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An answer unto my lord of Winchester's [sic] book entitled a detection of the…An answer vnto my lord of wynthesters [sic] booke intytlyd a detection of the…
An answer unto my lord of Winchester's [sic] book entitled a detection of the devils sophistry wherewith he robbeth the unlearned people of the true belief in the most blessed sacrament of the altar made by Johann Hopper.An answer vnto my lord of wynthesters [sic] booke intytlyd a detection of the deuyls sophistrye wherwith he robith the vnlernyd people of the trew byleef in the moost blessyd sacrament of the aulter made by Johann Hoper.
printed by Augustine Fries, 1547printed by Augustyne Fries, 1547
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And proveth there by, that the bread is not the body naturally of Christ. But proveth by these words that Christ had à true body and was very man, sayng phantasma non capit figuram sed ueritas, aliud enim à pane corpus Jesus habet nec pro nobis panis traditus, ⟨image 77⟩sed ipsum Christi uerum corpus traditum in cr• cem, quod panis figura in coena exhibitum est. He callithe this sacrament the sign of his body, and yet never condemned for an heretic. And this should the better content the mind of man that where as August. in lib. de heresibus doothe note certain errors of Tertullian: yet concerning this matter of the sacrament he speaky the not one word against him. for Augustine himself believeth as Tertullian did. As he testifieth contra Adamantum. Non dubitavit dominus dicere, Hoc est corpus meum, cum signum daret corporis sui. Why is not Augustine condemned for an heretic and his books burned because he saith that the lord doubted not to say this is my body. When he grave the sign of his body. Tertullian denieth plainly the bread to be his body li. 4. contra Marc, speaking of the bread, Acceptum inquit, & distributū discipulis corpus ovum illum fecit &c. quo modo corpus suum fecit, si panis non est corpus, sed fig• ra corporis eius: panem fecit corpus, id est sui corporis representationem consecravit. So doth Cypriane Epistola ad Cecilium say of the chalice. Non potest uideri sanguis eius quo redempti & uivificat sumus, esse in calice quando uinū desit calici, quo Christi sanguis ostenditur the wine is put into the chalice to represent the blood of Christ. So in his sermon de oratione dominica say the that this supper is à mystical and sacramental e• ting and drinking of Christ's body, by faith and not carnally as this opinion of transubstantiation would have it. Mentis non dentis sacramenta sunt pabula in quit August. Saynct• Hiero in Epist. ad Rusticum. Nihil diciu• ⟨image 77⟩Exuperio Tolose episcopo ait, ut qui uasis ecclesi•e praeciosis in pauperū alimoniam distractis, corpus Christi in canistro uimineo, & sanguinem portare in uitro. Also li. 2. contra •ovinianum, & quaestione secunda ad Hedibiam. He doth as Christ did, as the Apostles did, as the scripture doth. call the sacrament of Christs body the body it self.