The. i. chapyter

I haue good reders ī my fyrst boke here before perused you thexposicyon of all that part of ye syxte chapyter of saynte Iohn̄, which mayster Masker hath expowned you before. And in the begynnyng of thys exposicyō, I haue not brought you forth the worde of any of the olde expositours, bycause yt (as I suppose) myne […] wyll not mych […] tende wyth me for so farre. But afterwarde concernyng those wordes in which our sauyour expressely speketh of the geuyng of his very flesh & bloud to be veryly eaten & drōken, there haue I brought you forth such authorytees of olde holy doctours & sayntes, yt ye may well se bothe that I fayne you not the mater but expowne it you ryght / & also ye se therby clerely, that mayster Masker expowneth it wrong. For though a man may dyuersly expoune one texte and bothe well: yet whan one expowneth it in one trewe maner, of a false purpose to exclude another trouth that is in that wrytynge by the spyryte of god […] and immedyately ment, his exposvcyon is false all though euery worde were trewe, as mayster Mas kers is not.

And therfore syth you se myne ex posycion proued you by excellēt holy men, and by theyr playne wordes, ye perceyue that the wordes of our sauyour hym self do proue agaynst all these […], the catholyke fayth of Crystes catholyke chyrche very faythfull and tre we, concernyng the very flesshe of Cryste veryly eaten in the blessed sacrament / of whyche eatynge mayster Masker wold with his exposycyon make men so madde, as to wene yt Cryst spake nothynge at all: now I say by thys exposycyō of myne ye se his exposycyō auoyded clerely for nought, and all the mater clere vpon our parte, though no man wrote one worde more.

And yet wyll I for all that, for yt ferther declaracyon of mayster Mas kers handelynge, she we you some peices of thexposycyō in specyall, by whych ye maye clerely se what credence may be geuē to the man, eyther for honesty, or lernynge, vertue, […] or trouth.