said. I shriue me here vnto thee my eternall liuing God, that in my frayle youth I offended thee (Lord) most greuously, in pride, wrath, and glottony, in couetousnes, and in lechery. Many men haue I hurte in myne anger, and done many other horrible sinnes, good Lord I aske the mercy. And therwith wepyngly he stoode vp agayne and sayd with a mighty voyce. Lo, good people lo. MarginaliaMans lawe before gods lawe preferred.For the breakyng of Gods law and his great commaundemēts, they neuer yet cursed me. But for their owne lawes and traditions, most cruelly do they handle both me and other men. MarginaliaHie. 51.And therfore, both they and their lawes, by the promes of God, shall vtterly be destroyed.

At this the Archbyshop and his company were not a litle blemished. Notwithstandyng, he tooke stomake vnto hym agayne after certaine woordes, had in excuse of theyr tyranny, and examined the Lord Cobham of hys Christen beleue.

Wherunto the Lord Cobham made this godly aunswere. MarginaliaThe christen beleue of the L. Cobham.I beleue (sayth he) fully and faythfully the vniuersall lawes of God. I beleue that all is true whiche is conteined in the holy sacred Scriptures of the Bible. Finally I beleue, all that my lord god would I should beleue. Then demaunded the Archbyshop an aunswere of that Bill whiche he and the clergy had sent him into þ^e tower the day afore, in maner of a determinatiō of the churhe concerning the. iiii. articles wherof he was accused, specially for the sacrament of the aultare, howe he beleued therein?

Whereunto the Lord Chobham said, that with that bill he had nothinge to do. But thys was hys beleue (he said) concerning the sacrament. That his Lord & Sauiour Iesus Christ, sitting at his last supper with his most deere disciples, the night before hee shoulde suffer, tooke bread in his hand. And geuing thanks to his eternall father, blessed it, brake it, and so gaue it vnto thē, saying: Take it vnto you, and eate thereof all, this is my bodye which shall be betrayed for you: Doo thys hereafter in my remembraunce. MarginaliaMath. 26.
Mar. 14.
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1. Cor. 11.This do I throughlye beleue (sayth he) for this fayth am I taught of the gospell in Mathew, in Mark, and in Luke, and also in the first Epistle of S. Paule to the Corrinthians. Chap. 11.

MarginaliaAntichrist aloweth not this fayth.Then asked the archbishop, if he beleued that it were breade after the consecracion or sacramentall woordes spoken ouer it.

The Lord Cobham sayde. I beleue that in the sacrament of the aultar is Christes verye bodye in fourme of bread, the same that was born of the virgin Mary, done on the crosse, dead, and buried, and that the third day arose from death to life, which now is glorified in heauē.

MarginaliaThe sacrament of the aultar.Then sayd one of the doctors of the law. After the sacramentall woordes be vttered: there remayneth no bread but the onely body of Christ.

MarginaliaIohn Whithed, gone from his opinion.The Lorde Cobham saide then to one maister Iohn Whitehead: You said once vnto me in þ^e castel of Couling, that the sacred host was not Christes bodye. MarginaliaAll this would not help.But I held then against you, and proued that therin was his bodye, though the seculars and Friers coulde not therin agree, but held eche one against other in that opinion. These were my words then, if ye remembre it.

MarginaliaA blasphemus broode.Thē shouted a sorte of them together and cried with great noyse. We say all that it is Gods body.

MarginaliaQuarel pikers.And diuers of them asked him in great anger, whether it were materiall bread after the consecration or not?

Then looked the Lord Cobham, earnestly vpon the Archbishop, and sayd: I beleue surely that it is Christes body in fourme of bread. Syr beleue not you thus?

And the Archbyshop sayd, yes mary do I.

Then asked him the doctours, whether it were onely Christes body after the consecration of a Priest, and no bread or not.MarginaliaThe sacrament of Christes body is both the body & bread. Neither wil scripture nor reason serue.

