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A12589 A godly and shorte treatise of the sacraments. vvritten by Robert Some.. Some, Robert, 1542-1609. 1582 (1582) STC 22906; ESTC S1136 31,309 100

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the flesh so that whole Christ both God man suffered according to the vnity of persō but suffered not according to the propretie of nature that is to say of his godhead According to this I haue set downe Acts. chap. 20. ver 28. 1. Cor. chap. 2. ver 8. are Saint Paules words in the Actes and to the Corinthians to be vnderstanded The councell of Constantinople did decree that the blessed Virgine shoulde bee called the mother of GOD. We doe allowe that decree of the councell and yet we neither doe nor may thinke that the virgine Mary did heare Christies Godhead in hir wombe but the meaning is that he whiche was horne of the blessed virgine was not onely man but for the coniunction of the word to the fleshe God and man 13. The bread and wine in the Lords Supper must not bee reserued for any superstitious vse It was not lawfull to keepe any part of the Paschall lambe Exod. cha 12 verse 10. Exod cap. 16. verse 19.20 It was not lawfull to reserue of the Manna That which was reserued was full of wormes and did stinke Our Sauiour Christ at the institution administration of the holy Supper Mat. chap. 26. verse 26. commaunded his disciples to take and eate not to take and reserue it Cyprian writes that the Sacrament was receiued Decoena Domini but not shut vp and reserued I confesse that the Sacrament in olde time was reserued De lapsis lib. 6. chap. 44. Cyprian writeth that a certaine woman had it in her chiest Eusebius saith out of Dionifius that a priest had it in his chamber where hee deliuered it to Serapions boy to carried to Serapion which was then at the poynt of death But this relerning of the Sacrament was a strange abuse and therefore afterwarde was iustly abolished The reseruing and hanging vp of the Sacrament as the Papistes call it in a Pixe vnder a Canopie hath no light in Gods booke to shewe it by and before the time of Innocentins the fourth it was neyther an article of our fayth nor any lawe of the Church that Christians shoulde worship the breade wine in the Sacrament much lesse giue diuine honour to a wafer cake after that the action of the Sacrament is ended if that the Popish Sacrament of the Altar might be accompted a sacrament 14 Howe Gods chyldren must behaue themselues at and after the receiuing of the holy Supper In the time of the administration of the holy Supper wee must vse our eares and eyes very reuerently our eares in attending to Gods trueth and the holy institution of the Supper our eyes in beholding the holy misteries set vpon the Lordes table When the Sacrament is reached vnto vs wee are weightely to consider that as the bread and wine is broken and powred out in the holy supper for our vse so Christs bodye and blood which was giuen and shed on the crosse for perfiting the precious woorke of our redemption is giuen vnto vs to be the food of our soules and for this inestimable benefite wee must confesse our selues to be greatly and deeply bouns to our mercifull Sauiour by his grace giue vp our selues wholie to his prayse and seruice After that our soules are fedd at the Lordes table and that wee are graft into Christ as into a flourishing vine and ioyned to the faithfull as to goodly branches of this vine wee must liue Christianly not a day or two but al our life time first in beating downe our pride vanitie secondly in doing good to our brethren Lastly in keeping the vnitie of the spirit in the bond of peare These graces if we doearnestly pray for to almightie God hee will giue them vnto vs in mercie for his greater glorie our singular comfort through Iesus Christ Amen FINIS Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vinttee by Thomas Dawson for George Byshoppe 1582.