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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.
Corrections of the [4 Institution of a Christian Man, by Henry VIII. With Archbishop Cranmer’s Annotations
[IT is to be observed that the passages in small Roman type are extracted from the the marginal remarks in Italic are the Corrections proposed by Henry VIII. applying the text marked by. ‘The Annotations of Cranmer are in larger type, connected with rections by the nunierals added to the latter and prefixed to the former; and they are follow immediately after the passages they notice. The Institution of a Christian Man, pp. 30, 1. (edit. Oxf. 1825.) 1 believe also and profess, and this Father is almighty, that is to say, that his power and might excelleth incomparably in heaven and earth: and that all other powers, which be in heaven, earth, or hell, be nothing as of themselves, but have all their might, force, and strength of him only, and be all subject unto his power, and be ruled and governed thereby, and cannot resist or let the same
Annotations upon the King’s book?
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesu Christ his only Son our Lord: Which was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary: He suffered under Pontius Pilate, and was crucified, died, and was descended into hell: The third day he arose again from death: He ascended into heaven, and sitteth upon the right hand of God: From thence he shall come to judge both quick and dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost: And that there is an holy catholic church: A communion of saints, remission of sins: And that there shall be resurrection of the body: And life everlasting. Amen. This Credo I have translated as nigh as I can conveniently, word for to the Latin.
[[! Dr Jenkyns has printed these Corrections copy; for on the inside of the cover appears this]
[(Vol. LI. p. 21. etsqq.) “as a necessary introduction order: The king’s commandment is that I should]
[to Cranmer’s Annotations upon them,” and states not be had out of the privy chamber.” They are]
[that they are taken from a copy of the Institution here printed from Dr Jenkyns’ Remains of Cranmer,]
[formerly belonging to Rawlinson, and now in the with most of his notes; but they are differently ar-]
[Bodleian library,” as well as that Rawlinson be- ranged, so as to present the whole at one view to the]
[lieved them to have been written by Cranmer; but reader. They have been collated with the copy in]
[that Lewis of Margate, in a letter still preserved, the Bodleian Library, and also corrected by it.]]
[clearly proved, that, supposing the Annotations on [2 The Annotations are printed from the C. C.]
[the King’s Book, attributed to the archbishop, to be C. C. MSS. The title only is in Cranmer’s hand,]
[genuine, these Corrections, instead of being those the Annotations themselves being a copy by a]
[which he made, must be those on which he com- secretary. Extracts were printed by Strype, Mem.]
[mented; and that he further expressed his opinion, of Abp. Cranmer, p. 137, and Appendix, Num.]
[that Rawlinson’s copy of The Institution was the xxxi. p. 757, and the whole in the Fathers of the]
[identical Book on which Cranmer drew up his re- English Church:” but the editor of the latter]
[marks, Dr Jenkyns thinks that in this conjecture work, as well as Strype, supposed them to refer to]
[he seems to have gone too far. The probability the Necessary Doctrine,” generally known as the]
[ἰ is,” he says, ’ that these are Henry VI1L.’s rough King’s Book,” while the Institution was called]
[memoranda, which were afterwards transcribed the Bishops’ Book.” There is some doubt re-]
[fairly, and submitted, with some additions, to Cran- specting the time when they were written, Lewis]