[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…

And by that mean, it was a memorial and a sacrament commemorative, and a sacrifice of praise & of thanks giving, in respect of the things which were already passed. But beside that,¹ the Lord had yet regard to the deliverance of mankind the which should be wrought by Jesus Christ, whereof that of Egypt was a figure.² And forsomuch as he should work this deliverance by the passage of his death and by the sacrifice of his body and of his blood,³ the sacrifice was joined to the sacrament ⟨image 54⟩in the Paschal lamb, to the end that i• should the better represent that which was yet to be done and accomplished. Behold wherein it was ordained for the things which were yet to come, and of the which men did yet look for the accomplishment. For that cause there was there a sacrifice, which did represent that of Jesus Christ to come. And also there was joined unto, a banquet, which did signify the communion of him, as it ought to be in every sacrament. And therefore Saint Paul hath joined the one with the other, expounding the verity of that figure. For after that he hath said that Christ our passover was sacrificed,⁴ he exhorteth the faithful to the spiritual banquet of this sacrifice, and to the continual feast which we should make and celebrate always. Seeing then that the thing to come figured by this sacrifice & sacrament, was accomplished, the one and the other are ceased. For we have now the Sacrifice offered by Jesus Christ, whereof the other was but a shadow and figure. Wherefore seeing that we have the body and the trueth, the shadow and the figure doth clearly cease. And therefore even as our Lord Jesus Christ did change the Circumcision of the Church of Israel,⁵ into the baptism of the Christian Church, even so hath he changed the Sacrament of the Paschal lamb, into that of the Supper, the which hath ⟨image 54⟩