Rabanus de instit. clericorum, 41 n., *21. Reason and natural operation, although they do not prevail against God's word, yet when they join with it are of great moment to confirm any truth, 250, 2; conclusions from, 251, 2, 3, 4; Christ appealed to them to prove his resurrection, 252; reason the handmaid of faith, 371. Reformers, early, quoted in support of the papists on some points, although accounted vile and filthy heretics by them, 21. Resurrection, scripture declares that we shall have diversity of members, and a due proportion of men's natural bodies at the last day, 141, 150, 177; our bodies and souls not to be all spiritual thereat, 177. Ridley, bishop, sent with Cranmer and Latimer to dispute at Oxford, 391. Sabellius, his doctrine, 63, 7, 278. Sacrament, meanings given to this word by Cranmer, 3; true doctrine of, never condemned by any council before the time of pope Nicholas II., 14; comparison of the words of the evangelists and St Paul thereon, 28; evil men eat it, but not the body of Christ, 29; things spoken and done by Christ, and written by the evangelists and St Paul, ought to suffice the faith of Christian people upon it, 30; was ordained to move all men to friendship, love, and concord; but, through the enemies of Christ, nothing raises so much contention, ibid., 42, 3, 4; God's miraculous working therein, not in the bread, but in them that duly eat it, and drink the drink, 34; the effect of eating it is the communication of Christ's body and blood only to the faithful receiver, and not to the dumb creatures of bread and wine; to the wicked eater the effect is damnation and woe, 36; the bread and wine an apt figure and similitude to admonish how we are fed invisibly and spiritually by the flesh and blood of Christ, 37; why ordained in bread and wine, 41; the spiritual eating is with the heart, not with the teeth, 43, 373; evil men do not spiritually eat Christ's flesh in the sacrament, but their own damnation, 47; what Augustine, Ambrose, Chrysostom, and others, say of eating the body of Christ, is to be taken figuratively, 55, 282; how long Christ tarries with the receiver of it, 59; what is to be wondered at in it, 66; true eating of it, 71; whether Christ be really eaten without it, ibid.; whether Christ's body has his proper form and quantity in it, 73; the bread and wine are similitudes, mysteries, and representations, significations, sacraments, figures, and signs of Christ's body and blood, 122; the priests ought not to receive it alone, 142, 3; the people received it with the priests in the old time, 147, 8; though the sacramental tokens be only tokens and significations and figures, yet doth Almighty God effectually work, in them that duly receive his sacraments, those divine and celestial operations which he has promised, and by the sacraments be signified, 148; why bread is called Christ's body and wine his blood, 150; the corporal receiving without the spiritual hurts much, as in Judas and Simon Magus, 173; the bread and wine must be received reverently with the mouth, because of the things thereby represented, 174; double use of the word 66 sacrament," by Gardiner, 203; Christ is present spiritually, and is spiritually eaten in the true ministration of it, 203; visible and invisible sacraments, 204; only good men eat and drink the body and blood of Christ spiritually, ibid.; only two manner of eatings of Christ, 205; St Paul spoke not of eating the body and blood of Christ, but only of the bread and wine, in 1 Cor. xi., ibid.; all men, good and evil, may with their mouths visibly and sensibly eat the sacrament, but the very body and blood themselves be not eaten but spiritually, 213; the bread and wine remain after the consecration, 241, 2, 3, 80; they are sensible signs and sacraments, to teach us outwardly what feeds us inwardly, 247; the real presence of Christ therein not necessary for our salvation nor comfort, but his spiritual presence is essential for both, 283; the conversion of the bread and wine is spiritual, 304; Christ is no more in the bread and wine than the Holy Ghost is in the water of baptism, 306; the bread is changed in nature therein, not in shape nor substance, 308; the marvellous alteration to a higher estate is chiefly in the persons, and only in signification in the sacramental signs, 323; the true gospel doctrine of the first catholic christian faith therein, 328, 32; two parts therein, the earthly and the heavenly, 337; every man ought to receive it himself, and the priest or another man ought not to receive it for him, 350; the only difference between the priest and the layman is in the ministration, ibid. Christ. Sce Sacraments, Christ is present in them, 11; weTE ordained to confirm our faith, and to enable us to perceive Christ with all our senses, 41; of the old and new testament, their diversity, 75; do most assuredly certify us that we be partakers of Christ's godly nature, having given unto us by him immortality and life everlasting, 161; baptism and the Lord's supper compared, 221; why their signs change their names, 335; how to be contemplated, 366. Sacrifices, all the works that christian people do to the glory of God, are sacrifices of the church, 88, 346; Gardiner agrees that the sacrifice of Christ was full and perfect, and needed not to be done more than once, but to be often remeinbered, 344; alleges that the body and blood of Christ is the only sacrifice propitiatory for all the sins of the world, ibid., 345; the doctrine is untrue and feigned by the papists as concerning the real presence in the bread and wine, ibid.; the death of Christ upon the cross was the true sacrifice propitiatory that purchased the remission of sin, 345, 6; was of such force that there was no need to renew it every year, 346; there are two kinds of sacrifices, the sacrifice of Christ, and the sacrifice of the church, ibid.; of the old law could not take away our sins, but signified beforehand the sacrifice of Christ to come, 347; were partly used as ceremonies whereby those who had offended against the law were declared to be absolved, ibid.; we must under the new law offer spiritual oblations in place of calves, sheep, goats, and doves, 349; the lay