I Am contente to submyt my selfe to the kynge and Quenes Maiesties , and to all theyr lawes and ordynaunces , aswel concernyng the Popes supremacy as others . And I shall from tyme to tyme moue and styrre all other to do the lyke , to the vttermost of my power , and to lyue in quyetnes and obedience vnto theyr maiesties , most humbly , without murmour or grudgynge agaynst any of theyr godly procedinges . And for my boke whiche I haue wrytten , I am contented to submyt me to the iudgement of the Catholyke churche , and of the nexte generall councell .

EGo Thomas Cranmer anathematizo omnem Lutheri & Zuinglij haeresim & quodcunque dogma sanae doctrinae contrarium , confiteor uerò & credo firmissimè unam sanctam & Catholicam ecclesiam uisiblem extra quam salus non est , atque eiusdem in terris supremum agnosco caput episcopum Romanum , quem fateor summum esse pontificem & papa●… ac Christi uicarium cui omnes tenentur subesse fideles . ●…am quod ad sacramenta attinet credo & colo in sacramento Eucharistiae uerum Christi corpi & sanguinem sub speciebus panis & uini uerissime citra ullum tropum & figuram contenta , conuersis & transubstantiatis pane in corpus & uino ●… sanguinem redemptoris diuina potentia . Atque in sex alijs sacramentis ( sici in hoc ) id credo & teneo quod uniuersa tenet ecclesia ac sentit Roman●… Credo insuper purgatorium locum ubi ad tempus cruciantur defunctoru animae pro quibus sanctè ac salubriter orat ecclesia sicut & sanctos colit ●… illosque praeces effundit . Demum in omnibus me profiteor non aliud sentire quàm ecclesia catholica & Romana tenetiae me poenitet ꝙ aliud unqua tenuerim ac senserim , deum autem supplexoro ut pietate sua mihi condonare dignetur , quae in illum & eius ecclesiam commisi , fideles simul rogo et ol secro ut pro me praeces effundant , eos autem qui meo aut exemplo aut doctrina seducti sunt , per sanguinem Ihesu Christi obtestor ut ad ecclesiae ●●deant unitatem idemque dicamus omnes , ut non sint in nobis schismata . Postremo sicut me subijcio catholicae christi ecclesiae eiusdemque supremo capiti , ●… me submitto Philippo & Mariae Angliae regibus atque eorum legibus & decretis , & testor deum optimum maximumque haec in nullius gratiam , nulli● metu à me confessa , sed ex animo & libentissimè ut meae & aliorum su● conscientiis consulam & prospiciam .

