bury of him reporteth  

, that after he had once or twise recāted (as is aforesayde) yet notwythstanding this doctrine of the Sacrament still remained in the minde of his hearers. And how so euer the tirāny of the Pope did driue him thorough feare to denye his opinion, and wrought him much trouble, yet notwithstanding after his death he lacked not his well wishers. In the number of whom was Hildebertus Bishop Cenomanensis, whose verses in commendation of his master, I thought here not vnworthy to be preserued, being otherwise rare peraduenture to be founde in our storie wryters.

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MarginaliaVerses in commendation of Berengarius.
QVem modo miratur, semper mirabitur orbis,
Ille Berengarius non obiturus obit:
Quem sacræ fidei fastigia summa tenentem,
Tandem extrema dies abstulit ausa nefas.
Illa dies damnosa dies, & perfida mundo:
Qua dolor & rerum summa ruina fuit.
Qua status ecclesiæ, qua spes, qua gloria cleri,
Qua cultor iuris iure ruente ruit.
Quicquid Philosophi, quicquid cecinere Poetæ,
Ingenio cessit eloquioquè suo.
Sanctior & maior sapientia, maius adorta,
Impleuit sacrum pectus & ora Deo.
Pectus eam voluit, vox protulit, actio prompsit:
Singula factori sic studuere suo.
Vir sacer & sapiens, cui nomen crescit in horas:
Quo minor est quisquis maximus est hominum.
Qui census peperit paucos, seruauit honores:
Cui potior pauper diuite, iusq lucro.
Cui nec desidiam, nec luxum res dedit ampla:
Nec tumidum fecit multus & altus honos.
Qui nec ad argentum, nec ad aurum lumina flexit:
Sed doluit quoties cui daret hæc, aberat.
Qui non cessauit inopum fulcire ruinas,
Donec inops, dando pauper & ipse fuit.
Cuius cura sequi naturam legibus vti,
Et mentem vitijs, ora negare dolis:
Virtutes opibus, verum præponere falso,
Nil vacuum sensu dicere vel facere:
Lædere nec quemquam, cunctis prodesse fauorem
Et populare lucrum pellere mente, manu.
Cui vestis textura rudis, cui non fuit vnquam,
Ante sitim potus, nec cibus ante famem.
Quem pudor hospitium statuit sibi, quamq; libido
Incestos superat, tam superauit eam.
Quem natura patens cum mundo contulit, inquit,
Degenerant alij, nascitur iste mihi:
Quæque vagabatur & penè reliquerat orbem,
Inclusit sacro pectore iustitiam.
Vir sacer à puero, qui quantum præminet orbi
Fama, adeò famæ præminet ipse suæ.
Fama minor meritis cùm totum peruolet orbem,
Cùm semper crescat, non erit æqua tamen.
Vir pius atque grauis, vir sic in vtroque modestus,
Vt liuor neutro rodere possit eum.
Liuor enim destet, quem carpserat antea, nec tam
Carpsit & odit eum, quam modo laudat, amat:
Quàm prius ex vita, tam nunc ex morte gemiscit,
Et queritur celeres huius abisse dies.
Vir verè sapiens & parte beatus ab omni:
Qui cœlos anima, corpore ditat humum.
Post obitum secum viuam precor ac requiescam,
Nec fiat melior sors mea sorte sua.

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Althoughe in this time of Berengarus, whyche was about the yeare of oure Lorde. 1060. (as ye haue heard) this errour of transubstantiation began to growe in force and strength, by the supporting of certaine popishe monkes aboue rehearsed, as Lancfrancus, Guimundus, Algerius  

, Hugo, Bishop of Lincolne. Fulbertus, (of whom it is said in stories, that our Ladie gaue him sucke being sicke, wyth her owne brestes)   and such other   : yet notwythstanding, all this while the sayd Transubstantiatiō was decreed for no publicke law, nor doctrine to be holden by any general cōsent, either of the Church of Rome, or any other Councell, before the Councel of Laterane, vnder Pope Innocent the 3.Marginalia

Transubstantiation first decreed for a general law by pope Innocent 3.

The general Councell of Laterane.

who in the yeare of our Lorde. 1215. celebrating   in the church of Laterane, a generall councel of 1300. bishops, enacted there diuers constitutions, as of yerely cōfession, and the communion to be vsed of the whole multitude once a yeare through euery parish church.

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Item, for the recouery of the holy land, with a subsidie also to be leauied for the same.

Item for the abolishing of the bookes and wrytinges of Ioachim Abbas, and also the opinions of Almaricus aforementioned:MarginaliaEx Antonin. part. 3. tit. 19. c.1. notwithstanding that þ^e said Ioachim did subscribe with his owne hand that he held the same doctrine, which was in the church of Rome, and also submitted hys bookes to be presented to the Sea of Rome, there to bee corrected or approoued. And yet was he iudged though not an heretike yet to be erroneous, & especially in those bokes which he wrote against Peter Lombard, callde afterward the master of Sentence.

