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Last updated on November 26, 2024.
Thomas Cranmer was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time, Mary I. He helped build the case for the annulment of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which was one of the causes of the separation of the English Church from union with the Holy See. Along with Thomas Cromwell, he supported the principle of royal supremacy, in which the king was considered sovereign over the Church within his realm.
In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted
Whereof it followeth Rome to be the seat of antichrist, and the pope to be very antichrist himself. I could prove the same by many other scriptures, old writers, and strong reasons.
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
Lord Jesus, receive my spirit . . . I see the heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
In the Scriptures be the fat pastures of the soul; therein is no venomous meat, no unwholesome thing; they be the very dainty and pure feeding. He that is ignorant, shall find there what he should learn.
The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.