wildernes Doth signifie this great token of loue With whiche Christ doth fede his people doubtlesse As y e Prophetes saying here plain doth expresse The breade of Angels man hath eate saith he And christ this same breade nameth hiÌ„self to be I am the breade of lyfe saieth our sauiour Whiche from heauen aboue did truely descende To geue lyfe to man doth passe mannes power I am the true breade which doth to that exteÌ„de Manna from hounger did man only defende but who y t eateth of this bread sure of life shal be And the breade that I wyll geue is my fleshe saieth he Came his flesh froÌ„ heaueÌ„ ê™ I that wold I here For I beleue of trueth he toke it of Marye And yet by your wordes me thiÌ„ke it doth appere That y e bread was his flesh which came froÌ„ a hie I thinke this saying true ye can not trye For if ye can so my faith I wyll forsake For I do beleue his fleshe he did here take Loo here thy ignoraunce thou dost shew to me Did not christ like case say these wordes plainly truly No man ascendeth to heauen but only he Which came downe froÌ„ heaueÌ„ the sonne of man Which is in heauen marke what these wordes doth try the son of maÌ„ which is iÌ„ heaueÌ„ yet he Was in his manhode here as all men might se. To discusse that ê™ I doth farre passe my wit Why wilt thou theÌ„ quod he in thy faith dispute Thou wouldest dig a pitte thi selfe fall into it As many other doth them selues to coÌ„fute But do not thou like case froÌ„ thi faith traÌ„smute And now to shew the I wyll take in hand How these two places true together stand But first one text I wyll note to the more What wyll ye say saieth Christ when ye shall see The sonne of man ascende where he was before Doth not this text now expresse vnto thee His manhode in heauen before that to be May not I say than his fleshe is that bread Which came froÌ„ heaueÌ„ wherw t our soules be fed Then toke he no fleshe here that I ê‘ceiue wel Yes forsoth ê™ he this dothe not that disproue For why s. Iohn doth writ in his gospel That the word was made flesh euen Gods soÌ„ne aboue By eternal generacion none can that remoue So God man was knyt alwayes to remaine But one in ê‘sonage though in natures twaine Nowe syth our nature vnto God is knyt Beyng one in person as I before did say To know how this should be doth passe al mens wyt Yet that this is true no man can denay But that man is God and God is man alway Now then Christes holy fleshe by this vnitie May truely be said alwaye in heauen to be Now this heaueÌ„ly bred vnder which christ is here The breade of
Angels the prophet well may cal For the foode of Angels is the glorie clere Of the blessed godhead most celestiall With the whiche godhead Christ was euer equal So then where christ is the godhead is alway Then the bread of Angels we eate we may say Then quod he here the shew breade is set out Wherof none but the priestes alone might eate The which doth signifie no christen maÌ„ wil dout This most blessed bred which is of vertu great The shew bread was vsed as an heauenly meat For none but the priestes God did therto admit And all the people did reuerence to it This most heauenly meat of christes fleshe and bloud Being as I saied the perfitte veritie Figured by this shew bread by which y e priestes stood Only of priestes also eaten here must be Of priestes made by order nay so take not me But both priestes kings as Peter doth vs cal Which offreth to god the sacrifice spirituall How we are kinges priestes thou must vnderstand We are not all priestes in ministracion No more then we are kinges gouerning a lande Yet kinges we are by Peters nominacion And so are we priestes by Paules probacion Make your bodies saieth he a liuely sacrifice By this mean such other al meÌ„ priests he tries He may be called a king learned me doth say Which doth his carnall affections subdue But if he do not that as muche as he may He is in this case neither king nor prieste true But if he be a king thus then will insue He is a worthy priest so spiritually Whose godly workes then God doth accept hye Now this kingly priesthod whoso doth attaine Without the feare of God it can neuer be TheÌ„ y e prophetes promisse here doth folow plain God geueth meat to those that feare hiÌ„ saith he Geueth he meat to none els yis forsoth we se By his gifte infidelles haue their sustenaunce TheÌ„ doth he mean meat of an hygher substauÌ„ce And what that