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

Hitherto you have heard three Writers of the Greek Church, not all what they do say, for that were a Labour too great for to gather, and too tedious for the Reader; but one or two places of every one the which how plain, how clear, and how full they be against the Error of Transubstantiation, I refer here unto the Judgment of the indifferent Reader.

Hitherto you have heard three Writers of the Greek Church, not all what they do say, for that were a Labour too great for to gather, and too tedious for the Reader; but one or two places of every one the which how plain, how clear, and how full they be against the Error of Trausubstantiation, I refer here unto the Judgment of the indifferent Reader.

And now I will also rehearse the saying of other three old Ancient Writers of the Latin Church, and so make an end. And first I will begin with Tertullian, whom Cyprian, the holy Martyr, so highly esteemed, that whensoever he would have his Book, he was wont to say, - Give us now the Master's,—This old Writer in his fourth Book against Marcion the Heretic, saith -

And now I will also reherse the saying of other three old Ancient Writers of the Latin Church, and so make an end. And first I will begin with Tertullian, whom Cyprian, the holy Martyr, so highly esteem'd, that whensoever he would have his Book, he was wont to say, - Give us now the Master's,—This old Writer in his fourth Book against Marcion the Heretick, saith -

Jesus made the Bread which he took and distributed ¹to his Disciples, his Body, saying, This is my Body; that is to say, (saith Tertullian) a Figure of my Body. In this place it is plain, that after Tertullian his Exposition, that Christ meant not, by calling of Bread his Body, and the Wine his Blood, that either the Bread was his Natural Body, or the Wine his Natural Blood; but he called them his Body and Blood, because he would institute them to be unto us Sacraments; that is, holy Tokens and Signs of his Body