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I asked the bishop that whatever he wanted me to believe as an article of faith, he should demonstrate it to me in the law of God . . . But a friar present asked me, when I say I believe that the Host is the body of the Lord in the form of bread, "is it the form of material bread or not?" "I never saw," I said, "in sacred scripture that term 'material.' Nonetheless," I said, "Paul says, 'the bread we break is it not communion with the body of the Lord?' " "Lo, he speaks heresy," the friar said, "because he said it is bread." "Those are not my words, but St. Paul's," I said. "If you wish, you may hereticate him . . .". (Matthew 1890: 534-536, from The Trial of Richard Wyche; my trans.) [The Lutherans argue] as dyd onys an olde sage father fole in Kent, at suche tyme as dyuers men of worshyppe assembled olde folk of the countre . . . about the amendement of Sandwyche hauen . . . They began fyrst to enserche . . . what thynge had bene the occasyon that so good an hauen was in so fewe yerys so sore decayed and suche sandys rysen . . . there starte vp one good olde father and sayd . . . "By my faythe maysters," quod he, "yonder same Tenterden stepell [steeple] and nothyng ellys, that by

Author
DeMaria, Robert; Chang, Heesok; Zacher, Samantha
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Published
2014
Language
EN
ISBN
9780470656044

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