And he sayd vnto them, it is both Christes body and bread. I shall proue it as thus. For lyke as Christ dwel-lyng hereupon the earth, had in hym both Godhead and manhood, and had the inuisible Godhead couered vnder that manhood, whiche was only visible and sene in hym: MarginaliaThis opinion hath S. Augustine.So in the Sacrament of the aultar, is Christes very body and bread also, as I beleue the bread is the thyng, that we see with our eyes. The body of Christ (whiche is his fleshe and hys bloud) is there vnder hyd and not sene, but in fayth.

And moreouer, to proue that it is both Christes body & also bread after the consecratiō, it is by plaine wordes expressed by one of your own doctours writyng against Eutiches, which sayth: MarginaliaGelusius contra Eutichen.Like as þ^e self same Sacramēts, do passe by the operation of the holy ghost, into a diuine nature, and yet notwithstandyng kepe the propertie still of their former nature: So, that principall mistery declareth to remaine, one true and perfect Christ. &c.

MarginaliaThe popes diuinitie.Then smiled they eche one vpon other, that the people should iudge him taken in a great heresy. And with a great brag diuers of them sayd. It is a foule heresie.

Then asked the Archbishop what bread it was? And the doctours also inquired of hym whether it were materiall or not?

MarginaliaMateriall.The Lord Cobham said vnto them. The Scriptures maketh no mencion of this worde materiall, and therefore my fayth hath nothyng to do therewith. But this I say and beleue, that it is Christes body and bread. For Christ sayd in the vi. of Iohns Gospell. Ego sum panis viuus, qui de celo descendi. MarginaliaIohn. 6.I whiche came downe from heauen, am the lyuing & not the dead bread. Therfore I say now agayne as I sayd afore, as our Lord Iesus Christ is very God and very man: MarginaliaMark.so in the most blessed Sacrament of the aulter, is Christes very body and bread.

Then sayd they all with one voyce. It is an heresie.

One of the Bishops stoode vp by and by, and sayde. What? it is an heresie manifest, MarginaliaAn heresye after the papistes making.to say that it is bread after the Sacramentall woordes be once spoken, but Christes body onely.

The Lord Cobham sayd: S. Paul the Apostle was (I am sure) as wyse as you be nowe, and more godly learned. And he called it bread, writyng to the Corinthians. Marginalia1. Cor. 10.The bread that we breake, sayth he, is it not the partakyng of the body of Christ? MarginaliaThe sacrament is called bread.Lo, he calleth it bread and not Christes bodye, but a meane whereby wee receiue Christes body.

Then sayd they agayne. Paul must be otherwise vnderstād. For it is surely an heresie to say that it is bread after the consecration, but onely Christes body.

The Lord Cobham asked, how they could make good that sentence of theirs?

They aunswered hym thus. For it is agaynst the determination of holy churche.

MarginaliaThe determination of the church must stand, what soeuer Paul sayth.Than sayd the Archbyshop vnto hym. Syr Iohn, we sent you a writyng concernyng the fayth of this blessed Sacrament, clearely determined by þ^e churche of Rome our mother, and by the holy doctours.

Then he sayd agayne vnto hym. I knowe none holier then is Christ and his Apostles. MarginaliaA most christē answer.And as for that determination, I wote, it is none of theirs: for it standeth not with the Scriptures, but manifestly agaynst them. MarginaliaThe iudgement of L. Cobhā concerning the determinatiō of the churche.If it be the Churches, as ye saye it is, it hath bene hers onely since she receiued the great poyson of worldly possessiōs, and not afore.

Then asked they him, to stop his mouth therwith. If he beleued not in the determination of the churche?

MarginaliaThe Doctours confounded in their owne question.And he said vnto thē. No forsoth, for it is no God. In all our Crede, this word (in) is but thryse mencioned, concerning beleue. In God þ^e father, in God þ^e sonne, in God the holy ghost iij. persons & one God. The byrth, þ^e death, the buriall, the resurrection and ascension of Christ, hath none (in) for beleue, but in hym. Neyther yet hath the churche, the Sacramentes, the forgeuenesse of sinne, the latter resurrection, nor yet the lyfe euerlastyng any other