meat is christ doth plain declare My fleshe saieth he is very meate in dede And my bloud is drinke this is no figure bare These wordes are plain the gospel y u maist rede now thou seist to what end this figure doth lede To the faithful christ his fleshe blod doth geue Then they eate it not ê™ I that beastly do liue Nay I say not so thou dost me mistake For euen the wicked receiueth Christes body Or els our receite should it his body make And if I so ment I should meane wickedlye For Paule saith who that eateth it vnworthily Eateth his own iudgement because no differeÌ„ce He maketh of christes body this is plain euideÌ„ce They say ê™ I that S. Austen doth say That wicked meÌ„ eath not Christes flesh bloud Tho they eate the sacrament euery day Upon which thei coÌ„clude that none but the good Only eateth christes fleshe this with stout mood They do defende and say this doth trye That it is not Christ but to the good only Thou must vnderstand ê™ he that this worde Iesus Is as much to say as a sauiour true And to all men Christes wyll is to be thus Yet is he not so the scripture do shewe But why because they folowe not vertue By whiche they loose the benefite of that name Yet Iesus is a sauiour thou wilt graÌ„t the same Blessed are those saith christ whiche are not hurt by me Who can be hurt by Christ who is all goodnes Truely suche as wicked and vnfaithfull be Whiche receiueth him not after his worthines Whose iugemeÌ„t as I sayd s. Paule doth expresse Now like as Christ was with the Iewes preseÌ„t So is he with vs in the sacrament Christ is not quod I â–ª with vs now present As he was with the Iewes I mean not so ê™ he That he so should be is not conueniente For with them he walked in his humanitee Fulfylling all thinges that fulfyld should be Which done vp to heauen he did ascende And froÌ„ thence shall come againe at the last end Than can he not be here ê™ I by your owne tale That canning quod he will not be let by me For if I said as thou saist we should both faile But the tale that I tell if it mine should be My canning could neuer proue vnto the How his body could be both here and aboue But loking who spake it faith wil hovv remoue Now wher saint Austen saith y t the wicked here Eateth not Christes fleshe but the good only Meanes not but that Christ is eateÌ„ eueriwhere Both of good and ill him selfe doth plaine trye The euill doth eate it and not eate it truely Sacramentally thei eat Christes fleshe bloud Though not to their soule health as doth all the good Now those that do not eate it to that effecte Are counted then not to eate it at all As he that with any sickenes is infecte And digesteth not his meat it norisheth but smal For which as not eaten be counted it shall EueÌ„ so he that eateth Christ with a faith vntru Is counted not to eate because hurt doth ensue Christ must be Iesus to those that him receiue Or els to their hurt they receiue him we se As did the euil Iewes by this thou maist ê‘ceiue That for to eat Christes flesh in such sort must be To nourishe his soule in Christ or els he Eates not a sauiour though it be Christ in dede But greater iudgemeÌ„t as in S. Paul we rede By this thou mayest perceiue s. Austens minde Is not to deny Christ in the sacrament For y t truth iÌ„ his workes most plain y u maist fide Therfore nothing lesse then thou saist he ment As vnto the I haue proued euidente I lyke your proffe ê™ I I wyl no more contend Then for this time ê™ he I haue made an ende Nowe whan he had all these figures declared Sodainly he vanisht fro me a way Then whan I sawe that I me selfe prepared To se more in this hall and then with out stay I loked on my ryght hand on the which side lay But two stories of the newe testament Which were the verites that the figures mente The first was the solemne supper of our lord At the whiche his body he did consecrate Plasing a newe sacrifice for the comforde Of his newe churche which shall not consuÌ„mate Untyll he come againe hir to congregate To raigne w t him which sacrifice he did ordaine In place of all the olde tyll than to remaine Next vnto this was very rychly wrought Howe Christ on the crosse suffred passion Wherby all mankind with his bloud he bought Procuring therby eternall redemption Leuing on his parte scripture doth mention Not one iote concerning his death suffraunce Therfore he is not now offred but iÌ„ remeÌ„brauÌ„ce For there remaineth no sacrifice for sinne By any shedding of bloud or death suffring For Christ ones by deth Gods fauour so did win He needes to dye
