crees of the Church, of the state and condition of the Pope and the clergie: Of all these generally, he left diuers monumentes grauely and exactly written, part whereof, here in the ende of his story we thought to exhibite, being translated out of Latine into Englishe.

The articles which he taught, and afterward was forced to recāt at Paules crosse, were these hereafter folowing.

MarginaliaArticles of Ioh Puruey recāted. 1. That in the Sacrament of the aulter after the consecration, there is not, neither can be, any accident without the subiect: But there verely remaineth the same substaūce and the very visible and incorruptible bread, and likewise the very same wine the which before the consecration were set vpon the aultar to be consecrate by the Priest: likewise as when a Pagan or infidell is baptised, he is spiritually conuerted into a member of Christ through grace, and yet remayneth the very same mā which he before was in his proper nature and substaunce.

2. Auricular confession or priuate penaunce, is a certayne whispering, destroying the libertie of the Gospell, and newly brought in by the Pope and the Clergie, to intangle the consciences of men in sinne, & to draw their soules into hell.

MarginaliaHe speketh of priestes here, & not of publique ministers appointed in the Church. 3. Euery lay man being holy, and predestinate vnto euerlasting life (albeit he be a lay man) yet is he a true Priest before God.

4. That diuers Prelates and other of the Clergie, doe liue wickedly cōtrary to the doctrine and example of Christ and his Apostles. Therfore they which so liue, haue not the keyes, neither of the kingdome of heauen, neither yet of hel: neither ought any Christiā to esteeme his cēsure any more, then as a thing of no force. Yea, albeit the Pope should peraduenture interdite the realme, yet could he not hurt, but rather profite vs, for so much as thereby we should be dismissed from the obseruation of his lawes, and from saying of seruice accordyng to the custome of the Church.

MarginaliaVowes. 5. If any man do make an othe or vowe, to keepe perpetuall chastitie, or do any thyng els whereunto God hath not appointed him, geuyng him grace to performe his purpose: the same vowe or othe, is vnreasonable and vndiscrete, neither can any Prelate compell him to keepe the same, except he will do contrary vnto Gods ordinaunce. But he ought to commit him, vnto the gouernaunce of the holy ghost, and of his owne conscience: for so much as euery man which will not fulfill his vow or othe, can not do it for that cause.

MarginaliaThe charge of priestes. 6. Whosoeuer taketh vpon him the office of Priesthode, although he haue not the charge of soules cōmitted vnto him, accordyng to the custome of the Churche: Not onely they may, but ought to preach the Gospel freely vnto the people, otherwise he is a thief, excommunicated of God, and of the holy Church.

MarginaliaAgainst transubstantiation. 7. That Innocentius the thyrd Pope, and vj. hundreth Byshops, and a thousand other Prelates, withall the rest of the Clergy, which together with the same Pope agreed and determined: that in the Sacrament of the aulter, after the conuersion of the bread and wyne into the body & bloud of Christ, that the accidentes of the sayd bread and wyne do remaine there, without any proper subiect of the same: the which also ordeined, þ^t all Christians ought to confesse their sinnes once a yeare vnto a proper priest, and to receiue the reuerent Sacrament at Easter, & made certaine other lawes at the same time: All they sayth he, in so doyng were fooles and Blockeheads, heretickes, Blasphemers and Seducers of the Christian people. Wherfore, we ought not to beleue their determinations, or of their successours, neither ought we to obey their lawes or ordinaūces, except they be playnly grounded vpon the holy Scripture, or vpon some reason which can not be impugned.

MarginaliaArticles out of Purueys books collected by R. Lauingham. AS touching the Sacramēt of thankes geuing he sayth: That that chap. of repentaunce and remission: Omnis vtriusque sexus, wherin it is ordained, that euery faythful mā ought once euery yeare at the least, that is to say, at Easter, to receaue the Sacrament of Eucharist: is a beastly thyng, hereticall, and blasphemous.

