Marginalia1556. March.chyng onely. But when a good number of the best learned men reputed within this Realme, some fauoring the old, some the new learnyng, as they terme it (where in deede that which they call the old, is the new, and that which they call the new, is in deede the old) MarginaliaThe Papistes and Protestantes both agreed in Windsor, for the seruice of the church to be in the mother tonuge. an. 1549.but when a gret nūber of such learned men of both sortes were gathered together at Winsore, for the reformatiō of the seruice of the Church: it was agreed by both without cōtrouersie (not one saying contrary) that the seruice of the Church ought to be in the mother toung, and that S. Paul in the xiiij. chap. to the Corinthians was so to be vnderstanden.Marginalia1. Cor. 14. And so is S. Paul to be vnderstanden in the Ciuil law more then a thousand yeares past: where Iustinianus a most godly Emperour, in a Synode writeth on this maner: Iubemus vt omnes Episcopi pariter & præsbyteri non tacito modo, sed clara voce, quæ a fideli populo exaudiatur, sacram oblationem & preces in sacro Baptismate adhibitas celebrent, quo maiori exinde deuotione in depromendis Domini Dei laudibus audientium animi afficiantur. Ita enim & Diuus Paulus docer in Epistola ad Corinth: Si solummodo benedicat spiritus, quomodo is qui priuati locum tenet, dicet gratiarum actionem tuam, Amen, quandoquidem quid dicas non videt? Tu quidem pulchre gratias, alter autem non ædificatur.  

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Iubemus vt omnes Episcopi pariter & praesbiteri non tacito modo, sed clara voce quae a fideli populo exaudiatur, sacram oblationem & preces in sacro Baptismate adhibitas celebrent, quo maiori exinde deuotione in depromendis Domini Dei laudibus audientium animi afficiantur. Ita enim & Diuus Paulus docer in Epistola ad Corinth: Si solummodo benedicat spiritus, quomodo is qui priuati locum tenet, dicet ad gratiarum actionem tuam, Amen, quandoquidem quid dicas non videt? Tu quidem pulchre gratias agis, alter autem non aedificatur.

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We commaunde, that all Byshops and Priestes celebrate the holy oblation and prayers vsed in holy Baptisme, not after a still close maner, but with a cleare loude voyce, that they may be playnly heard of the faithfull people, so as the hearers mindes may be lifted vp therby with the greater deuotion, in vtteryng the prayses of the Lord God. For so Paule teacheth also in the Epistle to the Corinthians: If the spirit do onely blesse (or say well) how shall he that occupyeth the place of a priuate person say,Amen,to thy thankes geuyng? for he perceaueth not what thou sayest. Thou doest geue thankes well, but the other is not edified.

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VVe commaunde, that all Byshops and Priestes celebrate the holy oblation and prayers vsed in holy Baptisme, not after a still close maner, but with a cleare loude voyce, that they may be playnly heard of the faithfull people, so as the hearers mindes may be lifted vp therby with the greater deuotion, in vtteryng the prayses of the Lord God. For so Paule teacheth also in the Epistle to the Corinthians: If the spirit do onely blesse (or say well) how shall he that occupyeth the place of a priuate person say, Amen, to thy thankes geuyng? for he perceaueth not what thou sayest. Thou doest geue thankes well, but the other is not edified. And not onely the Ciuill law and all other writers a thousand & fiue hundreth yeares continually together haue expounded S. Paul not of preaching onely, but of other seruice said in the church: but also reason geueth the same, that if men be commaūded to heare any thyng, it must be spoken in a language which the hearers vnderstand, or els (as S. Paul sayth) what auayleth it to heare? So that the Pope giuing a contrary commaundement, that the people comming to the church shall heare they wot not what, and shall answere they know not whereunto, taketh vpon him to commaund, MarginaliaThe Pope commaundeth both against God & naturall reason.not only against reason, but also directly against God.

MarginaliaThe sacramēt ought to be receaued in both kyndes of al christians.And agayne I sayd, where as our Sauiour Christ ordayned the sacrament of his most precious body and bloud, to be receaued of all christian people vnder the formes of bread and wine, and said of the cuppe: Drinke ye all of thys: the Pope giueth a cleane contrary commaundement, that no lay men shall drinke of the cuppe of their saluatiō: as though the cuppe of saluation by the bloud of Christ, perteined not to lay men. And whereas Theophilus Alexandrinus (whose workes S. Hierome did translate about 11. hundred yeares past) sayth: MarginaliaEx Theophilo Alexandrino.that if Christ had bene crucified for the deuilles, his cuppe shuld not be denyed them: yet the Pope denieth the cuppe of Christ to Christian people, for whom Christ was crucified. So that if I should obey the Pope in these thinges, I must nedes disobey my Sauiour CHRIST.

MarginaliaThe excuse of the Papistes why they take away the cuppe.But I was aunswered hereunto (as commonly the Papistes do aunswere) that vnder the forme of bread is whole CHRISTES flesh and bloud: so that who soeuer receaueth the forme of bread, receaueth aswell CHRISTES bloud as his flesh. Let it be so: yet in the forme of bread onely, CHRISTES bloud is not dronken, but eaten: nor is receaued in the cup in the forme of wyne, as CHRIST commaunded, but eaten with the flesh vnder the forme of bread. And moreouer, the bread is not the Sacrament of his bloud, but of his flesh onely: nor the cup is not þ^e Sacrament of his flesh, but of his blood onely. And so the Pope kepeth frō all lay persons þ^e Sacramēt of their redemption by CHRISTES bloud, which CHRIST commaūdeth to be geuen vnto them.

