Thomas Cranmer, 1489 - 1556
Portrait by Gerlach Flicke (1545)
Born: 2 July 1489, Aslockton, Nottinghamshire, England
Died: 21 March 1556, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
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- All Scripture is divinely inspired, etc. This text Saint John Chrysostom, Theophilactus, Thomas, with many other authors, both old and new, do expound plainly as the words be that whatsoever truth is necessary to be taught for our salvation, or the contrary to be reproved, whatsoever is necessary for us to do, and what to forbear and not to do, all is completely contained in the Scripture, so that a man thereby may be perfectly instructed unto all manner of goodness. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - notebooks (ca. 1538) - And there is nothing that so much establisheth our faith and trust in God, that so much conserveth innocency and pureness of the heart, and also of outward godly life and conversation, as continual reading and meditation of God's Word. For that thing which by perpetual use of reading of Holy Scripture and diligent searching of the same is deeply printed and engraven in the heart at length turneth almost into nature. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - For as the good fruit is not the cause that the tree is good, but the tree must first be good before it can bring fourth good fruit: so the good deeds of man are not the cause that makes men good, but he is first made good, by the spirit and grace of GOD that effectually works in him, and afterward he brings fourth good fruits. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - I take thee to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness, and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us depart. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - Book of Common Prayer (1549) - Predestination to life, is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation, those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind. As the godly consideration of predestination, and our election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, so for curious and carnal persons to have continually before their eyes the sentance of God's predestination, is a most dangerous downfall. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - Article 17 of the Church of England - Such is the true faith, that the Scripture doeth so much commend, the which when it seeth and considereth what GOD hath done for vs, is also mooued through continuall assistance of the Spirit of GOD, to serue and please him, to keepe his fauour, to feare his displeasure, to continue his obedient children, shewing thankefulnesse againe by obseruing or keeping his commandements, and that freely, for true loue chiefly, and not for dread of punishment, or loue of temporall reward, considering how cleerely, without deseruings wee haue receiued his mercy and pardon freely. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - "A Short Declaration of the True, Lively and Christian Faith" homily - The words of Holy Scripture be called words of everlasting life: for they be God's instrument, ordained for the same purpose. They have power to convert through God's promise, and they be effectual through God's assistance; and, being received in a faithful heart, they have ever a heavenly spiritual working in them. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - This Word whosoever is diligent to read and in his heart to print that he readeth, the great affection to the transitory things of this world shall be diminished in him, and the great desire of heavenly things that be therein promised of God shall increase in him. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - We do not presume to come to this thy table (o merciful lord) trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies: we be not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table: but thou art the same lord whose property is always to have maercy: Grant us therefore (gracious lord) so to eat the flesh of thy dear son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood in these holy mysteries, that we may continually dwell in him, and he in us, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood. Amen. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - Book of Common Prayer (1549) - We therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - Book of Common Prayer (1549) - What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - Book of Common Prayer (1549) - What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - Works done before the grace of Christ we doubt not but they have the nature of sin. permalink
Thomas Cranmer - Article 13 of the Church of England
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