[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…

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, ¹for the defence of their mass and of the sacrifice of the same, I have made an other book of purpose upon that matter, in the which I do show by apparent testimonies & arguments, taken out of the holy scriptures, how that the foundation which they lay upon that order of Melchizedek, doeth more shake down the building which they do build thereupon, than it doth sustain it, & how contrary it is to the Sacrifices that they would build thereupon. Wherefore I will now end this treatise, Note. wherein I have first set forth the principal reasons which mought lead the Romaine catholics to maintain their mass, as they do maintain it, to the which I have made answer. And then I have set forth the points which do lead the catholics of the reformed Church to reject the same, being such as it is at this present in the Romaine Church. For as I have already declared, we are not at all in controversy concerning the institution, and observation of the Sacrament of the Supper, the which we do all confess: