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A19657	The confutation of the. xiii. articles, wherunto Nicolas Shaxton, late byshop of Salilburye [sic] subscribed and caused to be set forth in print the yere of our Lorde. M.C.xlvi. [sic] whe[n] he recanted in Smithfielde at London at the burning of mestres Anne Askue, which is liuely set forth in the figure folowynge. In the nexte page shalt thou finde the contentes of thys little boke.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.; Shaxton, Nicholas, 1485?-1556.	1548 (1548)	STC 6083; ESTC S105139	70,962	161

of natiōs he reproueth the thoughtes of the people and the councels of princes but the councell of the Lorde abydeth for euer Psalme .xxxiii And amonge those forsayed syx articles I moste distent from other in the Sacramēt of Christes blessed bodye and bloude For where as they say that vnder the accidentes whyche be there by a miracle wythout any substance is conteyned the naturall bodye and bloude of Christe our Sauioure I denye those fayned miracles saye that there doeth still remayne bread and wyne in their kynde and be consecrated by the inuisible workynge of the holye Goste to be a sacramente sygne or token of the blessed body of our Sauioure Christ torne on the crosse for oure redemption And as towchynge these wordes thys is my bodye that is geuen for you for as muche as they be a parte of the scripture euen oure sauioure Christes wordes of him that neuer made lie I beleue thē to be certayne and true in that sense that he spake theim and meante theim Thys is my sure fayeth wherfore I am herein far frome any peryle of herisie althoughe I wade no farther therin at al but euen prison my wit reason and vnderstanding into the obsequie seruice and obedience of Christe and fayth and say to my selfe thus For as muche as manye and excellentelye learned men varye wythin them selues in the interpretation of this sentence thys is my bodye ▪ et cetera therefore it muste nedes 〈…〉 and saye The thinges that we haue hearde and sene we muste ●eades speake Lamente your ouerthrow and wepe wyth Peter and he that made him strōge againe shal strengthen you also Thus I leaue you to Christ Whom I mooste hertelye beseche to plucke out of your herte the doctrine that your .iiii. scholemaisters taughte you and plante in you agayne the doctrine of hys heauenlye father to youre saluation the establishinge of the consciences of them whome your fall dyd offende For whose sakes I haue taken in hande to confute youre Articles trustynge that God wyll so worcke in the heries of them and you boeth that you shall all reioyce wyth me for your deliueraunce from that deuilleishe doctrine that you saye you learned of those deuynes that were sent to you in the tyme of your laste imprisonment ❧ Hereafter foloweth the true copie of the Articles with the confutation of the same ¶ Shaxton ¶ The fyrste Article ALmyghtie God by the power of hys word pronoūced by the priest at masse in the cōsecration turneth the breade and wyne into the very natural bodye and bloude of our sauiour Iesus Christe So that after the consecration there remayneth no substaunce of breade and wyne but only the substaunce of Christ God and man Crowley Thys is sone spoken But to proue by the scriptures that it is true therein lieth all the difficultie of the matter Here I am sure your foure scholemaisters wyll saye That it is done is manifeste by the scriptures But howe it is done reason can not attayne to knowe Wherefore we muste agaynste reason beleue the wonderful worke of God aboue reason Yet am not I satisfied Neither can I beleue that they can proue by the scripturs that the breade and wyne are turned into the bodye and bloud of Christ Let your scholmaisters therefore or els do you theyr scholer shew me what scripture you haue for thys youre opinion I am certayne you haue none at al ▪ excepte it be one that you are wont to wrest for your purpose and that is thys The Lorde Iesus in the same night in the whyche he was betrayed toke breade gaue thankes and brake it sayinge Take ye eate ye thys is my bodye whyche is broken for you Hereupon I am sure you wil infer his conclution Ergo the breade is turned into hys bodye For the selfe same almyghtye God whyche by hys worde created al thinges of nought hath spokē these wordes and is much more able to alter and chaunge the nature of thynges that be then he was to make the same thynges of nought Wherfore cetera Thus haue ye cōfirmed this parte Thē saye you of the wyne After the same maner also he toke the cup when supper was done and sayed Thys cup is the