carry by sea or land Now in thy mouth and by and by i th' maw o th' Altar now then in some solemne shaw Riding about i th' streets to grace that man Who dares do that which justly no man can Yet more This God ye seeme so to adore Ye basely prostitute to knaue and Whore Teaching that the Wicked his flesh may eat Whereas Christ Iesus is to such no meat For he that eats his fles h and drinks his blood Shall liue and therefore sure he must be good Yea he that eats Christs flesh in Christ doeth dwell But they in him do dwell that 's kept for hell He must be of Christs flesh that eats his flesh And onely those with it he does refresh Indeed the Sacrament thereof ill men May eat but bane it is vnto them then But it it selfe Whosoever does eat To him it is no bane but wholesome meat Able to nourish preserue the spirit And to do that which no man can by 's merit He that eats of this bread that eats of mee Shall liue by me sayth Christ eternallie And he eats Christ that does aright belieue And being knit unto him does receiue And draw forth of him that by fayth which may Sustaine preserue and feed him night and day Whereas your Christ ye say ye take and eat With hand and mouth both good and bad as meat I ween ye say not now ye teare and grinde Him with your teeth in pieces as I finde But that ye mouth him that ye all professe All all of you alike both more and lesse O the great stupidity In absolute foolery And sencelesse impietie What 's become of all those Christs Priests haue made Doe all those hostes of wonder bide or fade Doe they stay below Or ascend on high Or turne they back to bread and wine Or die Or are any by digestion wrought And into mens spirits or bodies brought Or is not he that yet in heauen does stay Able to feed and keep vs every way But that there must be still a new creation Of him after your strange imagination One Christ bides but all those fly One Christ liues but all those dy One is true the rest a ly When ye haue eat them ye may say as of yore The eye that hath seen them shall see them no more He abides that is aboue Him we feare and him we loue These below doe nothing proue Alas alas there needs no fabrication Of him still by Priests for mans sustentation Iesus Christ both yesterday and to day Is our food and rock the Selfe-same for ay Great need we haue all to take him And feare least we should forsake him But can not nor need not make him Hony we read found in a Lyon dead But not of Wormes in God incarnate bred Yet in this thing for Christ ye doe adore And whose almightie ayd ye do implore Euen in this very thing a worme hath bred Euen on this very thing a worme hath fed The silly Ientles may in these things breed Plain cralling Magots may on these things feed For shame then forsake this toy Which the Church does so annoy And in truth delight and joy Ye shew vs clothes which ye say Saints haue worne As ye would perswade vs which are not torne As yet with time but uncorrupt as were Th'Izraelites in their walk of fourty yere And yet many an age is come and gon Since the Saints did last put them off or on Whereof I finde your reason to be such Forsooth their sacred bodyes did them touch Why then should putrefaction at all These Accidents ye talk so off befall How is 't that vermine are in them ingendred Seeing Christs blessed body's in them tendred How is 't that filthines is there discouer'd Where Iesus Christ our Lord God-Man lyes cover'd Is 't because his body can not them touch Or for that of vertue it has not much Or is 't because theirs his did farre exceed Or els for that no other Wonders need Yet such a Wonder showen vnto the eye Would with men be of no small potencye Being voyd of fraud and no forged tale Whereas your so much talk'd of Wonders fayle Things which neyther sense nor Scriptuees doe teach But which euen ye your selues do feigne preach Indeed we would confesse you made If sense or Scriptures lent you aid But by both them ye are gainsayd Saint Austin writes euen what himself belieued That the Disciples Iesus Christ receiued That they that heauen-come bread of life did eat Which is to true Belieuers drinck and meat Yet Iudas who to avarice was wed Ate not the Lord but onely ate his bread But by your learning seeing that the bread Is turn'd into Christs flesh on 's flesh he fed For seeing Christ vnder those showes doth lye Eate Christ he must which Austin does denye Saying that he ate the bread of the Lord Against the Lord A thing to be abhorr'd Neither are bare shewes of bread bread in kinde And therefore Austin was not of your minde For he held the Traytor on bread did feed Whereas yee say There 's nought but shewes indeed Yet one word more Because ye doe from hence Send packing with disdaigne all humane sense Far be it from vs sayes the selfe-same Father That we should be at all in doubt or waver But rest assured that what senses pure And vncorrupt doe teach vs that is sure And true the very selfe-same things they seem No other things then those we do them deem I pray you shew then why