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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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Read the hole sermon of Christ Joan. 6. and then thou shalt perceive that this interpretation cannot be admitted. Christ meant to bring his audience unto the knowledge of •aythe, that they might be partakers of God's promises through him only. And showed them that he was the bread of consolation and solace, to satisfy the conscience of every Hungry and afflicted person. Ego sum panis qui de coelo descendi, si quis ederit de hoc pane, ui vet in aeternum. Etpanis quem ego dabo, caro mea est, quam ego dabo pro mundi uita. Now Mark the words, the bread that I shall give is my flesh, he promised to give the bread by these first words, that was his fles •e. But how to give it to be eaten, or to be beaten, to be invisible in the mouth of the Apostles or visible with all opprobrie and contempt before his judges, to be liff• up over the priests head, and there sacrificed. Or else upon the cross to sacrifice him self. Christ that always, promiseth with the thing promised, how the thing promised may be received, and used prescribeth the manner how and after what sort he would give his flesh unto the world, quā dabo pro mundi uita. I will give ⟨image 34⟩i• for the life of the world his body rent and torn upon the cross, was the form, and manner how he would give it for the lief of the world, not to be, in the sacrament. But to dye upon the cross. As this relatyue quam declarith, quam ego dabo pro mundi uita. The same fl•she that he spake of in the first part of the sentence. Panis quem ego dabo caro mea, of the same he speaketh in the second part, quam dabo pro mundi uita. And as the one part of the sentence speaketh of his body to be s•ayne and not eaten, so doth the other this may be proved by Christs words •n the same place, for he speaketh of his body that should give life unto the world, which only is by the body slain, and not eaten as Paul saith Rom. 6. Ebre. 9. 10. as for the sacramental eating, where as Christs institution is truly observed, there is nothing but A memory of this death where of Christ all together spake in the 6. of Joan, and interpre•atith many times in hat place this word eat, for belyue, qui confidit inquit mihi habet uitam ęternam. Nether the repetition of this word dabo is none other thing then accustomed repetition of one and the same thing, by more express words.