 | Peter Heylyn, Ecclesiastical History Society - Church and state - 1849 - 520 pages
...blessed Sacrament, she very cautiously resolved the point in these following verses: — "Twas God the Word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the Word did make it, That I believe and take it2." 24. But all this caution notwithstanding, her averseness... | |
 | Richard Sherlock - Devotional exercises - 1849 - 442 pages
...modest, humble, and sober-minded good Christian in this great mystery of godliness : It wu the Lord that spake it, He took the Bread and brake it ; And what the Word did make it, So I believe and take it. 2. He discerns not this Sacramental Body of the Lord,... | |
 | William Carlos Williams - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 300 pages
...have hurt much when they slit its throat." There is a simple statement of faith at the beginning: He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the Word did make it, I do believe and take it. He must get through a message to the people such as... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...frankincense and myrrh, to thee and thy Babe we bend the knee. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American author He was the Word, that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it. John Donne (c. 1571-1631) English divine, metaphysical poet The whole religious... | |
 | Freeman G. Henry - Criticism - 1994 - 412 pages
...lyrics appear to represent prophetic affirmations of life. The first of them, for example, declares: He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it And what the Word did make it, I do believe and take it. After a time Albion Moonlight stops inserting lyric... | |
 | Religion - 1995 - 212 pages
...political reasons, and imitate her response in verse and its deliberate ambiguity to the debate: Christ was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and...that Word did make it, That I believe, and take it. So let us not worry about the method and nature of Christ's presence in the consecrated bread and wine... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...answered the question at her Coronation as to the presence of Christ in the Sacrament, by saying: Christ was the Word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what that Word did make it, I do believe and take it.17 Queen Elizabeth I asserted: I am your Queen. I will never be by violence... | |
 | Geoffrey Wainwright - Medical - 1997 - 208 pages
...reply of Queen Elizabeth I when asked for her view of Christ's presence is to be appreciated: Twas God 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 twentieth-century eucharistic theology, the role... | |
 | Frank Alexander Peake - History - 1997 - 268 pages
...presence." He did not quote John Donne's famous verse but it evidently represented his position: Christ was the Word that spake it. He took the bread and brake it. What His Word doth make it, That I believe and take it. Concerning Confession and absolution, he said... | |
 | Michael Keene - Religion - 1998 - 148 pages
...Commandments &.A ICll L.1* ! : IE] L * * * CHAPTER FOUR &'• V SACRAMENTS AND CEREMONIES " 'Twos Qod 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." 4.1 THE SACRAMENTS The sacraments stand at the... | |
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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. 
