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A13780 Here beginneth a song of the Lordes Supper Tilney, Edmund, d. 1610, attributed author.; Tilney, Emery, d. 1606, attributed author. 1550 (1550) STC 24078; ESTC S108085 24,437 64

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their abhominable prodigiouse beastely lyuing But in what place of the vnworthey receyuers these men ought to be put which not onely by their abhominable abuse haue changed altered this most holy souper by their own newe strāge decreed vayne rytes vngodly tradicions haue so violated and brokē Cristes first instituciō y t of the same souper that Crist celebrated cōfirmed by his inuiolable ordinance there is nothing not so miche as the name or very litle lefte of what vnworthey sorte ar these men God se to it be iuge Cypriane in his pistle vnto Cecilium warneth ernestely sharpely y t in the administraciō of the sacraments we shuld not in any wyse nor in nothing swarue from y ● precepts of the gospel But the disciples shuld obserue that at their master Crist taught did it And he denyeth also those men worthey to be called ether the frends or disciples of Crist whiche violate or breke their masters commandemēt or altere his ordināce as did certayn men in his tyme put onely water into the cuppe when Crist cōsecrated wyne no water of whom Crist testifyeth in his gospell saying ye ipocrytes ye cast away my cōmandements to setfast your owne tradiciōs I wylnot here tell y t at euery man knoweth euen the licenciouse fraude of them which to nourissh theirown priuate filthy lucre filthyer idyl bellyes haue turned this holy souper not without a grete mystery celebrated in the euening which tyme the apostles euer aftir obserued this comon communion for many togither to receyue into a priuate I wilnot saye chorlissh breakfast selling it vnder y ● cloke of their owne merits And somiche the more gilty of the lordis body blode ar they for that they entreate handle behaue themselues so filthely so cruelly that y ● scripture in euery place cryeth so out agenst them y t their indignite lothely vnworthenes nether may nor ought no lenger to be suffred Also Chrysostom saith y t they ar not only gyitye of the blode of Crist whiche in tēples by the abuse of holy sacramēts seke folowe terrene vnlawfull lucre cōuerting y e honorable religiō into thoccasion of vngodly merchandise but also thei that bye sell y e giftis of god when thei shuld know it writē That thīg frely to be geuē which thei frely receyued wherfore nedis must thei be giltye of y e body of the Lorde which inuyte compell men for their giftis in bying selling to do that thing which violateth subuerteth y ● doctrine tradiciō of crist And sewerly Ambrose speking of the vnworthey eaters saith Those men to be vnworthy of y ● Lorde aftir thapostles mynde which wotherwise celebrate this mystery then it was delyuered of the Lorde for he may not be deuoute godly which presumeth and taketh it otherwyse then it was geuē of the firste autour It wolde gladly be knowne what shuld be answerde vnto theis holy fathers which all with one voice deteste dampne this violated ryte abuse of the sacramēt thus deformed so prophanely abused popisshly celebrated as ye se it this daye which also vtterly denye it y t it is lawfull Cristis cōmandement instituciō abrogated despysed to be turned into y ● doctrynes decrees of mē And that thīge which was once done iustly according to the scriptures in all chirches so manye yeres we may not suffer it to be altered of men by no autorite of scriptures by no example of the olde holy doctours by no iuste cause but onely for the filthy lucre vnreasonable giftis of a fewe hyerlings to stond still thus violated deformed and prophaned Thei therfore vnworthely eat his flessh drink his blode whiche thirsting the innocent blode of Cristes pore chirche persecute sley those good men that speke or write agenst their blody actes deadis of whō the prophete I say saith Swift ar their feet to shede blode Nether take they the wordis of the apostle any lesse flesshly then did the blody caparnaites take Cristis when they sayd How may this man geue vs his flesshe to eate It is therfore manifest that theise blodye flesshly eaters drīkers receyue Crist w t as vnpure hertis as filthy mouthes as did thei that nayled him to the crosse woūded his body gaue hym gall to