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All the submissions, and recantations of Thomas Cranmer, late Archbishop of Canterbury truly set…All the submyssyons, and recantations of Thomas Cranmer, late Archebyshop of Canterburye truely set…
All the submissions, and recantations of Thomas Cranmer, late Archbishop of Canterbury truly set forth both in Latin and English, agreeable to the originals, written and subscribed with his own hande. Visum [et] examinatum per reverendum patrem [et] dominum, dominum edmundum episcopum London. Anno, M.D.LVI.All the submyssyons, and recantations of Thomas Cranmer, late Archebyshop of Canterburye truely set forth both in Latyn and Englysh, agreable to the originalles, wrytten and subscribed with his owne hande. Visum [et] examinatum per reuerendum patrem [et] dominum, dominum edmundum episcopum London. Anno, M.D.LVI.
Excusum Londini : In ædibus Johannis Cawodi Typographi Regiæ Maiestatis, Anno, M.D.LVI. 1556Excusum Londini : In ædibus Iohannis Cawodi Typographi Regiæ Maiestatis, Anno, M.D.LVI. 1556
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¶ The true copy of a fifth submission of the said Thomas Cranmer, written and subscribed with his own hand in the presence of master Henry Syddall, and of one called Frater Johannes de uilla Garcina, a notable learned man, as followeth.
¶ The true copye of a fyfte submission of the sayd Thomas Cranmer, wrytten and subscrybed wyth his owne hand in ye presence of master Henry Syddall, and of one called Frater Iohannes de uilla Garcina, a notable learned man, as foloweth.
Ego Thomas Cranmer anathematizo omnem Lutheri & Zuinglij haeresim & quodcunque dogma sanae doctrinae contrarium, confiteor uerò & credo firmissimè unam sanctam & Catholicam ecclesiam uisib lem extra quam salus non est, atque eiusdem in terris supremum agnosco caput episcopum Romanum, quem fateor summum esse pontificem & papa• ac Christi uicarium cui omnes tenentur subesse fideles. •am quod ad sacramenta attinet credo & colo in sacramento Eucharistiae uerū Christi corpi & sanguinem sub speciebus panis & uini uerissime citra ullum tropum & figuram contenta, conuersis & transubstantiatis pane in corpus & uino • sanguinem redemptoris divina potentia. Atque in sex alijs sacramentis (sici in hoc) id credo & teneo quod universa tenet ecclesia ac sentit Roman• Credo insuper purgatorium locum ubi ad tempus cruciantur defunctoru animae pro quibus sanctè ac salubriter orat ecclesia sicut & sanctos colit • illosque praeces effundit. Demum in omnibus me profiteor non aliud sentire quàm ecclesia catholica & Romana tenetiae me poenitet ꝙ aliud unqua tenuerim ac senserim, deum autem supplexoro ut pietate sua mihi condonare dignetur, quae in illum & eius ecclesiam commisi, fideles simul rogo et ol secro ut pro me praeces effundant, eos autem qui meo aut exemplo aut doctrina seducti sunt, per sanguinem Ihesu Christi obtestor ut ad ecclesiae deant unitatem idemque dicamus omnes, ut nō sint in nobis schismata. Postremo sicut me subijcio catholicae christi ecclesiae eiusdemque supremo capiti, me submitto Philippo & Mariae Angliae regibus atque eorum legibus & decretis, & testor deum optimum maximumque haec in nullius gratiam, nulli metu à me confessa, sed ex animo & libentissimè ut meae & aliorum su conscientiis consulam & prospiciam.