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A00376	An epistle of the famous clerke Erasmus of Roterodame, concernynge the veryte of the sacrament of Christes body and bloude whyche epistle is set before the excellent boke, intytuled D. Algeri De veritate corporis et sanguinis dominici in Eucharistia.)[sic] which boke was made by the sayd Algerus aboute fyue hondred yeared passed. And nowe of late yeares, hath agayne ben ouer seen and reuysyted, by the sayde famous clerke Erasmus of Roterodame, and dedycated by hym, unto the Reuerende father Balthasar bysshop of Hyldesyn. This present epistle of Erasmus makynge is to be founde oute, in the great volume of all his epistles, pagina, 1577. Hauynge this lytell wrytynge ouer it. In Algerum.	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.	1547 (1547)	STC 10490; ESTC S109905	10,138	36

¶ An Epistle of the famous clerke Erasmus of Roterodame concernynge the veryte of the Sacrament of Christes body and bloude whiche Epistle is set before the excellent boke intituled D. Algeri De veritate corporis et sanguinis dominici in Eucharistia which boke was made by the sayd Algerus aboute fyue hondred yeares passed And nowe of late yeares hath agayne ben ouer seen and reuysyted by the sayde famous clerke Erasmus of Roterodame and dedycated by hym vnto the Reuerende father Balthasar bysshop of Hyldesyn ¶ This present Epistle of Erasmus makynge is to be founde oute in the great volume of all his Epistles pagina 1577. Hauynge this lytell wrytynge ouer it In Algerum To the deuoute and good Christian Reader HEre foloweth good christian reader an Epystle made by the ryght famous clerke of late memorye D. Erasmus of Roterodame in the whiche he doeth euydently declare what mynde he was of in his lyfe tyme. Consernynge the veryte of the body and bloude of oure sauyoure christe in the blyssed sacrament of the alter in whiche Epystle he doeth also with many reuerende wordes set forth the dewe vse of the holy masse The same Erasmus hath also translated out of the greke tonge into latyn the self maner of sayeng of masse whiche the famous father of christes churche saynt Iohn̄ Chrisostome vsyd in his dayes hauyng this lytell missa Iohannis Chrisostomi Des Erasmo Roterodamo interprete The sayde Erasmus speaketh also very reuerently of the masse in his boke intitelled Des Erasmi Roterodami liber de sarcienda ecclesie concordia deqque sedandis opinionum diffid●●● and in many other places of his workes besydes as in his Enchiridion in his Paraphrasis super .ii. caput Iohannes ¶ An Epystle of Erasmus wryten to Balthazar Byshop of Hyldesyn I Know very wel right hyghlye renoumed Bysshop that lytell ciuilite it is at this season to dysturbe you beyng enbusyed with so great a nombre of affares as you now are but sence that your well knowne deuocyon towardes God doth so ryght earnestly fauoure the matters of the catholyke churche it shall as I suppose be nothynge dysplesaunt vnto you thoughe I at this tyme do mocyon you in this matter which of all other most hyghly doth appertayne as well vnto the concorde as vnto the dygnite of our sayde mother the catholyke church For of truth our mother the holy church hath in her none so hygh a treasure nor nothyng of more excellent dignite than is the promotion where vnto she is called by the wonderfull benifyte of the body and bloude of our sauyoure Christe by vertu wherof she becōmyth to be made one with christ both in nature and substaunce ye and therto is as it were transformed into god and surely there is nothynge more effectuall to norishe in her a perfighte and an indyssoluble concord Than that the same our mother the catholyke church etynge one self body and drynkynge one selfe bloude by one spirit is made and compact into one body by whom she also receyuyng lyfe is knyt vnto oure lyuynge heade christe and yet do we nowe se that al these great benifites hygh promocions nothwithstandynge howe y t throughe the slyghtie craftes of our deceytfull stronge aduersarie Sathan it is brought to passe that y e same most beneficiall gyfte the sacrament of the body bloude of our moste mercifull and moste tenderly louynge sauyour gyuen vnto vs to brynge all persons into vnytie and concorde hath bene the matter wherupon in olde tyme so many discentyons haue rysen and of late yeares are nowe agayne renewed Whyle that some there be which do denye that there is any thyng els in the blyssed sacramēt but onely the outwarde tokens of the body bloude of our sauyoure christ Some others do kuoweledge that Christe is in the sacramente but yet vnder the substaunce of bread and wyne And agayne some there were that sayde howe that through the wordes of consecration the substauuce of breade and wyne do fyrste peryshe and so