newe testament in my bloud Thys do as oftē as ye drinke it in the remembraunce of me Here say you and your scholemaisters The same Christe whych is able to perfourme hys word hath sayed of the breade and wyne that they are hys bodye and bloude Ergo they muste nedes be hys very naturall body and bloud al substaunce of breade and wyne turned into the same I doubte not but ther is all that you and your scholemaisters woulde desyre me to conclude for your purpose To thys I wyth Goddes helpe wyl make suche answere that you and all other youre fauters shal be ashamed to wreste it so farre oute of tune here after For the fyrste parte you shal vnderstand that I haue taken the text wrytten by saynct Paul to the Corinthyans bycause this place of Paule is an exposition of the same matter wryttē by the Euangelistes They writ that Christe toke breade and blessed gaue it to hys disciples But Paule wrytynge to a people that knewe not what thys blissing that the Iewes vsed shoulde meane he calleth that same blessynge thankes geuynge Declarynge therby hat the blyssynge that the Iewes vsed whyche our sauiour Christ also vsed in thys actiō was not altogyther such crossing gestures as our masse masters vse but cō●rarywyse voyd of al suche foleish toyes and replenished wyth all Godlye veneration and thankes geuynge Exemple of thyshane me in the stories of Abraham Isaas and Iacob wyth other the fathers or the olde Testamente Seynge therfore that Christ toke bread gaue thankes it muste nedes folowe that he gaue suche thankes as the fathers the patriarckes and Prophetes vsed to geue Neyther makyng sygne of the crosse nor of the galow tree for it had bene all one to make the sygne of the crosse then and to make the signe of the galow tre uow For as theues and all other perniciouse felowes be nowe hanged on the galowe tree so were they then on che crosse but wyth reuerente gesture of the bodye and vpryghte countenaunce towarde heauen he called on the name of hys father moste humbly besechynge hym to worcke inwardly in the hertes of hys Apostles the thynge that he entended to declare to theim by a visible signe And. S. Paule calleth thys blessyng a thankes geuynge bycause the fathers dyd alwayes vse in the beginnyng of this blessing to geue thankes to God for the greate merrye that he had allwayes shewed vnto them In token whereof they committed vnto hys mercye also theyr dearlye beloued children most humbly besechyng hym to shew lyke mercye vnto theim in prosperynge the succession of theyr enheritaunce that they by the assistent grace of God myght walke in the feare of the Lorde from generation to generation foreuer Thus dyd Christe

article sayinge that from the Apostles tyme hytherto all a few heritikes excepted haue truly iustlye hosden thys opinion In thys place I wyll not greatelye contende wyth you for the tyme sens the Apostles although I mought haue inoughe in the aunciente doctours to proue the cōtrary or els to declare ▪ S. Augustine Ambros Chrisostome and suche other to be those heritykes whome you exempte out of the vnifourme cōsēt of the catholike church But in the Apostles time I dare be bolde to affirme and am able to proue by the scriptures that there remayned in the sacrament of the body bloude of Christe boeth bread and wyne Howe you haue iudgled thē out sēce I cā not tel And by the helpe of God I wyll in the declaration of your fyrste article proue boeth by the scriptures and doctours that ther was then and is nowe in the Sacramente boeth breade and wyne ¶ Shaxton ¶ And finally forasmuche as the sayed honourable bishops worshypfull doctours haue had further cōference with me not onely in the rest of the six articles but also in all other matters of cōtrouersie that other they or I coulde cal to remembraunce and are agreed fullye in the same So that nowe I am fullye perswaded and resolued in all matters of any wayght or importaunce wherin I was before either ambiguouse or in doubt or els of a contrarie iudgement vnto thē and do now esteme and iudge euē as they do in al thesethyngs ❧ Crowley I can gather none other by youre wordes but that if the fyre were set on the other syde of you it shoulde not be harde to perswad you to the cōtrari of your former wordes But I would not wyshe that you or any other should be cōpelled by fyre fagots or swerde to speake or wryte any thyng cōtrarye to the conscience For if Christe had wylled his Gospel to be auaunced defended after any such sorte he woulde not haue committed it to poore fisher men but rather vnto kinges and emperours I would wish therefore that you and all the