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By this is answered that which followeth, wherein are alleged certain miracles, ⟨p. 182⟩vainly & altogether from the purpose. The question is not, whether is more repugnant to nature, to be borne of a virgin, or a body to be incircumscript (although herein you speak without reason or authority) but whether it be either agreeable to nature or Gods will, that one & the self same body be at once circumscript and incircumscript, as you defend Christs body to be.

By this is answered that which followeth, wherin are alledged certaine miracles, ⟨p. 182⟩vainly & altogether from the purpose. The question is not, whether is more repugnant to nature, to be borne of a virgine, or a bodie to be incircumscript (although herein you speake without reason or authoritie) but whether it be either agreeable to nature or Gods wil, that one & the selfe same bodie be at once circumscript and incircumscript, as you defend Christs bodie to be.

First you say the body of our saviour Christ was incircumscript in his nativity, ¹resurrection, & ascension. Although this be most false and heretical, destroying the trueth of Christs humanity, yet if it were granted, it argueth nothing, unless you will say, that when it was incircumscript, it was also circumscript, as now you affirm of the same body: for you confess his body is circumscript, and yet you say the self same body is incircumscript: and herein is an evident contradiction, which when you labour to defend, what do you else, but with intolerable boldness maintain most monstrous absurdities?

First you saie the bodie of our sauiour Christ was incircumscript in his natiuitie, ¹