drinke Also it is manifest that the gylte syn cōsist not nor is not cōmitted in the bodely ●owching of his naturall bodye but by the contempt abuse of so holy a sacramēt As contrary wyse the frute therof stondeth not in the ●owching vse of his corporall present bodye but in the spiritual enbrasing therof by faith wherby the spirit of faith e●eth verely the flessh of crist and verely drinketh his blode Aftir this maner somtyme mē were called gilty of the maiestye or traytours which contumeliously despysed the glorye or dignite of the Romās And they called iniurio●se vnto y ● emprowr that threwdown his image or rased his picture or any letters from hym which thīg was as haynously takē as though thei had layd violent hādis vpon themprowr himself And euē so ar thei verely gilty goddis maiesty and traytours to hym whiche violate cōtempne the institucion lawe of hym do contrarye to y t thing which he cōmāded ordened So ar thei gilty y e bodye blode of crist which coming to his table nether w t the dewe honour vnto the lorde nor w t that discipline that the souper requireth nor w t the same mynde faithe y t the body blode is receyued prosecute not this mystery instituted of y ● lorde but ether negligētly litle regarde it or vtterly cōtempne it as thei were wonte whiche as the Apostle writethe Crucifye Crist a fresshe in themselues set forthe the blode of the couenāt for a laughing ●tok tredīg it vnder fote by which they were sanctifyed for it is sayd That y ● greter the maiestye is y ● greuouser is the syn the more is the indignite vnworthines committed agenst it Also these Iewes gētyles ar giltye of the mistik bodye of Crist which draw forth and shed the blode of his chirche which is euē y ● very blode of Crist And thus ar the wyked couetuouse curates called in scripture giltye the blode of Crist which fede not their flok with the fode of goddis worde but famisshe them for hunger And thei ar innocent of the blode which w t all diligence fede Cristis chirch redemed with his blode with the worde of God And thei ar giltye of the body bloud y ● beleue not for so is eting takē Ezech .iij. where he is cōmanded to eate the bok And they ar vngilty aftir Austen y ● eat the flesshe drinke y ● blode of the Lorde according to Cristis saying I
satan saith Io. xiij entred into hym aftir Crist had raught hym the morsell of brede ¶ What it is worthely or onworthely to receyue the sacrament FIrst ye shal knowe that there cometh no frute vnto any receyuers of any sacrament but onely vnto them that call into mynde the deth of Crist with holy deuoute remembrance y t he was crucifyed for their synnes wassheth them awaye w t his blode geuing hym thākis immortal hygh prayse glorye in this sweet remembrance and faith Onely vnto siche men Crist commendeth and hathe committed his body Onely vnto these mē he draweth forth his blode For these mē onely was he offred vp on the altar of y ● crosse So that they doutelesse slip from y ● trwth that beleue Iudas to haue had receyued the same thing that the other apostles receyued For they eat not verely y ● flesshe of the Lorde which in hym dwel not nor he in them for Io. euangelist euen the next gest at Cristis elbowe sitting at his messe testifyeth that assone as Iudas had receyued y e soppe the deuill entred into hym for his gest into his soule Item yong infantes and men bestraught albeit they be the membres of Crist yet may they not w t frute receyue it for these persones may not rightly remember the mystery of their redēption nor dewly examyn proue themselues before nor geue thākis therfore which thinges ar cheifely required at the cebracion of this holy fea●te Paule biddeth euery mā proue trye inserche and examyn hym self before he eateth of this brede and drinke of this cuppe for yf we had trwly examined our selues we shuld not haue had ben so punisshed of the Lorde Whose mynde is that they ar with out perell that descende into their owne selues and with grete detestacion of their synnes desyer to be the same that they heare that is to saye the mēbers of y e bodye of Crist. Nether vnaptely is this probacion of our selues called the parte of the commemoracion when there can be no commemoracion with out the iuste probacion of our selues First therfore let vs examyn our selues by y ● twyche stone squyer of goddis commandements which as a glasse shall shewe vs to