we should not trust Our senses here as if they were accurst Sith that in other precepts of the Lord They stand us in great stead to keepe his word For by our sense we can put difference Twixt man and man and so doe reverence By sense twixt man and beast discerne we can Betweene a father and an other man By sense we may perceiue they are but stocks Which fools adore who are themselues but blocks By sense men are let see how for to keep Their fingers from their neighbours oxe sheep And finallie by sense men learne much good And avoide the shedding of guiltlesse blood Now tell me Why should sense be trusted here And yet so vtterly denyed there For tho to sense it does appeare That bread and wine are truely there Yet ye say Nay and nothing feare We are not certayn that Christs Disciples did Receiue the Eucharist whiles he lay hid In 's sepulcher starke-dead but yet they might Haue boldly took it then and done but right And say they had if that ye hold were good Then had they eate and drunke him flesh and blood Hot and aliue when as in trueth he lay Not quick but dead as doe the Scriptures say Or will ye say the Sacrament did lack Its vertue as being for a time kept back Or quite extinct vntill he rose againe Or that his body as
voyd of life as paine Was really and substantially Presented in that sacred Mystery Eyther of which ye shall as soone make cleere As make the Sunne at midnight to shine here Whereas to fayth Christ absent present is And dead might liue to fayth w' are sure of this Whilst here he was he present was to sence But absent from it now he is gone hence His blessed body present was from dayes Of old to true belieuers fayth alwayes He ever with them was by the power of fayth By which he dwelleth in them th' Apostle sayth Not come in flesh yet was he come to fayth Slayne from the beginning as Scripture sayth And hence it is that they of old by Paul Are sayed the verie same spirituall Both meat to eat and drink to drink which we Our selues receiue by fayth not carnallie For meat and drink which are spirituall Are not to be eaten and drunck as carnall This food they fed on is that Promiss'd Seed Which they receiu'd by fayth and so did feed And still by fayth if true is to be ta'en And not with hand or mouth as ye would faine For fayth can see things a farre off with ease And on them as vpon things present seize Faith for the soule is as much as the eye Hand mouth throat and mawe are for the body But some of you stick not to say The Lord Deceiu'd you if deceiu'd ye be with 's word Forsooth because he sayes This is my body A bold conceipt it is both blinde and frothy For if it please you to weigh this Scripture With other Scriptures or in peace endure To see it for you done in loue by others Who are if ye be Christes in truth your Brothers Ye may cleerely see if ye will permit Your will to be directed by your wit That these same words do beare an other sense Then that ye go about to fetch from thence View well the places ye see quoted here And ye may plainly see what IS meanes there To putte IS for SIGNIFIES is not rare As he soone may see that to see does care Neyther is this exposition new But old no youth as that that 's brought by you For herein your Mothers wit Neither sense nor holy Writ Nor antiquitie does fit As for that Offering of Christ ye hold I wonder much wherefore ye are so bold Search the Scriptures ye can not finde it there Or look to reason and y' are ne'er the neare His owne One's ynough all-able and good Nor is sin pardon'd without shedding blood And therefore yours without such effusion Is nought els at all but mere delusion Yours eyther is the same with his or not If it be not the same then haue ye got An other Gospell besides that he tought But if it be the same with that he wrought Then doe ye offer him in blood and slayen Which ye can not would ye never so faine Christ is no more on earth but is aboue He sayes as much and that doth you reproue I say again that must haue consecration Which vnto God is made a right oblation And who dare say that 's not a divels limme That Iesus Christ is consecrate by him By one offring hath he consecrated For ever them that are sanctified He consecrates vs and his act is stable To consecrate him we are all vnable See then the straits whereinto ye are brought Whiles yee forsake the wayes inth ' Scriptures tought To the Scriptures then giue eare And what God speaks in them heare Holding fast the truth in feare Now do I speak to all you men of fire Who hotter are then reason does require There 's one thing I would gladly haue you show Wherefore your choler should so strangely flow That nothing will suffice you but the blood Of such as think your doctrine is not good But new and naught concerning your Oblation Of Christ and of your Transsubstantiation And yet both yee and wee agree in this That Iesus Christ our life in heauen now is We both belieue he died vpon the Tree And offer'd up himselfe most willinglie We both acknowledge his owne one oblation Made on the