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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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1The second principal thing, wherein the Papists vary from the truth of Gods word, is this. They say, that the very natural flesh and blood of Christ, which suffered for us upon the cross, and sitteth at the right hand of the father in heaven, is also really, substantially, corporally, and naturally, in or under the accidents of the sacramental bread and wine, ⟨p. 16⟩which they call, the forms of bread and wine. And yet here they vary not a little among them selves. For some say, that the very natural body of Christ is there, but not naturally, nor sensibly. And other say, that it is there naturally and sensibly, and of the same bigness & fashion that it is in heaven, and as the same was borne of the blessed virgin Mary, and that it is there broken and torn in pieces with our teethe. And this appeareth partly by the school authors, and partly by the confession of Beringarius,2 which Nicholaus the second constrained him to make, which was this. That of the sacraments of the Lords table the said Beringarius should promise to hold that faith, which the said Pope Nicholas and his counsel held, which was, that not only the sacraments of bread and wine, but also the very flesh and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, are sensibly handled of the priest in the altar, broken and torn with the teethe of the faithful people. But the true catholic faith, grounded upon Gods most infallible word, teacheth us, that our saviour Christ (as concerning his mans nature and bodily presence) is gone up unto heaven, & sitteth at the right hand of his father, and there shall he tarry until the worlds end, at what time he shall come again, to judge both the quick and the dead, as he saith him self in many scriptures. 3I forsake the world (saith he) and go to my Father. And in another place ⟨image 21⟩he saith:4 You shall have ever poor men among you, but me you shall not ever have. And again he saith:5 Many hereafter shall come and lay: Look here is Christ, or look there he is, but believe them not. And saint Peter saith in the Acts,