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Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs…Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs…
Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs of Christ, D. Nicolas Ridley late Bishop of London, and M. Hugh Latimer sometime Bishop of Worcester, during the time of their imprisonments. Whereunto is added. A treatise against the error of transubstantiation, made by the said reverend father D. Nicolas Ridley. M.D.LVI.Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs of Christe, D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London, and M. Hughe Latymer sometyme Bysshoppe of Worcester, during the tyme of their emprysonmentes. Whereunto is added. A treatise agaynst the errour of transubstantiation, made by the sayd reuerende father D. Nicolas Rydley. M.D.LVI.
Strasbourg: printed by the heirs of W. Rihel, 1556
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But how can they make and verify Christs words to be true / demonstrating the substance / which in the demonstration is but bread / and say thereof: This is my body / that is as they say / the natural substance of Christs body except they would say that the verb (is) signifieth / is made / or is changed into / and so then if the same verb (is) be of the same effect in Christs words / spoken upon the cup / and rehearsed by Luke and Paul / the cup or the wine in the cup / must be made or turned into the new testament / as was declared before.
But how cā they make and verifie Christs words to bee true / demostrating the substance / whiche in the demonstration is but breade / and saie therof: This is my bodie / that is as they saie / the naturall substance of Christes bodie except they wolude saie that the verbe (is) signifieth / is made / or is chāged into / and so thē if the same verbe (is) be of the same effecte in Christes wordes / spoken vpon the cuppe / and rehearsed by Luke and Paule / the cuppe or the wine in the cuppe / must be made or turned into the newe testament / as was declared before.
1There be some among the transubstantiators which walk soe willy and soe warily / betwixt these ij. aforesaid opinions / allowing them both and holding plainly neither of them both / that ⟨p. 54⟩me think they may be called Neutrals Ambidexters / or rather such as can shift on both sides. They play on both parts: for with the latter they do allow the doctrine of the last syllable / which is that transubstantiation is done by miracle / in an instant / at the sound of the last syllable (um) in this sentence / hoc est corpus meum: And they do allow Dunses fantastical imagination of individuū vagum / that demonstrateth (as he teacheth) in Christs words / one thing in substance / then being (after his mind) the substance of the body of Christ.
1There bee some amonge the transubstantiators whiche walke soe wilely and soe warely / betwixte these ij. aforesaide opinions / allowinge them both and holding plainelye neither of them boeth / that