A16573:708
The complaint of verity, madeThe complaynt of veritie, made
The complaint of verity, made by John Bradford. An exhortation of Matthew Rogers, unto his children. The complaint of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lollers tower, & written with their blood, how god was their comfort. A song of Cain and Abel. The saying of master Hooper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, upon a wall with a coal, in the new In, at Gloucester, and his saying at his deathThe complaynt of veritie, made by Iohn Bradford. An exhortacion of Mathewe Rogers, vnto his children. The complaynt of Raufe Allerton and others, being prisoners in Lolers tower, & wrytten with their bloud, how god was their comforte. A songe of Caine and Abell. The saieng of maister Houper, that he wrote the night before he suffered, vppon a wall with a cole, in the newe In, at Gloceter, and his saiyng at his deathe
London: printed for Owen Rogers?, 1559
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So that it is plain to them that will see, that to take the substance of bread away, is clean against the nature and property of a Sacrament.
So that it is plaine to them that wil sée, that to take the substance of bread away, is cleane against the nature and propertie of a Sacrament.
I will speak nothing how that this their doctrine of Transubstantiation, beside the manifold absurdities it hath in it, (which to rehearse I omit) it utterly overthroweth the use of the Sacrament, and is clean contrary to the end wherefore it was instituted, & so is no longer a Sacrament, but an Idol, and is the cause of much Idolatry, converting the peoples hearts from an heavenly conversation, to an earthly, and turning the Communion, into a private action, and a matter of gazing and piping, of adoring and worshipping the work of mens hands, for the living God, which dwelleth not in Temples made with mens hands, much less, lieth he in Pyxes and Chests, whose true worship is in spirit and verity, which God grant ⟨image 68⟩us all to render unto him continually. Amen.
I will speake nothing how that this their doctrine of Transubstantiation, beside the manifold absurdities it hath in it, (which to rehearse I omit) it vtterly ouerthroweth the vse of the Sacrament, and is cleane cōtrary to the end wherefore it was instituted, & so is no longer a Sacrament, but an Idoll, and is the cause of much Idolatrie, conuerting the peoples hearts from an heauenly conuersation, to an earthly, and turning the Communion, into a priuate action, and a matter of gazing and piping, of adoring and worshipping the worke of mens hands, for the liuing God, which dwelleth not in Temples made with mens hands, much lesse, lyeth he in Pixes and Chests, whose true worshippe is in spirit and veritie, which God graunt ⟨image 68⟩vs all to render vnto him continually. Amen.