The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments

by E. E. Holmes

[[12]] "I protest," wrote Archbishop Cranmer, "and openly confess that, in all my doctrine, whatsoever it be, not only I mean and judge those things as the Catholic Church, and the most holy Fathers of old, with one accord, have meant and judged, but also I would gladly use the same words which they used, and not use any other words, but to set my hand to all and singular their speeches, phrases, ways, and forms of speech, which they did use in their treatise upon the Sacraments, and to keep still their interpretation."

[[13]] See Preface to the Prayer Book.

[[14]] The Edict of the Diet (or Council) of Spires.

CHAPTER II.

THE CHURCH'S BOOKS.

For the purpose of these lectures, we will select two:—

(1) The Bible, the possession of the whole Church.

(2) The Prayer Book, the possession of the Church of England.