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[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…
[The principal points which are at this day in controversy, concerning the holly supper and of the mass.][The principal points which are at this daye in controuersie, concerning the holly supper and of the masse.]
London: printed by C. Barker, 1579
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Of the division of the signs of the Supper, and of the Sursum corda of the Mass, and of the signification of the same, and whereunto it serveth at this present.
Of the diuision of the signes of the Supper, and of the Sursum corda of the Masse, and of the signification of the same, and whereunto it serueth at this present.
And on the other side, seeing that the Lord hath ordained 2. signs in this sacrament, the one may ⟨image 43⟩not be separated from the other,1 but that his ordinance is there violated and overthrown, contrary to his intent and his expressed commandment. Now so it is, that the wine appointed to be that sign of the blood, is separated from the bread which is appointed to be the sign of the body,2 not only when the bread is reserved in their pyxes & boxes, all alone without the wine, but also in their supper, which they administer beside their mass, to them whom they call the Lay people. From whence it followeth that this bread is not at all the sacrament of the supper, for so much as it is not applied to his true use, according to the intent and express commandment of Jesus Christ, but clean contrary. And if it be not a sacrament of the supper, it can not be an other sacrament. For Jesus Christ hath not instituted any other, to that which he hath appointed the bread for a sign, but only this. And if it be not at all a sacrament,3 how may it be the body of Jesus Christ, & Jesus Christ him self, God and man? yea, in so many places at one instant, as there be boxes, pyxes, cupboards and caskets, in the which this bread is reserved and kept as a relic? Therefore I would gladly, that the transubstantiators and Romaine doctors should well consider, in all their worshippings that they do to this bread, be it in their masses, or in their pyxes, cupboards and boxes,