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A03909 A faithful declaration of Christes holy supper comprehe[n]ded in thre sermo[n]s, preached at Eaton Colledge, by Roger Hutchinson. 1552. Whose contentes are in the other syde of the lefe. Hutchinson, Roger, d. 1555. 1560 (1560) STC 14018; ESTC S104326 58,400 142

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that whiche you haue not done to one of these litle ones you haue not done to me He procedeth further and bringeth in Peter against those which do worship God after their owne fantasies saying Discamus itaque Philosophari christum prout ipse vult venerari Let vs learne this Philosophy saith Chrisostome that is to honor Christ as he hath willed vs to honor him For that honor is most acceptable to him whiche is honorable or worshipfull whiche he doth esteme and not which we doe imagin For Peter thought no lesse but that he honored Christ when he forbad hym to wash his fete notwithstanding he did not honour hym herein but rather did dishonour and disworshyp hym So doe thou worship and honour him with pitie liberalitie towardes the pore These be the wordes of Chrisostome in his homily against such as come vnworthely to Gods misteries in which he teacheth vs that to honour Christes body is to glorifie hym by doyng of good workes For this cause he toke vpon hym his body and became a naturall man of womans seede as it is writtten God hath raysed vp a horne of health vnto vs in the house that is of the stock and kindred of his seruaunt Dauid and why It foloweth that we being deliuered out of the handes of our ennemies should serue and worship hym without fear all the daies of our lyfe in holines rightuousnes before hym I haue declared two wayes how Christes body and bloud are to be worshiped One way is by faith in his bloud by geuing thankes to him for his incarnation and cōming and by offring him frankynsence myr that is by cōfessing him to be very God and very naturall man Another way to honor it is to serue hym in holines and rightuousnes and to exercise in earth y ● workes of mercy towardes the pore The elder fathers vsed no other worship toward Christes body before Honorius the third byshop of Rome He first commaūded bread and wyne to be worshiped with eleuation of handes Anno post Christum 1226. lib. 2. Decret titul de celebra missarum For the space of a thousand yeares there was no such custome The papistes obiect here that the body of Christ is present vnder the forme of bread to be honored If saith the Papistes a man say vnto thee this is my right hand or this is a stone thou beleuest him God saith this is my body not this is a figure of my body or this doth signifie my body and he that eateth my flesh hath life not he that eateth a figure of my flesh and we doe not beleue him but do make of sugar salt and of chese chalke I aunswer Christ doth not say this is trasformed this is turned this is transubstantiat into my body nether that the nature and substaunce of wine doth discontinue or is excluded as you wold force the wordes Here resteth all the matter how this word est is to be vnderstand whiche is neuer taken in that sence in whiche they would take it here Throughout the Byble no transubstantiation is expressed by this word nor by no other phrase the scripturs speake of no such mutatiō But the other phrase this is for this is a figure is commen and dashed euery where in the scripturs The rock saith Paul was Christ that is a figure of Christ. He nameth him also y e easterlambe whiche was but a figure of hym He is called a stone the worde of God is named seed a swerd a kay a lanterne God is called our banner our castell Ihon the christiner is named a burning candell and he nameth the lawe securim an axe which is set at the rote of the trees which al be figuratiue speches And the elder fathers do so expound this text they confesse and teache Christe to speake here figuratiuely Christ saeith Tertullian who was but .210 yeare after Christ and .13 hundred yeares agone he lib. 4. against Marcion who said that Christ had no natural body but only aparant flesh and a fantasticall body saith thus Christ takyng bread and dealyng it to his disciples made it his body saying This is my body that is a figure of my body And of these wordes he contriueth an argument against Marcian in this wyse But the bread can not be a figure of it if Christ had no true body For a vayne thyng or fantasy can take no figure Lo how this auncient father expounded these wordes S. Austin also taketh Christes wordes in lyke maner saying thus in hys preface vpon the third Psalme He admitted Iudas vnto the maundy wherin he deliuered to his Disciples the figure of his body and bloud And Ambrose in his boke of Sacramentes speaking of the cup sayth that we drynke there Similitudinem pretiosi sanguinis the similitude of his precious bloud But though they say that Christes aforesayd wordes be a figuratiue speache they doe not teache bread and wyne to be bare and naked metaphors but holy Sacramentes hauyng many promyses annexed vnto them for which promises the visible signes be named Christes body and bloud and not for any mutation of their natures or substaunces Therfore albeit thou hast bene led and made to beleue in tymes past that this doctrine is newe learnyng yet thynke not so hereafter It is the doctrine of Christ the fayth of y e old fathers the cōfession of innumerable martirs which haue ratified it w t the losse of their liues in hope of plentuous reward hereafter in y e kingdome of god That we may haue grace to beleue y e truth cōcerning this holy sacramēt to vse it aright to refuse all false doctrine that these wordes which I haue spokē in your outward eares may sinke into your heartes mindes let vs call on the name of Christ who ordeined this sacrament with inuocation and praier The praier O Christ the son of God our sauing health who dost affirme bread to be thy body wine to be thy bloud because of certain properties and similitudes the nature notwithstanding and the matter of the signes remayning and cōtinuing heare our praiers and supplicatiōs and graūt vnto vs for thy mercifull promises these our requestes As our outward man and naturall flesh is norished with bread and wyne so of thy clemency noryshe fede our inward man with the foode of thy swete flesh And as bread and wyne are made of diuers graines of the iuice of many grapes neuertheles they are but one lofe and one cup of wyne so worke thou in vs one heart and mynde knyt vs in a continuall amitie Godly loue vnitie by the operatiō of thy holy spirit And as the natures of the signes are turned and conuerted into our nature so do thou conuert turne and transforme vs into thy nature making vs thy body holy flesh of thy flesh not only by fayth but also really and effectually that is
