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

Here now would I make an end, for methinks that St. Augustin is in this matter so full and plain, and of that Authority, that it should not need after this his Declaration, to bring you any more Authors: Yet, because I promised to allege three Writers of the Latin Church, I will now allege, last of all Gelasius, which was a Bishop of Rome, but before the wicked Usurpation and Tyranny thereof spread and burst out abroad unto the World. For this Man was before Bonifacius, and Gregory the first, in whose days both corruption of Doctrine and Tyrannical Usurpations did chiefly grow, and had the over-hand.

Here now would I make an end, for methinks that St. Augustin is in this matter so full and plain, and of that Authority, that it should not need after this his Declaration, to bring you any more Authors: Yet, because I promised to alledge three Writers of the Latin Church, I will now alledge, last of all Gelasius, which was a Bishop of Rome, but before the wicked Usurpation and Tyranny thereof spread and burst out abroad unto the World. For this Man was before Bonifacius, and Gregory the first, in whose days both corruption of Doctrine and Tyrannical Usurpations did chiefly grow, and had the over-hand.

Gelasius in an Epistle of the two Natures of Christ ¹Contra Eutychen, writeth thus; The Sacraments of the Body and Blood of Christ are Godly things, whereby, and by the same, we are made partakers of the ⟨p. 40⟩Divine Nature, and yet nevertheless the substance or nature of Bread and Wine doth not depart or go away.—Note these words, I beseech you, and consider whether any thing can be more plainly spoken against the Error of Transubstantiation, which is the ground and bitter root whereupon springeth all the horrible Errors before rehearsed.

Gelasius in an Epistle of the two Natures of Christ ¹