[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…

But they will reply,¹ that Jesus Christ and his Apostles, and the ancient doctors of the Primitive Church, have done both in the Supper, to wit, that they offered unto God in Sacrifice, the body and the blood of ⟨image 53⟩Jesus Christ: and then have also forthwith communicated them to the Christian people, & that in so doing, there is no inconvenience but that the supper may be both sacrament and sacrifice together. I answer,² it is not enough that they do affirm, except they do prove it forthwith. I will grant them that the sacrifices of the law were also as a kind of sacraments, and that there were some, in the which there was oblation to God of one part of the beast which was sacrificed, and in like sort communion of an other part among the people, and that there was joined to the sacrifice a banquet, the which signified the communion of the people in the same. But that cannot agree with the supper.³ For, for the first, as there was daily new banquet in these sacrifices, so was there new host. For they mought not sacrifice one very thing oftener then once, nor by consequent communicate the same more often to the people, but they must needs take daily new. But the like is not of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. For there is but one only host of the same, which is very Jesus Christ,⁴ the which is the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world, figured chiefly by the paschal lamb, which among the rest was chiefly sacrifice and sacrament both together, because that the Lord had two regards ⟨image 53⟩in the institution of the same. For first he instituted it to be in the Church of Israel, for a memorial and remembrance of the passage which the Angel of the Lord did make in Egypt, striking the first borne of the Egyptians,⁵ and of the deliverance of the Israelites from the captivity of them, as Moses doeth plainly witness. For the which cause it was called by him, and consequently by the other Hebrews, Pesah, which is to say Passage, by the name of the thing that it did signify, of the which the Greeks and the Latins have made their word Pascha, the which they have used, and which since have been converted into our speech, by the name of Easter. Behold then how this sacrament had regard unto that which was already done, and to that benefit of God the which the Israelites had already received, touching their deliverance out of Egypt.