VOLUME 3

AN ANSWERE VNTO SIR THOMAS MORES DIALOGE

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dy / and had that same vertue and power wyth it that his very passion after wrought / whi was he sacrificed so cruelly on the morow and not hold excused therwith / seinge he was there verely sacrificed?

M. Item that there remayneth bred and wine in the sacrament. T. improue it. What is that that is broken and that the prest eateth with his teth / ayre only? if a child were fed with no nother fode he shuld wax haply as longe as his father. Where of then shuld his body / his flesh and bones growe? where of shuld that come (wyth reuerence I speake it) that he pisseth and soforth? all by miracle wyll they saye.

O what wonderfull miracles must we fayne to saue antichristes doctrine / I might with as good reason saye that the hoste is nether rounde ner white / But that as my mouth is disceaued in the tast of bred / euen so myne eyes ar in the syght of roundnesse and so is there nothynge at all. Whych all are but the disputacions of men with corrupte myndes with out spirite to iudge. Neuer the later when the prest hath once rehersed the testament of our sauioure theron / I loke not on bred and wine / but on the body of Christ broken and bloud shed for my synnes / and by that fayth am I saued from the damnacion of my synnes. Nether come I to masse for any other purpose then to fett forgeuenesse for Christes deethes sake / ner for any other purpose saye I confiteor and knowlege my synnes at the begynnynge of masse. And iff ye haue other doctrine teach vs a reason & lead vs in light and we wyll folowe. Christ sayth Ihon .vj. it is the spirite that quikeneth / the flesh profiteth nothynge at all / the wordes whych I speake sayth he / ar spirite and life. That is / the