our selues to be nothing els in all our dedis lyfe wordis thoughtes but greuouse sinners Then let vs trye our selues whether for our synnes we be sory in herte vnfaynedly repentāt ful minded to practize our baptyme in mortifying our affectes changing our lyfe by faith burying our synnes in Cristes woundis with hym to ryse agene into a new state of lyuing Let vs trye our selues to knowe vnder what degre of y ● lawe we be as it is before expressed Serche whether y u beist as glad to forgeue all y ● haue hurte the euen as thou woldist be forgeuē of god Loke whether y u canst espye thy nowne secrete birthe poyson and loue to thy self sought in all thy dedis thoughtes a●d wordis rather then the glory of God profyt or edifying of thy neighbour And nowe se whether thou haste or desyerst to haue that faith and loue which God commandeth the to haue to hym and to thy neighbour be heuye that thou hast them not in y t perfecciō wherein thou arte bownde to haue them that pacience confidence constancye humilite temperance chastite and a wyll in all thingis cōformable vnto goddis wil. and yf y u aknowlegest theis thy nowne synnes imperfeccion vnfaynedly yet art thou a membyr of the body of Crist as writeth Paule and mayst sit downe with fere and reuerence geuing thākis to God for this inestimable benefyt of our redempcion But this iuste probacion as our papistis neuer practyzed it in themselues so neuer yet taught it they their flockes Whylis we therfore thus expende proue our selues consydering who we were by Adams fall from what perellis and euillis we ar by Crist delyuered vndeserued of vs what gyftis ar geuē vs vnloked fore agene what we professed at our baptisme into whose disciplyne we entred what bataile we toke in hāde vnto what a capitayne heerd man by it we were conseigned anoynted called Cristiās of the name of Crist vnto whom we were professed and our selues yielded and yet in all this probacion and rememberance of our selues of our benefitis by Crist we must apere to our selues insufficient vnworthely with condigne thankis to haue remembred and beleued all these benefyts and we therfore in our selues euer to confesse vs vnworthy w t the Centurion that Crist shuld entre into our houses But be it in case we might w t any vtwarde fayned probaciō deceyue all men before whom we testifye our indignite and declare our faith yet cānot he be deceyued which onely sercheth inseeth hertes and raynes whiche also is the mynde and spirit of that bodye which is compacte and framed of the congregaciō of all faithfull men Also as the Apostle warneth vs to mortifye our bodyes to be buryed and to ryse with Crist so exhorteth he vs to not suffer synne to raigne in vs. He commandeth vs to purge and to make vs clene from that olde leuayne and to be purifyed by faith But verely full colde and vngodly is the probaciō that dependeth of mennis lawes and decrees ●ith he saith They ought not to be rekened well proued which cōmende and prayse themselues but thei whom the lorde cōmēdeth which cōmendeth non but siche as allowe approue his will known by y ● scriptures Let not therfore this saying of Dauid neuer go from thy mynde Blessed is y ● mā whom y u techest o Lorde oute of thy lawe enstructest hym And yet albeit y t in these men whiche thus proue themselues so eat worthely there is cōtinual batail w t syn which they here aboute in their bosoms yet eteth he not vnworthely which takē holden with the spirit of penance endeuowreth aspyreth vnto this one thīg That as he is dede with Crist from syn euen so as I sayd before he stryueth to aryse agene with hym into a newe lyfe not yielding hymself to syn any more to haue dominion ouer hym but ouercometh thinfirmite of his flessh with the vertewe power of the spirituall lawe that mortifyeth affectes For a Cristiās lyfe is a continuall bataile And as it is a gloriouse thīg to fight haue victory euē so to be ouercome it is not onely shame in the tentes of the Cristen felde but also dethe and dampnacion Wherfore the flesshe and bloude of Crist euē for this cause specially ar asked at the Lordis table of them that ar faithfull that as waryers and soldiers ar fed and anoynted with oyle euen so ar Cristis waryers fed strengthened with the excellent vertewe of the sacraments that they might continewe and be strong in batail and resist the engins of temptacions so that ther