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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.
Theodoretus, and old doctor of the church, likewise saith: Christus ea sy mbola, quae videntur, cor. poris & sanguinis sui appelatione honoravit, non naturam transmutans, sed naturae adiiciens gratiam. Christ (saith) Theodoretus honoured the bread a•d wine, which we see, with the names of his body and blood: not changing the nature thereof, but unto the same nature joining his grace. I know not▪ what may be more clearly […]. Saint Augustin saith, it is bread: Gelasius saith, it leaveth not to be the substance, & nature of bread, and wine: Theodoretus saith, Christ honoured the bread and wine, with the natures of his body, and blood▪ but yet changed not their nature▪ Thus, the old godly bishops, and fathers of the church, acknowledge, and affirm ⟨p. 141⟩that bread remaineth in the sacrament, after consecration. But Duns, and Durand, and sum others of y• young fathers, and doctors say, if the people worship the sacrament, and bread remain, then must they needs be, in great danger of idolatry. Wherefore we may well conclude of them both, for as much as it is clear, by the old doctors y• bread remaineth, that the people resorting to the mass, and ther• worshipping the sacrament, must needs be in danger of idolatry. Farther they say, Idolatry may be done to the sacrament, if a man happen to worship the accidents of the bread, (that is to say,) y• whiteness, or roundness or other such outward forms, or shows of bread, as he seeth with his eye, and give the honour unto in yt stead of Christs ⟨image 144⟩body. O miserable people, that thus is lead, to worship they know not what. For alas, how many of them understandeth these distinctions, or care for them? how many of them understand after what sort accidentia may be sine subiecto? or how whiteness is founded in the sacrament, or what is the difference, between substantia and accidens? Or what priest, when he went to mass, ever taught the people to know these things, & to avoid the danger? Undoubtedly, I could never yet perceive, by any reading, either of the scriptures, or else of other profane writings, but that the people of all ages hath ever more ben readier, to receive idolatry, then to learn the distinctions, and quiddities of Logic or Philosophy.