Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Henrician canons
- 2 The Reformatio legum ecdesiasticarum
- Signs used in the text
- The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws
- Royal proclamation of King Edward VI
- 1 Of The Highest Trinity And The Catholic Faith
- 2 Of Heresies
- 3 Of Judgments Against Heresies
- 4 [Of] Blasphemy in Which
- 5 Of Sacraments
- 6 Of Idolatry and Other Like Crimes
- 7 Of Preachers
- 8 Of Matrimony
- 9 Of Degrees Prohibited in Matrimony
- 10 Of Adultery and Divorce
- 11 Of Those to be Admitted to Ecclesiastical Benefices
- 12 Of The Resignation or Abandonment of Benefices
- 13 Of The Exchange of Ecclesiastical Benefices
- 14 Of Purgation
- 15 Of Dilapidations
- 16 Of Alienating or Letting Church Property
- 17 Of an Election
- 18 Of Conferring Ecclesiastical Benefices Without Loss
- 19 Of The Services Of The Church
- 20 Of The Church And its Ministers, And their Offices
- 21 Of Churchwardens
- 22 Of Parish Boundaries1
- 23 Of Schools And Schoolmasters1
- 24 Of Universities, Particularly of the Heads of Colleges
- 25 Of Tithes
- 26 Of Visitations
- 27 Of Testaments
- 28 Of Ecclesiastical Penalties
- 29 Of Suspension
- 30 Of the Deduction of Fruits or Sequestration, as it is Commonly Called, for Different Reasons
- 31 Of Deprivation
- 32 Of Excommunication
- 33 A form for Reconciling Excommunicates
- 34 Of Judgments, and when Someone Ought to take Action or Agree to Them
- 35 Of Crimes
- 36 Of Judgments
- 37 Of the Office and Jurisdiction of all Judges
- 38 Of the Joinder of Issue
- 39 Of Oaths and Perjury
- 40 Of the Oath Against Calumny
- 41 Of Trials
- 42 Of Possession
- 43 Of [The] Credence [Given to Documents]
- 44 Of the Crime of Forgery
- 45 Of Witnesses and their Sayings
- 46 Of Custom
- 47 Of Prescriptions
- 48 Of Violent Striking of Clerks
- 49 Of Presumptions
- 50 Of Defamations
- 51 Of Respitings or Dilations
- 52 Of Exceptions
- 53 Of the Sentence and Judgment Rendered
- 54 Of Appeals
- 55 Of the Rules of Law
- 3 Appendixes
- 4 Indexes of sources and references
- Subject index
- Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
5 - Of Sacraments
from 2 - The Reformatio legum ecdesiasticarum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Henrician canons
- 2 The Reformatio legum ecdesiasticarum
- Signs used in the text
- The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws
- Royal proclamation of King Edward VI
- 1 Of The Highest Trinity And The Catholic Faith
- 2 Of Heresies
- 3 Of Judgments Against Heresies
- 4 [Of] Blasphemy in Which
- 5 Of Sacraments
- 6 Of Idolatry and Other Like Crimes
- 7 Of Preachers
- 8 Of Matrimony
- 9 Of Degrees Prohibited in Matrimony
- 10 Of Adultery and Divorce
- 11 Of Those to be Admitted to Ecclesiastical Benefices
- 12 Of The Resignation or Abandonment of Benefices
- 13 Of The Exchange of Ecclesiastical Benefices
- 14 Of Purgation
- 15 Of Dilapidations
- 16 Of Alienating or Letting Church Property
- 17 Of an Election
- 18 Of Conferring Ecclesiastical Benefices Without Loss
- 19 Of The Services Of The Church
- 20 Of The Church And its Ministers, And their Offices
- 21 Of Churchwardens
- 22 Of Parish Boundaries1
- 23 Of Schools And Schoolmasters1
- 24 Of Universities, Particularly of the Heads of Colleges
- 25 Of Tithes
- 26 Of Visitations
- 27 Of Testaments
- 28 Of Ecclesiastical Penalties
- 29 Of Suspension
- 30 Of the Deduction of Fruits or Sequestration, as it is Commonly Called, for Different Reasons
- 31 Of Deprivation
- 32 Of Excommunication
- 33 A form for Reconciling Excommunicates
- 34 Of Judgments, and when Someone Ought to take Action or Agree to Them
- 35 Of Crimes
- 36 Of Judgments
- 37 Of the Office and Jurisdiction of all Judges
- 38 Of the Joinder of Issue
- 39 Of Oaths and Perjury
- 40 Of the Oath Against Calumny
- 41 Of Trials
- 42 Of Possession
- 43 Of [The] Credence [Given to Documents]
- 44 Of the Crime of Forgery
- 45 Of Witnesses and their Sayings
- 46 Of Custom
- 47 Of Prescriptions
- 48 Of Violent Striking of Clerks
- 49 Of Presumptions
- 50 Of Defamations
- 51 Of Respitings or Dilations
- 52 Of Exceptions
- 53 Of the Sentence and Judgment Rendered
- 54 Of Appeals
- 55 Of the Rules of Law
- 3 Appendixes
- 4 Indexes of sources and references
- Subject index
- Bibliography
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
What a sacrament is.
A sacrament (as we understand it in this context) is a sign instituted by God which may be seen, by which the grace of Christ conveyed to us by promises and merits and the forgiveness of sins ﹛promised remitted﹜, expressed to them [in words], is sealed, which has a double power in our souls. For first of all, the taking of these external [signs], and of the virtues properly attributed to them, recalls to our memory the price of the salvation which has been bought for us, and enables us to profess it openly, and secondly it sharpens and revives faith, giving added strength to it. Furthermore, it strengthens [us in] mutual love [between us], and pours out the fear of God in our minds. Finally it encourages us to live a sincere and honest life. In former times circumcision was this kind of thing. Now baptism and the eucharist have taken its place.
What must be looked for in a sacrament.
Three things must come together for a sacrament to be perfect. First there must be an obvious and appropriate sign, which can be clearly discerned. Second, there is the promise of God which is represented to us and fully confirmed by the external sign. Third, there is the command of God, by which the necessity is placed on us, both to do these things and to commemorate them. Since these three things occur with the authority of the Scriptures only in baptism and the eucharist, we accept only these two as true and proper sacraments of the New Testament.
What baptism is.
Baptism is a sacrament by which our second birth is sealed to us by the external pouring [of water], forgiveness of sins is received, and the power of the Holy Sancti virtus infunditur, quemadmodum [divini promissi] verbis compraehensum est in baptismo propositis, ut erectior in nobis et perfectior esset fides. Dum autem in aqua demergimur et rursus ex illis emergimus, Christi mors [nobis] primum et sepultura commenda[n]tur, deinde suscitatio quidem illius et redditus ad vitam; ut isti[u]s mortis et vitae monumentis recordemur, et palam testificemurpeccatum in nobis [mersum] mortuumetsepultumiacere, sed novum [77r] et salutarem Dei Spiritum reviviscere in nobis et reflorescere, tinctoque foras externis aquis corpore, nostras intus animas, abstersis peccatorum sordibus, puras et perpurgatas ad aeternas et caelestes oras se attollere.
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- Tudor Church ReformThe Henrician Canons Of 1535 and the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum, pp. 226 - 231Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2000