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.

For the Papists (to excuse them selues) do sai,* that they make no newe sacrifice,* nor none other sacrifice then Christe made (for they bee not so blynde, but they see, that then they should adde an other sacrifice to Christes sacrifice, and so make his sacrifice vnperfecte) but they say, that they make the selfe same sacrifice for sinne, that Christe him selfe made.

And here they runne hedlonges into the fow∣lest and most haynous errour that euer was im∣magined. For yf they make euerye daye the same oblation and sacrifice for sinne, that Christ himselfe made, and the oblation that hee made was his deathe, and the effusion of hys moste preciouse bludde vppon the crosse, for our re∣demption and price of our synnes: then folo∣weth it of necessitie, that they euerye daye slaye Page  [unnumbered] Christ and shed his bludde, and so be they worse then the wicked Iewes and Pharises, whiche slewe him, and shedde his bludde but ones.