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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	body_n	bread_n	consecration_n	998	5	11.2061	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12490	A confutation of a certen booke, called a defence of the true, and Catholike doctrine of the sacrame[n]t, &c. sette fourth of late in the name of Thomas Archebysshoppe of Canterburye. By Rycharde Smyth, Docter of diuinite, and some tyme reader of the same in Oxforde	Smith, Richard, 1500-1563.	1550 (1550)	STC 22819; ESTC S105000	121,196	338

45 in Ioannem à saint about D. ccc yeres passed Heare now S. Chrysostom sayng It is not man that maketh our lordes Marke this reader body bloud of the thinges set furth vpon the table to be consecrated but it is christ that was crucified for vs. The wordes are pronounced of the priest and the thinges bread and wyne are consecrated by gods pouer Matth. 26. grace he sayed This is my body Hoc verbo proposita consecrantur the bread and wyne which are set furth be cōsecrated by this word See ye not my lord how plainly this holy father and great learned man that was almost M. cc. yeres sence sayeth that christe hymselfe maketh his oune body and bloud of the bread and wyne set furth vpon the aulter to be consecrated and that by these wordes of consecration This is my body Wold ye then haue men to beleue your cōtrary teaching which are nothing lyke vnto hym nother in vertu of lyfe nor in learnyng May ye not be yet agayne ashamed that ye sayed in the title of your boke that your doctrine was approued of the anciēt doctours of christes church seing they are so manifestly against it In psal 33. S. Austen also sayeth Christ bare his oune body in his handes whā he sayed This is my body and that he then did S. Austen beleued that christes very natural body was yn The sacrament that thing then which no man could euer do for no man can beare hymselfe in his oune handes and therfore he mēt that christ cōsecrated the bread by these wordes This is my body and turned it in to his natural body which he bare at his mandy in his handes not bread only à figure of it for els he had not sayed truely that no man might beare hymselfe in his oune hādes but only christ for euery mā may easely beare his picture or image in his oune handes Doth not them S. Austen declare my lord very plainly in this place that he beleued christes body to be in the holy sacrament and not bread à signe only of it as ye do teach and saye also that he taught But of this sufficient Ye say moreouer But this negatiue that there is no bread The bysshop fo 18. pa. 1. they make of their oune braynes by their vnwritten veritees No not so my lord for christ his apostles the cōciles The confutation the catholike church and al the old doctours taught it vs as partly I haue already proued and wil by gods grace more largely hereafter And as touching vnwritten veritees I wrote A booke of vnwritten veritees not yet anusweared vnto of the cōtrary side à boke of them which sheweth manifestly how far your doctrine dissēteth from the fayth religion of the apostles the primitiue church and from al the ancient doctours where ye pretende to restore christes religion to that purenes that it had in the begynning of the church Why mocke youe so often at vnwritten verites which came from Christ and his apostles as it appeareth in that my booke and yet anusweare not vnto that boke Are your mockes and iestes à sufficient anuswere to it Ye say that we make this negatiue there is no bread of our oune braynes which is very false for christ taught it vs and his apostles and the church by these wordes This is my body but ye make this negatiue There is not our lordes natural body but bread onely of your oune braynes Matth. 26. Ioan. 6. pais against christes playne wordes S. Paules wordes the concels the catholike church al the holy doctours of the church for none of them al euer sayed as ye do teache that christes very body is not in the sacramēt but the cleane contrary Wherfore your doctrine is to be abhorred and detested of al good christen people It foloweth in The bisshop your booke Oh good lord how wold they haue bragged if Christ had sayed lib. 2. fo 18. pa. 1. The confutation this is no bread But Christ spake not that negatiue c. Oh good lord howe wold yow my lord haue bragged yf christ had sayed this is material bread not my body but onely à signe or à figure of it but Christ spake nother Marke this that affirmatiue This is material bread as ye defende nor that negatiue This is not my body but he sayed the cleane contrary to them both This is my body that shal be giuen for yow For these wordes can not be vnderstanded of material bread because that is not his body that was geuen for vs. Againe both the Greake texte and the latine also wil not permyt that these Matth. 2● christes wordes this is my body shold be expounded of material bread For the greake hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the latine hoc est corpus meum Both in the neutre gendre and therfore we can not say that christ ment of the bread when he sayed This is my body for then he shold haue sayed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Et hic panis est Note wel this reader corpus meū that the pronome This myght haue bene referred vnto the bread but he vsed the neutre gendre both in the Greake and also in the latine Matth. 26. and therfore he mēt not of the material bread when he saied This is my body but of his oune very natural body that was crucified for vs. Doth it not then appeare now my lord that Christ ment this negatiue there is no bread when he sayed this is my body that shal be geuen for yowe althoughe he sayed not expressely there is no bread Moreouer dyd not Christ promyse to his apostles to geue then bread that shold be his oune fleash which he wold geue for the lyfe of the Ioan. 6. panis world and performed that his promes at his last soupper sayeng take and eate this is my body that shal be geuen for yow How can this be true of bakers Marke bread Was that geuen of Christ for the lyfe of the worlde Is it not as false to say this bread made of corne is christes body as to say à man is an asse or an asse à man for that bread differeth much more from christes body than à man from an asse whych both are lyuely creatures and haue sēses in which they do agree When ye haue my lord made anusweare vnto this ye shal heare more to anusweare The bysshop fo 19. lib. 1. pag. 2. vnto Nowe ye go about to proue that bread remayneth stil in the sacrament sayng thus Christ toke bread brake it and gaue it vnto his disciples and sayed Take eate Al this was spoken before the wordes of consecratiō Wherfore they must neades be vnderstand of very bread that Christ toke bread brake bread and gaue bread vnto his disciples c. This reason is very The confutation weake my lord and

