of manye graynes or cornes, it is our bodye, sygnyfyenge that we though we be manye, are made one breade, that is to saye: one bodye. And in that the wyne is made one wyne of manye grapes, it is our bodye, sygnyfyenge that though we are manye yet in Christe & through Christe we are made one bodye and membres to eche other. But in thys thynge Paule and Christe agre. For as Paule calleth the breade our bodye and vs the breade, because of thys propertye that it is made one of manye: euen so doth Christe call it hys bodye, because of the propertyes before rehearsed. Furthermore in thys they agre, that as Paules wordes muste be taken spyrytuallye, for I thynke there is no man so madde, as to Iudge that the breade is our bodye in dede although in that propertye it representeth our bodye: Euen so muste Christes wordes be vnderstonde spyrytuallye, that in those propertyes it representeth hys verye bodye. Now when we come together to receyue thys breade, then by the receyuynge of it in the congregacyon, we do openlye testyfye that we all whiche receyue it, are one bodye, professynge one God, one Fayth, & one Baptyme, and that the bodye of Christe was brokē and hys bloode shedde for remyssyon of our synnes. Now syth we so do, we maye not acompanye nor sytte in the congregacyon or felowshyppe of thē that offer vnto Idolles and eate before them. For as Paule sayeth, ye cā not drynke the cuppe of the Lorde and the cuppe of the deuels: ye can not be partakers of the table of the Lorde and of the table of the deuelles. I wolde not that you shulde haue felowshyppe with deuelles. The heythen which offerred vnto Idolles were the felowshyppe of deuelles, not because they eate the deuelles bodye or drāke the deuelles bloode, but because they beleued and put their confydence in the Idoll or devyll as in their God, and all that were of that fayth had their ceremonyes, and gaue hartye thankes to their God with that feaste which they kepte. They came to one place and brought their meate before the Idoll and offered it. And with their offerynge gaue vnto the devyll Godlye honoure. And then they sate downe and eate the offerynge together, geuynge prayse and thākes vnto their God, and were one bodye and one felowshyppe of the devell, which they testyfy by eatynge of that offerynge before that Idoll. Now dothe S. Paule reprehende the Corinthyans for bearynge the gentyles companye in eatynge before the Idoll. For they knowe that the meate was lyke other meate. And therfore thought them selues fre to eate it or leue it. But they perceyued not that that congregacyō was the felowshyppe of develles whiche were there gathered (not for the meate sake) but for to thanke, and prayse the Idoll their God in whome they had their confydence.