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

And forasmuch as Charity would, if it be possible, and so far as we may with the safeguard of good Conscience, and maintenance of the Truth, to agree with all men, therefore methinks that it is not charitably done to burden any man, either new or old, farther than such do declare themselves to dissent from that we are persuaded to be the Truth, or pretend there to be controversies whereas none such are indeed, and so to multiply the debate, the which the more ⟨p. 7⟩it doth increase, the farther it doth depart from the unity that the true Christian should desire.

And again this is true, that Truth neither needeth, nor will be maintained with lies, and it is sin to lie against the Devil, for tho by the lie thou dost seem never so much to speak against the Devil, yet in that thou lyest indeed thou workest the Devils work; thou doest him service, and takest the Devils part.

And again this is true, that Truth neither needeth, nor will be maintain'd with lies, and it is sin to lie against the Devil, for tho by the ly thou dost seem never so much to speak against the Devil, yet in that thou lyest indeed thou workest the Devils work; thou doest him service, and takest the Devils part.

Now then, whether they do godly and charitably, which either by their pen in writing, or by their words in preaching, do bear the simple people in hand that those which thus do teach, and believe, do go about to make the holy Sacrament ordained by Christ himself a thing no better than a piece of common broken bread, or that do say, that such do make this Sacrament of the blessed Body and Blood of Christ but a bare sign or figure to represent Christ, none otherwise than an Ivy-Bush doth represent the Wine in a Tavern, or as a vile person gorgeously apparelled may represent a King or a Prince in a Play: Alas! let us leave lying and speak the truth every man not only to his neighbour, but also of his neighbour; for we are members one of another, saith St. Paul.