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Gelasius likewise, whom peradventure ye will the more credit, because he was sometime bishop of Rome, saith, Non desinit esse substantia panis, there leaveth not to be the substance of bread. Natura panis in Sacramento remanet, the nature of the bread remaineth in the Sacrament. Chrysostome also, Non mutatur substantia panis, the substance of the bread is not altered. I could say more, but this is for this time enough; this only I trust, amongst a number of other, shall be now sufficient to persuade you the truth herein. Ye see here that S. Augustine, Theodoretus, Gelasius, and Saint Chrysostom do all affirm, and herein agree; that the substance or nature of the bread, after the consecration is not changed.

Gelasius likewise, whom peraduenture yée will the more credit, because hée was sometime bishop of Rome, saith, Non desinit esse substantia panis, there leaueth not to bee the substance of bread. Natura panis in Sacramento remanet, the nature of the bread remaineth in the Sacrament. Chrysostome also, Non mutatur substantia panis, the substance of the bread is not altered. I could say more, but this is for this time ynough; this onely I trust, amongst a number of other, shall be now sufficient to perswade you the truth herein. Yée sée here that S. Augustine, Theodoretus, Gelasius, and Saint Chrysostome do all affirme, and herein agrée; that the substance or nature of the bread, after the consecration is not changed.

Let us therefore, good brethren, notwithstanding we have been otherwise ⟨image 48⟩taught, let us, I say, believe these holy Doctors, let us credit them; they will not mock us, they will not deceive nor beguile us. But this other doctrine, this doctrine of transubstantiation, was of late devised, not past three hundred years ago, in the council of Lateran. And there, upon this new devise of theirs, they made a great solemn, and festival day, and called it, Corpus Christi day. And now we are ashamed of this: but then what commodity, what profit had we thereof? We found out of our selves a new sacrifice, the sacrifice (I mean) of the mass, as though the death of Christ had not been a sacrifice sufficient, as though Christs blood had not once for all washed away our iniquities, as though Christ had not said, I have paid the ransom for your sins. It were an infinite labour to repeat unto you particularly, all the abuses of late days used in the Church of Christ; you your selves can well remember them, I need not here to rehearse them unto you. But then what profit had ye of all such things of which you are now ashamed? But