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…

Which unbloody sacrifice he commanded his church to offer, in remembrance of his bloody sacrifice: as the principal mean, whereby his bloody sacrifice is applied both to the quick and dead, as baptism is the mean, by the which regene ration is applied, by the priest, to the infant or child, that is baptised.

Whyche vnbloudy sacrifice he commaunded hys church to offer, in remembraunce of hys bloudy sacryfyce: as the principal meane, wherby hys bloudye sacrifice is applyed both to the quick and dead, as baptysine is the meane, by the whych regene racion is applyed, by the prieste, to the infaunte or chylde, that is baptysed.

For in that, the supper of Christ is to them not only a sacrament, but also a sacrifice: and that not only applicatory, but also propitiatory, because it applieth the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ, to whom the priest or minister will, be he ⟨p. 65⟩dead or alive. And in that, even from the beginning, the fathers, say they, were accustomed in the celebration of y• supper, to have ¹a memorial of the dead▪ and also in that this sacrifice is a sacrifice of the whole church, y• dead being members of the church, of charity as they can not but offer for them, even so they can not but pray for them after the en sample of the Catholic church: because it is a wholesome thing, sayeth Judas Maccabeus, to pray for the dead, that they may be delivered from their since. Whereunto, all the doctors do consent, say they.

For in that, the supper of Chryste is to them not onely a sacramente, but also a sacrifyce: and that not only applicatorye, but also propiciatory, because it applyeth the propiciatory sacrifyce of Chryste, to whom the pryeste or minister wyll, bee he ⟨p. 65⟩