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Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs…Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs…
Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, between the two reverend fathers, and holy martyrs of Christ, D. Nicolas Ridley late Bishop of London, and M. Hugh Latimer sometime Bishop of Worcester, during the time of their imprisonments. Whereunto is added. A treatise against the error of transubstantiation, made by the said reverend father D. Nicolas Ridley. M.D.LVI.Certe[n] godly, learned, and comfortable conferences, betwene the two reuerende fathers, and holye martyrs of Christe, D. Nicolas Rydley late Bysshoppe of London, and M. Hughe Latymer sometyme Bysshoppe of Worcester, during the tyme of their emprysonmentes. Whereunto is added. A treatise agaynst the errour of transubstantiation, made by the sayd reuerende father D. Nicolas Rydley. M.D.LVI.
Strasbourg: printed by the heirs of W. Rihel, 1556
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And because I see in the use of the latin Mass / the sacrament of the blood abused / when it is denied to the lay men / 1clean contrary to gods most certain word: For why I beseech the should the sacrament of Christs blood / be denied unto the lay Christian / more then to the priest? did not Christ shed his blood aswell for the lay godly ⟨p. 51⟩man / as for the godly priest? if thou wilt say / yeas / that he did so / but yet the sacrament of the blood is not to be received with out the offering up and sacrificing thereof unto god the father / both for the quick / and for the dead / and no man may make oblation of Christs blood unto god / but a priest / and therefore the priest / and that but in his mass only / may receive the sacrament of the blood. And call ye this (maisters) mysterium fidei? alas / alas / I fear me this is before god / mysteriū iniquitatis the mystery off iniquity / such as saint Paul speaketh of in his epistle to the Thessalonians.2 The lord be merciful unto us / and bless us / lighten his countenance upon us / and be merciful unto us. That we may know thy way upon earth / and among all people thy salvation. This kind of oblation standeth upon transubstantiation his germane cousin / and do grow both upon one ground / the lord weed it out of his vineyard shortly (if it be his blessed will and pleasure) that bitter root.
And because I se in the vse of the lattin Masse / the sacrament of the bloud abused / when it is denied to the laie men / 1cleane contrarie to gods moste certaine worde: For why I beseche the shoulde the sacramente of Christes bloude / be denied vnto the laye Christian / more then to the priest? dyd not Christ shead his bloude aswell for the laye godlye ⟨p. 51⟩man / as for the godlye preste? yf thow wilt saye / yeas / that he dyd so / but yet the sacrament of the bloud is not to be receyued with owt the offering vpp and sacrifycing therof vnto god the father / both for the quicke / and for the dead / and no man maye make oblatyon of Christes bloude vnto god / but a priest / and therfore the priest / and that but in his masse onelie / maye receiue the sacrament of the bloud. And call ye this (maisters) mysterium fidei? alas / alas / I feare me this is before god / mysteriū iniquitatis the mysterie off iniquitee / such as saint Paule speketh of in his epistle to the Thessaloniās.