A treatise of the cohabitation of the faithful with the unfaithful Whereunto is added.…A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull Whereunto is added.…

But go to / let them freely proofs before them with whom they do thus communicate / that they be of that mind which they speak of / that is / that in cumming to Mass they will not come to Mass / but that in it they will understand and consider bread / yea and that they will set before their minds the supper of the lord / that they will not confess the popish transubstantiation / but that they do here in acknowledge Christs Sacrament / and that they do well receive that spiritually in the Mass / which the priest doth ⟨p. 83⟩offer / and receive bodily for the living and the dead / which thing he believeth not. Will not all they forthwith cry out / that there holy Mass is unhallowed / and that they which think so are heretics / and that they which do communicate with them are excommunicated? Truly they would so behave themselves / that every man might understand / that there is a great difference between the Mass and the supper of the lord / and that they do embrace the Mass / but the supper of the lord they do all ways hate and reject. With such a kind of men yet do these men communicate / which would think it a hurtful and damnable thing / if they should admit unto their divine service / the companions of the religion of the gospel with their faith. For they do take the approving of their doctrine / to be the condemning of the religion of the gospel: And they do take the communion in the Mass to be a certain confession and approbation of their religion. Who is it then which doth not see / that these men do receive no part of the lords supper at all in the mass / but also that by coming to the mass they do deny the supper of the lord and the whole faith of the gospel? These men say that they pass nothing what the ceremonies be / what the ministers / for that the virtue of the Sacrament is not the worse for them. But the chief question here is not of the worthiness of the ceremonies or ministers / but of the true use and institution of the supper of the lord / and whither that the Mass as it is at this day used (I do not now ⟨image 84⟩speak any thing at all of that which was used above a thousand years passed) were so instituted of Christ / and be indeed the very supper of the lord?

But go to / let them frely profes before them with whō they do thus cōmunicate / that they be of that mynd which they speake of / that is / that in cūminge to Masse they will not cōme to Masse / but that in it they will vnderstōd and consider breade / yea and that they will sett before their myndes the supper of the lorde / that they will not cōfes the popishe transubstātiatiō / but that they do here in acknowledge Christes Sacrament / and that they do well receyue that spiritually in the Masse / which the prest doth