to beleue firmely, that the Sacrament of the aultar is very bread in dede, and no false nor fayned bread. And although it be very bread in dede, yet notwithstandyng, is it the very body of Christ in that sort he spake and called it hys body: and so is it very bread, and the very body of Christ. MarginaliaThe sacrament in substance bread in signification the body of Christ.And as Christ concernyng his humanitie, was both visible and passible, and by his diuinitie was inuisible and impassible: So like wise, this Sacrament in that it is very bread, may be seen with the corporall eye, and may also abyde corruption. But although a man may see that Sacrament, yet notwithstanding, cannot the bodye of Christ in that Sacrament be seen with the corporall eye, although it be the body of Christ in that maner he spake it: For that notwithstanding, the body of Christ is now incorruptible in heauen. So the Sacramēt of the cup, is very wine, and the very bloud of Christ, according as his maner of speaking was. Also, Innocentius 3. with a great multitude of his secular clerkes, made a certeine new determination: MarginaliaTransubstantiatiō not openly taught 1000. yeares after Christ.that the Sacrament of the aultar is an accidence without a substaunce, where as, neither Iesus Christ nor any of his Apostles, taught this fayth (but openly and manifestly to the contrary) neither yet the holy doctours, for the space of 1000. yeares & more, taught this fayth openly. Therefore, when Antichrist or any of his shauelynges doth axe of thee that art a simple Christian, whether that this Sacrament bee the very body of Christ or not? affirme thou it manifestly so to be. And if he aske of thee, whether it be materiall bread, or what other bread els? say thou, that it is such bread as Christ vnderstood and ment by his proper worde: MarginaliaThe Sacrament both bread, & the body in diuers respectesand such bread, as the holy ghost ment in S. Paul, whē he called that to be very bread which he brake, and wade thou no further herin. If he aske thee, how this bread is þ^e body of Christ: Say thou, as Christ vnderstoode the same to be his body whiche is both omnipotent and true, and in whom is no vntruth. Say thou also, as the holy doctours do say: that the terrestriall matter or substaunce, may be conuerted into Christ, as the Pagan or infidell may be baptised, and hereby spiritually to be conuerted and to be a member of Christ, and so after a certeine maner to become Christ, and yet the same man to remayne still in his proper nature. For so doth S. Augustine graunt, þ^t a sinner forsakyng his sinne & beyng made one spirite with God by faith, grace, and charitie: may be conuerted into god, and to be after a maner, god: as both Dauid, and s. Iohn do testifie, and yet to bee the same person in substaunce and nature, and in soule and vertue to be altered & chaūged. But yet, men of more knowledge and reason, may more playnely conuince, the falsitie of Antichrist both in this matter and in others, by the gift of the holy ghost working in thē. Notwithstanding, if those that be simple men will humbly hold and kepe the manifest and apparant wordes of the holy Scripture, and the playne sense and meanyng of the holy ghost, and procede no farther, but humbly, to cōmit that vnto the spirite of God which passeth their vnderstandyng: Then may they safly offer them selues to death, as true Martirs of Iesus Christ.

MarginaliaAuriculer confession and penaunce.As touching the sacrament of penance: That chapiter Omnis vtriusque sexus, by which a certain new foūd auricular confession was ordayned: is full of hipocrisie, heresie, couetousnes, pride, and blasphemye hee sayth, and reproueth the same chapter verbatim, & that by the sentences of the same proces. Also, that the penance and paines limited by the Canons, be vnreasonable and vniuste, for the austeritie and rigorousnes which they contein, more then are taxed by Gods law. He also doth exemplifye, of the solempne and publike deniall of penitentes to be receaued into orders, accordyng to the decree of the generall coūcell distinctione. 50. cap. Ex pœnitentibus. Also of the seuenfold penitence of a priest cōmitting fornication, according to þ^e chap. Præsbiter. distinct. 82. And farther sheweth, an other example of thepenitence of priests according to that chap. Qui præsbiterum, &c. Where as the decretall of the generall councell sayth, that such a one ought to remayne continuing hys lyfe, in the warres, and not to mary. Also, how Innocentius 3. brought in a newfound cōfession: wherby, the priests do oppresse the simple lay men. And that many other thynges they doe, compelling them to confesse themselues to blynde and ignoraunt priests, in whom is nothyng els then pryde and couetousnes, hauing such in contempt as are learned and wyse. Also, that þ^e decretall of Innocentius 3. touching the foresaid auricular or vocall confession: was brought in and inuented, to intricate and intangle mens consciences with sinne, and to drawe them downe to hell. And furthermore, that suche maner of cōfession, destroyeth the euangelicall libertye, and doth let men to inquire after, and to retain, the wise counsaile and doctrine of such as be Gods priests: which know faithfully how to obserue his preceptes and commaundementes, and which would willyngly teach the people, the ryght way to heauen. For which abuse, all christen men and speciallye all Englishmen, ought to exclaime agaynst such wicked lawes.

MarginaliaThe order of priesthode.As touching the sacrament of order he saith: That all good Christians, are predestinate & be ordained of God, and made true priests to offer Christ in themselues, and to Christe, themselues: as also to teache and preach the Gospell to their neyghbours, as well in worde as in example of liuyng. MarginaliaHe meaneth of priuate preaching to their neighbours.But the worldly shauelinges doe more magnifie the naked and bare signes of priesthoode (inuented by sinfull men) then the true and perfecte prieffhood of God, grounded by a true and liuely faith, annexed with good woorkes. MarginaliaTrew ministers may be made without shauing.Also, if it were needefull to haue such shauelynges, God knoweth howe, and can make when it pleaseth him, priestes (without mans woorking and sinfull signes, that is to say, without eyther Sacramentes or characters) to be knowen and discerned of the people, by their vertuous lyfe and example, and by their true preaching of the law of God. For so made hee the first made priestes and elders before the law of Moises: and so made he Moses a priest before Aaron, and before the ceremonies of the law, without mans operatiō at all: And euen so, hath God made all such as are predestinate, to be his priestes. MarginaliaPriests here haue pryuat not a publique vnderstanding.But suche as be true Christians, receaue none such as priestes, but vnles they folow Christ and his Apostles, neither do they beleue that they make the sacrament of the aultar (which they affirme to be Gods body) when it pleaseth them: least happely God be not with them, for asmuch as þ^t they do this thing for couetousnes sake, or els to brag of their owne power. And therefore, such as be simple men, will woorship that sacrament in thys doubtfulnes, wyth a silent condition, that is, if it be made by gods autority, and to haue their deuotion to the body of Christ in heauen. Also, that such as be Elders, if they be Gods priestes, be Bishops, Prelates, and Curates of their Christian brethren, whom they may leade to heauen by the example of their holye conuersation, and by preaching of the Gospel, although they make no sacrifice to that Antichrist of Rome for their confirmatiō: neither be they dedicated to the world by secular deuine thynges, and by consumyng the lyuinges of the poore: as be those secular bishops, prelats and curates. MarginaliaWhat if there were no pope knowne yet the Church could stād.Also, that although there were no pope, according as the custom of the church is: yet Christ which is the head of his church, doth ordeyne suche a Pope as pleaseth him: and that is, whom soeuer is most humble and lowlye, and best doth the office of a true priest, although he be vnknowē to the world. And although ther were no such proud bishop aboue all þ^e rest, as the church doth vse: yet all the priestes might well gouern þ^e church by comon assent, as once they did, before such worldlye pride crept in amongest the Bishops. &c. And admit that no such priestes were, according to the accustomed vse