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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17190	A most excellent sermon of the Lordes Supper wherein briefely (and yet plainly yenough [sic]) is liuely set foorth the matter of the Supper of the Lorde Iesus. By Henry Bullinger. Translated out of Frenche, into English by I.T.; Sermon très-excellent, auquel, en brief et toutes fois assez clairement est représenté au vif tout le fait de la Cène du Seigneur Jésus. English.	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Tomkys, John.	1577 (1577)	STC 4066; ESTC S115768	23,480	64

things signified whereof commeth greate profite if they be receiued by faith They which beholde onely the outward custome and facion of the Sacramentes of the olde Fathers without the woorde faith and the inwarde lightenyng of the spirite and doo consider none other thing in the Pascal supper nor in the sacrifices of the Fathers but that which we beholde outwardly with our eyes what difference thinke you may they put betweene those things and a commō banquet or a slaughter wherin the beastes are slaine before the bouchers table euen in such sort as vppon the holy Aultar Contrarily it wyll seeme to our fleshe that these holy things haue no maiestie at all but that they be rather to be mocked at For this cause we reade that the most holy and most wise Prophetes of God dyd greatly reproue them which esteemed the sacrifices by the outward appearance onely without faith and the spirit saying Who hath required this at your handes Heape vp your burnt offerings with your sacrifices and eate the fleshe For when I brought your Fathers foorth of Egypt I spake no woorde vnto them of burnt offerings and sacrifices The rest is in Ieremie the seuenth chapter Nowe because all the sacramentes of the auncient Fathers dyd promise that Christ should come and redeeme his elect and also considering that the Lorde Iesus Christ is already come into the world being geuen of his Father for the saluation of all the faithful it had been very vnseemly that the signes shoulde continue in the church which should witnesse that Christ should come who already was come Wherefore Christ after that he had abolished the Symboles and ceremonies of the auncient fathers to wyt Circumcision the feast of the Passeouer and the sacrifices in stead of Circumcision placed Baptisme and in stead of the Sacrifices and of the Pascall Supper ordeyned his mysticall Supper for a perpetual signe and vnchaungeable memorial of his body yeelded vp and geuen to the death and of his bloud shedde Therefore you must not only regarde in this our misticall supper the signe the fashion of dooing and the outward act but rather the thing signified The symboll or the signe in the Supper is the breade and wine and the holy banquet it selfe and the misticall action which Iesus Christ hath geuen vs The thing signified is the body of our Lord deliuered for vs and his bloud shedde for the remission of sinnes and the passion of the Lord it selfe and the remembrance thereof and our redemption which ensued thereof This doo saith the Lord in remembrance of me The companie therfore of the faythful assemble them selues togeather to celebrate the misteries of Christ In the which according to the auncient custome the simbols of bread and of wine borrowe the names of the things signified and be called the body and the bloud of the Lord Iesus Hereby are we called backe from visible things to behold heauenly things which are spiritually communicated vnto vs. For if thou behold onely the breaking of the breade and the distribution of the the cuppe with the brotherly feast and if thou knowe not what this breade is what this wine is and what things they represent vnto vs in refreshing our memorie therewith this Supper will not seeme to differ much from a common supper The sacrament therefore of Iesus Christ deliuered to death and of his passion and in lyke manner our redemption is deliuered here vnto vs And that we may the better vnderstand these things we wil proceed in searching out throughly that which the Lord did in this Supper and that which he commaunded vs to doo It is not needefull that I be tedious vnto you in speaking more of the forme maner of the Institution of the Supper for the Lorde our Sauiour instituted it and he did not institute the Masse And if the Masse seeme vnto any to be worthy of commendation price and estimation because it was ordeyned by the auncient Popes of Rome howe muche more I beseeche you ought the Supper to be renoumed and esteemed which was instituted by the great and onely priest Iesus Christe before all Popes and before Rome had receyued the faith from Hierusalem Moreouer it is most certaine and out of all controuersie that the Lord ordeyned this forme and none other And for this cause we reade that saint Paul Doctor of the Gentiles said That which I deliuered vnto you I receyued of the Lorde Truely the Euangelistes and the Apostles are witnesses that the Lord said often tymes This doo yee I say this doo yee this doo yee that is to say This which you see me first doo We haue then the expresse commaundement of God and the cleare woorde whereunto not without cause we are obedient We haue a famous and notable example which if we should not folow we should woorthily be called transgressors And truely that which is deliuered vnto vs by the Sonne of God hymself which is the wisedome of the Father and the light of al the world deserueth well to be preferred before the aucthoritie of the most excellent personage of the world And if the aūcient Fathers be in great estimation among you whose aucthoritie knowledge holynesse and auncientnesse hath woonne vnto them a great renoume in so much that in consideration of them the Masse is taken to be an excellēt thing ought not the Apostles the Father of Fathers to be much more esteemed of you who in holynesse and learnyng and in all things are to be preferred before all men and before all that is in the worlde They knewe not what the Masse ment but they celebrated the Supper in the same forme as the Gospell here teacheth vs For as much then as the Masse was as it were vnknowen vnto the aūcient Fathers them selues as we said let vs setting it apart approch to the Supper of the Lorde and let the Institution of the Sonne of God please vs Let vs thinke that without the word of God there is no holynesse Wherfore that which repugneth the ordinaunce of God and is not done as God hath appoynted may rightly be called cursed sacrilege These things are confirmed by the aucthoritie of God and man For the Lord saith in his Lawe Who soeuer offereth not at the doore of the Tabernacle an offring vnto the Lord shal be giltie of bloud and shal perish as if he had shed bloud Consider wherfore in the histories of the kynges the high places are reiected with so great indignation And in like manner Paul accurseth and pronounceth euery thyng cursed which agreeth not with the Gospell or which is contrarye thereunto Saint Cyprian also the Martyr saith that euery thing which is deuised by mans madnesse to breake Gods ordinaunce is adulterous wicked and full of sacrilege In his first and seconde booke of his Epipistles We ought not saith he to followe the custome of man but the truth of God for so much as God speaketh and