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that he lived indede. And after this maner he geveth vnto 

 vs his boddy and blonde, that is to saye spretually, wherwith 

 the soule once feade through belefe, immediatly feleth all 

 spretuall ioye and conforte. that is to saye, faythe towardes 

 god his mercifull father, hope in the promeses of Christ, and 

 love and charite towardes his even Christen. For he sayde, 

 he that eateth my flesshe aud drynketh my bloudde, is joan. vj. 

 in me and I in hym. This is spretually done, wherby the 

 children of belefe, are strengthed in their fayth, and folowe 

 the fote steppes of their master Christ. Serve their brethren, 

 and hate the worlde. Wherby as through thynges most cer- 

 tayne, the inuisible presence of god is apprehended. yet in 

 the meane tyme, there is no bodely presence of Christ nether 

 in breade, nor yett in wyne. Sonne. Canst thou prove by 

 scripture that he gave not hyme silfe vnto his disciples, and 

 vnto those whiche säte aboute hyme, in forme of breade for 

 to be eaten, nor yet in wyne to be dr- [fol. 22'*.] roncken? 

 Fa. Ye, for he hym silfe sayeth in the .vj. chapter of Ö, Jlion, 

 that the flesshely eatynge and drynkynge of his boddy and 

 bloudde stondeth to none effecte. sayiuge, the wordes whiche 

 I speake vnto you, are sprete and lyfe. that is. they speake 

 of a spretuall maner of eatynge and drynkynge, and of that 

 thynge which bryngeth to lyfe, and that inwardly throwe belefe. 

 And therfore can there nether carnall thynge, nor creature 

 belongynge vnte the vngodly, be other sprete or lyfe. So. Are 

 then the wordes rehearced in the .vj. chapter of Jhon^ of one 

 meanynge with Christis sayinge of bred and wyne ? Fa. There 

 is no difference, savynge only that at his last supper the lord 

 gave there vnto the signe or token. but yet is the meanynge 

 one. For in the forsayde place the lorde sayde, the breade 

 that I will geve is my flesshe which 1 will geve for tlie life 

 of the worlde, whiche silfe same thynge he also dcclaicd at 

 his last supper, sayinge. take, and cate, this is ma. xwj. 

 mv boddy which for you shalbe geven. whiche bothe are but 

 one maner of speakinge, and therfore ought after one Marti, xüij. 

 maner tu be vnderstoude, and that (as apereth in the Luc xxij. 

 .vj. chapter of S. Jhon. aud in the teuthe eleventh and twelth ' 



twelfth. 



