 | William Hales - Great Britain - 1819 - 618 pages
...interrogated as to her belief of transub* stantiation, she thus answered evasively : — " CHRIST teas the Word that spake it ; He took the bread and brake it ; And uhat that Word did make it, • That 1 believe, and take it." 250 Parliament, with attendance on the... | |
 | Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...ingenious evasion of a captious theological question, is still more and deservedly applauded : — " Christ was the word that spake it; He took the bread and...that word did make it : That I believe and take it." She excelled even in things of a much more trifling nature. There cannot be a sillier species of poetry... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 498 pages
...Queen Elizabeth's homely lines are, after all, an excellent comment on this point of divinity : — His was the word that spake it ; He took the bread and...that word did make it, That I believe and take it. Note XII. True to her king her principles are found ; Oh that her practice were but half so sound !—... | |
 | George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 504 pages
...believed that the true body of Christ was in the elements, is said to have answered thus : " Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make it. That I believe and take it." In this manner she escaped from the difficulty ;... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 858 pages
...declare her opinion concerning the real presence of Chiist's body in the wafer, she answered, Christ was the word that spake it , He took the bread, and...that word did make it, That I believe and take it.— Putter's Holy Stale. She gave the characters of four knights of Nottinghamshire in the following distich:... | |
 | John Nichols - England - 1823 - 710 pages
...captious theological question, is still more deservedly applauded : " Christ was the Word that spake it j He took the bread and brake it ; And what that Word did make it, That I believe and take it." She conversed in Latin, in 1597, with the Polish Ambassador — " Lion-like rising," says Speed, "... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1824 - 568 pages
...presence, the net for catching the protestants, she is said to have replieti as follows : " Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it ; And what Ihe word did make it, That I believe and take it." The money granted by parliament enabled the queen... | |
 | George Miller - History - 1824 - 546 pages
...that of the energetic expression both of the reasonings and of the imaginings of the mind. (A) Christ was the word that spake it ; He took the bread and brake it j And what the word did make it, That I believe and take it. Rapin, vol. 2. p. 42. (0 To the real difficulties... | |
 | Theology - 1825 - 600 pages
...there greater wisdom, wit, or discretion, than in these memorable lines of the Virgin Queen. " Christ was the word that spake it ; He took the bread and brake it : And what he then did make it, That I believe, and take it." Some believe in a corporal presence called Transubstantiation... | |
 | Theology - 1825 - 600 pages
...there greater wisdom, wit, or discretion, than in these memorable lines of the Virgin Queen. " Christ was the word that spake it ; He took the bread and brake it : And what he then did make it, That I believe, and take it." Some believe in a corporal presence called Transubstantiation;... | |
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Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that word did make it, That I believe and take it. 
