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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- Anno Domini. M.D.L. [1550]]
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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 23, 2024.
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Therfore saith S. Cyprian,
he that drynketh of the holy cup, remembrynge this benefite of God, is more thirsty than he was before. And lifting vp his hart vnto the lyuyng God, is taken with suche a singular hunger and appetite, that he abhorreth all gally and bytter drynkes of synne, and al sauour of carnall pleasure is to him as it were sharpe & sowre vineger. And the synner beyng conuerted, receauyng the holy mysteries of the Lordes sup∣per, geueth thankes vnto God, & boweth downe his head, knowyng that his sinnes be forgeuen, and that he is made cleane and perfecte, and his soule (whiche God hath sanctified) he ren∣dreth to God agayne as a faythfull pledge, and than he glor••eth with Paule, and reioyseth, sai∣eng: Nowe it is not I that lyue, but it is Christ that lyueth within me. These thynges be pra∣ctised and vsed among faithfull people, and to pure myndes, the eatyng of his fleshe is no hor∣rour but honour, and the spirite delyteth in the drynkyng of the holy and sanctifyenge bloude. And dooyng this, we whette not our teethe to byte but with pure faith we breake the holy breade.These be the woordes of Cyprian.
And acording vnto the same S. Austen saith, Prepare not thy iawes, but thy hert. And in an o¦ther place (as it is cited of him) he saith, why dost thou prepare thy bely & thy teeth? beleue, & thou hast eaten. But of this matter is sufficiently spokē be∣fore, where it is proued, that to eate Christs flesh and drinke his bloud, bee figuratiue speeches.
Notes
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Chap. 3.
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Christe is not eaten with teeth but with 〈◊〉〈◊〉
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Cyprianus de coena Do¦mini.
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August•• de v••••bis ••omi∣ni se••m. 33. In Ioan. tra∣cta. 25.