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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.
After him, Urbanus, the fourth appointed a holy day of Corpus Christi, and graunted out large pardons to the keepers of it, that the people should with better will resort to the church, and keep it holy. This is the greatest antiquity of the whole matter, about t•re hundred years ago, it was fir•e found out, and put in practise. But Christ, and his Apostles, the ho•y fathers in the primitive church, y• doctors that followed them, and other learned and godly men, what soever for the space of. M. cc. years after Christ, never heard of it.
After hym, Urbanus, the fourth appointed a holy daye of Corpus Christi, and graunted out large pardons to the kepers of it, that the people shuld with better wyll resorte to the churche, and kepe it holy. This is the greatest •ntiquity of the whole mater, aboute t•re hundred yeares ago, it was fir•e found out, and put in prac•ise. But Christ, and his Apostles, the ho•y fathers in the primitiue c•urche, y• doctours that folowed them, and other learned and godly mē, what soeuer for the space of. M. cc. yeres after Christ, neuer heard of it.
Once again I say, for the space of M. cc. years, after Christs ascension into heaven, this worshipping of y• sacrament was never known, ⟨p. 139⟩or practised, in any place within y• whole catholic church of Christ throughout the whole world. But after it was once received & put in use, and the people began to worship the sacrament, with godly honour, the learned men, & school doctors, that then were, saw it could not stand without great danger, & confessed that the ignorant sort, thereby, might soon be led into idolatry. Mark I beseech you, what I say, for I know, unto sum men it seemeth not possible, that there may be any kind of danger, in worshipping the sacrament of Christs body. And therefore, sum have alleged Saint Augustine's words in this behalf: Nemo mā ducat nisi prius adoret, No man eateth Christs body, but first he doth worship it. And agayn, Non