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The supper of the Lord where unto, that thou mayst be the better prepared…The souper of the Lorde wher vnto, that thou mayst be the better prepared…
The supper of the Lord where unto, that thou mayst be the better prepared and suerlyer instructed: have here first the declaration of the later part of the .6. ca. of S. Joha[n], beginning at the letter C. the fourth line before the cross, at these words: merely were. [et]c wherein incidentally M. Morris letter against Johan Frith is confuted.The souper of the Lorde wher vnto, that thou mayst be the better prepared and suerlyer enstructed: haue here firste the declaracion of the later parte of the .6. ca. of S. Joha[n], beginninge at the letter C. the fowerth lyne before the crosse, at these wordis: merely were. [et]c wheryn incidently M. Moris letter agenst Johan Frythe is confuted.
Nornburg: printed by Niclas twonson i.e. N. Hill?, 1533
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The second argument of More.
The secounde argument of More.
¶ After this text thus wisely proved to be understanden in the literal sense with the carnal Jews, and not in the Allegoric or spiritual sense with Christ and his Apostles: The hole some of Morris confutation of the young man standeth upon this argument. A Posse ad Esse. That is to wit, God may ⟨image 8⟩do it, ergo it is done. God may make his body in many, or in all places at once, ergo it is in many or in all places at once. which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is every sophister, & every man that hath wit perceiveth.1 A like judgment: God may show More the truth and call him to repentance as he did Paul for persecuting his church: ergo More is converted to God? Or, God may let him run of an indurate heart with Pharaoh and at last take an open and sudden vengeance upon him for persecuting his word & burning his pore members: ergo it is done all ready? M. More must first prove it us by express words of holy scripture, and not by his own unwritten dreams, that Cry•tis body is in many places or in all places at once: & then, though our reason cannot reach it, yet our faith measured and directed with the word of faith will both reach it, receive it, & hold it faste••: not because it is possible to God, and impossible to reason: but because the written word of our faith saith it But when we read gods word in mo than x.x. places contrary, that his boy should be here. More must give us leave to believe his unwritten vanities, verities I should say, at leisure, Here mayest thou see Christian reader wherefore More would so fain make the believe. That the apostles left aught unwritten of necessity to be believed even to stablesshe the pope's kingdom which standeth of Morris unwritten vanities. as of the presence of Christ's body and making thereof in the breed, of purgatory, of invocation of saints, worshipping of stones and stocks, pilgrimages, hallowing