twelue with Skory To se them in this case my hart was sory Their foote meÌ„ thei had which by theÌ„ did roÌ„ne As Rogers Rose Horne SauÌ„ders Harlay Cardmarker Becon Crouley and Sampson Peter Hart Carter and olde Bylney Tomson Kyrkame Douglas Knokes Makbray Bradforde old Steuens yong Samuel With the two Turners and mo then I can tell For whom I did then most hartly praye That our lord in time would turne their hartes all For by their yll doctrine many a daye They haue caused many from faieth to fall But God graunte that his churche Catholicall They may learne to knowe and to hir to come Then shall they reigne with hir in his kingdome In armour as blacke as any ynke they were And on the creast of their helmetes on hye A womans foresleue eche of them did bere The which as I toke it did signifye That for womens loues their manhoodes they wold trie Turkey bowes eche of them had redy bent To shote out therof their errours pestilent Then sawe I the cheife byshop of them all Rushe to the doctours vnreuerently And rent out of their bookes in gobetes small Peices for his purpose whiche peruersly He chewde with his teeth and then spitefully Shot them at lady faieth in pellet wyse And beastly did the sacrament despise Then certaine byshoppes on lady faithes part Began against him hir stoutly to defende Which when I sawe did comfort my hart But then or this their debate had an ende The deuyl new souldiors against faith did seÌ„de Whiche came vnder the standerd of ignoraunce Of whom selfe wyl had the cheife gouernaunce By helpe of these the byshoppes effeminate Against lady faith did so much preuaile That certain of hir men to them was captiuate And for hir sake was laide fast in gayle Then before hir was drawne such a vaile That she was so hid fewe men could hir se Tyll God sawe time that seene she should be For the whiche as I a longe time did pray I harde trompetes blowe very swete and hye Then did my hart reioyce putting care away Me thought the sounde was of some victory With that comming in I sawe sodainly A noble standard all of white and grene Imbrodred with roses royally beseene After the whiche standard did enter in One tryumphantly as the cheife captaine Whiche was a crowned quene and vyrgin Who seing lady faieth so had in disdaine Drue backe the vaile that I might se plaine Lady faieth styll holding the sacrament To the which the quene did knele continent Geuing to our lorde harty laudes and prayse Whiche had geuen to hir so great a victory Against hir enemies in so fewe dayes With out bloude shede most miraculously Commaunding streight to set at libertye All these whiche imprisonment did take And were punished for lady faiethes sake Whiche done euen sodainely as I there stoode Al that I had seene vanisht fro my sight The which sodaine chauÌ„ge made me chauÌ„ge my mood But theÌ„ Morpheus came again to me right And bade me feare nothing theÌ„ fast as he might He brought me to my bed w t that I did wake Then to write this visioÌ„ some paines I did take Finis ¶ The booke speaketh NEedes must I speke thoughe I be doÌ„me Some mennes malice for to preuent In whose handes when I chauÌ„ce to come Be sure I shall of euyll iudgement Because myne aucthour doth inuent My matter in a dreame to se As a mans dreame they wyll counte me For the whiche here as wysdome is Who that in ieste doth me so call For an aunswere let them take this Some wordes written by Iames and Paule In Luthers bookes plaine finde ye shall Called their dreame because he knewe That his errours they ouerthrewe In lyke maner I do not doute But that because I do inuay Against all suche as went aboute The perfite faieth for to decay Some men which nowe fauour that way Haply my matter to defame Wyll saye that I haue a meete name But sith as I do say before That Iames and Paule they do deny And by Christes wordes to passe nomore Then they do now no cause se I To meruaile though they say I lye And only dreame all that I tell Though first and last they knowe full well Cheiflye they knowe whiche learned be That these assaultes hath trulye been As for the laste all we did see Tyll God did sende our noble quene Whiche nowe wyll haue as hath been seene The christen faieth truely confest As Gods