fleshly eatynge and drinkynge of Christes body and bloud profit not / as his carnall presens profited not / by the reason of his presens only as ye se by Iudas and the phareses and the sowdiours that twiched him / and how his bodyly presens did lett the disciples to vnderstonde spiritually. But to eate and drinke in the spirite / that is / to herken vn to his wordes and with a repentynge hert to beleue in his deeth / bryngeth vs all that Christ can doo for vs.

M. Item that the masse auayleth no man but the preest. T. if ye speake of the prayars / his prayars helpe vs as moch as oures him. If ye speake of the sacrament / it helpeth as many as be present as moch as him / if moued therby they beleue in Christes deeth as well as he. If they be absent / the sacrament profiteth them as moch as a sermon made in the church helpeth them that be in the feldes. And how profiteth it the soules of the deed tell me vn to whom it is no signe?

If ye meane the carnall eatynge and drinkynge / then it profiteth the prest only / for he eateth and drinketh vpp all allone and geueth no man parte with him.

M. Item that a man shuld not be howseled tyll he laye a dyenge. T. That is to shamelesse a lye.

M. Item that men and wemen shuld not spare to twich it. T. a perelous case. Why? because the pope hath not oyled them. Neverthelesse Christ hath annoynted them with his spirite & with his bloude. But wot ye why? The pope thynketh if they shuld be to busy in handelynge it / they wold beleue that there were bred /and for that cause to strength their feythes / he hath imagened lytle prety thinne manchetes that shynne