A reply unto M. Hardinges answerA replie vnto M. Hardinges ansvveare

(132)¹ And the Fathers have been driven to use these terms, for the more ample and full declaration of the Trueth, and also for withstanding and stopping objections made by Heretics. And because the Catholic faith touching the verity of Christs Body in the Sacrament, was not impugned by any man, for the space of a thousand years after Christs being in earth, and about that time (133)² Berengarius first began openly to sow the wicked seed of the Sacramentary Heresy, which then soon confuted by learned men, and by the same first Author abjured and recanted, now is with no less wickedness, but more busily, and more earnestly set forth again: the Doctors that sithence have written in the defence of the true and Catholic faith herein, have (134)³ more often used the terms before mentioned, then the Old and Ancient Fathers that wrote within M. Ivelles six hundred years after Christ. Who doubtless would no less have used them, if that matter had been in question, or doubt in their time. And albeit these terms were strange, and new, as used within these five hundred years only, and that the people were never taught for six hundred years after Christ, as M. Ivel saith more boldly, then truly, and therefore more rashly, then wisely: Yet the Faith by them opened and declared, is Universal, and old: verily no less old, then is our Lords Supper, where this Sacrament was first instituted.