The English Reformation: How it Came About, and why We Should Uphold it |
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Page 431 - was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life. Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on Him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was shed for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life. Drink this, in remembrance that
Page 220 - with his brother bishops, had sat in judgment. " The natural body and blood of our Saviour Christ are in heaven, and not here, it being against the truth of Christ's natural body to be at one time in more places than one." The argument, and the words in which it is expressed,
Page 431 - and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee, and feed on Him in thy heart, by faith, with thanksgiving. And the minister that delivereth the cup-,
Page 372 - service, was the cause! that to turn the book only, was so hard and intricate a matter, that many times there was more business to find out what should be read, than to read it when it was found out."
Page 372 - after three or four chapters were read out, all the rest were unread. And in this sort the book of Isaiah was begun in Advent, and the book of Genesis in Septuagesima; but they were only begun, and never read through : after like sort were other books of Scripture used.
Page 30 - day as men Whose avarice O'ercasts the world with mourning, under foot Treading the good, and raising bad men up. Of Shepherds like to you, the Evangelist Was ware, when her who sits upon the waves, With kings in filthy whoredom he beheld ! Of gold and silver ye have made your god, Differing wherein from
Page 420 - decking of images, and gay garnishing of stocks and stones ; up with men's traditions and laws, and down with God's traditions and His most Holy Word. Let all things be done in Latin : there must be nothing but Latin : even the words ' Remember, man, that thou art ashes, and into ashes thou shall return,
Page 497 - no adoration is intended, or ought to be done, either unto the sacramental bread or wine there bodily received, or unto any corporal presence of Christ's natural Flesh and Blood.
Page 486 - poor; the realm exhausted; the nobility poor and decayed; good captains and soldiers wanting; the people out of order; justice not executed; all things dear; excesses in meat, diet, and apparel ; division among ourselves; war with France; the French king bestriding the realm, having one foot in Calais and the other in
Page 148 - of a most royal courage; sooner than miss any part of his will he will endanger one-half of his kingdom, and I do assure you I have often kneeled to him, sometimes for three hours together, to persuade him from his appetite, and could not prevail.