[Sidenote: Fryth.] ¶ I had thought that no Turke wolde haue wrested a mannes wordes so vnfaythfullye. For he leaueth out all the pythe of my matter, for my wordes are these. I wyll shewe you a meanes how ye shall euer receyue it accordynge to Christes instytucyon, although the Prest wolde withdrawe it from you. Fyrste ye neade to haue no respecte vnto the Prestes wordes whiche mynystreth it. For yf ye remember for what entent Christe ded instytute thys sacramente, and knowe that it was to put vs in remembraunce of hys bodye breakynge and bloode sheadynge, that we myght geue hym thankes for it, and be as sure of it through fayth accordynge to his promyses, as we are sure of the breade by eatynge of it: yf as I saye, ye remember thys thynge (for whiche intēte onelye the Preste speaketh those wordes) then yf the Prest leaue out those wordes or parte therof, he can not hurte you. For you haue already the effecte and fynall purpose for the whiche he shulde speake them. And agayne yf he shulde whollye altre thē, yet he can not deceyue you. For then ye be sure that he is a lyer, and though you se the Preste brynge you the wyne vnconsecrated, yet neuer stycke at that. For as surelye shall it certyfye your conscyence and outwarde sences though he consecrate it not (so thou consecrate it thy selfe: that is to saye, so thou knowe what is ment therbye and geue hym thankes) as though he made a thousande blessynges ouer it. And so I saye that it is euer consecrated in hys harte that beleueth, though the Preste consecrate it not. And contrarye wyse yf they consecrate it neuer so moche, and thy consecracyon be not bye, it helpeth the not a ryshe. For excepte thou knowe what is ment therby, and beleue, geuynge thākes for hys bodye breakynge and blood sheadynge, it can not profytte them. [Sidenote: More.] ❧ Nowe where you saye, that yf we see the thynge dysordered by the Preste, & Christes instytucyon broken, and wetynglye receyue it, we make our selfes partakers of the cryme. [Sidenote: Fryth.] ¶ I answere that yf the reformacyon therof laye in our handes, then sayde you trouth, but syth thys is wryten to pryuate parsones whiche maye not reforme this matter, and that the reformacyon therof resteth onelye in the hande of your Prynce and Parlyamente (for the erroure consysteth not in the mysorderynge of the matter by one Preste onely, but rather of the doctryne of them all, sauynge suche as God hath lyghtened) to these pryuate persons I saye that your doctryne shulde soner be the occasyon of an insurreccyon (whiche we laboure to eschewe) then anye quyetynge of them by Christes doctryne. And therfore syth there is an other waye to the woode, sauynge all vpryght, we wyll auoyde that parellous pathe. But when ye see Christes instytucyon broken and the one kynde lefte out vnto the laye people, why are ye partaker therof?