Marginalia1555. Febru.a candle to our feete, and a light to our pathes.  

Our saueour Christ calleth his word, the light which euyl doers do flee fr?, and hate, lest their dedes should be reproued therby. S. Paul would haue vs to walke as children of light, & in any wise not to c?tinue in ignor?ce or darknes.   But al we in the world pertaine to two princes: either to the father of light and truth, or els to the prince of darknes and lies.

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In these dayes preachers declare euidently of wh? they are sent, and with what spirit they speake, & to what prince they belong: MarginaliaThe scripture falsely accused of the catholickes to be obscure and darke.For they cry out against Gods, lightes, Sunne, Moone, Starres, torches, lampes, lanternes, cressets, and candles in Gods booke the Bible, prouided of gods great goodnes and mercye to auoide all foule darkenes, cloudes, and mistes or daungerous doubtful wayes in this our iourney to our heauenly father, long home, mansion houses, and dearly purchased heritage. Esay Gods faithfull messenger saith: Woe be vnto them that call sweete sower, good euill, and light darknes. Therfore commeth my people into captiuitie, because they haue no vnderstanding.  

Our saueour Christ pronounceth errors and heresies to remaine among the people, so long as ignorance of the scriptures remaineth. And hereby it appereth to al good c?sciences, what they meane, which defame or accuse Gods blessed worde being full of light, as though it were ful of darknes. These Owles would haue al day lightes scraped out of bookes, hartes, and churches. Oh Lord turne their hartes and tongues: bowe them from the way of darknes, lest they go to the prince of darknes, and be cast into the pit of vtter darknes, where is weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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MarginaliaThe Popes packe ware: Iustification by workes, Corporall presence, Praying for soules. Auricular confession.Now, touching the packes of wol, & the packes of cloth, I feare they were as al other wares be, transubstantiate into flockes, euen his very finest packing stuffe against only faith iustifying, and for the corporal presence of Christes body in the sacrament, for praying for soules departed, and for auricular confession. Abrahams iustification, by faith, by grace, by promise, and not by works, is plainly set forth both in the Epistle to the Rom. ca. 4. and to the Gala. ca. 3. and Abrah?s works of obedience in offring vp his sonne so long after his iustification, must nedes be taken as a fruite of a good tree iustifying before men, and not of iustification before God: for then had man to glory in: then did Christ die in vaine.

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MarginaliaAgaynst the corporall presence.And where as the 6. chap. of S. Ioh. was alleged, to proue that Christ did geue his body corporally in his supper, euen as he had promised in the said. 6. chap. it is most vntrue. For only he gaue hys body sacram?tally, spiritually, and effectually in his supper to the faithful apostles, and corporally he gaue it in a bloudy sacrifice for the lifeof the world vp? the crosse once for al.MarginaliaChristes body geuen in the supper spiritually, vpon the crosse corporally. There in his owne person, in his own natural body, he bare all our sinnes: By whose stripes we were healed, as S. Peter proueth: 1. Pet. 2. and Esay. ca. 53. In dede receiuing Christes sacram?t accordingly as it was instituted we receiue Christes body and Christes bloud, euen as I said before, the Apostles dyd.

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MarginaliaAgainst the MasseBut the popish Masse is an other matter. The Masse as it is now, is but one of Antichristes youngest daughters,MarginaliaThe Masse the Popes youngest daughter. in the which the deuill is rather present and receiued, then our saueour, the 2. person in Trinitie, God and man. O Lord God heauenly father, for Christes sake we beseech thee to turne againe England to the right way it was in in K. Edwardes time, fr? this MarginaliaDescription of the popes kingdome.Babylonical stewish spiritual whordome, conspiracie, tyrannie, detestable enormities, false doctrine, heresie, hardnes of hart, and contempt of thy word and c?maundements, fr? this euident & open idolatrie, sacriledge, simonie, blasphemie, superstition, hypocrisie, transubstantiate angel of light & day deuil, kingdome of lyes, foule vayne schismes, sectes, sedition, apostasie, gay sweete poyson, honyed & sugred viperous venome, wily woluishnes, sathanicall subtiltie, and abomination in the sight of God, and of al such as put on the true spectacles of holy scripture. I am the more plaine now in this matter, because I feare greatly, that many will be to much ready to go fr? Christ to Antichrist, fr? the Bible, true Gods seruice and Religion, to Latine lying Legends, Portases, Masse bookes and superstition. They say their church can not erre in any poynt, when in deede they be not of Gods Church, and therefore they can do nothyng but erre, euen as they do almost in al cases of true faith.

