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

Likewise this Author in his first Book against the same Heretic Marcion, writeth thus.

Likewise this Author in his first Book against the same Heretick Marcion, writeth thus.

God did not reject Bread, which is his Creature, for by it he hath made a Representation of his Body.—Now, I pray you, what is this to say, that Christ hath made a Representation of his Body by Bread, ⟨p. 35⟩but that Christ hath instituted and ordained Bread to be a Sacrament for to represent unto us his Body. Now, whether the representation of one thing by another, requireth the corporal presence of the thing which is represented, or no, every man that hath understanding is able in this point (the matter is so clear of it self) to be a sufficient Judge.

The second Doctor and Writer of the Latin Church ¹is St. Augustine, of whose Learning and Estimation I need not to speak; for all the Church of Christ both hath, and ever have had him for a Man of much singular Learning, Wit, and Diligence, both in setting forth the true Doctrine of Christs Religion, and also in the Defence of the same against Heretics. This Author, as he hath written more plenteously in other matters of our Faith, so likewise in this Argument he hath written at large in many of his Works; so plainly against the Error of Transubstantiation, that the Papists love least to hear of him of all other Writers, partly for his Authority, and partly because he openeth the matter more fully than any other doth; therefore I will rehearse more places of him than heretofore I have done of the other. And first, What can be more plain than that which he writeth upon the Ninety eighth Psalm, speaking of the Sacraments of the Lords Body and Blood, and rehearsing,