apostles tyme and wrote saynt peters and paules passion wytnesseth euidently that saynt peter saw christ and talked wyth hym when he was goyng out of Rome for fear of persecution and that peter sayed to hym lord whyther goest thou To whom christ anusweared I go to Rome to be Crucyfied agayne Then anon after christ departed away from peter and peter vnderstandyng that Christment he wold be crucyfied agayne not in his oune bodie but in hym retourned to Rome and there was crucified for christes sake Of this Lib. 5. cōmē storie wrote Egesippus which was very Lib. 5. epist nighe to the apostles tyme and also S. Ambrose This storie declareth that Christ ascended in to heauen and yet he is also ī the blessed sacrament of the aulter bodilie althoughe christ departed hence at the tyme of his ascension yn to heauen and sitte●h● at the right hand of god his father yet he may be also here yn the blessed sacrament of the aulter This is the very catholike fayth which christes church that cā not whollie erre yn the fayth hath euer taught doth and shal euer vntil the worldes ende Wherfore leaue reasonīg reader vpō this matter and geue credence to this oure mother the churche and than thou shalt neuer be disceaued yn any point of thy fayth because she neuer The catholyke church erreth not yn the faith Matth. 16. erreth whollie theryn For promysed not christ that hel gates which are synne and heresies by which men do entre yn to hel should not preuaile agaīst Matth. vlt. her Sayed he not also that he wold be with the churche vntil the worldes ende Hou then could she erre so shamefullie these M. ccccc yeres and mo as to beleue that christ was bodilye in the sacrament and to honoure hym therin and yet he was not there but bare bread wyne What cal ye Note my lord this yf it be not hel gates to preuaile against christes church Hou could she be discea●ed so many yeres in this weightie matter of our fayth with whom christ the trueth it selfe euer was as he promysed to be Did not christ saye that he wold be in the middes of twoo or three assēbled in his name Was he not thē emonge In concilio lateranensi the M. ccc xv fathers which were gathered together out of al costes of christendome and determyned that the Matth. vlt. bread and wyne were yn their natures and substances vtterly turned yn to christes very natural bodye bloud and that there remayned only their qualites and properties The apostles Act. 15. with the elders were assembled together at hierusalem yn à councel for the decysion of à question touchynge the chargynge of the Gentyles with the keping of Moses law and whē they had done finyshed that their counsail Actorum 15 S. Iames ponounced their sentence and sayed that it pleased the holy goost and them that the gentyles should not be burdened with that ceremonial law by which it appeareth playnly that the holy goost ruleth and directeth the councels lefullye assembled that they erre not yn the fayth why then doth he not euen so nou to Marke reader the councels and hath euer done Hath nowe christ forsaken his deare Ioā 14 16. spouse the church Dyd he not promyse to send his holy spirite to the churche whiche should teach her al trueth and abyde stil with her for euer Hath he not then yet performed this his promyse which he made to his apostles and yn them to the whole churche at al tymes being Of did he not fulfil it vntil Berengarius came Berēgariu● which about M. yeares after that promes Was the first autour of this heresie which he did penytently abiure and recante was made first of al men taught and maynteyned this heresie which sayeth that christes very natural bodye is not reallye in the blessed sacrament of the aulter Was this promes made onlie to hym and his scholers Was it made to a feu carnal vnlearned men yn any one countrey not rather to al the whole catholike churche and to al christen nations Was berengarius which was an hereretike in many other pointes as stories do wytnesse of hym and also à man of à very il lyfe a meter man and more worthye to receaue the performance of that highe pròmes than any of the apostles were or than any other parsō which then lyued or els sense yea thā al the churche of christ But lette vs graunt that this promes was not fulfillyd nor the trueth in this matter declared vntil Berēgarius came that the Marke wel reader this holy ghoost the spirite of the trueth was geuen vnto hym and first did sette furth by hym this verite Tel me then hou it chaunced that the holy goost forsoke hym suffered hym to recante to abiure forswaere for euer that opinion departinge out of this world with great repentance for that his heresie Did not Christ saye that the holy goost should euer abyde with them to whō he was promysed Did not Berengarius which first wrote against this our fayth of the sacrament Li. de gestis regum f●ā corum in vita Henrici Regis Franciae recāte his heresie wyllyngly as Gagwinus testifieth and dyed wyth great repentaunce for yt For this was his last recantation I Berengarius do beleue Berēgarius later recantation wyih my hert and confesse wyth my mouth that the bread wyne which are set vpon the aulter are throughe prayer and the wordes of christ in substance turned in to our sauiours body and bloud which he toke of his mother offered vpon the crosse and that nowe doth sit in heauen at the fathers ryght hand and that this is not done only by á signe and the vertu of the sacrament but in the propriete of nature and the veryte of substance This was his confession and beliefe euen vntil his death Our lord gyue al thē that haue foloued his errour in this matter grace to forsake it by his exāple and to dye in the true fayth of christ as he did After this mans death by the space of c yeres and more no man wrote against the very real presence of Christes natural body in the sacrament Then at the length came Almericus heresie one Almericus à wycked man which sayed that christes body was as wel in al manier of bread and in euery other thing els as in the blessed sacrament of the aulter After hym noman spake as much as we can fynde yn wryting against the catholike faith of this matter the space of more then á hundred yeres Then rose vp one Ihon wyclefe our countrey man which of mere malice that he could not obteyne the bysshoprych of worcetur and because he Wyclefes heresie was excommunycated and banyshed out of oxford sowed many heresies in England emong which this that my lord defendeth in his booke was one