Finally, whether the ceremony of confirmation, of orders, and of annealing, and such other, (which cannot be proved to be institute of Christ, nor have any word in them to certify us of remission of sins,) ought to be called sacraments, and to be compared with Baptism and the Supper of the Lord, or no?

These be no light matters, but even the principal points of our Christian religion. Wherefore we contend not about words and titles, but about high and earnest matters. Christ saith, Blessed be the peacemakers, for they shall be called Matt. v. the sons of God. And Paul, writing unto Timothy, commanded bishops to avoid brawling and contention about words, which be profitable to nothing but unto the subversion and destruction of the hearers: and monisheth him specially that he should resist with the Scriptures, when any man disputeth with him of the faith; and he addeth a cause, whereas he saith, Doing this thou shalt preserve both 1 Tim. iv. thyself and also them which hear thee. Now if ye will follow these counsellors, Christ and Paul, all contention and brawling about words must be set apart, and ye must stablish a godly and a perfect unity and concord out of the Scripture. Wherefore in this disputation we must first agree of the number of the sacraments, and what a sacrament doth signify in the holy Scripture, and when we call Baptism and the Supper of the Lord sacraments of the gospel, what we mean thereby. I know right well that St. Ambrose and other authors call the washing of the disciples' feet, and other things, sacraments; which I am sure you yourselves would not suffer to be numbered among the other sacraments.

P

Cotton lib.

Cleop. E. v. fol. 83.

[Some Queries and Answers concerning Confirmation 8.]

Whether confirmation be institute by Christ?

Responsio. There is no place in Scripture that declareth

Burn. Ref. this sacrament to be institute of Christ.

Addend.
vol. i. No. 3.
Strype,
Memor.
App. vol. i.
No. 88.

First, for the places alleged for the same be no institutions, but acts and deeds of the apostles.

Second, those acts were done by a special gift given to the apostles for the confirmation of God's word at that time.

Third, the said special gift doth not now remain with the successors of the apostles.

What is the external sign?

The church useth chrisma for the exterior sign, but the Scripture maketh no mention thereof.

What is the efficacy of this sacrament?

The bishop in the name of the church doth invocate the Holy Ghost to give strength and constancy, with other spiritual gifts, unto the person confirmed: so that the efficacy of this sacrament is of such value, as is the prayer of the bishop made in the name of the church.

Hæc respondeo, salvo semper eruditiorum et ecclesiæ orthodoxa judicio.

[These queries are supposed by Strype to have been designed to collect the opinions of divines for the compilation of The Institution of a Christian Man, which was printed in 1537. They were certainly issued about that time, for one of the persons who answered them was Hilsey Bishop of Rochester, who was elected to that see Oct. 4. 1535, and who died in 1538. The whole of the answers extant may be seen in Strype, Mem. App. vol. i. No. 88.]

h [Burnet states that the whole of this paper is in Cranmer's handwriting. Strype more accurately asserts this of the last clause only, "Hac respondeo" &c.]

Injunctions given by Thomas archbishop of Canterbury to the parsons, vicars, and other curates, in his visitation kept (isede vacante) within the diocese of Hereford, anno Domini 1538.

I.

Cranm.

First; That ye and every one of you shall, with all your Regist. diligence and faithful obedience, observe, and cause to be fol. 96. b. observed, all and singular the King's Highness' Injunctions, Burn. Ref. by his Grace's commissaries given in such places as they in Append. times past have visited.

II.

Item; That ye and every one of you shall have, by the first day of August next coming, as well a whole Bible in Latin and English, or at the least a New Testament of both the same languages, as the copies of the King's Highness' Injunctions.

III.

Item; That ye shall every day study one chapter of the said Bible, or New Testament, conferring the Latin and English together, and to begin at the first part of the book, and so to continue until the end of the same.

IV.