profitable a thing it is to do worthy penaunce and in his .xix. boke against Faustus Here you will say S. Austyn in his preface vpon Psal. 73. doth extoll our sacramentes aboue the sacramentes of the old law for diuers causes If they did receiue Christes body and bloud in their sacraments how is this true Wherein are ours better I answer our sacramēts are better then theirs not of them selues not of their own nature of their own dignitie and worthines but because of the fulnes of time because the face of Iesus Christ is nowe more clerely discouered and knowen in the new Testament Their sacramentes as S. Austin saith in the aforesaid place promittebant saluatorem did promise Christ that is did shadowe figure and preache him to come ours dant salutē do geue helth by Christ that is do shew him to our eies as it wer vpō a scaffold alredy come Thei wer vnder the yoke of the law vnder the letter vnder many rydles vnder figures shadowes as children but we are vnder grace vnder the spirit vnder the veritie vnder fewer rites and vnder a more excellēt testamēt as coheyres with Christ. God spake to them by Patriarkes and holy Prophetes and by other meanes as it pleased him But now is the tyme which the Patriarkes desired to see the acceptable and golden time the daies of saluatiō in which God speaketh both to the Iewes and to the Gentils by Iesus Christ his own word and wisdome as Paul declareth for these causes S. Austin in the aforesaid place in other places preferreth our sacraments and rites of the new testament to the old law not for their owne dignite for their own excellencie and worthines nor thorowe any transubstantiation Rede his preface aforesaid and there thou shalt finde these causes whiche I haue rehersed and no other Notwithstanding the old christians did drinke Chrstes bloud and eate his fleshe yet they I say had another bloud that is a diuers sacrament from vs. They had a paschal lambe a rocke y e bloud of oxen and of shepe in their sacrifices we haue wyne in stede of thē For seing the testamentes be chaunged and the priesthod and lawe is altered therfore the sacramentes also be newed and chaunged This saith Christ of wyne This is my bloud of the new testament that is a new sacrament of my bloud a certificat of my last wyll and testament this is a testimony as it were the brode Seale and patent of my beneuolence of my clemēcy and fauour towardes you And this similitude declareth very aptely and fitly how his body and bloud are present in his holy supper The body and bloud of Iesus Christ be in his holy supper as thy house with thy gardē and other cōmodities is in thy lease whiche thou hast by the Colledge seale of Eatō or of Wyndsore Or as thy liuing is in thy patent which thou hast confirmed ratified with the broad seale of Englād The wordes of Christes supper be as it were a lease or patent The sacrament is as it were his broad seale his stampe to certify the weake fayth that God the father doeth loue and fauour thee and dwell in thee by the grace of his holy spirit for his sake Thy house and garden be not locally not really nor corporally in thy lease but effectually and sufficiently for thy profit and commoditie So Christes body and bloud be in bread wyne This is no new similitude of mine owne making for I tolde you that I woulde speake nothing of mine own head it is the similitude of Gregory Nazianzen an excellent clarke and a holy father of the greke church He .xii. C. years agon writing against the opinion whiche is called now the Donatistes opinion vsed this similitude and affirmeth all sacramentes to be seales S. Austin also in his booke which he wryteth vpon the salutation of Pauls Epistle to the Romaines calleth them Sacrosancta signacula that is holy seales But thou wilt say these be hygh matters and aboue my capacitie tell me how I shall prepare my selfe to receyue this Sacrament Many comming to the Lordes table doe misbehaue them selues and so doe the lokers on in that they worship the sacrament with kneling and bowing their bodies and knocking their brestes and with eleuation of their handes If it were to be eleuated and shewed vnto the standers by as it hath bene vsed Christ would haue eleuated it aboue his head He deliuered it in to the handes of his Disciples bydding them to eat it and not to holde vp their handes to receiue it and not to worship it and he deliuered it to them sitting and not kneling If ether the bread or the wine wer to be heaued vp or to be reserued hāged vp in a pix as it hath ben abused if it were to be honored of y e receiuers or to be kneled vnto of y e lokers on vndoubtedly Christ would haue left vs som cōmaundement so to do or els haue taught vs by his ensample or at the lest he wold haue left som promes of reward annexed to this outward reuerence and homage or some threatning and punishment for such as wil not worship it I verely for there is nothing laudable nothing ryghtuous nothynge honest or acceptable in Gods sight nothing to be done for the which he hath not left in his scriptures ether some commaundemēt or some promes of reward or some exāple By his promises by his thretnings by his precepts and through the examples of Godly men women we know good from euill we know what is to be done what is to be left vndone what is to be praised and what is to be dispraised what delighteth and pleaseth and what discontenteth and displeaseth the diuine maiestie Gods boke is no vnper fight worke but a pefect boke cōteining all thinges to be done the whole duty of a christen man and sufficient doctrine to enstruct a gods man in al good workes and to make him perfight as Paul wytnesseth wryting to Timoth. and he must nedes accuse God ether of ignorauncy or of folly or of negligence which saith that he hath left any thing vntouched vndeclared which concerneth a christen mans office and is nedefull and necessary vnto saluation All such thynges be expressed in Gods boke for in the wryting of the Prophetes he requireth the obseruation of his lawe only concerning religion and he thre●●eth great plages and greuous punishmentes to those that do ad any thing to his word that is to those which teache any other doctrine or any worke to be necessary vnto saluation which is not cōmēded in his word But nether Christ nor any of the Prophetes nor his disciples do geue vs any example to honor the sacramēt for they kneled not nether held vp their handes but sat at the table as the text witnesseth Nether doth God promise any benefit ether spiritual or temporal to such as