Marginalia1555. Septemb.MarginaliaChristes body presēt in the Sacrament to our spirituall eyes.Yet do I beleue assuredly that his very body is present in his most holy Supper at the cōtemplation of our spiritually eyes, and so verely eaten with the mouth of our fayth.Marginalia
How the body of Christ is spiritually to be eaten.
Rom. 8. Heb. 9. For as soone as I heare these most comfortable and heauenly wordes spoken and pronounced by the mouth of the Minister: This is my body which is geuen for you, when I heare (I say) this heauenly harmonye of Gods vnfallible promises and truth: I looke not vpō, neither do I behold bread and wyne, for I take and beleue the wordes simply & plainly euen as CHRIST spake them. For hearyng these wordes, my senses be rapt and vtterly excluded:  

for fayth wholy taketh place, and not fleshe nor the carnall imaginations of our grosse, fleshly, and vnreuerent eatyng after the maner of our bodily foode which profiteth nothyng at all, as CHRIST witnesseth. Iohn. 6. but with a sorrowfull and wounded conscience, an hungry and thirstie soule, a pure and faithfull mynde do fully embrace, behold, and feede and looke vppon that most glorious body of CHRIST in heauen at the right hand of God þ^e father, very God & very mā, which was crucified and slayne, and his bloud shed for our sinnes,MarginaliaRom. 5. there now making intercession, offryng and geuyng his holy body for me, for my body, for my raunsome, for my full price and satisfaction, who is my CHRIST and all that euer he hath: and by this spirituall and faythfull eatyng of this liuely and heauenly bread, I feele the most swete sappe and tast of the fruites, benefites, & vnspeakable ioyes of CHRISTES death and passion fully disgested into the bowels of my soule. For my minde is quieted from all worldly aduersities, tormoylings, and troubles: my conscience is pacified from sinne, death, hell and damnation: my soule is full and hath euen enough, and will no more: MarginaliaPhil. 3.for all things are but losse, vyle dunge and drosse, vayne vanitie, for the excellent knowledge sake of CHRIST IESV my Lord and Sauiour.

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Iohn. 6. Ephe. 5. Gala. 2.
How Christes flesh is our meate, and his bloud our drinke.Thus now is CHRISTES flesh my very meate in deede, and his bloud my very drinke in deede, and I am become flesh of his flesh, and bone of his bones. Now I liue, yet not I, but CHRIST liueth in me: yea I dwel in hym and he in me: for through fayth in CHRIST, and for CHRISTES sake we are one, that is, of one consent, mynd, and felowshyp with the Father, the Sonne and the holy Ghost. Ioan. 17. Thus am I assured & fully persuaded, & on this rocke haue I builded by Gods grace, my dwellyng and restyng place for body and soule, lyfe and death. And thus I cōmit my cause vnto CHRIST the righteous & iust iudge, who will an other day iudge these debates and controuersies: whom I humbly besech to cast his tender and mercifull eyes vpon the afflicted and ruinous Churches, and shortly to reduce them into a godly and perpetuall concorde, Amen.

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Thus do I beleue, and this is my fayth and my vnderstanding in CHRIST my Sauiour, and his true and holy Religion. MarginaliaMarke. 8.And this who soeuer is ashamed to do among this adulterous and sinnefull generation, of him shall the sonne of man be ashamed when he commeth in the glory of his father with the holy Angels.

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Robert Samuell.

MarginaliaW. Allen, Martyr.NExt after the suffering of Robert Samuell, about the begynning of September was burned William Allen in Walsingam, laboring man, seruant somtime to Iohn Houghton of Somerton. He being brought before the Bishop, and asked the cause why he was imprisoned: aunswered, that he was put in prison because he would not follow þ^e Crosse, saying that he would neuer go on procession.

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MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of W. Allen at Walsingham. Ann. 1555 Septem.Then beyng wylled by the bishop to returne againe to the catholicke church, he aunswered: that he would turne to the catholicke church, but not to the Romishe church, and sayd, that if he saw the King and Queene, & all other folow the crosse, or kneele downe to the crosse, he would not.  

For the which, sentence of condemnation was geuē against hym, the. xij. of August,   & he burned at Walsingham about the beginning of September, who declared such constancy at hys martyrdome, and had such credite wyth the Iustices, by reason of hys vpright and well tryed conuersation among them, that he was suffered to go vntyed to hys suffering, and

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there beyng fastened wyth a chayne, stoode quietly with out shrincking, vntyll he dyed.  

MarginaliaRoger Coo, Martyr.ROger Coo brought before the bishop, first was asked why he was imprisoned.

MarginaliaTalke betwen Roger Coo, and Hopton Bishop of Norwich.Coo. At the Iustices commaundement

Bish. There was some cause why.

Coo. Here is my accuser, let hym declare.

And hys accuser sayd that he would not receyue the Sacrament.

Bish. Then the bishop sayd that hee thought he had transgressed a law.

Coo. But Coo aunswered that there was no lawe to transgresse.

Bish. The Bishop then asked what hee sayd to the law that then was?

Coo. He aunswered howe hee had bene in prison a long tyme, and knew it not.

No, sayd hys accuser, nor wylt not. My Lord, aske hym when he receaued the Sacrament.

Coo. When Coo heard hym say so, he sayd: MarginaliaRoger Coo to his accuser.I pray you my Lord, let him sit downe & examine me him self.

Bish. But the bishop would not heare that, but said: Coo, why? wyll ye not receiue?

Coo. He aunswered hym that the MarginaliaThe Bishop of Rome.Bishop of Rome had chaunged Gods ordinaūces, and geuen the people bread and wyne in the steede of the Gospell, and the beliefe of the same.

Bish. How proue you that?

MarginaliaThe Sacrament of the Lordes Supper.Coo. Our Sauiour sayd: My flesh is meate in deede, and my bloud is drinke in deede. He that eateth my flesh, & drinketh my bloud, abideth in me, and I in him, and the bread and wyne doth not so.

Bish. Well Coo, thou doest sclaunder our holy Fathers. Did not CHRIST take bread, geue thankes, and brake it, and sayd: This is my body?

Coo. Yes, sayd he, and so he went further with the text saying: Which shall bee geuen for you: do this in the remembraunce of me.

Bish. You haue sayd the truth.

Coo. Then Coo replied further and said: CHRIST wylled to do thys in the remembraunce of him, and not to say thys in the remembraunce of hym, neyther dyd the holy Ghost so lead the Apostles, but taught them to geue thankes, and to breake bread from house to house, and not to say as the Bishop sayd.

Bish. How proue you that?

Coo. It is wrytten in the second of the Actes.

Then the Bishops Chaplayne sayd it was true.

Bish. The Bishop asked hym if he could his beliefe.

Coo. Hee aunswered yea, and so sayd part of the Creede, and then after he sayd, he beleued more: for he beleued the ten cōmaundementes, that it was meete for all such as looke to be saued, to be obedient vnto thē.

Bish. Is not the holy church to be beleued also?

Coo. Yes, if it be builded vpon the word of God.

Bish. The bishop sayd to Coo, that he had charge of hys soule.

Coo. Haue ye so my Lord? Then if ye go to the deuyll for your sinnes, where shall I become?

Bish. Do you not beleue as your father dyd? Was not he an honest man?

Co. It is written that after CHRIST hath suffered: MarginaliaDaniell. 9.There shall come a people with the prince that shall destroy both City and Sanctuary. I pray you shew me whether this destruction was in my fathers tyme, or now?

Bysh. The Byshop not aūsweryng his question, asked him whether he would not obey the kyngs lawes?

Coo. As farre as they agree with the word of God,