Sober, reverent piety

From Jewel's A Treatise of the Sacraments, words that capture the sober, reverent piety of the BCP Holy Communion:

And yet in speaking thus of the sacrament of the Lord’s supper, and denying the strange and new learning of transubstantiation, and making it known, that the bread and wine continue still that they were before, we do not conceive basely or unreverently of the sacrament: we do not make it a bare or naked token.  Let no man be deceived.  We do both think and speak soberly, and with reverence of the holy mysteries. 

 

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