A14135:52
A brief declaration of the sacraments expressing the first original how they came up,…A briefe declaration of the sacraments expressing the fyrst oryginall how they came vp,…
A brief declaration of the sacraments expressing the first original how they came up, a[n]d were institute with the true and most sincere meaning and understanding of the same very necessary for all men, that will not err in the true use and receiving thereof. Compiled by the godly learned man William Tyndall.A briefe declaration of the sacraments expressing the fyrst oryginall how they came vp, a[n]d were institute with the true and mooste syncere meaning and vnderstandyng of the same very necessarye for all men, that wyl not erre in the true vse and receauing therof. Compyled by the godly learned man Wyllyam Tyndall.
London: printed by Robert Stoughton. Dwelling within Ludgate, 1548London: printed by Robert Stoughton. Dwellynge within Ludgate, 1548
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The third say, we be bound by these words to believe only that / christs body was broken and his blood shed for the remission of our since & that there is no other satisfaction for sin then the death and passion of christ.
The thyrde say, we be bounde by these wordes to beleue only tha / christes body was broken and hys bloud shed for the remyssyon of our synnes & yt there is no other satysfaction for synne then the death and passyon of chryste.
The first say these words (This is my body. this is my blood) compel us to believe that the things there showed are the very body & blood of christ really / but bread & wine say they can not be Christs natural body. therefore the bread and wine, are changed / turned altered and transubstantiate in to the very body and blood of Christ. And they of this opinion have busied them selves in seeking subtleties and similitudes to prove how the very body and blood might be there under the similitude of bread and wine only. The very bread and wine thus transubstantiate, ⟨image 25⟩and so occupied in sl•ynge all that will not captive their wits to believe them / that they never taught nor understood that the sacrament is an absolution to all that thereby believe in the body & blood of Christ. The second part grant with the first that the words compel us to believe that the things showed in the sacrament, are the very body and blood of christ But when the first say bread and win can not be the very body & blood of christ There they vary and dissent from them / affirming that bread and wine may and also is Christs body really and very blood of Christ. And say that it is as true to say, the bread is Christs body, and that wine is his blood / as it is true to say Christ being a very man / is also very god. And they say. As the god head & the manhood in christ are in such man ner coupled together, the man is very god & god very man / Even so the very body & the bread are so coupled y• it is as true to say / the bread is the body of christ & the blood so annexed there with the wine, that it is even as true to say the win is christs blood The .i. though they have slain so many. in