The. xvi. capyter

REade good readers in my letter the. xxi. lefe, and thanne consyder mayster Maskars goodly morke that he maketh here, and you shall fynde yt very foly she. But nowe mayster Maskar asketh me, where I spake with Cryst whan he told me yt he wold make his owne bo dye in two places at ones, as though Christe coulde not speke to me but if I spake to hym, nor coulde not tell me the tale but yf he appered to me face to face, as he dyd after his resur reccyon to his dyscyples. This que styon of mayster Maskar cometh of an hygh wyt I warraunt you. I answere master maskar therfore, Crist tolde yt at hys maundy to other good credyble folke, and they tolde yt forth to the whole catholique chyrch, and the whole chyrche hathe tolde yt vnto me / and one of theym that was at yt, that is to wytte saynte Mathew, hathe putte yt in wrytynge as the same chyrche telleth me.

For ellys were I not sure whyther that gospel were his or not, nor whyther it were any parte of holy scrypture or not. And therfore I can lacke no good and honest wytnesse to bere me recorde in that point that wyll depose for me, that I fayne not the mater of myne owne hed. And I haue a testymoniall also of many olde holy doctours and sayntes, made afore a good notary the good man god hym selfe, whiche hath with hys seale of many an hundred myracles, both testyfyed for the trouth of those men, & also for the trouth of the pryncypall mater it selfe / that is to wytte that Chrystes very body is in the blessed sacrament, though the sacrament be eyther in two or in. x. thowsande places at onys. And thus mayster Mas kers questyons concernyng Chryste blessed body, that Chryst hath tolde me that he wolde make it be in two places at onys, is I truste suffycyently answered. But now as for Frythys body (whyche wryteth that Christes body can be no more in two places at onys than his) though I wolde haue byleued yt Chryst coulde haue made it in two placys as onys yf Chryste had so tolde me: yet syth Chryste hath now tolde me, by hys whole catholyke chyrche, and by wry tynge of the olde holy sayntes of the same, & by his own holy scrypture to, which scrypture by the same chyrche & the same holy saynts I know, and also se declared and expowned, and ouer that hath by many wonderfull myracles many festly proued & testyfyed, that thopinions in which Fryth obstynately & ther with very folishly dyed, were very pesrylent here syes, wherby he is ꝑpetually seuered frō the lyuely body of Chryst, and made a ded mēber of the deuyll: I byleue therfore and very surely knowe as a thynge taught me by god, that the wreched body of that felow shall neuer be in two placs at onys / but whā it shall ryse agayne and be restored to that wreched obstynate soule, shall ther with lye styll euer more in one place, that is to wyt in theuerlastyng fyre of hell. From whych I beseche our lorde turne Tyndale & George Iay, wyth all the whole bretherhed, and mayster Masker amonge other (who so euer he be) by tyme.

Now vpon his aforesard suche a proper handeled mocke as you haue herde, mayster masker goeth on, and geueth me ryght holsom admonicyō, that I medle no more with such hygh maters, as is the great absolute almyghty power of god / & therin thus he sayth vnto me.

Syr you be to bysy wyth goddes almyghty power, and haue taken to great a burden vppon your weke shuldren.