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

Now on the other side, if after the truth shall be truly tried out, it be found that the substance of the Bread is the material substance of the Sacrament, although for the change of the use, office, and dignity of the Bread, the Bread indeed sacramentally is changed into the body of Christ, as the water of Baptism is changed into the fountain of regeneration, and yet the material substance thereof remaineth all one as was before, If, I say, the true solution of that former question (whereupon all these controversies do hang) be, that the natural substance of Bread is the material substance in the holy Sacrament of Christs body, then must it follow of that former proposition, (confessed of all that be named to be learned, so far as I do know, in England,) which is, That there is but one material substance in the Sacrament of the Body, and one only, likewise in the Sacrament of the Blood) that there is no such thing indeed and in truth as they call Transubstantiation. For the Substance of Bread remaineth still in the Sacrament of the Body: then also the natural substance of Christs human nature which he took of the Virgin Mary is in ⟨p. 10⟩Heaven, where it reigneth now in glory, and not here enclosed under the form of Bread: then that godly Honour which is only due unto God the Creator, and may not be done unto the creature without Idolatry, and Sacrilege, is not to be done unto the holy Sacrament. Then also the wicked, (I mean the impenitent) murderer, adulterer, or such like, do not receive the natural Substance of the blessed body and blood of Christ. Finally then doth follow, that Christs blessed Body, which was once only offered and shed upon the Cross, being available for the sins of all the World; is offered up no more in the natural substance there of neither by the Priest, nor any other thing.

Now on the other side, if after the truth shall be truly tryed out, it be found that the substance of the Bread is the material substance of the Sacrament, altho for the change of the use, office, and dignity of the Bread, the Bread indeed sacramentally is changed into the body of Christ, as the water of Baptism is changed into the fountain of regeneration, and yet the material substance thereof remaineth all one as was before, If, I say, the true solution of that former question (whereupon all these controversies do hang) be, that the natural substance of Bread is the material substance in the holy Sacrament of Christs body, then must it follow of that former proposition, (confessed of all that be named to be learned, so far as I do know, in England,) which is, That there is but one material substance in the Sacrament of the Body, and one only, likewise in the Sacrament of the Blood) that there is no such thing indeed and in truth as they call Transubstantiation. For the Substance of Bread remaineth still in the Sacrament of the Body: then also the natural substance of Christs human nature which he took of the Virgin Mary is in