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Because upon these words the Papists ground their Transubstantiation, that is that the bread is changed into Christs flesh, & the ⟨p. 83⟩wine is turned into Christs blood, whereby we eat the same body which dyed upon the Cross, & drink the same blood which issued out of his side. That you may see the blindness of this Popish dream. I would have you but mark every word of this scripture, how they make against transubstantiation, that ye may see them slain like Goliath with their own sword.¹ Even as God made Caiaphas speak against himself;² so the scriptures which heretics allege,³ do make against themselves, like the Baalites which wounded their own flesh.⁴ I may liken their allegations to Satan's when he tempted Christ in the wilderness, he alleged but one sentence of scripture for himself,⁵ and that Psalm out of which he borrowed it made so plain against him,⁶ that he was fain to pick here a word and there a word, and leave out that which went before, and skip in the middest, and omit that which came after, or else he had marred his cause. the scripture is so holy, and pure, and true, that no word nor syllable thereof can make for the devil, or for sinners, or for heretics: yet as the devil alleged scripture, though it made not for him, but against him; so do the Libertines, and Epicures, and heretics, as though they had learned at his school,

Because vpon these wordes the Papists ground their Transubstantiation, that is that the bread is changed into Christs flesh, & the ⟨p. 83⟩wine is turned into Christes blood, whereby we eate the same bodie which dyed vpon the Crosse, & drinke the same blood which issued out of his side. That you may see the blindnes of this Popish dreame. I would haue you but marke euerie word of this scripture, how they make against transubstantiation, that ye may see them slaine like Goliah with their owne sworde.