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The subject of Communion, doctrine of transubstantiation, and questions regarding what Cranmer refers to as the “extravagant pretense” of the Roman Church are examined in this 16th century document.

that this manner of speaking is a figurative speech: for in plain and proper speech it is not true to say, that bread is Christ’s body, or wine his blood. For Christ’s body hath a soul, life, sense, and reason: but bread hath neither soul, life, sense, nor reason. Likewise in plain speech it is not true, that we eat Christ’s body, and drink his blood. For eating and drinking, in their proper and usual signification, is with
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