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

In deed the Doctrine uttered in this Article is false, and derogatory to the Glory of our Saviour Christ. For thereby the honour of Christs Sacrifice, whereby he hath once satisfied for the sins of all, should be transferred to the work of the Priest, which were great wickedness, and detestable blasphemy. And therefore we will not require M. Ivel, to yield, and subscribe unto this Article. For we grant, this was never thought a sound doctrine within six hundred years of Christs Ascension, nor shall be so thought within six thousand years after the same of any man of sound belief. (234)¹ Neither hath it been at any time taught in the Catholic Church, how so ever it liketh our adversaries, to charge the Scholastical Doctors with the slanderous report of the contrary. For it is Christ only, and none other thing, that is able to remove our sins: and that hath he done by the Sacrifice of his body once done upon the Cross. Of which Sacrifice once performed upon the Cross with shedding of his Blood, this unbloody Sacrifice of the Altar, which is the daily Sacrifice of the Church, commonly called the Mass, is a sampler, and a commemoration, (235)² in the which we have the same Body, that hanged on the Cross. Neither is it a sampler, or commemoration only, but the self same Sacrifice which was offered on the Cross: a sampler or commemoration, in respect of the manner, for that it is done without blood shedding: the self same, for that the thing which is offered, is the same that was offered on the Cross. And where as we have nothing of our selves, that we may offer up acceptable to God: we offer this his Sons Body as a most acceptable Sacrifice, beseeching him to look, not upon our worthiness, our act,