EGo Thomas Cranmer pridem Archiepiscopus Cantuarien . confiteor , & doleo exanimo , quod grauissime deliquerim in coelum & aduersus Anglicanum regnum , imo in uniuersam Christi ecclesiam , quam ●…nge seuius persecutus sum quam olim paulus , qui fui blasphemus , persecutor , & contumeliosus . Atque utinam qui Saulum malicia & scelere superaui , possē●um paulo quem detraxi honorem Christo & ecclesiae utilitatem recompensare . Verum meum utcunque animum latro ille euangelicus solatur . Ille namque tunc ●andem ex animo resipuit , tunc illum furti pertesum est , quum furari am●lius non liceret : & ego ( qui meo offitio & aucthoritate abusus , & Christo ●onorem , et huic regno fidem et religionem abstuli ) iam tandem dei maximo ●eneficio ad me reuersus , agnosco me omnium maximum peccatorem , et curiosi qua possem deo primum , deinde ecclesiae , & eius capiti supremo , atque●egibus , toti demum Anglicano regno condignam reddere satisfactionem . Verum sicut latro ille felix , quum non esset soluendo quas pecunias & ●pes abstulit ( quum nec pes nec manus affixae cruci suum officium faceret ) ●orde & lingua dumtaxat ( quae non erat ligata ) testatus est quod reliqua ●●mbra essent factura , si eadem qua lingua libertate gauderent . Illa confessus est Christum innocentem , ea obiurgabat impudentiam sotij , eadem ante●ctam uitam detestatus & peccatorum ueniam impetrauit , & ueluti claui quadam paradysi fores aperuit . Huius exemplo non mediocrem concipio de Christi misericordia spem , fore ut mihi peccata condonet . Manibus & pe●libus careo , quibus quod destruxi iterum reedificare ualeam ( relicta enim sunt tummodo labia circa dentes meos ) sed uitulos labiorum nostrorum recipiet , qui est supra quam credi possit misericors . Hacigitur concepta spe libet hunc offerre uitulum , hanc minimam & corporis & uitae partem licare . Confiteor in primis meam ergadeum opt . max. ingratitudinem , agnosco me omni indignissimum beneficio & pietate , dignissimum uero omni non 〈◊〉 humano ac temporali sed diuino & eterno supplicio , quod in Henricum 8 & maxime in eius uxorem Reginam Catherinam uehementissime deliqui , quum diuortij causa & author extiti : quae sanè culpa , omnium huius regni malorum & calamitatum seminarium fuit . Hinc tot proborum neces , hinc totius regni schisma , hinc haereses , hinc tot animorum & corporum strages ●bortae sunt , ut uix possim uel rationae complecti . Sed quum adeo sint haec grauia iniciaque dolorum , aperui fateor ingentem senestram haeresibis cunctis , quarum ego praecipuum egi doctorem & ducem . In primis uero il lud uehementer meum excruciat animum , quòd sacrosanctum Eucharistia Sacramentum tot blasphemijs & contumelijs affecerim , negans Christi cor pus & sanguinem uere & realiter sub speciebus panis & uini contineri , editis etiam libellis qui ueritatem pro uiribus impugnabam : in hac sanè par●… te non solum Saulo & latrone deterior , uerum omnium quos terra unque su●… stinuit sceleratissimus . Domine , peccaui in coelum & coram te . In coelum , quod mea causa tot caret coelicolis , quod coeleste hoc beneficium nobis exhibitum negaui impudentissime . Peccaui & in terra , quae tamdiu hoc sacramento miserè caruit , in homines quos ab hac supersubstātiali esca reuocaui , tot occisor hominum , quot inedia perierunt . Defraudaui defunctorum animas hoc iugi & celeberrimo sacrificio . Atque ex his omnibus manifestum est , quantopere etiam post Christum in eius uicarium iniurius extiti , quemlibris etiam editis potestate priuaui . Propterea magnopere & impensissimè oro summum pontificem , ut mihi ob Christi elementiam condonet , quae aduersus illum eiusque apostolicam sedem commisi . Ac serenissimos Reges Angliae , Hispaniae . &c. Philippum & Mariam supplex oro , ut regia qua pollent cle mentia mihi uelint ignoscere : totum etiam regnum , imo uniuersam ecclesiam rogo & obsecro , misereantur huius miserae animae , cui iam praeter linguam nihil est reliquum , quo possim illatas iniurias & damna resarcire . Praecipue uero quia tibi soli peccaui oro clementissime pater ( qui omnes ad te uenire quamlibet facinorosos & cupis & praecipis ) me propius & cominus digneris intueri , sicut Magdalenam & Petrum respexisti , uel certe sicut latrone ex cruce aspiciens , tuae gratiae & gloriae promissione dignatus espauidū et trementem animum consolari , ita etiam solita et natiua tua pietate oculos misericordiae ad me conuertas , nec non tuo me digneris alloquio , dicens , Salus tua ego sum , Et in die mortis , hodie mecum eris in Paradyso . Scriptum est hoc anno domini , 1555. Mensis Martij . 18.

GOod chrysten people , my dere beloued brethren , and my systers in Chryst , I besech you most har●ely to praye for me , to almighty god , that he wyl for●yue me all my synnes , and offences , whiche be ma●y wythout number , and greate aboue measure , but ●et one thinge greuethe my conscience more then all ●he rest , whereof god willing , I intend to speke more ●ereafter , But howe manye and howe greate soeuer ●hey be , I besech you to pray god of hys mercy to pardon and forgyue me all .

O Father of heauen , o sonne of god redemer of the worlde , o holy ghost , proceding from them both three persones and one God , haue mercye vpon me a most wretched caytife , and miserable synner , I haue offended both heauen and earth , more then my tonge can expresse , whyther than may I go ? or whither shal I flye for succoure ? To heauen I may be ashamed to lyste vp myne eyes , and in earth I fynde no refuge or succoure , what shall I than doo ? shal I dyspayre ? god forbyd , O god thou art mercyfull , and refusest none , that commeth vnto the for succoure . To the therfore do I runne , to the doo I humble my selfe sayinge : O lorde god my synnes be greate , but haue mercy vpon me , for thy greate mercye . God was not made man , for our smal offences . Thou didest not giue thy sonne vnto death , for smale synnes onely , but for all , and the greatest synnes of the worlde , soo that the synner retourne to the in his hart , as I doo here at this present : wherefore haue mercy on me o lord , for although my synnes be great , yet thy mercy is greater , I craue nothynge , o Lorde for myne owne merytes but for thy name sake , that it may be halowed therby , and for thy deare sonne Jesus Chryst sake , and nowe therefore , O father that art in heauen , hallowed be thy name ▪ Thy kyngdome come . &c.

