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The Supper of the Lord - William Tyndale
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[Introductory Notice
The first edition of the following treatise affords no intimation of its author’s name; but its final colophon states that it was Imprinted at Nornburg, by Niclas Twonson, 5 April. An. 1533.
Only a few months after this date Sir Thomas More had penned what he styles an Answer to the first part of a poisoned book which a nameless heretic hath named ‘The Supper of the Lord.’
At his first onset More writes as follows: "There is come over another book against the blessed sacrament, a book of that sort that Fryth’s book the brethren may now forbear. For more blasphemous and more bedlamripe than this book is were that book hard to be, which is yet mad enough, as men say that have seen it.—The man hath not set his name unto his book; nor whose it is I cannot surely say. But some reckon it to be made of William Tyndale, for that in a pystle of his unto Fryth he writeth, that in any thing he can do, he would not fail to help him forth. Howbeit some of the brethren report that the work was made by George Jay; and of truth Tyndale wrote unto Fryth, that George Jay had made a book against the sacrament, which was as yet, partly by his means, partly for lack of money, retained and kept from the print.—The maker of the book in the end of his book, for one cause why he putteth not his name thereto, writeth in this wise: Master Mocke, whom the verity most offendeth, and doth but mocke it out, when he cannot soil it, he knoweth me well enough. This sad and sage earnest man that, mocking at my name, calleth me Master Mocke, doth in these wise words but mocke the readers of his book. What if I wist never so well who he were that wrote it, what were this to the brethren that read it? Now for myself also, though I know Tyndale by name, and George Jay or Joy by name also, and twenty such other fond fellows of the same sect more; yet if ten of those would make ten such foolish treatises, and set their names to none, could I know thereby which of those mad fools made which foolish book?"
Notwithstanding this language, More takes for granted throughout all the rest of his answer, that the writer to whom he is replying is none other than Tyndale. And yet Foxe, when editing Tyndale’s Works for Day, forty years later, at the close of his 456th page, which immediately precedes the introduction of this treatise, has inserted this colophon: ‘The end of all M. William Tyndale’s Works, newly imprinted, according to his first copies, which he himself set forth.’ But he then adds, ‘Here followeth a short and pithy treatise touching the Lord’s Supper, compiled, as some do gather, by M. W. Tyndale, because the method and phrase agree with his, and the time of writing are concurrent; which for thy further instruction and learning, gentle reader, I have annexed to his works, lest the church of God should want any of the painful travails of godly men, whose only care and endeavour was to advance the glory of God, and to further the salvation of Christ’s flock committed to their charge.’ When Foxe penned this last sentence, he had before him that same letter from Tyndale to Frith, of which, notwithstanding Tyndale’s caution, Sir Thomas More must soon have obtained a copy, if the oppressed prisoner had not been obliged to surrender the original to his enemies. And the martyrologist might reasonably doubt whether Tyndale would have composed and published such a treatise as the following within a few weeks after his advising Frith to meddle as little as possible with the question of the presence of Christ’s body in the sacrament, and saying to him, ‘I would have the right use preached, and the presence to be an indifferent thing, till the matter might be reasoned in peace at leisure of both parties.’
But Frith has told us, that after his arrival in England he had so far yielded to the request of a christian brother, ‘who might better be a bishop than many that wear mitres,’ as ‘to touch this terrible tragedy,’ and write a treatise, in which, says he, ‘I declared that Christ had a natural body, and that it could no more be in two places at once than mine can. I wrote it not to the intent that it should have been published; but now it is comen abroad.’ He adds that Sir Thomas More had ‘sore laboured to confute it,’ but had scarcely printed his letter intended to do this, before he so changed his mind as to endeavour to suppress his reply, of which Frith could in consequence only obtain a written copy; though he had seen it in print in bishop Gardiner’s house, when he was brought before that prelate on the 26th of Dec., 1532. We have seen Sir Thomas More insinuating, though he does not affirm, that all he knew of Frith’s work on the sacrament was from what others said of it; but when he had proceeded farther in his lengthy answer to the ‘nameless heretic,’ he seems to have forgotten this, and fully confirms Frith’s statement. He there says, ‘Whereas I, a year now past and more, wrote and put in print a letter against the pestilent treatise of John Fryth, which he then had made and secretly sent abroad among the brethren, against the blessed sacrament of the altar; which letter of mine, as I have declared in mine apology, and natheless caused to be kept still, and would not suffer it to be put abroad into every man’s hands, because Fryth’s treatise was not yet at that time in print; yet now, sith I see they are come over in print, not only Fryth’s book, but over that this masker’s also, and that either of their both books maketh mention, &c.’
The dates and circumstances, thus incidentally given, are sufficient to shew that Frith had unintentionally committed himself on this perilous subject, before he could have received Tyndale’s warning; whilst Tyndale was not likely to be much behind More in learning what his friend had written, nor much behind the poor prisoner in learning what More had committed to the press. Indeed, in telling us that after Frith’s treatise had got into some circulation through manuscript copies, it had been sent to the continent to be printed, and speaking of the arrival of printed copies in England in a way which seems to imply that their arrival and that of copies of the following treatise were contemporary, More has made it not improbable that Tyndale may have been carrying Frith’s work through the press, at the same time that he was composing its author’s defence. At any rate Tyndale would know, soon enough for his writing this treatise, that Frith’s hostility to the doctrine from which the dominant church mainly drew its wealth, had