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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.
But to give God's honour to y• sacrament is a thing both lately brought into y• church, unknown & strange, to the ancient doctors, and as the schoolmen, and the greatest maintainers of it, have them selves confessed, an occasion of idolatry, and full of danger.
But to geue Goddes honor to y• sacrament is a thing both latelye brought into y• churche, vnknown & straunge, to the aunciēt doctors, and as the scholemen, and the greatest mainteiners of it, haue them selues confessed, an occasion of idolatry, and full of daunger.
For what if the priest happen ⟨image 147⟩not to consecrate? what if he leave out of the words of consecration, & never speak them? as it is known, that sum priests have done many years together. Or what if the priest have no intention or mind to consecrate? what case standeth the pore people them in? Or what thing is it that they worship? Christs body cannot be there without consecration: Consecration there can be none as they them selves have taught, if there miss ether pronunciation, an utterance of the words, or else purpose to consecrate & intention. And how can the people know, with what intention or mind y priest goeth to the mass? Or whether he hath duly pronounced the words? Or whether he hath consecrated or no? And knowing none of these things, which in very deed ⟨p. 145⟩is not possible for them to know, how can they be well assured, that it is the body of Christ that the priest holdeth up? & whereunto they fall down, & give godly honour? Thus, by their own learning, the people must needs stand still in doubt, & ne•er know certainly what they worship? O good people, think not that I imagine these things of my self. Our own adversaries, that stand against us in this cause, even, the famousest, and best learned of them all, have seen, and written, and confessed the same.