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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.
Wherefore, beside all that I have said already, I will say farther, and yet nothing so much, as might be said. If any one of all our adversaries, be able clearly and plainly to prove, by such authority of the scriptures, the old doctors, & councils, as I said before, that it was then lawful, for the priest, to pronounce the words, of consecration closely, and in silence to him self: Or that, the priest had th• authority, to offer up Christ unto his father: Or to, communicate & receive the sacrament for an other, as they do: Or to apply the virtue of Christs, death and passion, to any man by the mean of y• mass: Or, that, it was then thought a sound doctrine, to teach the people, ⟨p. 165⟩that y• masse ex opere operato: That is, even for that it is said, & done, is able to remove any part of our sin: Or that then any christian man ealied the sacrament his Lord and God: Or that, the people was then taught to believe, that the body of Christ remaineth in the sacrament as long as the accidents of the bread remain there without corruption: Or that, a mouse, or any other worm, or best may eat the body of Christ: (for so sum of our adversaries have said and taught) Or that, when Christ said. Hoc est corpus meum. This word, Hoc, pointeth not the bread, but Individuum vagum, as sum of them say: Or that, the accidens, or forms, or shows, or bread and wine, be the sacraments of Christs body and blo•de, & not rather the ⟨image 168⟩very bread and wine it self: Or y•, the sacrament is a sign or token of the body of Christ y• lieth hidden underneath it: Or that ignorance is the mother and cause of true devotion, and obedience: These be the highest mysteries, and greatest keys of their religion, & without them, their doctrine can never be maintained and stand up right. If any one, of all our adversaries, be able to avouch any one of all these articles, by any such sufficient authority of scriptures, doctors, or Councils, as I have required as I said before, so say I now again, I am content to yield unto him and to subscribe. But I am well assured, they shall never be able, truly to allege one sentence. And because I know it, therefore I speak it, lest ye haply