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Now the bread of eternal life is not eaten with teeth, for the body cannot eat spiritually, no more then the soul can eat corporally, and therefore he is such a bread as is eaten with faith, and so himself saith in the Gospel of John.¹ Mark this eating by faith, and all the strife is ended. Flesh and blood indeed need not faith to chew them, for the teeth can chew them well enough. Therefore if the bread and wine were the body of Christ, then we need not faith to eat it, but all which have teeth might eat Christs body, yea the Mice might eat it as well as men, for they eat the same bread that we do, as well after it is consecrated as before.

Now the bread of eternall life is not eaten with teeth, for the bodie cannot eate spiritually, no more then the soule can eate corporally, and therefore hee is such a bread as is eaten with faith, and so himselfe saith in the Gospell of Iohn.¹ Marke this eating by faith, and all the strife is ended. Flesh and blood indeede neede not faith to chew them, for the teeth can chew them well inough. Therefore if the bread and wine were the bodie of Christ, then we neede not faith to eate it, but all which haue teeth might eate Christs bodie, yea the Myce might eate it as well as men, for they eate the same bread that wee doe, as well after it is consecrated as before.

1. 1Joh. 6. 35.Ioh. 6. 35.

If this be not enough to batter the ruins of this upstart Heresy, I will come to Interrogatories, and see whether they have learned it by rote, or by reason.