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The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop…The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop…
The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop of Sarum and D. Cole upon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty, and her most honourable Counsel. 1560. Set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.
London: printed by John Day, 1560
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.
IT grieveth you that I should say, y• council decreed against christ.
IT grcueth you that I should say, y• councell decreed against christ.
But consider it a right & ye shall find it. Christ as ye know, appointed the Communion under both kinds, and commanded his disciples to do y• same as he had done it. Therefore he that commandeth the contrary, and that under the pain of heresy, pronounceth openly against Christ.
But consider it a right & ye shall find it. Christ as ye know, appointed the Communion vnder bothe kindes, and commaunded his disciples to do y• same as he had done it. Therfore he that commaūdeth the contrary, and that vnder the paine of heresy, pronounceth opēly against Christ.
Ye call it an approved custom ⟨p. 84⟩of the church. Yet ye remembers. Cyprian's words that be alleged in your own decrees, Christus non dicit, ego sum consuetudo, sed ego sum veritas: that is to say, Christ saith not, I am custom, but I am the trueth, But if custom might justly prevail against an open and plain trueth, I pray you where was your Communion under one kind ever at any time, sense the beginning of the world, allowed for a general custome• Or being but a particular custom, as it is, and that received only o• your self, in what general council was it ever allowed?