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.
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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.
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Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.
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[Imprinted 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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Lord's Supper -- Real presence -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19571.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2025.
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* 1.1 And euery good and faythfull christian man feeleth in hym selfe, bowe he feedeth of Christe, eatyng his fleshe,* 1.2 and drynkyng his bloud. For he putteth the hole hope and trust of his redem∣ption and saluation in that only sacrifice, which Christ made vpon the Crosse, hauyng his body there broken, and his bloud there shedde for the remission of his synnes. And this greate bene∣fite of Christe, the faithfull man earnestly consi∣dereth in his mynde, chaweth and digesteth it with the stomake of his harte, spiritually recea∣uynge Christe wholly into hym, and gyuyng a∣gayne hym selfe wholly vnto Christe.
And this is the eatyng of Christes flesh & drin¦kyng of his blud, the felyng wherof is to euery mā, the felyng how he eateth & drynketh Christ, which none euil mā nor mēbre of the diuel can do