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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.
Therefore I leave to speak farther of the Canon, giving you occasion, by these few things, the better to better to judge of the rest.
Therfore I leaue to speake farther of the Canon, geuing you occasion, by these few thinges, ye better to better to i•dge of the reast.
The fourth matter, that remaineth to be touched, is yt adoration, a great matter full of danger, and full of jeopardy, and so much the more dangerous, for that it is an honour belonging only unto God, and yet without any warrant of God's word. Christ that best knew what ought to be done here in, when he ordained, and delivered the sacrament of his body and blood, gave no commandment ⟨p. 138⟩that any man should fall down to it, or worship it. S. Paul that toke the sacrament at Christs hand, and as he had taken it, delivered it to the Corinthians, never willed adoration, or godly honour to be given unto it. The old doctors, & holy fathers of the church, s. Cyprian, S. Chrysostom, s▪ Ambrose, S. Hierom, s. Augustin, & others, that received the sacrament, at the Apostles hands, and as it may be thought, continued the same in such sort, as they had received it, never make mention, in any of all their books of adoring, or worshipping of the sacrament. It is a very new devise, and as it is well known, came but lately into the church. About three hundred years past, Honorius being then Bishop of Rome, commanded the ⟨image 141⟩sacrament to be lifted up, & the people, reverently, to bow down to it▪
The fourth matter, that remayneth to be touched, is yt adoration, a great matter full of daūger, and ful of ieopardie, and so muche the more daūgerous, for that it is an honou• bēlōging onely vnto God, and yet without any warraunt of Goddes worde. Christ that best knew what ought to be done here in, when he ordeyned, and deliuered the sacramēt of his body and bloud, gaue no commaundemente