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An apology, or answer in defence of the Church of England concerning the state…An apologie, or aunswer in defence of the Church of England concerninge the state…
An apology, or answer in defence of the Church of England concerning the state of religion used in the same. Newly set forth in Latin, and now translated into English.An apologie, or aunswer in defence of the Church of England concerninge the state of religion vsed in the same. Newly set forth in Latin, and nowe translated into Englishe.
Londini: printed by Reginald Wolf, 1562
The Apology of the Church of England.The Apologie of the Churche of Englande.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1We do receive the sacraments of the Church, that is to say, certain holy tokens & ceremonies, which Christ would have us to use, that in them he might set before our eyes the mysteries of our salvation, and more strongly confirm that faith which we have in his blood, and seal up his grace in our hearts. And these we do call with Tertullian, Origen, Ambrose, Augustine, Hierome, Chrysostom, Basil, Dionyse, and other Catholic fathers Figures, Signs, Badges, patterns, counterpanes, forms, seals, tokens, Similitudes, examples, Images, Remembrances, and memories. And we doubt not also to say with the self same fathers, that they be certain visible words, seals of righteousness, badges of grace: and we do expressly pronounce, that in the supper, unto such as do believe, there is truly delivered the Body & Blood of the Lord, the flesh of the son of God, quickening ⟨p. 14⟩our souls, the food of immortality, grace, truth, life: & that the same supper is the communion of the body & blood of Christ, by the partaking whereof we are quickened, we are nourished & fed unto immortality, and by the which we are occupied, we are united & grafted into the body of Christ, that we might dwell in him and he in us.
1We doe receaue the sacramentes of the Churche, that is to say, certen holy tokens & ceremonies, which Christ woulde haue vs to vse, that in them he might set before our eies the mysteries of our saluatiō, and more strongli confirme that faith whiche we haue in his bloude, and seale vp his grace in oure hartes. And these we doe call wt Tertullian, Origen, Ambrose, Augustine, Hierome, Chrysostome, Basile, Dionyse, and other Catholike fathers Figurs, Signes, Badges, paterns, counterpanes, formes, seals, tokens, Similitudes, examples, Images, Remembrances, and memories. And we doubt not also to say with the selfe same fathers, that they be certaine visible words, seales of righteousnes, badges of grace: and we doe expressly pronounce, that in the supper, vnto suche as doe beleue, there is truly deliuered the Body & Bloude of the Lord, the flesh of the son of God, quickning ⟨p. 14⟩our soules, the foode of immortalite, grace, trouth, life: & that ye same supper is the cōmunion of the body & bloode of Christ, by the partaking wherof we are quickned, we are norished & fed vnto immortalite, and by the which we ar ocupied, we are vnited & grafted into ye body of Christ, that we might dwell in hym and he in vs.