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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And yet have the very Antichrists (the subtlest enemies that Christ hath (by their fine inventions and crafty scholastical divinity,1 deluded many simple souls, and brought them to this horrible Idolatry, to worship things visible, and made with their own hands, persuading them, that creatures were their creator, their God and their maker.
And yet haue the very Antichristes (the subtilest enemies that Christe hath (by their fyne inuentions and crafty scholastical diuinitee,1 deluded many simple soules, and broughte theym to this horrible Idolatry, to worshyp thynges visible, and made with their owne handes, persuadyng them, that creatures were theyr creatour, theyr God and theyr maker.
- 1The simple people be deceived.The symple people bee deceyued.
For else what made the people to run from their seats to the altar, & from altar to altar, and from sacring (as they called it) to sacring, peeping, tooting, and gassing at the thing, which the priest held up in his hands, if they thought not to honour that thing, which they saw? What moved the priests to lift up the sacrament to high over their beads? or the people to cry to the priest, hold up, hold up, and one man to say to an other, stoop down before, or to say: This day I have seen my maker. And, I can not be quiet, except I see my maker ones a day? What was the cause of all these, and that as well the priest as the people so devoutly did knock and kneel at every sight of the sacrament? but that they worshipped that visible thing, which they saw with their eyes, and took it for very God? For if they worshipped in spirit only Christ, sitting in heaven with ⟨image 107⟩his father, what needed they to remove out of their seats to toot and gaze? as the apostles did after Christ, when he was gone up into heaven. If they worshipped nothing that they saw, why did they rise up to see? Doubtless many of the simple people worshipped that thing which they saw with their eyes.