Writings and Disputations Relative to the Lord's Supper

WRITINGS AND DISPUTATIONS

THOMAS CRANMER,

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, MARTYR, 1556,

RELATIVE TO THE SACRAMENT OF THE

LORD’S SUPPER.

EDITED FOR The Parker Society,

REV. JOHN EDMUND COX, M.A.,

OF ALL SOULS’ COLLEGE, OXFORD, CURATE AND LECTURER OF STEPNEY.

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

M.DCCC.XLIV.

Lire, State, and Story of Thomas Cranmer........ Kasei aeiie geo dadkahiatde anna vii An Answer to a Crafty and Sophistical Cavillation devised by Stephen

Gardiner ......... are bsiith sda g is aac, od te aleukgnadah vids wenadabe bbe contin en ae |

Boox I. Of the Sacrament ........csesseeeee Sia daeiesicds art ved axouee 9

Boox III. Of the Presence of Christ ......-sscssseceeseeseeceeseeeees eae

Boox IV. Of the Eating and Drinking ....s+.,.ssecseeeseeeeee ives dja 208

Boox II. Against Transubstantiation .........sssesecseres (oc: eetiae tes 239

Answer to Smith’s Preface .....sssssesessererecrereess PLONE. SY. SOC E LOO Moe eT 368

Matters wherein the Bishop of Winchester varied from other Papists, &c. 380

Disputations at Oxford .........++- SApwacrsns angen dbstedil nasen an sadb4hons senetacrnrnes 389

Index ..<.+s008 fe ele a tcc wasn Ueki an Adenia apanile cae atid s La tchideielinb asp asnduliibunnn 431

Defensio Vere et Catholice Doctrine de Sacramento......... patariactitle st 5 ae ad

Tue present volume contains the writings of archbishop Cranmer on the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, together with “the disputations held with him at Oxford previously to his condemnation and martyrdom. ‘The writings on the sacrament have been reprinted from the edition of a.p. 1580, and exhibit the latest and most matured corrections of the archbishop, which he is supposed to have made whilst under imprisonment previously to his death. With this later edition, that of 1551,—the original edition of his first work on the sacrament, afterwards embodied by him in his answer to Winchester,—as well as bishop Gardiner’s reply to it, have been carefully collated, and care has been taken to note the various readings. The Latin edition of the first work, printed at Emden, a.p. 1557, not previously reprinted, has been added; and this has likewise undergone a careful examination, with the previous edition of the Latin translation, said by Strype to have been made by Sir John Cheke. Wherever the additional references to the works of the Fathers are found in the Emden edition, 1557, they have been noted in the margin of the body of this reprint.

The Disputations held at Oxford are reprinted from the 1583 edition of Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, and have been collated with an earlier edition, Thus it is hoped, that the pieces now given will be found to exhibit the last and most accurate thoughts of the archbishop, so far as they exist, arranged in a more complete form than has yet been attempted.

With reference to the succeeding volume, which will contain the rest of the writings of archbishop Cranmer, the Editor has been engaged both at home and on the continent in further researches, especially relating to a correspondence on the sacraments, supposed to exist in some foreign public libraries. But after the most careful personal examination, he is enabled to state, that nothing has been found beyond the letters previously printed by Dr Jenkyns in his valuable edition of the works of the archbishop, except one brief letter written by the archbishop a short time before his martyrdom, and which was discovered at Zurich during the researches made there for the Parker Society. The biographical sketch of the archbishop, and a full account of his remains, will be given with the succeeding volume: but the memoir abridged from Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, printed in the edition of a.p. 1580, is here given, to put the reader in possession of a complete copy of that work, printed in the reign of queen Elizabeth, with the exception of a few epistles which will be found in the complete series of letters.

In conclusion, the Editor desires to acknowledge the valuable assistance he has derived from the previous edition of Dr Jenkyns, which has relieved him from many dissiculties ; nevertheless he has taken nothing from it, but has invariably examined early editions and references for himself, and has stated the result of his own reseatches.—He has also to acknowledge the kind loan of a copy of the first edition of the archbishop’s work on the sacrament from the library of Gloucester Cathedral.

LIFE, STATE, AND STORY, q REVEREND PASTOR AND PRELATE, | THOMAS CRANMER, fd ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, MARTYR,

4 BURNED AT OXFORD FOR THE CONFESSION OF CHRIST’S TRUE DOCTRINE. a ANNO 1556. MARCH 21.

_ Forasmucu as the life and estate of the most reverend father in God and worthy Thomas prelate of godly memory, Thomas Cranmer, late archbishop of Canterbury, together are archbishop

with the original cause and occasion of his preferment to the dignity archiepiscopal, hi es

- whereunto he was advanced immediately upon the death of bishop Warham, arch- poctor cranoo of the same, beyond all expectation, without support of money or friends, by porto wel the only well-liking of the most renowned king of famous memory, Henry the by king ie eighth, who with a fatherly care maintained his countenance, and defended his poctor crani Innocent life, undermined sundry times by the manifold attempts of the horrible defended by | ~ arch-enemy of Christ and his gospel, Stephen Gardiner, and other his complices ; een with divers other circumstances of his most commendable conversation, charitable consideration of the poor, constant care in reformation of corrupt religion, his

_ undaunted courage in continual defence of the same, and the perseverance therein

i ‘ » the loss of his life, be already described at large in the book of Acts and Look for the i eents of Martyrs; it may seem needless to make a thorough discourse thereof i in the book”

f the Acts yain at this present. Nevertheless, partly to stop the mouths of slanderous syco- and Monuphants, and partly for the ease of such as would happily be desirous, upon the view las etn, of the title of this book, to be acquainted with the life of the author, being othervise not able to have recourse to the story at large, as also because his virtuous