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MarginaliaChrysost. Popishly applyed.But to come againe to the packer rather then preacher,  

he bringeth S. Chrysostome writyng Ad popul? Antiochen?, where he making a c?parison betweene Christes fleshe and Elias Cloke cast downe to Elizeus, when Elias was taken vp in the fiery Chariot, at length he saith, that Christe ascending vp to heauen, tooke his fleshe with hym, and also leaft his flesh behynde hym in earth. MarginaliaThe meaning of Chrisost. rightly expounded concerning Elias cloke.The meaning of it is, he did ascende with his fleshe, and leaft a memorial cloke of the same body and flesh, which he calleth his fleshe, as he in the sacramentall phrase calleth bread his body, because it repres?teth his body: & as in the

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MarginaliaOf this memoriall cloke read before in D. Ridleyes disputations pag. 1377.like maner of sacramentall speach, a Lambe was called the Passeouer, the Circumcision, Gods couenaunt. He tooke vp his flesh corporally, and leaft his flesh in mystery and sacrament spiritually. Or it may be sayd, that he leaft his flesh vpon earth: that is, his mysticall body, his faithfull people, whom S. Paul calleth the members of his body, of his flesh, of his bones. Ephes. 5. In the MarginaliaThe place of Genesis 49.49. cha. of Genesis there is no woorde of Christes sacrament, but there is a prophesie of Christes passion, wherin his fole was bound, that is, his body. And where he speaketh there of grapes and wyne, it is as that is spok? of Christ in an other place where he sayth: Ego solus torcular calcaui: I alone did tread the wine presse meanyng therby, that Christ alone suffered painfull passion for the remission of sinnes, and for the consolation of all his faythful soldiers.

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It is not true that the packer said,  

that Christes infinite power may make his body to be in a thousand places at once, as a loafe to be in a thousand bellies: MarginaliaChristes naturall body can not be diuided.for then might Christe diuide the partes of his body, as a loafe is diuided and so c?sumed, and th? might scripture be false, appoynting Christes body to be but in one place, Act 3, Phil. 3. Heb. 3, The articles of our faith tell vs sufficiently where Christes body is. MarginaliaChristes body was neuer in two places at once.It was neuer in two places at once, neither euer shalbe, neither euer can be corporally and naturally: neither euer was, is, can, or shal be eat? so with any corporal mouthes as the Capernaites   and the papistes most erroneously and heretically doo iudge. If our saueour Iesus Christ hath no other body naturall then is made of the substance of bread, and is in a thousand places at once, as I haue often said in Hadley: we are not yet redemed, neither shal our bodies rise againe and be made like vnto his glorious body. We are sure that our saueour Christes body is made of none other substance then of his mother the blessed virgin Maryes substance. We are sure, that he taketh not the nature of Angels, much lesse of bread. Onely he taketh on hym the seede of Abraham, Heb. 2. In al things like vnto vs, sinne onely except.MarginaliaHeb. 2. And this is a c?fortable doctrine to vs Christians, beleuing stedfastly as the true Catholike faith is, that Christ hath but two natures, perfect God, and perfect man. Vpon this rocke Christes church is builded, and the gates of hel shal neuer preuayle agaynst it. Math. 16.

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MarginaliaAuricular confession.I speake nothyng now of auricular confession & praying for soules departed,MarginaliaPraying for the dead. because I do not heare what authors the pacher  

brought in for thys purpose. Sure I am that he c? bryng no auth?tical & can?ical warr?t for such his packware. He may say what he wyl of Hebritians and Grecians, and flesh vnder formes, and not aboue formes, or aboue the board. He may coniure and conuey, passe, and repasse, euen what he will in such cloudes and mystes. He reproued the scriptures as ful of darknes, & yet is full of darknes hym self. He dyd wyttily, to bring proofes out of Iewry, Turkey, and other strange places, for his round white cake, for that such hys pedlary pelfe packe is contrary to the plaine simplicitie of Christes supper. He glaunced at priestes mariage. He might against that haue brought as ancient a Doctor as any be alleged out of Hebrue, for his Masse and wafer cake, that is, Doctor Deuil. 1. Tim. 4.MarginaliaHe meaneth by the place 1. Tim. 4. where S. Paule speaketh of the Doctrine of Deuils. &c.

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I marueyle that he dyd not confute and confound saint Paul for the sentences written aboue the altar, of the which he made mention in the pulpite. For he and his felowes of Oxforde be so profounde, so excellent, so glorious and triumph?t Clarkes, that they can easily proue a man an asse, and Writers in the Bible, ignoraunt, simple, full of errours, full of heresies, & beggerly fooles. Yet they wyll be called Catholiques, faythfull true Christian people, defenders of the holy mother the Churche: but truely they take parte with the prince of darknes, with Antichrist, with Iezabell, Apoc. 2. They wyl not be called Papistes, Pharisees, Iewes, Turkes, Heretikes, and so forth: but what soeuer they wyll be called, Gods Religion had neuer more euident aduersaries, and that in al the chiefe poynts of it: no not then, wh? our Saueour Christe whipt suche Marchauntes out of the Temple, callyng them a company of theeues. Math. 21. God geue them grace to repent. God be thanked that the Nobilitie something of late hath spyed and stopped their tyrannie. O vnhappy Englande: MarginaliaEnglishe people likened to the Galathians.Oh more vngrate people sooner bewitched then the foolish Galathians. We haue now none excuse.

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We haue vndoubtedly seene the true trace of the prophetical, apostolicall Primatiue Catholike Church. We are warned to beware, least we be lead out of that way, societie, and rule of Religion. Nowe we shal shew what countrey men we be: whether spiritual and heauenly or carnal and worldly. We had as true knowledge as euer was in anye countrey, or in any tyme, since the beginnyng of the world: God be praysed therefore. If Hadley beyng so many yeares perswaded in such truth, wyll now willingly & wit-

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