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B00431	The divine portrait. Or, A true and liuely representation of the blessed sacrament of the Lords Supper: with our due preparation how to receive the same worthily. / Delivered in a sermon, at the Reformed Church of Paris (on Easter day last:) by Monsieur Iohn Mestrezat ... ; Englished by John Reynolds.	Mestrezat, Jean, 1592-1657.	1631 (1631)	STC 17845; ESTC S94173	40,057	246

is my Blood which is shed for you This Meditation hath three Points and Obiects I. The body and blood of Iesus Christ in these words My Body My Blood II. The Oblation of this Body and of this Blood in these words Which is broken which is shed III. The Fruit of this oblation intimated in these words Broken For You Shed For Many for the remission of Sinnes In the first of these when you heare Iesus Christ proposing his body and his blood the meditation then required of you is That it being so that we have so expos'd our selues to the wrath and so incurred the indignation and revenge of God by reason of our sinnes and transgressions that the Iustice of God must bee satisfied consequently that either wee must beare Gods wrath and malediction and so for ever stoop and faint vnder the heavie burthen thereof or else that some other thing must bee substituted in our steed and place to satisfie the Iustice of God But nothing could bee found out in the whole world to bee appointed in the place of man and worthily to satisfie for his sinnes From the beginning of the world beasts have beene offered and these Sacrifices of beasts by the sense and feeling which our conscience hath ever given to men of a sufficient valable satisfactiō for sin have been practised in all the whole world In the old Law a man came and put his hands on the head of the beast which was to bee sacrificed as putting her in his place and roome with an intent and hope to discharge and transferre his sinnes on her but contrariwise natural reason sheweth that that could no way appease or satisfie God For Gods Iustice being of it selfe most perfect can no way content it selfe with a payment or satisfaction so vnequall and imperfect to the Debt because all the beasts of the Earth placed and numbred vp together are not equivalent or to bee compared in valew to one man Heer then O here is the Sacrifice or Victime after which without knowing it all the world sighed and respired in offering these Sacrifices and this is the Sacrifice which all others ought to reverence and looke on When therefore you heare Iesus Christ saying This is my Body you must figure and represent him to you as proffering and offering vp to God his Father these admirable words and speeches recited by the Apostle to the Hebrewes Hebr. 10. Thou wilt have no Sacrifice or offering but thou hast given and appropriated mee a body Thou hast taken no delight in Sacrifices And then I haue said heer I am I come And in the beginning of the Booke it is written of mee that I doe thy will O God So heer Christ Iesus comming to present himself in the place and steed of all these Sacrifices which had beene offered vp vnder the Law and which were daily reiterated continued because as the same Apostle said in the same Chapter Ibid. v. 4. That it was impossible that the blood of Buls and Goats should take and wash away Sinnes And therefore my beloved brethren obserue heer the readinesse and favour which the providence of God makes and provides for you of a most conuenient and requisite Victime and Oblation When Isaac was to bee sacrificed there was a Ramme found tyed by the Hornes to a bush to bee sacrificed for him But here O Sinners behold in these words This is my body that great Sacrifice and Oblation which the wonders of Gods divine providence haue addressed and sent you and reioice that heer is the true Sacrifice or Victime which comes to assist and defend you from Gods heauy wrath and Indignation But Iesus Christ as being simply God could not present himselfe in a Sacrifice for men for there wanted a humane Sacrifice because Sinne had beene committed and perpetrated by man wherefore our Saviour Christ tels you This is my body Hee saith not This I am but This is my body therby purposely to conduct and lead you to the mysterie of his Incarnation whereby he is descended from Heaven hath taken and assumed a carnall body and is made man for vs so that conioyntly with these words you at one time see your great Sacrifice taken from Earth and yet descended from heaven Taken from Earth for it is a body descended from Heaven for it is My Body said our Saviour Iesus Christ that is to say of mee true God with the Father Heer therefore is the wonder which you ought to meditate on That nothing being found in all the world no nor in the infinit multitude and infinitie of all Gods Creatures which could be capable to bee our ransome towards God Then loe Iesus Christ himselfe the only Sonne of God descended so low as he made himselfe man and a creature to the end that hee might bee offered vp a Sacrifice for vs Hee whose Essence was wholly simple and spirituall assumed a body and being materiall and carnall Hee who was inuisible to our eyes hath made himselfe conspicuous and visible to vs permitted and suffered himselfe to be beaten tyed and nayled to a Crosse yea to bee runne thorow with a Speare and in a word capable to be sacrificed And heer you may know and find why Iesus Christ holding the Bread said not This is my Divinity but This is my Body That is to say because not his Divine but onely his Humane nature could bee offered vp in Sacrifice The Divinity is well considered but still as offering not as offered according as the Apostle said to the Hebrewes Heb. 9.14 That Iesus Christ offered himselfe vp to God by the eternall Spirit By which means It is not the eternall Spirit which hath beene offered For that which was offered was to die But the body hath been offered by the eternall Spirit And here ariseth vnto vs another wonder to wit that although Christs humane nature be offered neverthelesse it is of as great a price and value as if his Divinity it selfe could have beene offered and the reason hereof is because this his humane nature composed not but one and the same person with the divine nature For this body which was crucified was personally vnited to the eternall Spirit and this miracle or wonder is given you for your meditation in that Iesus Christ holding the bread said not indefinitly This is my Body which is broken for you but This is my Body as if hee said This is a humane Body and yet mine to the end wee might know that this vivifying or quickning flesh that is to say to bee a worthy Ransome for the life of the world Sith it is the flesh of a man who is both God and man In the Leviticall Law Moses sprinkling of blood when God contracted Alliance with the Israelites said This is the blood of the Testament which God hath ordained for you But this blood was the blood of Beasts Now heer in the Sacrament of his Supper is proposed and presented to you