A22612:387
The Confession of the Faith of the Germans
The confession of the faith of the Germans exhibited to the most victorious Emperor Charles the. v. in the Council or assemble holden at Augusta the year of our Lord. 1530. To which is added the apology of Melanchthon who defendeth with reasons invincible the aforesaid confession translated by Richard Taverner at the commaundeme[n]t of his master Thomas Cromwell chief Secretary to the kings grace.The confessyon of the fayth of the Germaynes exhibited to the moste victorious Emperour Charles the. v. in the Councell or assemble holden at Augusta the yere of our Lorde. 1530. To which is added the apologie of Melancthon who defendeth with reasons inuincible the aforesayde confesyon translated by Rycharde Tauerner at the commaundeme[n]t of his master Thomas Cromwel chefe Secretarie to the kynges grace.
Imprinted at London : In fletestrete, by me Robert Redman, dwelling at the sign of the George next to saint Dunstones Churche, 1536Imprynted at London : In fletestrete, by me Robert Redman, dwellynge at the sygne of the George nexte to saynt Dunstones Churche, 1536
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❧ What is sacrifice, and which be the kinds of sacrifice. ❧
❧ What is sacrifice, and whiche be the kyndes of sacrifice. ❧
1Socrates in the work of Plato entitled Phaedrus, saith, that himself was most desirous of distinctions or divisions / because without them nothing can be declared by speaking, nor yet by understanding. And if he found any man conning of dividing, him (he sayeth) ⟨image 178⟩he waited upon, and followed his steppes, as though he were a god. And he biddeth him, that divideth, to cut the members and parts in the very joints, least he browse & break any member after the fashion of an evil coke. But these precepts our adversaries do highly despise, and in very deed (as Plato sayeth) they be naughty cokes / corrupting the members of sacrifice / as it shall be perceived when we shall rehearse and reckon up the kinds of sacrifice. The divines be wont, and that very well to put a difference betwixt a sacrament and a sacrifice. Let therefore ceremony or holy work be Genus (as the logician speaketh y• is to say the general term) unto them both. A sacrament is a ceremony or an holy work,2 in which god giveth unto us that thing, which the promise annexed to the ceremony doth offer / as baptism is a work, not which we offer unto god, but in which god doth baptize us, that is to wit, the minister in the stead of god / and here god offereth and giveth remission of sins. &c. according to his promise Qui crediderit & baptizatus fuerit saluus erit, who soever shall believe, & be baptised, shall be saved.