people make a sacrifice as well as the priest, by thanksgiving and humble submission to the will of God, 352; so meant the ancient fathers when they called the mass a sacrifice, 353; Gardiner denies that the daily sacrifice of Christ's body and blood is an iteration of the sacrifice on the cross, 360; the effect of the offering on the cross is dispensed in baptism, ibid.; Gardiner asserts that the mass, as well as all good works, is propitiatory, ibid.; distinction between sacrifices propitiatory and gratificatory, 361; the effect of Christ's sacrifice is both to give and to continue life, 364; what the daily offering of the priest without blood-shedding may mean, not explained, ibid. Sacring, lifting up the consecrated bread by the papists for the people to worship, 229. Samosatenus, Paulus, a heretic, 278. Savours, nourishment from, 333. School-authors, study of, discountenanced by Cranmer, viii.; what made them take up the doctrine of transubstantiation, 302; had no devotion but to the pope, the god that made them, 327. Scory, bishop of Rochester, disseminates Cranmer's Declaration against the mass, xx. Scriptures, knowledge of, encouraged by Cranmer in opposition to the study of school-authors, viii.; Cranmer maintains that the pope cannot dispense with them, x.; their proper sense restored under Senses, papistical doctrines contrary to our, 245, 6, Shalm: shawm, a sort of musical pipe, or hautboy, Shew-bread of the law but a dark shadow of Christ to come, but the sacrament of Christ's body a Similitudes, whether God's mysteries can be but not very man, although he appeared so, 277. Supper of the Lord, abuse of, 23. Swink: sweat, labour, 293. Synagogue of the devil, the church of Rome, 302; Temple of God, whether one man can be both the Terminus a quo and terminus ad quem, 331. Theodorete says, that when Christ gave the holy Theodorus, a heretic, held that Christ was very man, Theophilus Alexandrinus, a saying of Theophylact Theophylact, although he speaks of the eating of the Thomas, St, arguments from his incredulity, 255, 8, Tokens, scriptural, their nature, 16; bread in the Lord's supper, not a vain and bare token, ibid.; Transubstantiation, the real root of the corruption of ignorance still remained, 240; not proved by real presence, 241; is contrary to God's word, ibid., 95, 304; the papists teach to play with syllables in a high mystery, by teaching that the conversion does not take place till the last syllable of hoc est corpus meum is pronounced, 246; St Paul's words prove that the bread remains bread after the sanctification, 250; argument against it from nature's abhorrence of a vacuum, 250, 1, 2; from the operation of natural causes upon the sacramental meats, ibid.; papistical doctrine of it passes the fondness of all the philosophers, 254; is contrary to the evidence of our senses, 255, 304; is contrary to the faith of the old authors of Christ's church, 263; if the nature and substance of bread and wine remain in the sacrament after consecration, the doctrine must be given up, or else the error of the Nestorians must be followed, 299, 301; what moved the school-authors to take up the doctrine against all reason, 302; Christ is every day made anew by it, 303; is plainly a papistical doctrine, 305; simple and plain people cannot understand, nor the papists defend it, 328; scripture constrains no man to believe in it, although Christ were really present in the sacrament, 329; answers to six of the principal absurdities therein, 332; encourages the heresies of the Valentinians, Arians, and others, 339, 40. Trinity, various similitudes have been used to express it, yet it cannot be thoroughly set forth (Gardiner), 89. Truth is not afraid of the light, 368. Ulpian, argument from, upon the change of wine into vinegar, 251, 4, 330, 2. Vacuum, nature's abhorrence of, argument against transubstantiation from, 250, 1, 2, 330. Variations between Gardiner and other papists, list of, 380. Vadianus, Joachimus, 195. Valentines, (Valentinians,) heretics who denied the resurrection, 150, 7, 177, 215, 258, 262; said that Christ was not crucified, but that Simon Cyrenæus was for him, 256; that Christ was very God, but not very man, 277, 85, 339. Vere and vero confounded, 414. Vigilius, concerning the nature of Christ's manhood, 73; his argument upon both the natures of Christ, his humanity and his divinity, 98, 9, 100, 51; Gardiner quotes his account of the heresies of Eutyches and Nestorius, 289. Vincentius. See Lirinensis. Warham, archbishop of Canterbury, succeeded by Cranmer, vii., xi. Weston, Dr, prolocutor of the commissioners appointed to examine Cranmer at Oxford, 391. Whet-stone, simile of, which sharpens and has no sharpness in it, 179. Wicked steward, parable of, not to be used to justify fraud in servants, 283. Wickliff, cited by Gardiner, 13; set forth the truth of the gospel, 14; condemned for a heretic, 195, 6. Wolsey, Cardinal, offers a fellowship to Cranmer, vill. Zuinglius, 195, 225, 73; cited by Gardiner as supporting transubstantiation, 239, 41, 4, 5, 279, 335. The Editor thinks it desirable to add, that his notice of Dr Jenkyns's valuable work in the prefatory remarks (page iv.) is meant to express that he has taken nothing from it upon trust, but, as he there stated, he has examined the early editions and references for himself. Direct references to Dr Jenkyns's edition are also made, where it has facilitated his own labours. Defensio veræ et Catholi cæ Doctrinæ de Sacra mento corporis et sanguinis Christi Ser vatoris nostri, et quorundam in hac causa er rorum confutatio, verbo sanctissimo Domini nixa atque fundata, et consensu antiquissi- a Reverendiss. in Christo Patre ac Domino D. Thoma Cran mero Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, Primate totius Angliæ et Metropolitano, scripta. Jesus Christus. Joannis 6. Spiritus est qui vivificat, caro non prodest quicquam. M.D.LIII. [This translation is supposed to have been made by Sir John Cheke, tutor to Edward VI. and the first Greek Professor in the University of Cambridge. It is attributed however by Strype (Mem. Cran. Vol. I. p. 365) to John Yong, who afterwards complied with the old religion in the reign of queen Mary.] |