worde hath it plaine exprest Therfore I say for to conclude What they do say I do not passe And mine authour thoughe they delude Yet wyll I shewe plaine who he was Because no lawe I wyll trespasse Myles Hogarde men do call his name Who to this ende did me first frame Finis Imprinted at London by Robert Caly within the precinct of the late dissolued house of the graye Freets nowe conuerted to an Hospitall called Christes Hospitall The .xx. daye of September 1554. â—â—od xxv and â—vii 〈◊〉 ix â—â—od xvi 〈…〉 of the 〈◊〉 â—ene â—liii â—he sâ—cond fiâ—â—â—e of Melâ—â—izedech â—sal cx â—xod â—ii â—he thirde fiâ—ure of thâ— pasâ—â—al lambe Exod. xvi The fourth figure of Manna Leui. xxiiii The fifthe figure of the â—hewe breade Psal. cxi Christ is not 〈◊〉 now too meâ—it a neâ—d â—s he did by hâ—s passed for thaâ— wa◠〈…〉 doâ—e onâ—â— for all but we do desire that this sacrifice offered in remeâ—braâ—nce of his death may be a meaâ— to applye the merite of thaâ— his death 〈◊〉 vs. Exod. xii Exod. xiiii Ioan. i. Math. xxvi i. Cor. â— Exo. xvi Ioan. vi Ioan. iii. Ioan. vi Ioan. â— Leui. xxiiii i. Pet. ii Roma ii i. Cor. â—â— â—rasm in his â—araphrases â—oÌ„ the .xxiiii. Luc. â—ebr iâ— Psalm â—â— Hebr. â—â—â— caâ—on rebelth againste â—eth The firste assaulte of the sacrament by Berengarius This Berengarius recanted thrise The secoÌ„de assaulte of the sacramente by wykâ—leiffe anâ— his felowes Hierome of Prage Hus and zuinglius â–ª c. Ioan. vi The third assault of y t sacrament by Luther and his felowes Ioan. ii Obiection Answere â—he fourth â—ault of yeâ—â—â—rament 〈◊〉 DecolaÌ„â—â—dius and 〈◊〉 felowes Thou shalt 〈…〉 to see â—rruption â—sai xxv The fift assault of the sacrament by Carolstadius and his felowes Euery kingdome deuided in it selfe shall be desolate Math. xii Meane scolderd Fâ—ythe Lambert Tyâ—dâ—ll c. The .vi. assault agaiÌ„st the sacrament here in EnglaÌ„de The target of faith and the sworde of the word of God Cranmer â–ª Catholyke byâ—oppes Dinchester â—ondon Dorcestor â—he â—hester and â—ucesine The byshopes aboue named The dayly oblation was taken away The coÌ„mynge in of quene Mary The dayly ofâ—â—â—ng set vp aâ—â—ine The prisoners deliuerd which suffâ—ed for lady faiethes sake â–ª
no more for that one offring Was sufficient whiche death as remembring We offer to God as was tolde me before As our cheife meane of mercy to him euermore Then betwen these stories stood Dauid y e king With a scrole in his hande all alonge spreed And indifferently to these stories pointing This verse he had writteÌ„ which I theron redde Thou arte a priest for euermore it fed After Melchizedeches order then in fine I thought of the worde tolde me by the deuine This done euen sodainlye I did espye A goodly lady of beauty excellent Decte with golde and stone wondrous costly Whiche glistred like the sterres in the firmameÌ„t Then the Euangelistes I sawe redy bente Hir to defende with the apostell saint Paule And also there was the ancient doctours all This lady on a thre cornerde stoue did stande In the whiche Christus was grauen very well And an hoost consecrate she helde in hir hande With muche more reuerence then I can tell Then stood the EuaÌ„gelistes ech with his gospel And S. Paule also eche shewing euident The place wher they defende this holy sacrameÌ„t Then al the doctors toke of theÌ„ for their defence Eche of them a sworde sharpe and durable And faith toke them targattes of noble science By which to withstande al men they were able Thus they stood stoutly lyke men firme stable Alway redy with these wepones to fight Against all that woulde not lady faith vse right Then sawe I on their targattes written plaine Scutum fidei and farthermore lyke case Upon their swordes uerbum dei certaine Thus orderly they stood eche in his place This lady to defende assisted with grace Whiche had on her breest in letters of golde Fides catholica moost goodly to beholde Then I seing all this with great reuerence On my knees to Christ I kneled by and by And with diuine honour as God in one assence With the father and the holy ghost truely I did him there worship in that mystery Then reason in a corner spied me right soone And calde me Idolater for that I had done Then ê™ I to him why dost thou reproue me For geuing of honour where honour is due â–ª I would agree quod he if I that could se But til then I wyll not thinke it