"I am a minister," said Marsh. "It is but a short time agone since I
served a cure hereabouts."
"Who gave thee orders? Or hast thou indeed received any?"
"The Bishops of London and Lincoln, after that I had diligently studied
and kept terms aforetime at Cambridge."
"Humph!" said Sir Roger. "These bishops be of the reformed sect; and, I
have a notion, will some day or another answer for it before the Queen's
council."
"What knowledge hast thou of these men?"
"I never saw them but at the time I received ordination."
After a few more questions of little moment, the priest threw out the
usual net with which his fraternity were wont to entangle those of
heretical opinions.[17]
"What is thy belief respecting the sacrament?"
"That is a question of too general and multifarious a nature for a plain
and faithful answer."
"Are the bread and wine, by virtue of the words pronounced by the
priest, changed into the body and blood of Christ? And is the sacrament,
whether reserved or received, the very body and blood of Christ?"
"I am not careful to answer such inquiries, seeing that I am but
unskilled and unlearned in scholastic disputes.
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