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“The denial of Christ’s full humanity in the transubstantiation heresy of Roman Catholicism, was recognized by the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury (1533-1556), the Marian martyr, Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556).
Concerning “transubstantiation,” Cranmer rightly said in 1550, “the Papists … say that the very natural flesh and blood of Christ … is … really, substantially, corporally, and naturally, in or under … the sacramental bread and wine.” “But the true” Christian “faith, grounded upon God’s most infallible Word teacheth us, that our Saviour Christ (as concerning his man’s nature and bodily presence) is gone up into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of his Father, and there shall he tarry until the world’s end, at which time he shall come again …, as he saith himself in many Scriptures:
‘I forsake the world’, saith he, ‘and go to my Father’ [John 16:28]. And in another place he saith: ‘You shall ever have poor men among you, but me you shall not ever have’ [Matt. 26:11]. … And St. Peter saith in the Acts, ‘That heaven must receive Christ, until the time that all things shall be restored’ [Acts 3:21]. And St. Paul, writing to the Colossians, agreeth … saying, ‘Seek for the things that be above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of the Father’ [Col. 3:1]. And St. Paul, speaking of the very sacrament, saith: ‘As often as you shall eat this bread and drink this cup, show forth the Lord’s death until he come’ [I Cor. 11:26]. ‘Till he come,’ saith St. Paul, signifying that he is not there corporally present.”
This means if Christ came in the Eucharist as Catholics and Lutherans say, He did not come in the flesh which John says identifies an Antichrist. “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” 2 John 7
Concerning “transubstantiation,” Cranmer rightly said in 1550, “the Papists … say that the very natural flesh and blood of Christ … is … really, substantially, corporally, and naturally, in or under … the sacramental bread and wine.” “But the true” Christian “faith, grounded upon God’s most infallible Word teacheth us, that our Saviour Christ (as concerning his man’s nature and bodily presence) is gone up into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of his Father, and there shall he tarry until the world’s end, at which time he shall come again …, as he saith himself in many Scriptures:
‘I forsake the world’, saith he, ‘and go to my Father’ [John 16:28]. And in another place he saith: ‘You shall ever have poor men among you, but me you shall not ever have’ [Matt. 26:11]. … And St. Peter saith in the Acts, ‘That heaven must receive Christ, until the time that all things shall be restored’ [Acts 3:21]. And St. Paul, writing to the Colossians, agreeth … saying, ‘Seek for the things that be above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of the Father’ [Col. 3:1]. And St. Paul, speaking of the very sacrament, saith: ‘As often as you shall eat this bread and drink this cup, show forth the Lord’s death until he come’ [I Cor. 11:26]. ‘Till he come,’ saith St. Paul, signifying that he is not there corporally present.”
This means if Christ came in the Eucharist as Catholics and Lutherans say, He did not come in the flesh which John says identifies an Antichrist. “For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.” 2 John 7
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