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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.
Sum others say, the priest may communicate for the people, and that is as meritorious unto them, as if they had communicate them self. But what commission hath the priest so to do? or from whom? or what certain knowledge ⟨image 171⟩hath he, that his receiving of the communion shall be available for the people, for if it be so what needed it then Christ to say: Accipite, bibite, ex hoc omnes▪ Or if we may receive the sacrament of Christs body one for an other, why may not we aswell be baptised one for an other? Why may we not aswell, confess our faults before the congregation and receive absolution on for an other? Why may we not, hear the Gospel, and believe one for an other. O that these follies so weak and so vain, without show, or shadow of any truth, should ever sink into a Christian heart, or take place in God's religion. S. Paule saith: Qui manducat, & bibit indignè, judicium sibi manducat, & bibit. Who so eateth or drinketh unworthily, eateth & drinketh ⟨p. 169⟩judgement, not unto others (saith S. Paul) but to him self. Again S. Paul saith, who so believeth in him y• justifieth the wicked, not the faith of any other man, but his own faith is reckoned to him unto justice. S. Chrysostom saith: It is the heresy of the Marcionites, to think that any one man may receive the sacrament for an other, & therefore he maketh light of such disorder of the sacraments & calleth them Sacramenta vicaria. Origene saith. Ille est sacerdos & propitiatio, & hostia. Est enim Agnus Dei qui tollit peccata mundi▪ Quae propitiatio ad unumquemque venit, per viā fidei: He is our priest saith Origene, he is our atonement, he is our sacrifice. For he is y• lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world. Which atonement, ⟨image 172⟩(saith he) cometh unto us, (•ot by the application of the mass,) but by the way of faith,
Sum others say, the prieste maye communicate for the people, and that is as meritorious vnto them, as if they had communicate them selfe. But what commission hath the prieste so to do? or from whō? or what certeyne knowledg