homage for them. This convention was solemnly confirmed in the following year, at the council of Lateran. Speaking generally, this form of investiture has been adopted in every part of christendom. XIX. 3. Vol. I. c. 12. s. 2. p. 108. Ecclesiastical Regulations in the reign of Henry the eighth respecting the general reading of the Bible, in the English language, by the Laity; and some account of the Translation of it, 1st, by Tyndale; and 2dly, by Coverdale: 3dly, of the edition of the latter by Cranmer: 4thly, and of the Proclamations and legislative Enactments, respecting them. XIX. 4. Vol. I. c. 12. s. 3. p. 114. Ecclesiastical Regulations of Henry respecting the Faith and Devotions of his Subjects. XIX. 5. Vol. 1. c. 12. s. 4. p. 117. Persecutions of those who opposed the Faith or Doctrine of Henry. XIX. 6. Vol. I. c. 12. s. 5. p. 119. The Death of Henry the eighth :-Genealogical account of the Descendants of Henry the seventh, till the accession of the Stuart Dynasty. 1547 CHAP. XX. Vol. 1. c. 13. p. 121. EDWARD THE SIXTH. 1547. XX. 1. Vol. I. c. 13. s. 1. p. 122. The Regulations respecting the Election of Bishops, and the new Admission of the actual Bishops to their Sees. XX. 2. Vol. I. c. 13. s. 2. p. 123. The new Visitation. XX. 3. Vol. I. c. 13. s. 3. p. 124. The Book of Homilies. XX. 4. Vol. 1. c. 13. s. 4. p. 124. The Forty-two Articles. XX. 5. Vol. I. c. 13. s. 5. p. 125. The Book of Common Prayer. XX. 6. Vol. 1. c. 13. s. 6. p. 127. The Suppression of Colleges, Hospitals, and Chauntries : general Destruction of their Libraries, and of the sacred or secular articles of use, or ornament belonging to them. XX. 7. Four public Dissertations in the reign of Edward the sixth between Catholic and Protestant Divines. It is remarkable that, in the first year of the reign of Edward VI, an act* was passed against all such persons, as should irreverently speak "against the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, and the receiving thereof under both kinds :" and that in the following parliament †, an act was passed for establishing the new communion book, which contained the Zuinglian doctrine against the real presence. At Oxford, Peter Martyr conformed to 1 Edw. VI, c. 1. + 2 Edw. VI, c. 1. the common prayer; at Cambridge, Martin Bucer observed upon it a prudent silence. In the following year, a formal disputation was held upon this important article, at Oxford, between Peter Martyr, on the side of the protestants, and Dr. Tressam, Dr. Chadsey, and Mr. Morgan, on the side of the catholics. Fox repeats the arguments of Martyr with exultation, while he is silent on those of his adversaries: Saunders assigns the victory to the catholic divines *. 66 In the same year, a second disputation was held at the same place. "It is to be noted," says Fox, that "at the disputation, Martyr, in his answer did grant a change of substance of bread and wine;" but in a disputation which was held in the following year at Cambridge, "this, by bishop Ridley, was denied t." A third disputation soon followed; it was held in the same year at Cambridge; and although Ridley presided at it, the real presence was asserted by Mr. Perne, the advocate of the protestant cause. "We deny nothing less," he said, "than his "corporal presence or the absence of his substance "in the bread;"-so that the discussion turned altogether on transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the mass+. A fourth disputation soon followed at Cambridge S. This also turned on transubstantiation, * Persons's Review of Three Disputations, c. 1, s. 1. Persons's Review, c. 1, s. 3. . Ibid. c. 1, 5.4. Perne, who still continued the advocate of the protestants, qualified his assertion of the real presence, in the former conference, by saying, "I grant that "Christ is in the sacrament truly, wholly and verily, after a certain property and manner. I deny not his presence, but his real and corporal "presence." Thus he veered to the doctrine of Calvin on the real presence. In all the three disputations at Cambridge, Dr. Ridley presided as moderator: a further meeting was convened to hear his determination, and it was numerously attended*. The question of the real presence he left untouched, but decided, in the most explicit terms, against transubstantiation, upon five grounds," the authority, majesty, and verity "of the scriptures, the most certain testimonies of "ancient catholic fathers, the definition of a sacra 66 ment, the abomination of the heresy of Eutyches, "that may ensue of transubstantiation,-and the "most sure belief of the article, he ascended into "heaven.' 66 "These," says Personst, "be Maister Ridleye's "five bulwarks, or castles of defence, builded in "the ayre, which he handleth so fondly and childishely, as after you shall see in the particular "examinations of his arguments. Only heere, "I will say in generall, that the reader shall find "his authority, majestie and verity of scriptures against transubstantiation, to be a meere vaunt "and vanity, for he hath no one cleere or substan Persons's Review, c. 1, s. 5. + Ibid. |