succedeth after the bodye and the bloude of oure sauyoure christe Some others do holde that our sauiour by the wordes of consecration doeth become breade and wyne by theyr myndes makynge it but a lyghte matter that he was once for vs incarnate and dyd for our sakes become man There haue also ben some that were called starcoranista whiche irreuerent persons deseruyd wel so vyle a name bycause they dyd both immagyn and speake so vyly and withoute all reuerence of so hyghe a Sacrament the countre of Grece also to disquiet the vnytie of the catholyke church haue sent forth amongest vs theyr leuanars so called bycause they dare presume contrarye to holy scripture to leaue the vse of pure breade vnleuanyd and do consecrate in breade whiche is leauanyd After this hath rysen the debate and stryfe for y e receyuynge of the Sacrament in both the kyndes but yet as in that matter the hyghe Byshoppes haue varyed amongest them selues For Galacius dyd ordayne that all suche parsons shulde be remouyd from the receyuynge of the sacrament in both the kyndes whiche wolde nedys receyue it but vnder one whiche ordynaunce he than made bycause the vse for that tyme was contrarye There haue some ben also whiche stryuyng for the matter haue styfly mayntained that an euyll and synfull priest had no power to cōsecrate nor that the body of our sauyoure christ was receyued of any wretched and synfull lyuer and yet hath it so happenyd that the sondry errours of all these persones haue ben greatly benyficiall vnto the catholyke churche for thorough the meanes of these stormy assaultes made agaynst her by these instrumētes of Sathan she hath bene dryuyn to call to god for helpe and to beseche hym to sende downe his holy spirit amongest his flocke to instruct them of the trueth consernynge these hyghe and wonderful mystery and by these meanes haue euer the catholykes ben more more inlyght nyd better instructed and the stronglyer in the trewe fayth confyrmed But yet is the catholyke church to no man more be holden then vnto Berengarius nay not to Berengarius but to the great wysdome of our sauyour Chryst whiche turnyth the malyce of men into good for the more parfit establishing of his espouse y e Catholyke churche howe many notable men and famous clerkes hath the perlous and shamelesse heresy of Berengarius sette on worke caused them to set theyr pēnes to y e boke which berēgarius fyrst dyd sow this poyson abrode y t after y e wordes of cōsecracion were dewly spoken remayned yet styll the substaunce of brede wyne ī y e sacramēt But agaynst his heresy Guymundus wrote an excellent worke whiche nowe of late dayes is newly come to lyght which Guymūdus beyng a monke of the order of saynt Bener was afterward called to be the Bysshop of Auerence Nowe is come forth also The excellent worke of Algerus whiche beynge fyrst a studēt was afterward made a monke of

readers to be in y e readyng of these auncyent Fathers dewly syrcomspect let vs now retourne to oure chefest purpose and for so moche as that we haue for the proffe of our specyall matter the euydent testymonie both of our Sauyoure christ hym selfe and also of saynt Paule And furthermore sence it is by these two holye Fathers here abouesayd Guymundus and Algerus moste euydently in theyr bokes declared howe that in veryte the bodye and bloude of our Sauyoure christ is in the blyssed Sacrament of the alter and that al the auncient fathers here aboue sayde and mo a great nombre bysydes all those fathers whom clerkes do nowe call scole men whom the catholyke churche not without great and worthy causes euer haue done and styll do gyue soo hyghe auctorite and credyte vnto with one assent agrement concorde do holde and constantly mayntayne and euer frō age to age haue done that as I haue sayde in the sacrament of the alter is the verye substaunce of the body and bloude of our Sauyour Christ. And for so moch also as besydes all these aforesayd wytnessys the constant and full auctorite of all generall Counselles doo agre with them and specyally for so moch as al the hole nombre and congregacions of such as be faythfull Christians throughe the hole Christendome do concernynge his hyghe mystery consent and agre in one with the sayde auncyent Fathers and generall councelles and Scolemen Let vs nowe also at this tyme ioyne our selues vnto all these and agre also amongest our selues concernynge this heauenly mystery And whyle we be here present in this transitorie lyfe let vs so with concorde and harty deuotion thoughe it be duryng this our lyfe but vnder a darke shadowe and as it were vnder a couert maner of spekyng vnto vs mekely eate and drynke of this breade and cup vntyl the tyme may come that we may farre otherwyse to our heauenly comforte eate and drynke it