Nowe deare bretherne I beseche you for the mercye that ye loke for in Christ Iesu, that you accepte thys worke with a syngle eye ād no contencyous harte. For necessyte hath compelled me to wryte it, because I was informed both of my Lorde of Wynchester ād other credyble parsons, that I had by the meanes of my fyrst treatyse offended many mē. Which thynge maye well be true: For it was to slender to enstructe all them which haue sens seane it, albeit it were suffycyent for their vse to whome it was fyrst delyuered. And therfore I thought it not onelye expedyent but also necessarye, to enstructe them further in the truth, that they myght see playne euydence of that thynge, wherin they were offended. By thys worke you shall espye their blasphemyes ād venemous tonges wherwith they slaunder not one ly thē that publyshe the truthe, but euen the truth yt selfe. They shame not to saye, that we affyrme yt to be onelye breade, and nothynge els. And we saye not so: but we saye that besyde the substaunce of breade, it is the Sacrament of Christes bodye ād bloode. As the yvye hangynge before the taverne doore is more then bare yvye. For besyde the substaunce of yvye, it is a sygne, and sygnyfyeth that there is wyne to be solde. And thys sacrament sygnyfyeth vnto vs, and poynteth out before our eyes, that as verely as that breade is broken, so verelye was Christes bodye brokē for our synnes: And as that breade is dystrybuted vnto vs, so is hys bodye and frute of hys passyon dystrybuted vnto all hys faythfull. And as the breade comforteth the bodye, so doth the fayth in Christes death comforte our soules. And as surelye as we haue that breade and eate it with our mouth and teth, and knowe by our sences that we haue it within vs, and are partakers therof; no more neade we to doubte of hys bodye and bloode, but that through fayth, we are as sure of thē, as we are sure of that breade. As it is suffycyentlye declared in my boke.