A16576:184
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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No, this were to much against their honour and gain also. But if one would ask them what they offer to the father, then a man should see their abominations. For if they say, nothing, then men would take them, as they be, liars.
No, thys were to muche agaynst theyr honor and gayne also. But if one woulde aske them what they offer to the father, thē a man should se their abominacions. For if they saye, nothynge, then men woulde take them, as they be, lyars.
If they say: bread and wine, as indeed they do in their mass horribly, then in that they say they offer the same thing, which Christ offered on the cross, and he offered his body: bred must needs be Christs body, and so Christs body is bred and wine. If they say that they offer up christ, in that the offerer must needs be ⟨p. 116⟩as good at the lest, yea better than the thing offered (for God is no strumpet, to like the offer token, and gift better, then the offerer and giver) then must they needs show themselves open Antichrists. For they make themselves equal with Christ, yea better then he: which thing indeed their holy father and grandsire, the pope, doth.
If they say: bread and wyne, as indede thei doe in their masse horriblye, then in that they saye they offre the same thing, whiche Chryste offred on the crosse, and he offred his bodye: bred muste nedes be Chrystes body, and so Christes body is bred and wine. If thei say yt thei offer vp christ, in that the offerer must neds be ⟨p. 116⟩as good at the lest, yea better thē the thing offred (for God is no strompet, to like the offer token, and gifte better, then the offerer and geuer) then must they nedes shew thēselues opē Antichrists. For they make themselues equal wyth Chryst, yea better then he: whych thyng indede their holy father and graundsire, the pope, doth.