to be true I se but very bread therfore doth ensewe It is but bread which is not honour worthy For whiche I call it plaine Idolatry Thou maist se here ê™ I that scripture doth hold That vnder the forme of bread is christes body Which here is defended by the doctours olde Do not all these proue the a very nody To dispute this quod he I wyll not stody For why of me selfe my power is but small But being ioyned with man then dispute I shal Thou knowest quod he that I am but a powre Geuen by god to mans soule to know good ill I haue no grosse body though at this houre I appeare to the thus because thou canst no skill Of a gifte as I am but this say I wyll In that I am a gifte in maÌ„nes soule to dwel The number of my dwellinges no toÌ„gue can tel Therfore now seing that I can not attaine How Christes body vnder fourme of bread caÌ„ be Some men I wyll sure earnestly constraine To assaulte this faith whiche I here do se. For in no case I wyll thereto agrree Therfore in to some heades suche blastes I wyll blowe That I trust anone her cleane to ouerthrowe Then in a great fume he vanished away Which seing towardes faith I turned my face O man quod she now in me thy hart stay And let not reason out of thy hart race This holy sacrament called good grace For the great profyte that to man it doth bring If he it receiue with faith according Then with that sodainely came rushing in Reason with a staÌ„derde which would not bowe Faring as though al the feelde he would winne Crying thou false faith defende thy selfe nowe And on his staÌ„dard was writteÌ„ hovv hovv hovv His captaines name theroÌ„ also was writteÌ„ thus The noble archedeacon Berengarius Then when I sawe this I was abashed Cheifly to se them come for suche intent Asyde for a tyme then I reculed But not fro the sight of the sacrament Nor out of the reache of faith I neuer went But ioyned my selfe vnto the doctours olde Whiche to defende faith did styll together holde Then vewing these warriours of wicked minde I meene Berengarius with his retenue Their wepons were such that I mused to finde Any suche excepte it were of a turke or Iewe Whiche are the enemies that doth faith persue Turkey bowes they bare all on whiche I did se This worde plainly written incredulitie Then eche of them had an arowe in his haÌ„de The which had heades very sharp named error Fetherd with scripture falsly vnderstaÌ„d Because to perse hartes they should haue y e more powre Than began they all to shote a great scowre And gaue a sore assaulte with an out crye Hocest quod they this is doth signifie Then the olde doctours hering this out crye Made by christen men thought it monstruous And they sawe the arrowes of errour flye To distroy this sacrament moost glorious then thei with their targetes like men vertuous Bare of their great shoote and then againe With their swordes they cut al these arrowes in twaine Then soberly eche man did say his sentence According as the Euangelistes doth tell Affirminge the trueth in the litterall sense Alowing no glose that trueth to repell But to be taken as it standes in the gospell Whiche is hoc est corpus meum to be ment That Christ lefte his own body in y e sacrament Then as Berengarius was preparing More arrowes against the sacrament to shote A number of doctours was redy not sparyng Their studies to spende his errour to roote Out of his hart so that he coulde not boote Any more against the sacrament to striue Then with their swordes to the grouÌ„de they did him driue Then with that reason did let his staÌ„dard fal And at the foote of faith he fell prostrate Then Berengarius for Gods grace did call And forsoke his errour so contaminate Doinge penaunce therfore after suche rate That God was pleased his penauÌ„ce did take As he doth of all those that doth sinne forsake Then this assaulte for that time finished And faith stood constaunt as she did before Holding the sacrament nothing diminished But stood in honour as it did euermore Then of people I sawe there many a score Which gaue to the sacrament honour diuine Without any checke therefro to recline Thus lady faith quietly stoode a great while Tyll sathan the deuill therat had enuy Which sought busely some men to begyle As he had done before ful deceitfully The which came to passe experience did trye â–ª For anone I hard a great trumpet blowe TheÌ„ some enemies was nigh by that I did know