...body', she wrote a verse which though appalling poetry is sound religious common sense: The Word it was that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And what his word does make it, That I believe and take it. execution warrant signed by Lord Burleigh. The chapel...

...important thing is not to understand what happens at communion, but to receive Christ's body in faith. 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.58 Faith Thrives in Community Austin Farter (1904-68)...

...have a great deal of influence on the formation of Anglicanism. Queen Elizabeth I wrote: 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word doth make it, That I believe and take it.15 Amen to that. 15. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations,...

...faithful in the Lord's Supper. THE WITNESS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH I Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. "Christ was the Word that spake it; He took the Bread, and brake it; And what that Word doth make It, I do believe and take It." THE WITNESS OF ANGLICAN DIVINES Lancelot Andrewes...

...level of sign and symbol, of dream and vision. Words ascribed to Queen Elizabeth I best sum it up: He (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. This understanding of communion is integral to my...

...and it was likewise published for the most part in works that vouched for its authenticity: Twas God 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.25 The lines appear in a number of sixteenth- and...