harde herted woulde frelye wythoute compultion open theyr hertes receiue the grace fre mercy offered vnto them in the Gospell nothynge regardynge lyfe nor deathe rychesse nor pouerty quiernes nor persecution marying them selues to no opiniō that is not grounded on the scripture Shaxton Therefore I moste humblye euen frome the bottome of myne herte thanke your excellent maiestie that you haue had this godly care for my soul health and that by your moste graciouse meanes I am brought and reduced from that damnable erroure that I was in Crowley Greater thankes could you not haue geuen to your prince for the greate care that he had for your soule healthe then if you hadde stande manfullye to the trueth of the scriptures taking paciêtly the death that should haue bene layed on you that youre Prince myght thorow your constancye haue bene moued to serch the scriptures for the trueth of your opinions Shāxton And surely had not thys your pitie and compassion bene woulde obstinatlye haue dyed in the same and so from the temporall fyre shoulde haue gone to the euerlastynge fyre of hell Crowley A sharpe iudgemente Then is there no remedye for them that dyed in the opinion that you speake of For you haue all readye condemned them to the pytte of hell But I pray you who made you iudg of the soule I thynke your four schole maisters haue no scripture to beare you in thys And thoughe you saye that you dissent not from them in anye wayghtye matter yet I dare saye for them the mē thynke not as you saye in thys matter For if they woulde make the worste of it they can not make it a damnable sinne to saye that ther remaineth bread and wine in the Sacramente for as muche as it is no article of our fayeth to beleue the contrarye Shaxton And nowe with all reuerence and humilitie I submit my selfe vnto your graces clemeucie readye wyth al pacience if it be so sene to your hyghnes to suffer euen the very death as I haue instly deserued or els to do any other thynge that your maiestie shal thynke good or expediente for the reducyng of youre graces subiectes frome the erroine that they he wrapped in vnto the true catho lyke faieth and the ordre taken in this your moste christen realme Not only in thys one article but also in all othere wherein I my selfe am now thankes be to God and your hyghnes fully resolued and thorowly perswaded thus to continue to the ende of my lyfe by the grate goodnes of God Who euer preserue youre maiestie to hys glorye and the profit of thys your realme Crowley Oh what a pleasure had it bene to oure prince to haue sene you submitte youre selfe vnto hym to be at hys pleasure concerninge your cometh thorow hearinge and hearinge thothorowe the worde of God set forthe to vs in holye scripture And bicause some manne would saye peraduenture that I conster the scripture after myne owne imagination and fantasye of myne owne brayne Naye I do not nor I wyll not so do God forbydde I shoulde For that were euen to steale Gods worde lyke as theues steale other mennes goodes and apply them to theyr own vses So is that a stealynge of Gods word and appliyng of it to our own vses that is to the defence of our own euil opinions Agaynste whom that so do speaketh Esai the prophet Nunquid non verba mea sunt quasi ignis dicit dominus et quasi malleus cōterens petram Propterea ecce ego ad prophetas dicit dominus qui furantur verba mea vnusquisque a proximo c. Are not my wordes euen as fyre sayeth the Lorde and as an hammer that breaketh the stone Therefore beholde I wyll vpon the Prophetes sayeth the Lorde that steale my wordes euery man from hys neighbour .c I would not do so therfore but I beleue the worde of God in al the holye scripture and in euerye part therof in that sence and meanynge that the holye Goste ment and meaneth therein and none otherwyse Thys is my faith that I haue hytherto folowed and wherein I entēd by Gods grace to persiste to the end of my lyfe And al my words sermons and writinges haue I allwayes framed according to this my fayth so nygh as my wit wold serue me so wil do by Goddes grace vnto the ende of my lyfe Nowe maye euerye man perceyue that with thys fayeth can stande no damnable errours nor heresie Wherefore thankes be to God I teken my selfe as far from anye perile of errour or heresie as he that is farthiest Towchynge myne opions trueth it is that I dissente in opinions from diuers good Godly and excellentlye learned men Yea frome myne owne selfe also and that wythin the space of small tyme. For what so euer I espye by the scriptures that I am in wronge opinion I wyll surely chaunge it and amēd it