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The. ii. chapyter

THe whole summe of his […] is, that our sauyour […] those wordes takynge occasion of the myracle that he so late before had wrought among them, in fedyng fyut thousand of thē with fyue barly louys and two fysshes, dyd in those1 wordes vppon theyr new resort vnto hym whan they folowed hym to Capharnaum, fyrst rebuke & blame them bycause they soughte hym not for the miracles that they had sene hym wurke, but bicause they had ben fedde by hym & fylled theyr belyes / and that therfore our sauyour exhorted them to labour rather to gete that meat that neuer sholde perysshe. Op pon whiche exhortacyon whan the Iewes asked hym what they sholde do wherby they sholde wurke ye wur kes of god / Chryst sayd vnto them, that the wurke of god was, to byleue […] hym whom the father had […]

Thā goeth he ferther & she weth, that vpon the wordes of the Iewis askyng our lord what tokē he shewed for whiche they shold byleue in hym, syth theyr forefathers had gyuen thē the brede of Māna in deserte, of whi2 che it was writen, he gaue them bred from aboue / our lorde shewed them that Moses gaue them not that bred from heuen, but his owne father had geuen them the very brede that was descended from heuen, and that oure lorde there by all the remanaunt of those wordes in the sayd syxte chapiter of sait Iohn̄, declareth that hym selfe is that very bred, & is to be […] by the fayth and the byliefe yt Chrystes […] and body was broken and his bloude shed for our synnes. And so expowneth he forth all these wordes of Chryst, applyeng them onely to the declaracyon of his passyon to be suffred for our redempcion / and that our sauyour wold haue them by leue that point, & that the byliefe of yt point was ment by the eatynge, and that that fayth and byliefe is ye […] of our soules.

The whole somme of his exposicyō is this in al his sayd. xiiii. […]. I mene not that this is all that euer he sayth therin / for I leue out his cir cumstaunces, his garnysshynge, his notes, his argumentacions, his contencyons with me, his mokkes, his tauntys agaynst all catholyke folke, & his many folde heresyes also, with all whiche here and there he furnyssheth all the progresse of his paynted processe / all whiche thynges I shall after touche by them selfe. But the somme, the substaunce, and the ende wherto all the whole processe of his exposicyō cometh, is this that I haue rehersed you.

Footnotes

  1. Iohn̄. […]. ↩

  2. […]. 15 ↩

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