Item; That ye nor none of you shall discourage any layman from the reading of the Bible in Latin or English, but encourage them to it, admonishing them that they so read it, for reformation of their own life and knowledge of

i [Fox, Bishop of Hereford, died May 8, 1538. Boner was elected to succeed him Nov. 27 of the same year. In the interval Cranmer deputed Hugh Coren, Prebendary of Hereford, to visit the diocese, and promulgate these Injunctions. Boner was translated to London before consecration, and the see of Hereford was not permanently filled till Skyp was elected, Oct. 24, 1539. On his death, in 1552, the custody of the spiritualities was again committed to Hugh Coren, then Dean, in conjunction with Richard Cheney Archdeacon. Strype, Cranm. p. 70 and 268. Nicolas, Synopsis of the Peerage.]

vol. i. b. iii. No. 12.

their duty; and that they be not bold or presumptuous in judging of matters afore they have perfect knowledge.

V.

Item; That ye, both in your preaching and secret confession and all other works and doings, shall excite and move your parishioners unto such works as are commanded expressly of God, for the which God shall demand of them a strait reckoning; and all other works which men do of their own will or devotion, to teach your parishioners, that they are not to be so highly esteemed as the other; and that for the not doing of them God will not ask any ac

count.

VI.

Item; That ye nor none of you, suffer no friar or religious man to have any cure or service within your churches or cures, except they be lawfully dispensed withal, or licensed by the ordinary.

VII.

Item; That young man or woman to receive the sacrament of the altar, which never received it before, until that he or she openly in the church after mass or evening song upon the holyday, do recite in the vulgar tongue, the Pater Noster, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments.

ye and every one of you, do not admit any

VIII.

Item; That ye and every one of you, shall two times in a quarter declare to your parishioners the band of matrimony, and what great danger it is to all men that useth their bodies but with such persons as they lawfully may by the law of God. And to exhort in the said times your parishioners, that they make no privy contracts, as they will avoid the extreme pain of the laws used within the King's realm by his Grace's authority.

mCorrections of The Institution of a Christian
Man, by Henry VIII.]

The Institution, &c. p. 30. (edit. Oxf. 1825.) I believe also and Bodl. Libr. profess, that this God and this Father is almighty, that is to say, Rawlinson, 4to. 245.

[ These Corrections are printed as a necessary introduction to Cranmer's Annotations on them. They are taken from a copy of The Institution formerly belonging to Rawlinson, and now in the Bodleian Library. Rawlinson believed them to have been written by Cranmer, but Lewis of Margate in a letter still preserved, clearly proved, that, supposing the Annotations on the King's Book attributed to the Archbishop, to be genuine, these corrections, instead of being those which he made, must be those on which he commented. He further expressed his opinion, that Rawlinson's copy of The Institution was the identical King's Book on which Cranmer drew up his remarks. But in this conjecture he seems to have gone too far; for there are expressions referred to in the Annotations which are not to be found in these Corrections, and of which the omission cannot in all cases be accounted for by the supposition, that they were written on manuscript leaves once inserted in the printed volume, but now lost. The probability therefore is, that these are Henry VIII.'s rough memoranda, which were afterwards transcribed fairly, and submitted, with some additions, to Cranmer's judgment. They are written chiefly by the King's own hand, and it would seem in his own copy; for on the inside of the cover appears this order: "The King's commandment is that I should “not be had out of the privy chamber." With the exception of a few verbal alterations, and some erasures, they are here printed entire, with such extracts from The Institution as are necessary to understand them. Henry VIII.'s Corrections are distinguished by Italics; the passages of The Institution erased by him are marked thus || II. To the expressions commented on by Cranmer are added numerals corresponding to those prefixed to the Annotations.

Cranmer's Annotations on these Corrections are preserved in the valuable manuscript library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. The title only is in the Archbishop's handwriting; the annotations themselves are a copy, and perhaps not always a correct one, by a secretary. Some extracts are printed by Strype in his Memorials of Cranmer, p. 96. and App. No. 31. but the only complete copy hitherto published is in The Fathers of the English Church. Both the editor of that work and Strype were misled by the title, and considered them to refer to The Necessary Doctrine, &c. which was commonly known by the name of The King's Book. But the passages cited (as indeed was observed by the editor of The Fathers &c.) are not to be found in that Formulary: and every one who compares the Annotations with the Corrections will perceive their connection, and be satisfied that The King's Book was a title given by Cranmer to a Copy of The Institution revised by Henry VIII.

Respecting the date of these Annotations there has been a difference