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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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Good christen people, my dear beloved brethren, and my sisters in Christ, I beseech you most har•ely to pray for me, to almighty god, that he will forgive me all my since, and offences, which be ma•y without number, and great above measure, but •et one thing grieveth my conscience more then all •he rest, whereof god willing, I intend to speak more hereafter, But how many and how great soever •hey be, I beseech you to pray god of his mercy to pardon and forgive me all.
GOod chrysten people, my dere beloued brethren, and my systers in Chryst, I besech you most har•ely to praye for me, to almighty god, that he wyl for•yue me all my synnes, and offences, whiche be ma•y wythout number, and greate aboue measure, but •et one thinge greuethe my conscience more then all •he rest, whereof god willing, I intend to speke more •ereafter, But howe manye and howe greate soeuer •hey be, I besech you to pray god of hys mercy to pardon and forgyue me all.
O Father of heaven, o son of god redeemer of the world, o holy ghost, proceeding from them both three persons and one God, have mercy upon me a most wretched caitiff, and miserable sinner, I have offended both heaven and earth, more then my tongue can express, whither than may I go? or whither shall I fly for succour? To heaven I may be ashamed to list up mine eyes, and in earth I find no refuge or succour, what shall I than do? shall I despair? god forbid, O god thou art merciful, and refusest none, that cometh unto thee for succour. To the therefore do I run, to the do I humble my self saying: O lord god my since be great, but have mercy upon me, for thy great mercy. God was not made man, for our small offences. Thou diddest not give thy son unto death, for small since only, but for all, and the greatest since of the world, so that the sinner return to the in his hart, as I do here at this present: wherefore have mercy on me o lord, for although my since be great, yet thy mercy is greater, I crave nothing, o Lord for mine own merits but for thy name sake, that it may be hallowed thereby, and for thy