And furthermore CHRIST ordained the Sacrament in ij. kyndes, the one separated from the other, to be a representation of his death, where his bloud was separated from his flesh, which is not represented in one kynde alone: So that þ^e lay people receaue not þ^e whole Sacrament, wherby CHRISTES death is represented, as hee commaunded.

Moreouer, as the Pope taketh vppon him to giue the temporall sworde, by royall and Imperiall power, to Kyngs and Princes, so doth he lykewise take vpon him to depose them from their Imperial states, if they be dis-

obedient to him, and commaundeth the subiectes to disobey their Princes, MarginaliaMisorder in the Pope, in assoyling the disobedience of subiectes toward their Princes.assoilyng the subiectes aswell of their obedience, as of their lawfull othes made vnto their true Kynges and Princes, directly contrary to Gods commaundement, who commaundeth all subiectes to obey their Kyngs, or their rulers vnder them. One Iohn, Patriarke of Constantinople in the tyme of S. Gregory claymed superioritie aboue all other Byshops. To whom S. Gregory writeth, that therein he did iniury to his three brethren, which were equall with him: that is to say, the Byshop of Rome, the Byshop of Alexandria, and of Antiochia: which three were Patriarckall seas, as well as Constantinople, and were brethren one to another. But (sayth S. Gregory) MarginaliaNote the saying of Gregory.If any one shall exalte hym selfe aboue all the rest, to be the vniuersall Byshop, the same passeth in pride. But now the Byshop of Rome exalteth him selfe, not onely aboue all Kinges and Emperours, and aboue all the whole world, taking vpon him to giue and take away, to set vp and put downe, as he shall thinke good. MarginaliaThe deuill and the Pope are like.And as the Deuill hauing no such authority, yet toke vpon him to geue vnto Christ all the kingdomes of the world, if he would fall downe and worship him: in like maner the Pope taketh vpō him to geue Empires and kyngdomes, beyng none of his, to such as will fall downe and worship him, and kisse his feete.

And moreouer, his lawyers and glosers so flater him, that they fayne he may commaunde Emperours & kynges to hold his stirop when he lighteth vpon his horse, MarginaliaEmperours & kings made the Popes footemen.and to be his footemen: and that, if any Emperour or Kyng giue him any thyng, they giue him nothyng but that is his owne, and that hee may dispense agaynst Gods word, agaynst both the old and new Testament, agaynst S. Paules Epistles, and agaynst the Gospell. And furthermore what soeuer he doth, although he draw innumerable people by heapes with him selfe into hell: yet may no mortall man reproue him, because he beyng iudge of all men, may be iudged of no man. And thus he sitteth in the Temple of God as he were a God, and nameth him self Gods Vicar, and yet he dispenseth agaynst God. MarginaliaThe Pope is Antichrist, that is, Christes enemy.If this be not to play Antichristes part, I can not tell what is Antichrist, which is no more to say but CHRISTES enemy and aduersary: who shall sit in the Temple of God, aduauncing him selfe aboue all other, yet by hypocrisie and fayned Religion shall subuert the true Religiō of CHRIST, MarginaliaTrue markes prouing that þ^e Pope is Antichrist.and vnder pretense and colour of Christian Religion, shal worke agaynst CHRIST, and therfore hath the name of Antichrist. Now, if any man lift hym selfe higher then the Pope hath done, who lifteth him selfe aboue all the world, or can be more aduersary to CHRIST, then to dispense agaynst Gods lawes, and where Christ hath geuen any commaundement, to commaund directly the contrary: that man must needes be taken for Antichrist. But vntill the tyme that such a person may be found, men may easily coniecture, where to finde Antichrist.

Wherefore, seyng the Pope thus, to ouerthrow both Gods lawes & mans lawes, taketh vpon hym to make Emperours and Kyngs to be vassals and subiectes vnto him, specially the crowne of this Realme, with the lawes and customes of the same: MarginaliaNote this conclusion.I see no meane, how I may consent to admitte this vsurped power within this Realme, cōtrary to myne oth, mine obedience to Gods law, myne allegeance and duty to your Maiesty, and my loue and affection to this Realme.

MarginaliaThe cause why the Archbishop spake and wrote thus.This that I haue spoken agaynst the power & authoritie of the Pope, I haue not spoken (I take God to record and iudge) for any malice I owe to the Popes person, whom I know not, but I shal pray to God to giue him grace, that he may seeke aboue all thinges to promote Gods honor and glory, and not to folow the trade of his predecessours in these latter dayes.

Nor I haue not spoken it for feare of punishment and to auoyde the same (thinking it rather an occasion to aggrauate, then to diminish my trouble): but I haue spoke it for my most bounden dutye to the crowne, liberties, lawes & customes of this Realme of England, but most specially to discharge my conscience in vttering the truth to Gods glory, castyng away all feare, by þ^e cōfort which I haue in CHRIST, who saith: MarginaliaMath. 10.Feare not thē that kill the body, and can not kill the soule, but feare hym that can cast both body and soule into hell fire. He that for feare to lose this lyfe, will forsake the truth, shall lose the euerlastyng lyfe: And he that for the truthes sake will spend his life, shall finde euerlastyng life. And CHRIST promiseth to stand fast with them before his father, which will stand fast with hym here. Which comfort is so great, that who soeuer hath his