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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16370	A treatyse of ye ryght honourynge and wourshyppyng of our sauiour Iesus Christe in the sacrame[n]t of breade and wyne when it is ministred wyth thankes geuing at the holy supper: sette forth by Rycharde Bonner priest, in ye yeare of our lord god. M. CCCCC xlviii. and the .xii. of Nouember.	Bonner, Richard.	1548 (1548)	STC 3287; ESTC S110945	54,307	174

is presented vnto hym so is thys onely the worshyppynge of God in spirite and trueth in or by this holy sacrament fyrste to conceyue suche a faythe in the goodnes of Christ by it as maye cause vs surely to truste both to the remission of our sinnes to the receiuynge of so moche grace and goodnesse also by the corporall eatynge and drynkynge of it as maye helpe vs to amende our lyues And then to geue ouer oure selues holly to the lawdynge and praysynge of hys name and to the folowynge of hys commaundemētes both in the hūble receyuyng of this sacrament and in folowynge of hys other lawes ¶ The seconde argumēt wherwith the pope woulde proue that this sacrament shoulde be reserued kepte and shewed to be honoured of the people with handes and knees though they dyd not receyue it is this The Arke of promesse the Mercye seat was continually worshypped of thē in the olde tyme whiche was a sacrament And therfore sayth he we ought to do the lyke vnto this sacrament at all tymes though we do not receiue it ¶ The aunswere God dyd ordeyne this Arke and Mercie seate for thē of the olde time to put them continuallye in remembraunce that he would suerly be present amongest them to fulfyll all the promesses that he had made vnto thē The which Arke and Mercye seate bycause it shoulde continuallye put theym in remembraunce of the sure fulfyllynge of hys promysses therfore was it bothe reserued contynually and also had in all reuerence amongest the people when they wold receyue thys remembraunce at it But the breade and wyne hathe not the lorde ordeined to be reserued contynuallye or to be lyfted vp for a shewe but geuen it to be eaten and dronken at an holy souper with this sygnifycatyon as I do geue you thys breade and wyne to be eaten dronken into youre bodyes as your owne foode so shall my bodye and blode noryshe and fede your soules wyth the grace good wyl of God for to helpe you both to beleue surely in it for the remission of your sinnes and also to amende the same agayne And therfore as thys sacrament doth not ministre thys signification nether by the reseruyng of it nor by the shewyng of it after any suche meanes as the Arke dyd but onely when it is geuen vs to be eaten and dronken wyth thys remembraunce so is it then onely to be honoured when it is so receyued in the holy souper But before I speake any further of the trewe worshypping of thys sacramēt I wyll fyrst shewe howe the primatiue churche vsed to worshyp it ¶ What the fayth and vse of the primatiue church hath bene of worshyppyng thys sacrament That they of the primatiue church haue wyth al reuerence and honour mynistred handled receyued thys holy sacrament of it we fynde wytnesse ynough But that they haue worshypped it kneled downe before it wyth the lyftyng vp of handes eyes towardes it and set it forth in golde and syluer to be worshypped or borne it about in processions honouryng it wyth candles torches ryngyng and syngyng and al other melodye of that we fynde not onely no wytnesse but rather it whereout we may gather clene the contrarye For we fynde how that certayne byshoppes of Rome dyd vse to sende the sacrament to the gates Eusebius libro v. capi xxiiii for to be receyued there of other straunge byshoppes when they came to vysite them Eusebius libro vi capi xxxiiii And we fynde howe that a priest dyd geue the sacrament vnto a boye for to beare home to hys father and to geue it hym there Also we may se in the bokes of saint Cipriane Cipri in sermo de Lapsis Hiero. in Apolo pro libris aduersus Iouianum Tertuliane and Hierome how that men were wont in the tyme of those holy fathers to gyue the sacrament vnto the laye people for to beare home with them and how that the people were wont after they had so receiued it to laye it vp in theyr chistes or other speciall custodyes Ambrosius de suo fratre satiro yea some woulde hange it about theyr neckes and receyue it when they lyst them selues Out of the whych we may well gather that men in those dayes knewe nothyng of worshyppyng the sacrament at the least wayes as it was now worshypped Honorius tertius a Pope that lyued and wrytte in the yere of oure Lord. M.CC.xvi. dyd ordeyne that men shulde reserue and kepe the sacrament in a place appointed that the priestes shulde oftentymes lerne the people reuerētly to knele downe when the sacrament was lyfted vp in the masse or when it was borne vnto the sycke folke Beholde this Pope whiche lyued but .iii. hundred and .xxxii. yeares a goo ordeyned fyrste that men shoulde reserue the sacrament in a place appointed and that the priestes should lerne the people to knele downe whē they saw the sacrament lyfted vp or borne about Where was than before those dayes the goodly pyxes canapies lampes with all the crouchinges and knelynges which we haue vsed but after the right vse of the sacramente whiche god hym selfe had commaūded to be kept was one fallen it was easye ynough for the deuell to brynge in all suche supersticious abuses and to cause men beleue that they were to the trew honouringe of god and his holy sacramentes Now is it trewe also that in the prymatiue churche there were some that did reserue the bread which thei had remayning ouer the communiō in a secrete place tyll the next tyme that they had an vse also to shewe the breade in the holy souper For as Dionisius in the .iii. chapter De eucharistia maketh mention it was the vse in hys tyme that the priestes should first set forth vpon the alter the bread chalice couered and after they had consecrated to vncouer them and bryng them so forth into the sight of the people and thē to deale the breade by and by in peaces to geue forth the cuppe in lykemaner And in the Greke Liturgia we rede that the priest a litle before the ministringe and receyuing of the sacramēt The shewynge of the sacrament hath ben 〈…〉 ●●ip ●●●ge of 〈◊〉 when it was to lifted vp was neuer vsed tyll of late dyd lyft vp a lytle the breade modicum sustolteus like as we vsed to do in our messe by and by after the pater noster But that ether the chalyce was at any tyme lyfted vp in those dayes or elles that the people fell downe vpon their knees and worshipped the bread beyng so lyfted vp of it we rede nothynge before this Pope Honorius did ordeyne it Wherby we may perceiue that al though that shewing of the bread in the holy souper be wel olde yet to fal down and worship it when it was so shewed or to lyft vp handes and eyes to it and not to receyue it as the lorde commaūded is an abuse crepte