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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68750	A treatise of the Lords supper in two sermons.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22705; ESTC S113471	39,426	100

then we were vnited to him in the flesh and not now Christ tooke our flesh we take not his flesh but beleeue that he tooke ours therfore if you would know whither Christes body be in the Sacrament I say vnto you as Christ sayd vnto Thomas touch feele and see In visible things God hath appointed our eyes to be iudges for as the spirite discerneth spirituall obiectes so sense discerneth of sensible obiectes As Christ taught Thomas to iudge of his body so may we so should they therfore if you caÌ„not see his body nor feele his body you may gather by Christ saying to Thomas that he would not haue you beleeue that it is his bodie for my body saith Christ may be seene felt And thus TraÌ„substaÌ„tiatioÌ„ is fouÌ„d a lyer Now if you aske me why Christ calleth the signe by the name of the thing it selfe I aske thee agayne Mayst thou say when thou seest the picture of the Queene this is the Queene and when thou seest the picture of a LyoÌ„ this is a Lyon and may not Christ say when he seeth a thing like his bodie This is my bodie I shewed you before that euerie Sacrament is called by the name of the thing which it doth signifie and therefore why should we stuÌ„ble at this more thaÌ„ the rest The reason why the signes haue the name of the things is to strike a deeper reuerence in vs to receiue this Sacrament of Christ reuerentlie sincerelie and holilie as if Christ were there present in bodie and bloud himselfe And surelie as he which defaceth the Queenes Seale is coÌ„uicted of contempt and treason to her owne person so he which prophaneth these Seales of Christ doth not worship Christ but despise him and that contempt shall be required of him as if he had contemned Christ him selfe This is the reason why Christ calleth the signes of his body his body to make vs take this Sacrament reuerentlie because we are apt to coÌ„teÌ„ne it as the Iewes did their Manna It followeth Do this in remembrance of me that is these signes shal be a remeÌ„braunce of my death when you breake the bread you shal remember the wouÌ„ding of my body and when you drinke the wine you shall remember the shedding of my bloud If we must do this in remembraunce of Christs body which was broken like the bread it is an argument that his bodie is not there because remembraunce is not of things present but of things absent we remember not but we see that which is before vs. This might put the Papists in remembrance that Christ is not sacrificed now when we do but remember his sacrifice this is not Christes sacrifice but a remembraunce of his sacrifice he was sacrificed before and now it is applied least his sacrifice should be in vayne This was done once reallie when he offered himself vpoÌ„ the Crosse therfore that offering was called a sacrifice because he was sacrificed indeed but this offering is called a Sacrament because it is but a signe of his sacrifice If Christ in this Sacrament were offered indeed then it should be called a sacrifice as his once offering was but because it is but a remembrance of his sacrifice therfore it is called a ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ This is not a sacrifice of Christ but a sacrifice of our selues Least we should take it to be a sacrifice of Christ Christ himselfe calleth it a remembrance of his sacrifice Do this in my remembraunce Here is our worke as Christ hath done so must we doe so we minister and so you receiue we can giue you nothing but that which we haue receiued from him as Paule saith Therfore if Christ did not giue his mortall body which stood before them and could not profit them nor his glorified body which was not glorified theÌ„ and when it was glorified ascended vp vnto heauen and there abideth how caÌ„ these iugling Priestes make their God again which made them They can no more turne wine into bloud and bread into flesh than they can commaund a Gnat to become a Cammell for it is a greater worke to make God than to make the world Therefore as Christ saith When they tell you here is Christ and there is Christ beleeue them not So when they tell you that Christ is in heauen and that Christ is in earth in this place and that place beleeue them not for Elias ascention was a figure of Christs ascention when Elias was ascended yet some sought for his bodie vpoÌ„ earth so though Christ be ascended yet many seeke his body vpon earth but as they could not finde Elias body so these can not finde Christes bodie although they haue sought 300. yeares But if his bodie were vpon earth as they say should we handle it and touch it now it is glorified After his resurrection he sayd to Marie Touch me not because his bodie was glorified that is not to be touched with fingers any more but with faith Therefore we read of none which touched his bodie after it was risen but onelie Thomas to settle his faith Thus you see we need to suborne no witnesses for euery word in this text which they alledge for TraÌ„substantiatioÌ„ doth make against TraÌ„substantiatioÌ„ whereby if Antichrist doth signifie theÌ„ which are against Christ you see who may be called Antichrist There is no question in Poperie except Purgatorie the Popes PublicaÌ„ tasker about which the Papists are at such ciuill warres among themselues as about this transubstaÌ„tiatioÌ„ They cannot tell wheÌ„ the chaÌ„ge beginneth nor what manner of chaÌ„ge it is nor how loÌ„g the chaÌ„ge continueth som hang one way some another like the Midianites which fought one against another And no maruaile though their conscieÌ„ces stagger about it for to shew you the right father of it it was one of the dreames of Innocentius the 3. in the yeare of our Lord 1215. so many yeares passed before TraÌ„substaÌ„tiation was named theÌ„ a Pope set it first on foote so it came out of Rome the graÌ„dame of all heresies and for waÌ„t of Scriptures hath been defended with fire and sword and swallowed moe Martirs than all the gulfes of the Papall sea beside Now when the doctrines of men go for Scripture you shall see how many errours rush into the Church for grauÌ„t but this to Innocentius as the Papists do that the bread and wine are changed into Christes body First it will follow that Christs body is not ascended vp to heauen because it remaineth vpoÌ„ earth and so one of the Articles of our fayth shall be falsified which saith He is asceÌ„ded into heaueÌ„ or if he be asceÌ„ded descended agayne another Article will be falsified which saith that he sitteth at the right hand of his Father that is as Peter saith he abideth in heauen Secondly it will follow that Christ hath not a true body but a fantasticall body because it may be in many places

