A16576:109
An exhortation to the carrying of Christs cross with a true and brief confutation…An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse wyth a true and brefe confutacion…
An exhortation to the carrying of Christs cross with a true and brief confutation of false and papistical doctrine.An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse wyth a true and brefe confutacion of false and papisticall doctryne.
Wesel? : H. Singleton?, 1555?
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Whose exposition I will more boldly stick unto, then unto all the papists dreams, as long as I sleep not with them, by gods grace. They have none other sentence but these. 4. words: this is my body
Whose exposicion I wil more boldly stycke vnto, then vnto all the papistes dreames, as long as I slepe not wyth them, by gods grace. They haue none other sentence but these. 4. words: this is my body
But ask them what this, this, is, & they will not say as y• Apostle doth, namely that it is bread.
But aske thē what this, this, is, & they wil not saye as y• Apostle doth, namely that it is bread.
No, then they will say, that we hang all by reason, the matter being a matter of faith: Where as they themselves altogether hang on reason, as though Christ can not be able to do that, which he promiseth (bred still in substance remaining, as the Accidents do) except it be transubstantiate. Is not this, trow you, to make it a matter of reason, and to hedge gods power in within the limits of reason:
No, then they wyl say, that we hang all by reason, the mater beynge a mater of fayth: Wher as they themselues altogether hang on reason, as though Chryst can not be able to doe that, which he promiseth (bred stil in substaūce remaynyng, as the Accidentes doe) except it be transubstāciate. Is not thys, trow you, to make it a mater of reason, and to hedge gods power in within the limits of reason: