A14347:13
A discourse or treatise of Peter Martyr Vermilla Floor[n]tine, the public reader of divinity…A discourse or traictise of Petur Martyr Vermilla Flore[n]tine, the publyque reader of diuinitee…
A discourse or treatise of Peter Martyr Vermilla Floor[n]tine, the public reader of divinity in the University of Oxford wherein he openly declared his whole and determinate judgement concerning the sacrament of the Lords supper in the said University.A discourse or traictise of Petur Martyr Vermilla Flore[n]tine, the publyque reader of diuinitee in the Vniuersitee of Oxford wherein he openly declared his whole and determinate iudgemente concernynge the sacrament of the Lordes supper in the sayde Vniuersitee.
London: printed by Robert Stoughton i.e. E. Whitchurch for Nicolas Udall, 1550London: printed by Robert Stoughton i.e. E. Whitchurch for Nycolas Udall, 1550
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¶ First and foremost we shall treat of such con junction and union, whereby they commonly affirmed the bread and the wine to be changed by transubstantiation into the body & blood of Christ which seemeth to be the highest & most perfect point of the Sacrament with the material things.
¶ Fyrst and formoste we shall traicte of suche cō iunction and vnion, wherby they commonly affirmed the bread and the wine to be chaunged by transubstā ciacion into the body & bloud of Christ which semeth to be the highest & moste perfecte poynct of the Sacrament with the materiall thynges.
Secondarily we shall search and try out another determination which supposeth the wine and the bread (as touching their perfect and true natures) to be reserved and kept still in the sacrament, and so to remain therein, that they have annexed and joined unto them the very true body and blood of Christ (as they speak it in their terms) naturally, bodily, & really, that is to say in very person.
Secondarily we shall searche and trye out another determinacion which supposeth the wyne and the breade (as touching their perfect and true natures) to be reserued and kept still in the sacramente, and so to remaine therin, that they haue annexed and ioyned vnto them the very true bodye and bloude of Christe (as they speake it in theyr termes) naturally, bodely, & really, that is to saye in very persone.
Thirdly shall be considered and weighed the assertion of some others, which affirm that the premisses are by none other mean but a sacramental way coupled together, that is to wit, in the way of betokening and representing only.