A TREATISE OF THE LORDS Supper in two Sermons Imprinted at London by R. Field for Thomas Man dwelling in Paternoster row at the signe of the Talbot 1591. To the Reader IN the first sermon the aduersarie is confuted In the second sermon the Communicants are prepared In both are many obseruations and the words of the text expounded Now labor for thy selfe as I haue labored for thee I would haue thee profit somewhat more by this booke because it hath weakened me more then all the rest Farwell A Treatise of the Lords Supper in two Sermons The first Sermon 1. Cor. 11. 23. 24. The Lord Iesus in the night that he was betrayed tooke bread And when he had giuen thanks he brake it and said Take eate this is my bodie which is broken for you this dayes in remembrance of me THE Word and the Sacraments are the two breasts wherewith our mother doth nurse vs. Seeing euerie one receiueth and few vnderstand what they receiue I thought it the necessariest doctrine to preach of the SacrameÌ„t which is a witnes of Gods promises a remembraÌ„ce of Christs death a seale of our adoptioÌ„ therfore Christ hath not instituted this Sacrament for a fashion in his Church to touch and feele and see as we gaze vpon pictures in the windowes but as the woman which had the bloudie issue touching the hemme of Christes garmeÌ„t drew vertue from Christ himselfe because she beleeued So Christ would that we touching these signes should draw vertue from himself that is all the graces which these signes represent Therefore as the Leuits vnder the Law were bound to prepare their brethren before they came to the Passeouer so preachers of the Gospel should prepare their brethreÌ„ before they come to the Supper of the Lord. For which purpose I haue chosen this place to the Corinthians which is the clearest fullest declaration of this Sacrament in all the scripture The Lord Iesus in the night c The summe of all these words is the institution and vse of the Lords Supper First Paul sheweth the author of it The Lord Iesus then the time when it was instituted in the night that he was betrayed then the manner how he did institute it he tooke bread and when he had giuen thankes he brake it and gaue vnto his Disciples c. then the end why he did institute it for a remembrance of his death Touching the author he which is signified by it was the author of it The Lord Iesus hath bid vs to supper I am not worthy saith Iohn to loose his shoe so we are not worthy to waite at his trencher and yet he wil haue vs sit at his table To him belongeth the power to ordaine Sacraments in his Church because he fulfilled the Sacraments of the Law When Christ came the Passeouer ceased because he is our Passeouer that is the Lamb by whose bloud we are saued When Christ came Circumcision ceased because he is our Circumcision that is the purifier and clenser of our sinnes Now these two sacraments are fulfilled he hath appointed two other Sacraments for them in steed of the paschall Lambe which the Iewes did eate he hath giuen vs another Lamb to eate which Iohn calleth the Lambe of God that is himselfe vpon whom all do feede whosoeuer do receiue this Sacrament with an assured faith that Christ died to possesse them of life The breaking of the bread doth signifie the wounding of his bodie the powring of the wine doth signifie the shedding of his blood The eating of the bread and drinking of the wine doth signifie that his flesh and bloud doe nourish in vs life eternal as the bread and wine do nourish the life present In steed of Circumcision which began at AbrahaÌ„ he hath ordained Baptisme which began at Iohn a more liuely representation of the true circumcision of the hart because it representeth vnto vs the bloud of Christ which washeth our soules as the water in Baptisme washeth our bodies Touching the time In the night saith Paul therefore this Sacrament is called The Lords Supper because it was instituted at night when they vsed to sup But what night euen that night saith Paul when he was betrayed that night which he should haue cursed as Iob did the day of his birth if he had suffred against his will that night when hee should haue thought to destroy men as men conspired to destroy him that night saith Paul this Sacrament of grace and peace and life began Euen that night when we betrayed him Manie nights did he spend in watching and praying for vs is there a night now for vs to kill betray him That was a darke night when men went about to put out the sonne which brought them light Who can but wonder to see how Christ they for whom Christ came were occupied at one time when they deuised mischief against him sought all meanes to destroy him then he consulted how to saue them and instituted the same night this blessed Sacrament to conuay all his graces and blessings vnto them Euen that night when they betrayed him The reason why this actioÌ„ was deferred vntill night is because that was the time appointed by the Law to eate the Passeouer which was like a predecessor of this Sacrament The reason why he deferred vntill his last night was because the Passeouer could not be ended before the fulnesse of time and the true Paschal Lambe were come to be slaine in stead of the other Therefore how fitlie did Christ ende the Passeouer which was a signe of his suffering so presently before his suffering And beside how sweetly did he confirme his disciples faith when as they should see that the next day performed before their eyes which ouernight both in the Passeouer and in the Sacrament was so liuely resembled vnto them If any from this do gather that we ought to eate the Lords supper at night as Christ did he must vnderstand that we haue not the same cause to do so which Christ had because of the Passeouer And therefore the Church which hath discretion of times and places hath altered both the time and the place vsing the temples in stead of the chamber and the morning in stead of the euening for indifferent things are ruled by order decencie Touching the maner He tooke bread and when he had giuen thankes he brake it and gaue it vnto them He would not eate it nor breake it before he had giueÌ„ thankes to God What neede he which was God giue thankes to God but to shew vs what we should doe when we eate our selues In all things giue thankes saith Paul whereby we declare that all things come from God but the wicked beleeue easier that God doth take than that he doth giue and therefore they neuer pray heartily vnto him for any thing nor

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