A testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ; written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest: being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a Charge, to the People. Together with the two epistles of Ælfric on the same Subject. First published, with a preface, by Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury; and the Whole regularly attested by his Grace and fourteen other Bishops; with divers other Personages of Honour and Credit. With an appendix; shewing, I. That the Doctrine of our Saxon Ancestors was the same with that of the Primitive Church, concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. II. Comparing such Doctrine with what has been lately advanced, on the same Subject, in a Book intituled, A Plain Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

  • Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.
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M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]
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Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. English

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London : printed for the author, M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]

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[16],152,[4]p. ; 80.

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