A boke made by John Fryth, prysoner in the Tower of London ¶ A boke made by John Fryth prysoner in the Tower of London, answerynge vnto M. Mores letter, which he wrote agaynst the fyrste lytle treatyse that John Fryth made concernynge the Sacramente of the body and bloode of Christ: vnto whiche boke are added in the ende the artycles of hys examynacyon before the Byshoppes of London, Wynchester and Lyncolne, in Paules churche at London, for whyche John Fryth was condempned and after brente in Smythfelde wythout Newgate, the fourth daye of July. Anno. 1533. Now newly reuysed corrected & prynted. In the Yeare of our Lorde, 1546, the last daye of June. ¶ Deade men shall ryse agayne. The Preface Grace and increace of knowelege frō God the Father through oure Lorde Jesus Christ, be with the Christen reader, and with all thē that loue the Lorde vnfaynedly Amen. [Sidenote: 1. Tim. 3. Tit. 1.] I chaunced beynge in these partyes, to be in companye with a Christen brother which for hys commendable conversaciō, and sobre behaueoure myght better be a Byshoppe thē many that weare myters, yf the rule of .S. Paule were regarded in their electyon. Thys brother after moche cōmunycacyō, desyred to knowe my mynde as touchynge the sacramēt of the body ād bloode of our sauyoure Christ. Which thynge I opened vnto hym accordynge to the gyfte that God had geuen me. Firste I proved vnto hym that yt was no article of oure fayth necessarye to be beleued vnder payne of dampnacyon. Then I declared that Christe had a naturall bodye, euen as myne ys (savynge synne) and that yt coulde no more be in two places at ones then myne can. Thyrdly, I shewed hym that it was not necessarye, that the wordes shulde so be vnderstonde as they sownde. But that yt myght be a phrase of scrypture, as there are innumerable. After that I shewed hym certen suche phrases ād maner of speakynges. And that yt was well vsed in oure Englyshe tongue. And fynally, I recyted after what maner they myght receyue yt accordynge to Christes institucyon, not fearynge the frowarde alteracyon that the Prestes vse, contrarye to the fyrste forme and institucion.