Now syth thys is proued true that the wycked eate not hys bodye, it must also therof neades folowe, that the sacramente is not hys naturall bodye. For they do eate the sacramēte as all men knowe. Besydes that the faythfull do not eate Christes bodye with their teth. And therfore it muste folowe that the wycked do not eate it with their teth. The antecedēt or fyrst parte of the reason is proued by the wordes of Christe which sayeth, [Sidenote: Ioan. 6.] that the fleshe profyteth nothynge at all, meanynge that it doth not profyte as they vnderstode hym: that is to saye: yt profyteth nothynge to be eaten carnallye with their teth and bellye, as they vnderstode hym. For els it profyteth moche to be eaten spyrytuallye, that is to saye: to beleue that through hys bodye breakynge ād bloode sheadynge our synnes are pourged. And thus doth Origene, S. Austē, Bede, Chrisostome, ād Athanasius expounde it, as appeareth in the boke before. And therfore Fryth sayeth, that onelye faythfull men eate hys bodye: not with their teth and mouth, but with their fayth ād harte, they dygeste it in to the bowelles of their soules through beleuynge that it was broken on the crosse, to washe awaye their synnes. And the wycked eate not hys bodye but onelye the breade and their dampnacyon, because they eate him not spirytually, that is: because they beleue not in hys bodye breakynge and bloode sheadynge. ¶ The thyrde poynte wherin Fryth dyssēteth frō your Prelates & their proctoure. The Prelates beleue that mē ought to worshyppe the Sacramēte, but Fryth sayeth naye, and affyrmeth that it is Idolatrye to worshyppe it. And he sayeth that Christ and hys Apostles taught vs not so to do: neyther ded the holy fathers so teache vs. And Fryth sayth, that the autours of thys worshyppynge are the chylderne of perdycyō which haue ouerwhelmed thys worlde with synne. Neuerthelesse we muste receyue it reuerētlye, because of the doctryne that it bryngeth vs. For it preacheth Christes death vnto vs, & descrybeth it before our eyes, euē as a faythfull preacher by the worde doth instyll yt in to vs by our eares and hearynge. And that yt supplyeth the rowme of a preacher, is evydēt by the wordes of S. Austen which sayeth. _Paulus quamuis portaret sarcinā corporis quod aggrauat animā, potuit tamen significando predicare Dominū Iesum Christum, aliter per linguā suam, aliter per epistolā, aliter per sacramētū corporis Christi._ That is to saye: though Paule ded beare the burthen of the bodye which doth honorate the soule, yet was he able in sygnyfyenge to preache the Lorde Iesus Christe, one waye by hys tonge, and another waye by a Ēpystle, & a nother waye by the Sacrament of Christes bodye .&c. For as the people by vnderstondynge the sygnyfycacyō of the wordes which he spake ded heare the gloryous gospell of God, & as by the readynge of hys Epystle they vnderstode hys mynd, & receyued the wordes of the soules health, so by the mynystracyon of the sacrament