Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls crossCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse

Why, then say you, how came transubstantiation into the Church? How it came in I cannot show you. The husbandman, that findeth his field overgrown with cockle, and ill weeds, knoweth not how they come. They grow of themselves, he soweth them not. But when, or since what time it hath been received and allowed of, I will tell you. It was first determined & enacted in the ⟨image 156⟩Council of Lateran under Pope Innocentius the third, in the time of king John, king of England, & in the year of our Lord a thousand two hundred & fifteen, that is, 350 years ago, & not before. Then was it first so named, and made a matter of faith, and never before. This I speak not of my self: they that maintain that error confess it, the most learned, and wisest, & sagest of them say it. And yet then was it no Catholic faith, for it was only received in the Church of Rome, the other churches over all the world received it not, as appeareth by a Council holden at Florence. Therefore, if transubstantiation be a matter of faith, it is a new late found faith, and no old and Catholic faith. In the time of our great grandfathers it was not so taken. Afterward Pope Honorius 3. commanded, that it should be kept under a canopy, and that the people ¹should worship the sacrament. And after him Urbanus 4. made a new holy day in honour of ²it, which he called corpus Christi day. And all these things have been done within these few years. For before, in the times of Augustine, Jerome, Chrysostom, and the old fathers, they were never heard of.

Why, then say you, how came transubstantiation into the Church? How it came in I cannot shew you. The husbandmā, that findeth his field ouergrowen with cockel, and ill weeds, knoweth not how they come. They grow of thēselues, he soweth them not. But when, or since what time it hath been receiued and allowed of, I wil tel you. It was first determined & enacted in the ⟨image 156⟩Councel of Laterane vnder Pope Innocentius the third, in the time of king Iohn, king of England, & in the yeere of our Lorde a thousand two hundreth & fifteen, that is, 350 yeres ago, & not before. Then was it first so named, and made a matter of faith, and neuer before. This I speake not of my selfe: they that maintaine that errour confesse it, the most learned, and wisest, & sagest of them say it. And yet then was it no Catholike faith, for it was onely receiued in the Church of Rome, the other churches ouer all the worlde receiued it not, as appeareth by a Councel holden at Florence. Therefore, if transubstantiation be a matter of faith, it is a newe late founde faith, and no old and Catholique faith. In the time of our great graundfathers it was not so taken. Afterwarde Pope Honorius 3. commaunded, that it should be kept vnder a canopie, and that the people