The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
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The Parochial History of Cornwall, Volume 1 (of 4)
Cornwall (England : County) -- History; Geology -- England -- Cornwall (County)
And here it may not be impertinent to show, that our ancestors the
Britons of Cornwall received and took the blessed Sacrament in the
same sense as this martyr Agnes Prest did receive it; that is by faith
only, contrary to the doctrine of Transubstantiation: as is evident
from Mount Calvary, a manuscript in verse in the Cornish tongue,
written about five hundred years since, a copy of which is now in my
own custody, which containeth the history of the Incarnation and
Passion of Christ, according to St. John’s Gospel; wherein, amongst
others, verse the 79th containeth these words:[19]
Du benegas an bara, therag ay ys abestlye,
An gorfe ay ma, eshenna, ynmeth Chrest, sur rag rye why
Kemeras a berth, en bysma, dispersys henna nos avyth
Dybbery tho gans cregyans, thu da gober teck hag gevyth
Hay gwynsa wor an foys, ef a ranas in tretha
Yn meth Chrest, henna ys goyse ow, evough why pur Cherity.
Which sounds thus in English:
God blessed the bread in presence (or among) his Apostles (or
Disciples);
The body of me in this, saith Christ, certainly given for you;
Taken secretly, and in this world despised, this night shall be.
Eat it with faith, thy good, fair reward, and remission.
And the wine on the wall he divided amongst them:
Says Christ, this is my blood; drink you in pure charity.
Anno Dom. 1050, Berengarius, a deacon of Angiers in France, disproved
and refuted the doctrine of Transubstantiation in a large manuscript,
which he sent with letters to Lanfrank, then Abbat of Caen in
Normandy, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury from 1070 to 1089, which
letters and reasons, in the absence of Lanfrank, being opened by some
of his clergy, the same were transmitted to Pope Leo IX. whereupon
calling a council at Rome, and the letters and reasons of Berengarius
being read, he was condemned for an heretic in 1051. In France also
the same year, Pope Leo IX. assembled another council at Versailles
against Berengarius, which likewise condemned him for a heretic. The
like did Victor II. successor of Pope Leo IX. in 1055, in which
council Berengarius answered personally for himself; That, as to the
doctrine he taught concerning the Sacrament, he adhered to no
particular opinion of his own, but to that which was the ancient and
common doctrine of the universal Church.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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