in the kyngdome of God That wolde to God that suche parsons as haue folowed Berengarius in his maner oferrynge concernyng the veryte of the body and bloude of our sauyour Christ to be in the blyssed sacrament of y e alter which thyng he denyed so to be wolde in lykwyse folowe hym in repentynge of theyr selues as he dyd and that they whiche nowe in our dayes be infectyd with the same erroure wold so vnite themselues vnto the catholyke Churche agayne as he dyd which dyed for his offence full sore repentaunt Futhermore there haue rysen aboute this blyssed sacramēt innumerable questions As how is the transsubstantyacyon broughte to passe that is to saye howe doeth the substaunce of breade gyue place vnto the verye substaunce of the body of our Sauyour Christ Also howe the accidentes of breade and wyne be preserued and do remayne after theyr former substaūces be gone And howe is it that those accidentes do kepe theyr coloure theyr smell theyr sauoure also power to fyll lyke other fode and to make dronken all whiche qualites the breade and wyne had in them selues afore that they were consecrat also at what moment of tyme doth the body and bloude of christ begyn to be in the Sacrament Also at what tyme the body and bolude of christ doth sease to be in the Sacramente Also whether that after the formes be corrupted any other substaunce do succede Also howe that one selfe same body maye be at once in places innumerable Also how the body of a perfyte man may be vnder so lytyll a broken peace of breade And many suche other questions which it behouith with sobernes to be entreated of amongest suche persons as haue theyr wyttes exercysed in disputynge and reasonynge vpon suche hyghe matters But as vnto the laye people it doth suffise yf they do beleue y t after the wordes of cōsecracion be once by the mynyster spoken ouer the creatures of breade and wyne that there is incontynent the very body and bloude of our sauyour Christ which neyther can be deuyded nor yet receyue any hurte nor is not mete to receyue any maner in iurye what so euer chaunces do become of the outward formes For yf the sacred body of our lorde shulde be throwne into the myer or into any vyle gonge or any otherwise vnto any irreuerent persons thynkynge shuld be iniuryd or soyled in dede the most iniurye y t can be done vnto it Is whan it is receyued in to the mouth of a wycked and synfull person whiche is sore soyled and spotted with greuous and odyble synne Nowe suerly it is therfore syttynge for oure christian religyon to entreate and order the outwarde formes of breade and wyne of the holy sacrament with all dewe reuerence but as concernynge the very body of our Sauyour it selfe lyke as god is after his nature is no lesse glorious in a vyle synk than he is in heauen and can by no malyce of man or chaunce by man or other wyse happenynge receyue any hurte or Iniurye no more can the glorified body of our Sauyour christ what Iniurye so euer be done vnto the outwarde tokens And to be brefe agaynst all the doubtes and scrupules of mans weake knowlege Let vs fyrst call into our myndꝭ the Immesurable power of God vnto whom nothyng is impossible Ye and vnto whom there is nothynge but it is lyghte to be done so it be his pleasure that it shuld so be And farther more let vs cōsyder how inestymable the gyftes of any body gloryfied be but specially incomparablye of the body gloryfied ye and these hyghly super exaltyd body in glory and honor of oure lorde Iesus There restyth therfore nowe no more but that the thynge of which the veryte is here so sufficyently vnto vs perswadyd may on our parte be worthely worshyppyd and had in reuerence and that the thynge whiche we do professe to beleue to be so we may by matter in dede declare vnfaynedly that suche is oure beleue as we do make for For with howe great a purenes of lyuynge With howe moch humble reuerence and with howe moch ferefull tymerousnes oughte this thryse ye foure tymes to worthy to be worshypped mystery to be receyued ordered and entreted who can suppose that they do beleue earnestly and from the bottome of theyr hartes whiche whan this holye mysterye at the masse tyme is in doing do walke vp and downe in the churche pratyng and Iangelynge togyther or that which now in some places is taken vp for a custome do stande in the market place without the church dores there spending theyr tyme aboute tellynge of Idell tales In olde tyme that place was appoynted for penitentes or for them that were but newe come to our fayth and had not yet learned theyr belefe and so thought them selues not worthye once to entre into the churche dores Some other or euer the mynisters be shewed vnto the people at the leuaciō tyme do get them into some tauerne or alehouse do in maner leaue