A14347:91
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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And forasmuch as this change from substance to substance can not with our senses be altered unto,1 neither mans reason can understand it, neither experience doeth teach it: how shall it be perceived? I know that ye will say, that it may be understanded & comprehended or conceived by faith. But in case the matter must go by faith, that same faith cannot be had without gods word, & in gods word ye have not one jot for you
And forasmuche as this chaunge from substaūce to substaunce can not with our senses be altered vnto,1 neither mannes reason can vnderstande it, neither experience dooeth teache it: how shall it be perceiued? I knowe yt ye will saye, yt it maie be vnderstāded & cōprehēded or conceiued by feith. But in case ye matier must go by feithe, that same feithe cannot bee had without gods word, & ī gods word ye haue not one iot for you
- 1The .xxviii. argument.The .xxviii. argumente.
Moreover whereas Christ made this sacrament of two parts,1 that is to wit, his body for one part, and his blood for the other part: it doeth by the same thing appear plainly enough, that the matter must not be taken or understanded by this kind of transubstantiation. For in the real• and carnal body of Christ: these two parts be not divided or sundered the one from the other.2 But a poor shift they have and a starting hole: & they say, that there is as much contained in any one of these two parts: as there is in y other part. In deed we hear them thus affirm & this to hold: but the words of scripture do not teach any such matter,