...Christ that was in the sacrament ! it is said that, after some pausing, she thus answered : Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake...the word did make it, That I believe and take it. Which, though it may seem but a slight expression, yet hath it more solidncss than at first sight appears...

...questioned respecting the real presence, the net for catching protestants, she replied : " Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake...the word did make it, That I believe and take it." That which was thus promised, was, in a great measure, fulfilled. By her wise counsels, the protestant...

...Saviour in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, replied in the following extempore lines : — "Christ was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what his word did make it, That I believe, and take it." It was impossible for either Catholic or Protestant,...

...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...the Word did make it, That I believe and take it'." 24. But all this caution notwithstanding, her averseness from the Church of Rome was known sufficiently...

...preached, he said, in the manner of Queen Elizabeth I, who was reported to have declared: it was the Lord that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what the Word dld make it, That i belleve and take it,57 This is not to suggest that intercommunion was practiced,...

...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 they are who have lost...

...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...

...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 poems into his journal,...

...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 brake it: And what that Word did make it, That I believe, and take it. So let us not worry about the method and nature...

...question at her Coronation in 1558 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.1 ,-j Queen Elizabeth I asserted: (•Elizabeth Tudor;...