[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…

Chapter ii.

Of the abolishing of the signs of the Supper, and of the things signified by them: and consequently of all the sacrament by the Romaine Transubstantiation.

Of the abolishing of the signes of the Supper, and of the things signified by them: and consequently of all the sacrament by the Romaine Transsubstanciation.

The other fault which is concerning the signs, consisteth in that, that by their exposition, whereby they would establish transubstantiation, they do abolish the material signs of the supper, converting them into the thing which they signify, or at least they do confound them both together, whereas they should be distinguished the one from the other.¹ For even as a sacrament cannot be a true sacrament without the word of God: no more can it be without material signs which are joined to that word, as seals thereof. Now if the substance of bread and wine were transubstantiate and converted into that of the body and of the blood of Jesus Christ, there should be there no more bread nor wine, & by consequent there should be no more material signs, forasmuch as there is none other but the bread and the wine. From whence it should also follow, that there should be at all no sacrament.² And so willing to convert the signs into the thing which they signify: they have neither the one nor the other. For in abolishing the signs, they abolish also the thing which should be signified by them.³ For it can not be there offered nor communicated sacramentally, as it ought to be set forth and communicated, if the means be taken away which the Lord hath ordained to make us partakers