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A Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament
A defence of the true and catholic doctrine of the sacrament of the body and blood of our saviour Christ with a confutation of sundry errors concerning the same, grounded and stablished upon God's holy word, [and] approved by the consent of the most ancient doctors of the Church. Made by the most reverend father in God Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and Metropolitan.A defence of the true and catholike doctrine of the sacrament of the body and bloud of our sauiour Christ with a confutacion of sundry errors concernyng the same, grounded and stablished vpon Goddes holy woorde, [and] approued by ye consent of the moste auncient doctors of the Churche. Made by the moste reuerende father in God Thomas Archebyshop of Canterbury, primate of all Englande and Metropolitane.
Imprinted at London : In Poules churcheyarde, at the sign of the Brazen serpent, by Reginald Wolfe. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum, Anno Domini. M.D.L. 1550Imprinted at London : In Poules churcheyarde, at the signe of the Brasen serpent, by Reginald Wolfe. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, Anno Domini. M.D.L. 1550
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They say, that the fathers & prophets of the old testament, did not eat the body nor drunk the blood of Christ: We say, that they did eat his body & drunk his blood, although he was not yet borne nor incarnated.
They say, that the fathers & prophetes of the olde testament, did not eate the body nor drunke the bloud of Christ: We say, that they dyd eate his body & drunke his bloud, although he was not yet borne nor incarnated.
They say, that the body of Christ is every day ⟨image 53⟩many times made, as often as there be Masses said, & that than, and there, he is made of bread and wine: We say, that Christs body was never but ones made, and than not of the nature and substance of bread and wine, but of the substance of his blessed mother.
They say, that the body of Christ is euery day ⟨image 53⟩many tymes made, as often as there be Masses sayd, & that than, and there, he is made of bread and wyne: We say, that Christes body was neuer but ones made, and than not of the nature and substance of bread and wyne, but of the substance of his blessed mother.
They say, that the Mass is a sacrifice satisfactory for sin, by the devotion of the priest that offereth, & not by the thing that is offered: But we say, that their saying is a most heinous lye & detestable error, against the glory of Christ. For the satisfaction for our since, is not the devotion nor offering of the priest, but the only host and satisfaction for all the sins of the world, is the death of Christ, & the oblation of his body upon the cross, that is to say, the oblation that Christ him self offered ones upon the cross, and never but ones, nor never none but he. And therefore that oblation which the priests make daily in their papistical Masses, can not be a satisfaction for other mens since by the priests devotion, but it is a mere elusion and subtle craft of the devil, whereby Antichrist hath many years blinded and deceived the world.