Crosse is our propitiation We neither of vs doubt but hold he is A true and perfit man God Lord of blisse More Both of vs affirme and not deceived That hee 's giuen i th' Eucharist and receiued Giuen of God and receiu'd of the godly Which come fitted for that sacred Myst'ry And yet forsooth this will not serue our turne But that as Heretiques we needs must burne And why as Heretiques Because we say There 's no such offring of him day by day Yet confesse we that a Representation Is in the Sacrament of his oblation Who Once offer up himselfe for sin But since that Once hath never offer'd bin Not properly but in a type or figure Whereof we certain are of yours not sure And for because we say as sense does teach And as both Scriptures and old Doctors preach That bread and wine doe truly there remaine And not in shew onely as ye do faigne Teaching men to belieue vnder a curse That their substance is gone and which is worse Turn'd into the flesh and blood of our Lord Which ye presse vpon men with word and sword Now for because we do not hold this turning Ye hold vs as heretiques worthy burning Well what 's past let that suffice Wake and learne for to be wise Hate not men for hating lies The great and mightie God that hath made all Christians and others both great and small Allowes you not to take away mans life Through bitter zeale and vnadvised strife Allowes you not his creatures blood to spill For crossing of your priuate thoughts and will Foule shame it is that mens owne fonde opinions In Christendome should cause so great divisions A shame it is such Boasters of Antiquitie Should be so faultie in devising Novitie O that all humane vnderstanding might Once become subject to the Scriptures light That all would truly yeeld and nothing grudge To make them their Sole Rule of fayth and Iudge O that charitie so much talk'd off might Once among Christians obteyne her right O that God whose Great Name we all confesse Were better serued and offended lesse If filthie Lucre Pride and base Ambition Which are the Workers of so great confusion Were once abandon'd and that men would go Roundly to work the naked trueth to know Preferring it to all things els beside Then should our Lord be better glorified Then factions soone would cease They that vex would seek to please And Christs kingdome would increase Then they that now the holy Church do rend Would all their wits and labors for it spend Then factious Nick-names soone would all be left Neyther should men of peace be so bereft The trueth that now is banish'd True loue which now is vanish'd Would both be better cherish'd Now to the plaine and
only meat Yet Paul doth bid men drink as well as eat There sits one with brazen face That usurps a Bishops place Who dares thus Christs flock disgrace Now to the Man of Might who sayes he can Doe that which is not in the power of man Who can make Christ of bread hee 's so diuine As Christ of water once did make true wine Angell nor King nor Artizan of skill Can this the Priest alone and he at 's will Others who can make bread out of their grist Must leaue their bread to him to make it Christ Make stones to be men we know that God can And the Priest braggs he can make bread a man Make a God of a man we know men can But his art lyes in making God a man So as if Christ had not took flesh before Yet without flesh he should be now no more Nor can the nimblest Baker work a cake So soone as he his cake a man can make Four words repeated with a voyce submisse Will serue to make vp 's man and God I wisse These four alone Hoc Est Corpus Meum Will work the feat there needs no greater summe Indeed the Priests intention should concurre Or els the work may chance to take a blurre For as they do say This most Rare Invention Will scarcely take without the Priests intention But yet here we must all know That all Priests can not thus doe The Roman can but no moe Naturall Parents be they nee'r so good Are Gods instruments but of flesh and blood To get or make a Soule 's not in their power But he a perfit soule can make each houer Both soule and body are alike to him That shall not want a power nor this a limme Parenâ—s their children get they make them not They get them like themselues with staine and spot But he no gettâ—r is allow'd to bee And wife he does by vow with horror flee Hee 's only a maker and but of one If he make not that one he makes just none And whereas children by degrees do grow That which he makes is made at once not so Full holy also pure voyd of all sin Hauing no soyle without no fault within Yet he that makes him is not without both Which if not he yet others often loth And which is strange he may not get a man But yet make God he may and thinks he can And whereas others works may be destroyed His he belieues is not to be annoyed I ask then of this man this man of might Who does so farre surmount each mortall wight Is thy mouth the virgins womb Is bread her seed Are thy words the Holy Ghost Is this our Creed What Does a Temple make the Architect That