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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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For the Papists (to excuse them selves) do say,1 that they make no new sacrifice,2 nor none other sacrifice then Christ made (for they be not so blind, but they see, that then they should add an other sacrifice to Christs sacrifice, and so make his sacrifice unperfect) but they say, that they make the self same sacrifice for sin, that Christ him self made.
For the Papists (to excuse them selues) do sai,1 that they make no newe sacrifice,2 nor none other sacrifice then Christe made (for they bee not so blynde, but they see, that then they should adde an other sacrifice to Christes sacrifice, and so make his sacrifice vnperfecte) but they say, that they make the selfe same sacrifice for sinne, that Christe him selfe made.
- 1Chap. 7.
- 2A confutation of the Papists cavillation.A confutacion of the Papists cauillacion.
And here they run headlongs into the fowlest and most heinous error that ever was imagined. For if they make every day the same oblation and sacrifice for sin, that Christ himself made, and the oblation that he made was his death, and the effusion of his most precious blood upon the cross, for our redemption and price of our since: then followeth it of necessity, that they every day slay