A Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament

¹Christ said to his disciples: If you loved me, you would be glad, for I go unto my father. And again he said:² It is expedient for you that I go, for if I go not, the comforter shall not come to you. And yet surely the eternal word of God, the virtue of God, the wisdom of God, was ever with his father, and in his father, yea even at the same time, when he was with us, and in us: For when he did mercifully dwell in this world, he left not his habitation in heaven, for ⟨p. 54⟩he is every where whole with his father, equal in divinity, whom no place can contain, for the Son filleth all things, and there is no place that lacketh the presence of his divinity. From whence than and whither did he say, that he would go? Or how did he say, that he went to his father, from whom doubtless he never departed? But that to go to his father, and from us, was to take from this world that nature, which he received of us. Thou seest therefore that it was the property of that nature to be taken away and go from us, which in the end of the world shall be rendered again to us, as the angels witnessed,³ saying: This Jesus which is taken from you, shall come again, like as you saw him going up into heaven. For look upon the miracle, look upon the mystery of both the natures. The son of God, as concerning his humanity went from us, as concerning his divinity, he said unto us:⁴ Behold I am with you all the days unto the worlds end.

¹Christ sayd to his disciples: If you loued me, you wold be glad, for I go vnto my father. And agayn he sayde:² It is expedient for you that I go, for yf I go not, the comforter shal not come to you. And yet surely the eternal word of God, the vertue of God, the wysedome of God, was euer with his father, and in his father, yea euen at the same tyme, whan he was with vs, and in vs: For whan he dyd mercyfully dwelle in this worlde, he left not his habitation in heauen, for