thou of bread thy maker the should'st erect Or does a Servant vse to make his Lord That Priests to theirs a beeing do afford O presumptuous Vndertaker Neuer Cake could make a Baker And shall a Priest make his Maker Indeed we see some men by Priests made stones But who sees them make bread flesh blood and bones They rather merit fayth that say they can Sooner make a man bread then bread a man That though Vnnaturall has often been This Supernaturall was yet neuer seen Tell me Was not Christ before thy bearing And hundreds of yeers afore thy sheering Was he not a man before thine annointing And must he yet be made at thine appointing Does he not still abide in humane flesh That yet he must be made of thee afresh And sooner too then thou thy self wast made Eyther man or of this Man-making trade What a kinde of brow hast thou That doest say Thou mak'st him now Since thou took'st thy Priestly vow Hast thou Priests power from the man Christ receiu'd So thou wilt say or els I am deceiu'd With what face then dar'st thou say Thou him makest Of whom thy selfe and power thou say'st thou takest As if a Iustice should say he makes the King Of whome he does receiue his Iusticing As if a childe should say he makes his sire Or color'd clothes should say they make their diar Thus ye dimme the noone-day-light And gainst sense and reason fight Holding Writlesse what 's not right Perhaps you 'll say Christ Iesus is not made Of bread but that the bread away does fade And that his body followes in it's stead It beeing onely there now and not bread Well be it so yet thus his bodie 's made Here still on earth to be which is gainsayd By Christ himselfe by Peter and our Creed To whom we could adde more if there were need For Austin Vigill and others agree That Christ is not now on earth bodilie And vaine it is to plead the power divine Which out of darknes can make light to shine Which of just nothing can make things to bee And can make dead things liue and stone-blinde see And most easily doe the things which can Be comprehended of no braines of man Make it appear by holy Scriptures light That God does will and work these things ye fight For with such earnestnesse and then we will Confesse your power and applaud your skill But till ye proue by Written word That God to these things does accord To make fayth of them were absurd We read of Christ twice made and that is all Of Woman and vnder Law Is this small Vnlesse thou also make him at thy will By thine high creating power and thy skill Is 't not ynough for him and for us all That he was Once borne and Once vnder thrall But that he must yet also day by day By you be made and offred as ye say So for fayth ye fancy teach And for truth mens dreames ye preach Making in Gods Church a breach What a silly thing is this thou makest Which for the Lord Iesus Christ thou takest Which Idol-like can neyther heare nor talk Nor see nor feele nor smell nor one joâ—t walk Which can do nothing for ought does appear But 's fit all wrong that 's offer'd for to bear Which can not saue it self from catte nor Dogge From Rat nor Mouse nor from the grunting Hogge Fy that such a sorry thing A mouse can in danger bring Should be counted for thy King Hezekiah sayes the Assyrian king The Gentiles Gods into the fire did fling Because they were not Gods for so he sayth Which plainly shewes the fondnesse of your fayth For this ye say the Priest hath made ye call God almightie and yet the same may fall Or by plaine force be cast into the fire By Turks or Moores or flung into the mire May not men then boldly say It does your handy-work bewray When they see it hurl'd away What a kinde of vile servitude is this Thou mak'st him serue of whom thou look'st for blisse To coop him in a piece of bread in show Where he must stay a time and must not goe A pretty Godlin sure now in thine hand Then boxed vp to
wel-minded Romane Who is misled I am returnd ' againe The truth ye should be taught I will not tell That which your learned Priestes do knowe full well The Cuppe is yours all as well as the Bread As in the sacred Scriptures ye may read The Substance of the bread and wine remaine After their Consecration that 's plaine They are Afterwards what they were Afore And yet afterwards they are something more Euen as the Priest now order'd will confesse Hee 's what he was yet more by this accesse As for theyr Essence They are the Same they Were But for Vse an other nature they beare Tho then their proper nature does endure Yet in their service they are chang'd it's sure For once hallow'd they are a Sacrament Of Christs body and blood vpon vs spent Bare Signes they are not they are also Seales And exhibit the grace the word reveales The signes thou tak'st at the hand of a man But God giues thee his Son for no man can And when thou comm'st vnto this Sacrament Belieuing humbled and true penitent Thou art hereby put into sure possession Of Iesus Christ and of his blessed passion As truly as thou tak'st the bread and wine So truely are Christs flesh