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.
Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.

*To this article of oure Crede accordeth holy scripture,* and all the olde auncient doctours of Page  49 Christes churche. For Christe himselfe saide:

I leaue the worlde, and go to my father. And also he saide You shall euer haue poore folkes with you, but you shall not euer haue me with you. And he gaue warninge of this errour beefore hande, saying,* That the tyme wolde come, whan many deceiuers shulde be in the worlde, and saye, Here is Christe, and there is Christe, but beleue theim not,* said Christ. And S. Marke writeth in the last chapiter of his gospell, that ye Lorde Iesus was taken vp into heauen, and sytteth at the ryghte hande of his father.* And S. Paule exhorteth all men to seeke for thinges that be aboue in heauen, where Christe (sayth he) sitteth at the ryght hand of God hys father.* Also he saith, that we haue such a bishop, that sitteth in heauē at the ryght hand of the throne of Gods maiesty.* And that he hauing of¦fred one sacrifice for sinnes, sitteth continuallye at the right hande of God, vntyll his enemyes be put vnder his feete as a foote stoole.

And herevnto consent all the olde doctoures of the churche.