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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Chapter xxi.
A brief gathering of the matters handled in this book.
A briefe gathering of the matters handled in this booke.
I Do omit very many other points, forsomuch as I would only bring forth such as were most principal & most intolerable, the which we may in no wise allow, without rejecting of Jesus Christ, & overthrowing wholly all the sacrament of the holy supper, & observation therem of the true ancient Church. No more have I also determined to make many proofs, the more to confirm that which I have set forth, against the points that which we do condemn, aswell because that the arguments, which I have brought forth to the same purpose, may suffice such as will be satisfied with reason, and will not fight against all manifest trueth, as for that also, that I have handled these matters very largely in divers other books, in the which men shall find arguments, & testimonies sufficient to confirm more largely that, which I have here handled more briefly. And forsomuch as the Romaine doctors and catholics do make their chief buckler of the sacrifice, ⟨image 86⟩and of the order of Melchizedek, 1