An account of a disputation at Oxford, anno dom. 1554 with A treatise of…

But in this remembrance thus ordained, as the Author thereof is Christ both God and Man, so by the almighty power of God it far passeth all kinds of Remembrance that any other man is able to make, either of himself, or of any other thing. For whosoever receiveth this holy Sacrament thus ordained in remembrance of Christ, he receiveth therewith either Death or Life. In this I trust we do all agree, for St. Paul saith of the godly receivers 1 Cor. 10th. The Cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the partaking or Fellowship of Christ's Blood? and also he saith the Bread which we break (he meaneth at the Lord's Table) is it not the partaking, or fellowship of Christ's Body? now the partaking of Christ's Body and Blood unto the faithful and godly, is the partaking and fellowship of Life and immortality. And again of the bad and ungodly receivers St. Paul as plainly saith thus, He that eateth of this Bread, and drinketh of this Cup unworthily, he is guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. O how necessary then is it if we love Life and would eschew Death, to try and examine our selves before we eat of this Bread, and drink of this Cup, for else assuredly he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh his own damnation, because he esteemed not the Lords Body; that is, he reverenceth not the Lords body with the honour which is due unto him. And yet by that which was said, that with the receipt of the Holy Sacrament of the blessed Body and Blood of Christ ⟨p. 6⟩is received of every one, good or bad, either Life or Death; it is not meant that they which are dead before God, hereby may receive Life; or the living before God can hereby receive Death. For as none is meet to receive natural food whereby the natural life is nourished except he be born, and live before, so no man can feed by the receipt of this holy Sacrament, of the food of eternal Life, except he be regenerated, and born of God before; and on the other side, no man here receiveth damnation which is not dead before.

But in this remembrance thus ordain'd, as the Author thereof is Christ both God and Man, so by the almighty power of God it far passeth all kinds of Remembrance that any other man is able to make, either of himself, or of any other thing. For whosoever receiveth this holy Sacrament thus ordain'd in remembrance of Christ, he receiveth therewith either Death or Life. In this I trust we do all agree, for St. Paul saith of the godly receivers