Laud's defence of Protestant belief in the Real Presence

For [Bellarmine] himself, but in the very Chapter going before, quotes four Places out of Calvin, in which he says expresly, That we receive in the Sacrament the Body and the Bloud of Christ 'Verè', truly. So Calvin says it four times, and Bellarmine quotes the places; and yet he says in the very next Chapter, That never any Protestant said so, to his Reading. And for the Church of England, nothing is more plain, than that it believes and teaches the true and Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist ... And the Church of England is Protestant too. So Protestants of all sorts maintain a true and Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; and then, where's any known, or damnable Heresie here? As for the Learned of those zealous men that died in this Cause in Q. Maries days, they denied not the Real presence simply taken, but as their Opposites forced Transubstantiation upon them, as if that, and the Real presence had been all one ... Now that the Learned Protestants in Queen Mary's days, did not deny, nay did maintain the Real presence, will manifestly appear. For when the Commissioners obtruded to Jo. Frith the Presence of Christ's natural Body in the Sacrament, and that without all figure, or similitude: Jo. Frith acknowledges, That the inward man doth as verily receive Christ's Body, as the outward man receives the Sacrament with his Mouth: And he addes, That neither side ought to make it a necessary Article of Faith, but leave it indifferent. Nay, Archbishop Cranmer comes more plainly, and more home to it than Frith. For if you understand (saith he) by this word really, 'Reipsa', that is, in very deed and effectually; so Christ by the grace and efficacie of his Passion, is indeed, and truly present, &c. But if by this word Really, you understand Corporalitèr, Corporally, in his natural and Organical Body, under the Forms of Bread and Wine, 'tis contrary to the Holy Word of God. And so likewise Bishop Ridley. Nay, Bishop Ridley addes yet farther, and speaks so fully to this Point, as I think no man can adde to his Expression: And 'tis well if some Protestants except not against it. Both you and I (saith he) agree in this: That in the Sacrament is the very true and natural Body and Bloud of Christ, even that which was born of the Virgin Mary; which ascended into heaven, which sits on the right hand of God the Father, which shall come from thence to judge the quick and the dead. Onely we differ in 'modo', in the way and manner of being. We confess all one thing to be in the Sacrament, and dissent in the Manner of Being there. I confess Christs natural Body to be in the Sacrament by Spirit and Grace, &c. You make a grosser kinde of Being, inclosing a natural Body under the shape and form of Bread and Wine. So far, and more, Bishop Ridley. And Archbishop Cranmer confesses, That he was indeed of another Opinion, and inclining to that of Zuinglius, till Bishop Ridley convinced his Judgement, & setled him in this Point. And for Calvin, he comes no whit short of these, against the Calumny of the Romanists on that behalf. Now after all this, with what face can A. C. say (as he doth) That Protestants deny, or doubt of the true, and Real presence of Christ in the Sacrament?

Laud's defence of Protestant belief in a true and real participation in the Lord's Body and Blood in the Eucharist, from A relation of the conference between William Laud, late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and Mr. Fisher the Jesuite.