2 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Lord’s Supper, Processions & Bread-Worshipping, pp.48
2 September 2015
A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—Lord’s Supper, Processions &
Bread-Worshipping, pp.48
Jewel,
John. “The Apology of the Church of England.” Project Gutenberg. 5 Aug 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17678/17678-h/17678-h.htm. Accessed 1 Aug 2015.
We cannot also away in our churches with the shows,
and sales, and buying and selling of masses, nor the carrying about and
worshipping of bread: nor such other idolatrous and blasphemous fondness: which
none of them can prove that Christ or His Apostles did ever ordain, or left
unto us. And we justly blame the bishops of Rome, who, without the word
of God, without the authority of the holy fathers, without any example of antiquity, after a new guise, do not only set before the
people the sacramental bread to be worshipped as God, but do also carry about
the same upon an ambling horse, whithersoever themselves journey, as in old
times the Persians’ fire, and the relics of the goddess Isis, were solemnly
carried about in procession: and have brought the Sacraments of Christ to be
used now as a stage play and a solemn sight: to the end, that men’s eyes should
be fed with nothing else but with mad gazings and foolish gauds, in the
self-same matter, wherein the death of Christ ought diligently to be beaten
into our hearts, and wherein also the mysteries of our redemption ought with
all holiness and reverence to be executed.
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