Euery man desireth good people , at the tyme of their death , to gyue some good exhortation that good folkes maye remember after their death , and be the better for the same . So I besech god graunte vnto me , that I may speake some thinge whereby he maye be glorified and you edyfied . Fyrste it is an heauye case , to see how many folkes be so much doted of this present worlde , and so carefull of it , that for the world to come they seme to care very litle or nothyng . Therefore this shal be my fyrst exhortation , that you set not ouermuch , by this present world , but vpon the world to come , and vpon God , and learne to knowe what this lesson meaneth of Saynt Iohn . The loue of this world ( saith he ) is hatred vnto God . The , ii . exhortation is , that next vnto God , you obey your kyng , and Quene , willingly and gladly , without murmurynge or grudgynge , not for feare of them , but muche more for feare of God , knowing that they be goddes ministers appoynted by god , for to gouerne and rule you , and therefore they that resist them , resist gods ordynaunce . The third exhortation is that you loue together , like brethren and systerne . But alas pitie it is to see howe faint this loue is , many taking other not as brother and systers , but rather as straungers , or mortall enemyes . And yet I pray you learne this one lesson , to doo good vnto all men , as much as in you lyeth , and to hurte no man , no more then you woulde doo to your naturall louinge brother , and syster . For whosoeuer hateth any person , and goeth about maliciously to hurt him , surely withoute doute god is not with that man , although he thinke himselfe neuer so much in gods fauour . The , iiii , exhrotation shal be to them that haue substaunce and ryches of the worlde , that they well consyder and remember , iii , sayinges , of the scrypture . One is of our Sauiour Christ hymselfe , who sayth , that rych men hardely come into : a sore saying , and yet spoken of him that knewe the truth . The second is of S. Ihon , who saith thus . He that hath the substaunce of this worlde and seeth his brother in necessitie , and shitteth vppe his mercy from him , howe can he say that he loueth God ? The third is of S. Iames , who saythe to couetous ryche men after this maner : Wepe and howle you rich men for the miserye that shall come vnto you , your riches do rotte , your clothes be moth eaten , your gold & syluer wax cancre , and rustie , and theyr rust shall beare witnes agaynst you , and consume you lyke fyre , you make a hoorde and treasure of goddes indignation agaynst the last day : let them that be rych ponder well these . iii. sentences , for yf euer they had occasion to shew theyr charitie , they haue it nowe , the poore people being so many , and victuells so dere .

Here to declare the Quenes iust title to the crowne .

ANd nowe forasmuche as I am come vnto the last ende of my lyfe wherevpon hangeth all my lyfe passed , and al my life , to come , eyther to liue with my Sauioure Chryste , for euer in ioye , or ells to be in paynes euer , with the wicked deuilles in hell , and I see before my eyes presentlye , eyther heauen redye to receyue me , or ells hell redy to swallowe me vppe , I shall therfore declare vnto you my very fayth , wythout coloure or dissymulation , for nowe is no tyme to dyssemble , whatsoeuer I haue sayde , preached , or written in tyme past . Fyrst I beleue in God the father almyghty , maker of heauen and earth . &c. And I beleue euery article of the catholike fayth , euery clause worde , and sentence , taught by our sauiour Chryste , his Apostles and prophetes , in the newe and olde testament , and all articles explicate and set fourth in the generall counselles . And nowe I come to the greate thing that soo much troubleth my conscience more than any other thing that euer I did , & that is settinge abroad vntrue bokes , & writings , contrary to the truth of goddes word , which nowe I renounce and condempne , and refuse them vtterly as erronyous & for none of myne . But you must know also , what bokes they were that you maye beware of them , or ells my conscyence is not dyscharged . For they be the boo●… which I wrote agaynst the Sacrament of the Au●…tare syth the death of Kynge Henrye the eyghte . But whatsoeuer I wrote than , nowe is tyme and place , to saye truth , wherefore renouncyng al those bo●…s , and whatsoeuer in them is conteyned . I say and beleue that our Sauiour Chryst Iesu is really and sub stancially conteyned in the blessed Sacramente of the Aultare vnder the fourmes of breade and wyne .