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Being come to the matter in hand,¹ you show your self more hot and hasty in words, then discrete or pithy in your arguments. For that I said it is a contradiction, ⟨p. 178⟩to maintain that one and the same body should together both be visible & invisible, circumscriptible and incircumscriptible, as you do most fondly imagine and teach of Christs body, you charge me with infidelity for denying gods omnipotency, which every Christian professeth in the first article of the Creed. Of Atheism and infidelity take heed your self, M. R you have already made a dangerous step.² God forbid I should be guilty of that sin, whereof you do without all conscience or reason accuse me. God is omnipotent, and ever was, and ever will be. But his omnipotency proveth not your Real presence. For have you learned to conclude, that seeing God is omnipotent, and hath power to do all things, therefore he doth all things, yea offereth violence to his own body for maintenance of your absurd & heretical assertions? must Gods omnipotency attend upon your fancies? Cannot god be omnipotent, unless your real presence be granted? No such matter, thanks be to God: & so your accusation of infidelity is vain and childish. Albeit I suppose you are not ignorant altogether of your own scholastical doctrine concerning Gods omnipotency. ⟨p. 179⟩Your schoolmen teach that God cannot do any thing wherein a contradiction is implied: ³& that all other things he can do, and therefore is omnipotent. ⁴But herein a manifest contradiction is implied, that Christs body should be visible and invisible together, that it is compassed and circumscribed in one certain place, and that also it is contained in an infinite number of sacraments, without any circumscription of place. And thus your own schoolmen teaching, and that truly, that god cannot do any thing, wherein is included a contradiction, because he cannot lie, have in deed ground to powder your conceit of Real presence, which without most clear contradiction can never be maintained. For if Christs body be visible, how is it then invisible? If Christs body have all properties of a natural body, whereof this is one, & that most necessary & inseparable, to be contained and circumscribed in one certain place: how can it then be true that his body is in infinite places without any circumscription at all?