(17) Anfw. This is to the purpofe if it be but proved. But, alas, where is the Proof? Whyyou give us fuch as you have, and we can expe± no better fromyou. You 1 y [ This was the Unìverfal Belief of the Chriflian world in the ninthCentury.] How prove you that ? Very eafi- ly inyour own conceit ; ziz. fayyou [ It is evident by the TeJlimony ofall the Writingsof that Age, and by the Uni- verfal Teftimony ofthe tenthAge ; nor do our Adverfaries deny it.] Anfw. i. All thefe three are falte : Neither all the Writings of the ninth Age, nor the Univerfal Teftimo- ny of the tenth, faith it ; and your Adverfaries do de- ny it. z. But was there not fome lorry necefiáty that put you tobegin your Proof fo low as nine, or ten hundred Years after Chrift ? Methinks you fhould have feared, left this haveopened all the deceit. 3. Your Adverfaries challengeyou toname one Book that ever fo much as named Tranfubftantiation, before one stcphanus ,¡3Eduenfis after the Year I a oo, which wasneither in the ninth, nor tenth Century, and yet you have not done it to this day ; and yet go on to talk at this rate. And they challenge you toname one General Council that ever determined for either Name or Thing, ( that the Bread and Wing are changed into the very Body and Blood of Chrift, and are no longer true Bread andWine) before the Council at the Laterane in Rome, under Innoc. 3. Anno, I 2 15. which lure was neither the ninth, nor tenth Century. Can you give us no earlier proof that ever anyConnell mentioned it ( when Coun- cils are your Religion) andyet deceitfully talk with con- fidence'as you do ? 4. But fuppofe the twelfth Century, or thirteenth, had C 2 been
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