![]() I am so far from holding any further dispute with him that I almost repent myself of what I have already argued against him. Seeing, therefore, he despiseth all men and believes none, he ought not to take it ill if everybody discredit him again. None of the Doctors are so ancient, none so holy, none of so great authority in treating of Holy Writ, but this new doctor, this little saint, this man of learning, rejects with great authority. And these, too, if alleged by any against him, he either evades by some private exposition of his own, or else denies them to belong to their own authors. What everybody believes, he alone by his vain reason laughs at, denouncing himself to admit nothing but clear and evident Scriptures. For seeing by what has been said, it is evident to all men what sacrilegious opinions he has of the sacrament of our Lord's Body, from which the sanctity of all the other sacraments flow: who would have doubted, if I had said nothing else, how unworthily, without scruple, he treats all the rest of the sacraments? Which, as you have seen, he has handled in such sort that he abolishes and destroys them all, except Baptism alone. ![]() And if there be any who desire to know this strange work of his, I think I have sufficiently made it apparent to them. who have much more clearly discovered the same, than can be shown by me. For though we have not touched all things contained in his book, yet so far as was necessary to defend the sacraments (which was our only design), I suppose I have treated, though not so sufficiently as might have been done, yet more than is even necessary.īut that others may understand how false and wicked his doctrine is, lest they might be so far deceived as to have a good opinion of him, I doubt not but in all parts there are very learned men. We have in this little book, gentle reader, clearly demonstrated, I hope, how absurdly and impiously Luther has handled the holy sacraments. Quotes from Henry VIII's The Defense of the Seven Sacraments
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