A Short History of Christian Theophagy; By Preserved Smith, PH. D. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...and that the priest now does the same. This is a work, exactly as when a carpenter makes an image of wood he does a work. But what Christ does is good; consequently the mass is a good work. If Luther objects to the word "transubstantiation," Henry says nobody will trouble him to believe that if only he will believe that the whole substance of the bread is converted into the whole sub a Grund und Ursach aller Artikel D. M. Luthers so durch rbmische Bulle unrechtlich verdammt sind, 1521, Weimar, vi. 390. 50 Published by O'Donovan. See English Historical Review, 1910, pp. 656 ff. The Babylonian Captivity was spoken of by Tunstall in a letter to Wolsey, Jan. 21, 1521, Luther's Correspondence, i. 45s ff; Henry was writing his refutation in April, ibid., 520, and Calender of Carew MSS, 1867, no. 13. In 1534 Henry charged that More "by subtle sinister slights procured and provoked him to set forth a book of the Assertion of the Seven Sacraments." Bridgett: More, p. 221. More denied authorship but confessed that he had helped Henry, Life by Roper, in G. Samson's edition of the Utopia, 1910, p. 247. Cf. also More's letter to Cromwell, Feb. or March, 1533, Worses, 1557, P-1526. stance of the body, and the whole substance of the wine into the whole substance of the blood. How, asks the king, can the heretic pretend to rely wholly on Scripture, when he finds in it no authority for mingling water with the wine, "for," says he, "I imagine he will not be so bold as to omit this custom." Luther replied, and the battle continued to be waged with great ferocity for some years, but, as it hardly developed any new light on the question it need not be further followed here. Quite naturally the Catholics made the most of Luth-0 lul er's ut...