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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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Against the sacrifice of the mass yet more by Hugh Latimer.
Agaynst the sacrifice of the masse yet more by Hughe Latymer.
John Bapt: sayeth / 1A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven / and S. Paul. No man taketh honour unto himself / butt he that is called of god / as was Aaron / &c.2 But to offer Christ is a great and weighty matter / there fore ought no man to take it upon him without a manifest calling / and commission. Butt where have our sacrificers so great an office committed unto them? Let them show their commission / and then sacrifice. Peradventure they will say (Do this) is all one to say / as (offer this) Then I ask what was there done? what was demonstrated by this pronoun (This) or what did they see done / to whom these words (Do this) were spoken? if the hole action off Christ / if all that Christ did / be meant by this word (This) and (Do) is nothing else but (offer) then the hole action off Christ is to be offered off the priests: neither can they / but in so doing satisfy the commandment: And so it should appear / that neither was there any sacrament instituted for the lay people / seeing that no such sacrifice / hath ben done at any time / or is to be done / of the lay people: neither doth it avail much to eat or drink it / butt only to offer it. Now the text hath not that any part of Christs ⟨image 11⟩action was to offer / forasmuch as the text doth not declare that Christ himself did then offer. And so the action off offering is not contained in this pronoun (This) Goo thorough every word. First / to take / is not to offer / to break / is not to offer / to give to the disciples / is not to offer / &c. Worcester said ones to me / that to offer / was contained in (benedicere) which is not true / for (benedicere) is to give thanks. But he had often given thanks to god before / without any such offering. And if in giving of thanks Christ offered his body / seeing after he had given thanks / he said (this is my body) then in speaking those words / he did not change the bread into his body / for as much as he had offered / before those words were spoken.