[The principal points which are at this day in controversy, concerning the holly supper…[The principal points which are at this daye in controuersie, concerning the holly supper…

Chap. iii.

That the bread and the wine of the Supper can not be the true signs of the same, if they do not remain alway bread & wine in their proper substance and nature: and that the transubstantiators cannot cover their error with a cover of miracle.

That the bread and the wine of the Supper can not be the true signes of the same, if they do not remayne alway bread & wine in their proper substance and nature: and that the transsubstanciators cannot couer their errour with a couer of miracle.

¹From whence it followeth of two things, the one: which is, that the bread & wine remain always bread and wine, aswell after the pronunciation of the sacramental words, as before: forsomuch as they do always keep their first nature, as all the senses may judge, the which are not false: or else it must be that there is some illusion which deceiveth the senses, and that maketh the things to appear otherwise then they are in deed: by mean whereof the signs should be false & not true signs. Wherefore being false they could not be signs of true things, for the truth cannot be represented by a lie, nor the true by a false, forsomuch as there ⟨image 35⟩must needs be a true correspondence between the signs and the things which they signify. They must then confess that the accidents are wholly without substance and without subject, against the whole order of God and of nature, or else that the accidents of bread and of wine, be the accidents of the body & of the blood of Jesus Christ, and that the same body and the same blood are the subject and the substance of them. On which side soever they will take it, Note. they shall always fall into marvellous absurdities. For they may not here allege miracle,