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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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Chapter .xiiii.
That the words of the Supper appertain not to such as are capable thereof, and what fault the Romaine priests do commit in that behalf.
That the wordes of the Supper appertaine not to such as are capable thereof, and what fault the Romaine priestes doe committe in that behalfe.
This notwithstanding, it is to them that the priest doth speak and deliver their words, and not at all to those which do assist as well at their Mass as at their Supper, the which they do administer seldom times to the people. No more may they be delivered also to beasts, for so much as they can not understand them, as also because the sacraments of the Lord were not ordained for them, the like may we say of all other creatures, which are not partakers, either ⟨image 16⟩of sense or understanding. Wherefore if they […] spoken to others then to such as are capable […] this sacrament, which may understand them […] may obey to that which Jesus Christ comma• death them thereby, it is a mere mockery, whe•• by the intent and purpose of Jesus Christe•• wholly overthrown. Note. And if these words whi•• contain the commandment that he gave in t•• supper to all the faithful, ought not to be addr sed but to those which are capable thereof, t very like is of those of the promise, which f loweth this commandment. For when Jes Christ sayeth, This same is my body, and this […] my blood, and that which followeth, he addresse no more his words to the bread and to the wi then when he sayeth of them, Take and eat y but addresseth them to those in deeds, to who he speaketh the first. Wherefore, seeing th there is both commandment and promise, a that the promise is made, even to those to who the commandment is given, and that the Lo declareth thereby the cause and the end, for […] which he giveth this commandment, it is e to judge, that the promise doth no less belo unto them then doth the commandment, a appertain not at all to the bread & to the wi From whence it followeth also that both […] one and the other belong unto them, & that th ought to understand them, and are not spoken