Item, that Innocentius the 3. Pope, was the head of Antichrist, who after the lettyng loose of Sathan, inuented a new article of our faith, and a certaine fayned verity touching the Sacrament of the aultar:MarginaliaThe Sacrament of the popishe aultar. That is to say, that the Sacramēt of the aultar is an accident without a substaūce, or els an heape of accidences without a substaunce. But Christ and his Apostles do teach manifestly, that the Sacrament of the aultar is bread, and the body of Christ together after the maner that he spake: And in that he calleth it bread, he would haue the people to vnderstand as they ought with reason, that it is very and substantiall bread, and no false nor fained bread.

MarginaliaPope Innocentius head of Antichrist And although Innocētius that Antichrist doth alledge, that in the Councell at Lions where this matter was decised were 600. Byshops with him, and 1000. Prelates, which were of one opinion in this determination: All those notw^tstand, he calleth fooles accordyng to that saying of Eccles. 1. Of fooles there are an infinitie number. And so in like maner he calleth them false Christes and false Prophetes, of whom Christ speaketh the 24. of Math. Many false Christes and false Prophetes shal arise and deceaue many: And therfore, euery Christian man ought to beleue firmely that the Sacramēt of the aultar is very bread in deede, and no false nor fayned bread. And although it be very bread in deede, yet notwithstādyng, is it the very body of Christ in þ^t sort he spake and called it his body: and so is it very bread, and the very body of Christ.MarginaliaThe sacrament in substaūce 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 likewise, this sacrament in that it is very bread, may be sene with the corporall eye, and may also abyde corruption. But although a man may see that Sacrament, yet notwithstandyng, cannot the body of Christ in that Sacrament be sene with the corporall eye, although it be the body of Christ in that maner he spake it: For that notwithstandyng, the body of Christ is now incorruptible in heauē. So the Sacrament of the cup, is very wine, and the very bloud of Christ, accordyng as his maner of speakyng was. Also, Innocentius 3. with a great multitude of his secular Clerkes, made a certeine new determination:MarginaliaTransubstātiation not opēly taught 1000. yeares after Christ. that the Sacrament of the aultar is an accidence without a substaūce, 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 a thousād yeres and more, taught this fayth openly.

Therfore, when Antichrist or any of his shauelynges doth axe of thee that art a simple Christian, whether that this Sacrament be 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 vnderstode and ment by his proper word:MarginaliaThe Sacrament both bread, and the body in diuers respectes. and such bread, as the holy ghost ment in S. Paule when he called that to be very bread which he brake, and wade thou no further herin. If he aske thee, how this bread is the body of Christ: Say thou, as Christ vnderstode the same to be his body which 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, that a sinner forsakyng his sinne and beyng made one spirite with God by fayth, 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 be the same person in substaunce and nature, and in soule and vertue to be altered and 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 workyng in them. Notwithstandyng, if those that be simple men will humbly hold and keepe the manifest and apparaunt wordes of the holy scripture, and þ^e playne sense and meaning of the holy ghost, and procede no farther, but humbly, to commite that vnto the spirite of God which passethe their vnderstandyng: Then may they safly offer thēselues to death, as true Martyrs of Iesus Christ.

MarginaliaAuricular confession & penaunce. As touchyng the Sacrament of penaunce: That chapter Omnis vtriusque sexus, by which a certaine new founde auricular confession was ordayned: is full of hypocrisie, heresie, couetousnes, pride, and blasphemy he sayth, and reproueth the same chapter verbatim, and that by the sentences of the same proces. Also, that the penance and paynes limited by the Canons, be vnreasonable and vniust, for the austeritie and rigorousnes which they conteine, more then are taxed by Gods law. He also doth exemplifie, of the solempne and publike deniall of penitentes to be receiued into orders, accordyng to the decree of the generall Councell Distinctione. 50. cap. Ex pœnitentibus. Also of the seuenfold penitence of a Priest committing fornication, accordyng to the chapter. Præsbiter. Distinct. 82. And farther sheweth, an other example of the penitence of Priestes accordyng to that chapter Qui præsbiterum, &c. Where as the decretall of the generall Councell sayth, that such a one ought to remayne continuyng his life, in the warres, and not to mary. Also,