and blood made thine His benefits alone thou doest not take But Christ withall who dyed for thy sake The fruits are thine the tree is also thine Euen as the substance of the bread and wine Yea fast thou art united to thy Lord Who does himselfe and his to thee afford To say That Men Prepair'd Doe Eat His Flesh And drinck his blood their soules for to refresh Euen his very flesh and his very blood May well be sayde if 't be well vnderstood And sauing fayth by which we do belieue Is that by which we eat him and receiue Or say how this is done we doe not know Yet the faithfull doe it although no moe But if thou doest not thither come prepared Then though thou tak'st this holy Cuppe and Bread Yet doest thou not the Bread of life receiue But doest in truth thy foolish heart deceiue For who so comm's without due preparation He eats and drinks vnto his own damnation It being certeinly no small offence To rush on these things without reverence And yet too many doe as may appeare By their ill liues after they haue been there Following the courses they ran before Whereby they anger God so much the more Too many also themselues doe occupy Not in themselues but in this Mysterie Searching and sifting it with carnall wit Whereas to trye themselues were farre more fit But chiefly now sith God has drawen his sword And does not to us speak alone by word The grievous judgments which make many cry Should moue us all our selues in time to trie But yet more know that holy Writ doeth teach That which the holy men of old did preach That the signes themselues are dignified With the names of the things signified And this is for their honor done and more Euen for to raise our hearts from things before Our eyes vnto the things that are aboue Which here are tendred to us of free loue This is trueth it is no lie This is true Antiquitie The other 's new and silly Glorie be to God on high and to men truth And loue and peace through Iesus Christ by the mightie working of the Holie Spirit Amen and Amen March vii 1624. Tho. Tuke A POSTSCRIPT To the Reader THese lines subnexed were brought me by a friend some eighteene months agoe from an author vnknowne vnto us both Which occasioned me to write these thou seest If I haue vsed or abused any of them or all I craue pardon of their Author giue him free leaue to doe so with mine if he be in vivis as I hope and wish and be so pleased PRiests make Christs body and soule you must not doubt They eate they drink they box him vp and bear about One is too litle bread and wine holds him severall So we dine I with my Christ thou with thine Is thy mouth the virgins womb is bread her seed Are thy words the Holy Ghost is this the Creed O presumptuous vndertaker Never cake could make a baker Yet the Priest can make his maker What 's become of all those Christs which Priests haue made Doe all those hostes of Hoastes abide or doe they fade One Christ bides all these flye One Christ liues all these dye One is true the rest a lye FINIS AmaÌ„t eam id est veritatem lucenteÌ„ oderunt eam redarguentem Quia enim falli nolunt fallere volunt amant eam cum seipsam indicat oderunt eam cum seipsos indicat August Confâ—ss lib. 10. cap 23. Amicus Socrates amicus Plato magis amica veritas dixit Aristoteles Nil addeÌ„dum legi nihil auferendum Scripturae Cyril Alex. in Iohan lib. 11 cap. 23. Per scripturam Deus loquitur omne quod vult Gregorâ—Moral li. 16 cap. 16. Chrisost scripturaÌ„ vocat exactissimam trutiuam guomoâ—em ac regulam in 2 Cor. homil 13. in fine * Vnder the shewes as they taâ—ke of bread and wine Gen. 32. Iudg. 18. 2. 24. 2 Sam. 5. 21 1 Chron. 14. 12. Bar. 6. 12. 22. * Vid Basil schol in Psal 11â— Lactan. lib 2 cap 2. Aug. in Psal 113. â—oâ— C. 2. Concil Constant sess 1â— 1 Cor. 11. Per vâ—rba coÌ„sâ—cr 〈◊〉 ver◠〈…〉 panis ita producitur quasi generatur Christus iâ— altari adeâ— potenter efficaâ—â—ter ut si Câ—ristas necdum esset incarnatus per haec verba Hoc est corpus meâ—m incâ—rnaâ—ctur corâ—uâ—que humaâ—um assumeret 〈◊〉 graves theologi docent Cornelius Cornelij a lapide Commâ—â— in Eâ—aâ— 7. 14. Iohn 12 and 17. Act. 3. Gal. 4. Is 37. 19. Ioh. 6. 51. Ioh. 6. 56. Aug. de civi dei li. 21. ca. 25 Bedain 1. Cor. 6. Aug. in Ioh. tract 26. Ambros de sacram lib. 5. cap. 4. Iohan. 6. 57. Aug. trac 26 in Iohan. serm circa sacr fer pasc Exod. 14. Ioh 20. Hebr. 13. Iudg. 14. Nehe. 9. 21. Tract 59 in Iohan. Absit a nobis vt â—a quâ—e per sensus corporis didicimus vera â—sse dubitemus Aug. de Trinit li. 15. cap. 12. Ephes 3. 17. Rev. 13. 8. 1. Cor. 10. â— Gen 3. 15. and â—2 18. Gal. 3. 19. As one 〈◊〉 Pauls crosse iâ— Queen Maries daâ—es D. Lessius de sum bono l. 4 c 2 pag 568 lin 23. Genes 17. 10. and 41. 26. Exod. 12. 11. and 13. 9. and 31. 13. 16. Esay 5. 7. Ezek. 37. 11. Zach. 1. 9. Math. 13. 37. Luke 8. 11. Gal. 4. 24. Rev. 1. 20. and 4. 5. and 5. 8. and 11. 4. Heb. 10 10. 7 27 9 28. Hebr. 9 22. Rom. 6 9. Iohn 12 8. 17 11. Heb. 10 14 Hebr. 9. 28. and 10. 12. Mat. 26. 27 Mar. 14. 23. 1 Cor. 11. 28 29. * I mean service office or condition