Ad Danielis Hofmanni demonstrationes ad oculum, Theodori Bezae Conspicillum

This is indeed too confident. For I do not deny that you have had the right to inquire into the doctrine I profess; but who established you as an overseer, much less a judge, of my conscience? Nor will you ever persuade me that I am guilty of deserting the word of God, of impiety, of blasphemy, or of trampling on the covenant of the Lord, as you are accustomed to ᾠδα τραγῳδεῖν sing in a tragic/theatrical manner. I am not convicted by sophistry, for I defend the perpetual truth of the organic body of Christ. I abhor your dogma—which is often both ἀσύστατα incoherent and necessarily repugnant to the heads of the Christian faith—concerning the real presence of Christ's very flesh both on earth and in heaven, and the oral perception of the same. I teach that the words of the institution of the Lord's Supper are not to be understood simply καὶ τὸ ῥητὸν according to the letter, but must be explained according to the analogy of faith. This is the food of the mind, not of the tooth, to be perceived spiritually by faith alone.

Furthermore, since in your preface, in which you have spared neither the living nor the dead, you thought it fit to refresh for yourself many things refuted a thousand times over, come, let us consider what sort of things they are. Zwingli, you say (on page 3), at the first departure...