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In the sayde Counsel, besides diuers other constitutions and the Articles of the Creede there in order repeated, as appeareth, MarginaliaExtrau De Su. trin cap. 1. firmit. credimus.Extr. de summa trinit. & fide Catholica, cap. 1. firmiter, there was also enacted, decreed, and establyshed the fayth and beliefe of Transubstantiation, in these woordes following.

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MarginaliaThe wordes of the Councell whereby transubstantiation was first established.There is one vniuersall Church of the faithful, without which none can be saued, in the which Church the self same Iesus Christ is both Priest and also the sacrifice, whose body and bloude are truly contained in the Sacrament of the aulter, vnder the formes of breade and wine, the breade being transubstantiated into the body and the wine, into the bloud, by the power and workinge of God: so that to the accomplishing of thys mysterie of vnitie, wee might take of his, the same which he hath taken of ours. And thys sacrament none can make or consecrate, but hee that is a prieste lawfully ordained, according to the keyes of the Church, whych Iesus Christ hath left to his Apostles, and to their successours. &c.

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And thus was the foundation layd for the building of transubstantiatiō, vpon the consent of these foresayd. 1300. Byshops, in the yeare of our Lorde aboue specified, vnder pope Innocentius, and the doctrine therof intruded for an article of fayth into the church, necessarily to be beleeued of all men vnder payne of heresie.

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But yet all this while, notwithstanding that the substaunte of bread and wine was nowe banished out of the sacrament, and vtterly transcorporated into the substaunce of Christes very body and bloud: yet was not this body eleuated ouer the priestes head nor adored of the people till the dayes af pope Honorius the 3.Marginalia

Eleuation and adoration brought in by Pope Honorius the 3.

¶ Anno. 1220.

succeeding after Innocentius, who by his counsaile likewise commaunded adoration and eleuation to be ioyned with transubstantiation as one idolatry commonly bringeth forth an other.

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Agayne, the sayd sacramedt of the Lordes supper being now consecrated, transubstantiated, eleuated and adored yet it was not offered vp for a sacrifice propitiatory for the quicke and the dead, nor for a remedye of the soules in Purgatory, nor for a merite operis operati, sine bono motu vtentis. &c. before that other popes comming after, added still new aditions to the former inuentions of theyr predecessours.

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And thus haue you the whol order and origine of these Idolatrous partes of the masse described by theyr times & ages, whiche first began with consecrationMarginaliaConsecration. and the forme therof, which were wordes of the Canon. Then came trāsubstantiationMarginaliaTransubstantiation. by Innocentius, and after eleuationMarginaliaEleuation. & adorationMarginaliaAdoration. by Honorius, and last of all came the oblationMarginaliaOblation. meretorious and propitiatory for the quicke and dead in remission of sinnes, Ex opere operato.

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MarginaliaPersecution first beginning in these latter dayes.Which thinges being thus constituted by the to muche vsurped authority of the church of Rome, shortly after followed persecution, tyranny and burning among the christians, first beginning with the Albingenses, and the faythfull congregation of Tholouse, neare about the tyme of the sayd Innocentius, MarginaliaRead before pag 271.as is afore remembred pag. 271.  

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And thus much for the first article of transubstantiatiō which (as ye haue heard) was not admitted into þ^e Church for any generall doctrine of fayth, before the yeare and time aboue assigned, of pope Innocent the third, and therefore if any haue bene otherwise perswaded, or yet doe remayne in the same perswasion still of this doctrine, as though it had bene of a longer cōtinuance then frō the time aboue expressed, let him vderstand that by ignoraunce of hystories he is deceiued, and for the more satisfyinge of his mynde, if he credite not me, let him beleeue the wordes of one of hys owne catholike sort, Iohn Duns I meane, who in hys 4. booke wryting of Transubstatiation, in what time and by whose authority it was first establieshd, hath these words, which also are before mentioned, pag. 257.Marginalia

Read before pag 257.

Ioh. Duns, in li. 4. lib. Sentent.

These woordes of the Scripture might be expounded more easily and more plainly wythout transubstantiatiō: but the Church did chuse thys sence, whych is harder, being thereto mooued (as seemeth) chiefly because men shoulde holde of the Sacraments, the same whyche the Churche of Rome doth holde. &c. And further in the same place the sayde Duns expounding himselfe what hee meaneth by the churche of Rome, maketh there expresse mention of the sayde Innocentius the 3. and of thys Councell of Laterane. &c.

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And furthermore, to the entent that such as be indifferent seekers of the trueth, may be more amplie satisfied in