Henry John Todd, M.A.: "The Life of Archbishop Cranmer," Ch. 5, 120ff.
1535—The speech of the archbishop, referring to the late Acts of Parliament.
SOLA SCRIPTURA AND GOD'S ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGNTY ABOVE ALL POWERS, ROYAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL. Pages 120-127 are golden.
https://archive.org/details/lifearchbishopc04toddgoog/page/n158/mode/1up.
Cranmer has well considered Papal and Conciliar Councils, showing historically the view of the sovereign and ruling governance of Scriptures to all. Hence, while defending Henry and Parliaments Act of Supremacy (booting the Thief of Rome out of England), it's not just an issue about Royal supremacy. Some historians have mischaracterized, to wit, that Dr. Cranmer was merely Henry's propagandist for royal authority. Dr. Cranmer was that, a sermonizer and propagandist on that, but he was more.
First, as previously argued, he was a scholar, ambassador, and now was an archbishop "with a history" and noteworthy resume.
Second, while canvassing the historical issues on the authority of Rome's Chief Thief and Conciliar Councils, all things are to be "measured by the canon." This is 1534-1535.
He also will be advocating for the English Bible--so peoples' "ears," their "eyes" and their "brains" (literally) may be engaged with God directly. The anti-mind, anti-eye, and anti-ear crowd was a control-technique colonizing the church and God's people.
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