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Grant all there glosses and interpretations to be true as they be most false, and say as they would have it, that the very true humanity, and Christ in the true shape and form of a man as he is with all qualities and quantities except sin and immortality to be in the bred, under the bred, or with the bread, after the bred or before the bred and say there is present in the priests hand as great a body and as natural a man as the priest or minister is himself: the word of god made man: so they would have it: they shall never ⟨image 59⟩deceive a godly Christian with there glosses, for he will trust unto the simplicity of God's word that saith Nolite credere, believe them not till they show my body unto the senses, for as the lighe thing. The defenders of this doctrine because they be not able to answer unto such as writeth and preacheth the truth: they challenge and attribute unto them selves the only knowledge of truth, and say there contrarijs be not learned nor cannot understand them grant there wore none learned that defendeth this truth as there be hath and ever till the world's end shall be, yet will the truth defend it self, and because no man should in this matter leave she truth, though better learned then he judg fantastically of à true body: Christ would his simple disciple to judge sensible of his natural body and let this sophistication pass and saith his body shall be as sensible is the lightning in the air, and not ⟨image 59⟩invisible with a piece of bread though that most religious sacrament ought to be most godly used for the mystery that it containeth, and likewise the promise of grace that it confirmeth. they say this place maketh not against the presence of Christs body in the sacrament, But against such as should preach in the Later days false doctrine against Christs doctrine: and make an other Christ: true it is he speaketh of such as should preach false doctrine: but what should be that false doctrine, that could be over con with these words: Nolite credere sicut fulgetum coruscans uenit ab Oriente in Occidente, ita erit aduentus filius hominis, what heresy readeth any man in the historijs to be vanquished by these words, not of Samosatenus that was condemned in the council of Niece. Not of Nestor that denied too natures to be unit in Christ Nor of Eutiches that said one ⟨image 60⟩nature was converted into the other.