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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03430	The assault of the sacrame[n]t of the altar containyng aswell sixe seuerall assaultes made from tyme to tyme against the sayd blessed sacrament: as also the names [et] opinions of all the heretical captaines of the same assaultes: written in the yere of oure Lorde 1549. by Myles Huggarde, and dedicated to the Quenes moste excellent maiestie, beyng then ladie Marie: in which tyme (heresie then raigning) it could take no place.	Huggarde, Miles.	1554 (1554)	STC 13556; ESTC S106228	18,039	40

blessed be all they That though they se not yet wil beleue in me To beleue in Christ what iudgest thou to be Is it not to beleue all that Christ doth teache In mysteries of fayth aboue reasons reache Of the whiche among all that Christ hath left here This sacrament doth all other excel First because Christ is there yet seen no where But by fayth which in this doth reasō down fel Whiche with all our senses against it doth rebel And yet fayth doth byd vs it to defende Whiche we intende to do vnto our lyues ende Now while this doctor Luther talked thus In came a standard all abrode displayed Under whiche came in Oecolampadius Faring as though he wold make thē all afrayde And agaist the sacrament like a beast he brayde And as did Beringarius so did he it assayle But the doctours defeded it he could not preuail Then Decolampadius in his assaultyng Heard Luther defende Christes presence bodily To be vnder the sacrament not withstanding The substaunce of bread to byde with the body For the whiche he did reproue Luthers foly Saiyng that no learned man would agre Two substances in one body to be Christ was promist quod he to be incarnate So that God man one substaunce should be But who euer re● he should be unpanate And take the nature of bread in vnitee Of person and so make his natures thre Of the whiche one wyll corrupt we spye And then shal be false the prophetes prophecie These inconueniences with diuers other mo Decolampadius plainly declared With the doctors all confirmed to be so But then to speake more he him selfe prepared ▪ For to be mistaken very sore he feared All inconueniences cleane to put away It was but onely a signe of Christ he did say Thus Luther and he began to contend Though thei both did erre yet did thei not agre Of the whiche debate or they had made an ende Carolstadius cummyng anone I did see His assault before Luther gaue he But hearing them newe gloses to inuent To lose his fame so he was not content Fyrst he hearing Luther defende so stoutly That hoc est corpus meum must be vnderstand That with bread was Christes own very body And then on the other side how he was withstād By Decolampaduis whiche that text scand That hoc est must nedes be this doth signifie And stepping betwene he sware thei both did lye Than of proud Nēbroth I though at that houre Whom God preuented with all his company At buildyng of the Babilonical towre By confusion of tongues God letted their foly And so did he theirs experience did trye For when they thought lady faith to ouerrunne They were as nye as when they fyrst begunne For when the other twayne as I before say Had these wordes of Christ so interpretate He affirmed plain that thei toke the wrong way And that the spirit of truth did his heart inflate The sēse of these words sayth he are in this rate To be vnderstande not est for signifie But est for is euen as the text doth lye So then this is my body Christ did say plaine But to what pointed he when he did so say To the bread nay there deceiued are ye twayne He pointed to him selfe sitting there that day Not meanyng of the bread by any way But that thei should eate it in the remembrance Both of his great loue and also his sufferance Then eche of them affirmed his owne sense To be the very truth although contrarie They were eche to other they stode in defence Of their sayinges and so beganne to vary Yet though eche showde him selfe aduersarie Unto ladie fayth yet at the last they fell Through pryde one against another to rebel But when the doctors harde Carolstadius Of christes plain wordes so false a glose to take O wicked man quod thei herken vnto vs what scriptur hail y u that for thi part doth make For what cause toke Christ bread these words spake Take eat this is my body marke this thing well And to what thing Christ did point this wyll the tell Christes taking of the bread in his holy hand His geuing of thankes blessing and breaking And bidding them eate can no way be scande But that his act did cōcurre with his speaking Saiyng this is my body what playner thing Cā there be to proue that that which thei did eat Was his owne body that most heauenly meat Of all foolishe gloses that is moost madde To say that of the bread Christ ment not at all And if that should be true then the Iewes had A better repast in eating their paschall That was fleshe bloud had life naturall Then w t christ in figure they were truely fedde But we haue not so muche if Christ ment not of the breade When he had this saied these wretches all Began against faieth to be more vehement But then because in to sectes they did fall Hauing amonge them no kinde of agrement Conserning the right faieth in the sacrament Eche against other his fancye did defende Thus brauling with thē selues this assaulte did ende Then lyke brainles beastes they fell in decay Lyke those that had sought their own cōfusion Leuing lady faieth in hir olde godly staye To whom all the doctours in conclucion Submitted them selues with out abusion And vnto Christ there in the sacrament They kneled downe with deuotion reuerent Then stood lady faieth quietly in rest Holding the sacrament honorably Yet some now and then would haue hir opprest Whiche were souldiours of wicked heresye Assaulting hir ofte very cruelly Whom for to hurte when they sawe they lacked power They fled backe all to the tente of errour Wherin they did rest I sawe them no more Then kneled I downe doyng reuerence Unto Christ there as I had done before Suppossing the deuilles deadly diligence Had bene debarde by the doughty defence Of all the doctours and as I there stood I harde horses bray as they had bene woode Then began my hart for great feare to quake Me thought al the world against faith was bēt But then faith bad me a good hart to take For this assaulte quod she wyll be feruent But looke that fro me thou be not absent And take here quod she this target and sworde Glad was I then of hir to heare that worde Then as I toke these my selfe to defende In came reason whiche a standard did beare Upon the whiche in blacke letters was pende The names of al those which his captaines wer Whō when I beheld like byshoppes did apppere Whiche in my mynde was a straunge sight to se Byshoppes on that sort disgysed to be The first was two Archbyshops whō I did know The third Rydley which on the quene did raile The fourth was Hoper the fifte was Barlowe The syxt was Poinet the seuenth was Bale The eight was Brown the ninth Couerdale Farrer and Tayler made