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A26478	A testimony of antiquity shewing the ancient faith in the Church of England, touching the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord here publickly preached, and also received in the Saxons time, above 600 years agoe.; Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. English	Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.; Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.	1675 (1675)	Wing A677; ESTC R38168	20,773	42

and drink the same ghostly drink because that heavenly meat that fed them forty years and that water which from the Stone did flow had signification of christs body and his blood that now be offered daily in Gods church It was the same which we now offer not bodily but ghostly We said unto you ere while that christ hallowed bread and wine to housel before his suffering and said This is my body and my blood Yet he had not then suffered but so notwithstanding he turned through invisible might that bread to his own body and that wine to his blood as he before did in the wilderness before that he was born to men when he turned that heavenly meat to his flesh and the flowing water from that Stone to his own blood Very many eat of that heavenly meat in the wilderness and drank that ghostly drink and were never the less dead as christ said And christ ment not that death which none can escape but that everlasting death which some of that folk deserved for their unbelief Moses and Aaron and many other of that people which pleased God eat that heavenly bread and they dyed not that everlasting death though they dyed the common death They saw that the heavenly meat was visible and corruptible and they ghostly understood by that visible thing and ghostly received it The Saviour saith He that eated my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life And he bad them not eat that body wherewith he was enclosed nor that blood to drink which he shed for use but he ment with those words that holy housel which ghostly is his body and his blood and he that tasteth it with believing heart hath that eternal life In the old law faithful men offered unto God diverss Sacrifices that had signification of Christs body which for our sins he himself to his heavenly Father hath since offered to sacrifice Certainly this housel which we do now hallow at Gods Altar is remembrance of Christs body which he offered for us and of his blood which he shed for us So he himself commanded Do this in my remembrance Once suffered Christ by himself but yet nevertheless his suffering is daily renewed at the Mass through mysterie of the holy housel Therefore that holy Mass is profitable both to the living and to the dead as it hath been often declared We ought also to consider diligently how that this holy housel is bath Christs body and the body of all faithful men after ghostly mysterie as the wise Augustine saith of it If ye will understand of Christs bodie hear the Apostle Paul thus speaking Ye truly be Christs body and his members Now is your mysterie set on Gods Table and ye receive your mysterie which mysterie ye your selves be Be that which ye see on the Altar and receive that which ye your selves be Again the Apostle Paul saith by it We many be one bread and one body Vnderstand now and rejoyce Many be one bread and one body in Christ He is our head and we be his limbs And the bread is not of one corn but of many Nor the wine of one grape but of many So also we all should have one unity in our Lord as it is written of the faithful Army how that they were in so great an unitie as though all of them were one soul and one heart Christ hallowed on his Table the mysterie of our peace and of our unitie he which receiveth that mysterie of unitie and keepeth not the bond of true peace he receiveth no mysterie for himself but a witness against himself It is very good for Christian men that they go often to housel if thy bring with them to the Altar unguiltiness and innocencie of heart To an evil man it turneth to no good but to destruction if he receive unworthily that holy housel Holy books command that water be mingled to that wine which shall be for housel because the water signifieth the people and the wine Christs blood And therefore shall neither the one without the other be offered at the holy Mass that Christ may be with us and we with Christ the head with the limbs and the limbs with the head We would before have intreated of the Lamb which the old Israelites offered at their Easter time but that we desired first to declare unto you of this mysterie and after how we should receive it That signifying Lamb was offered at the Easter And the Apostle Paul saith in the Epistle of this present day that Christ is our Easter who was offered for us and on this day rose from death The Israelites did eat the Lambs flesh as God commanded with unleavened bread and wild Lettice so we should receive that holy housel of Christs body and bloud without the leaven of sin and iniquitie As leaven turneth the creatures from their nature so doth sin also change the nature of man from innocencie to uncleanness The Apostle hath taught how we should feast not in the leaven of evilness but in the sweet dough of puritie and truth The hearb which they should eat with the unleavened bread is called Lettice and is bitter in tast So we should with bitterness of unfained repentance purifie our mind if we will eat Christs bodie Those israelites were not wont to eat raw flesh although God forbad them to eat it raw and sodden in water but rosted with fire He shall receive the bodie of God raw that shall think without reason that Christ was only man like unto us and was not God And he that will after mans wisdom search of the mysterie of Christs Incarnation doth like unto him that doth seethe Lambs-flesh in water because that water in this same place signifieth mans understanding but we should understand that all the mysterie of Christs Humanitie was ordered by the power of the Holy Ghost And then eat we his body rosted with fire because the Holy Ghost came in fiery likeness to the Apostles in diverse Tongues The Israelites should eat the Lambs head and the feet and the purtenance and nothing thereof must be left over night If any thing thereof were left they did burn that in the fire and they break not the bones After ghostly understanding we do then eat the Lambs head when we take hold of Christs Divinitie in our Belief Again when we take hold of his Humanitie with Love then eat we the Lambs feet because that Christ is the beginning and end God before all world and Man in the end of this world whit be the Lambs Purtenance but Christs secret precepts and these we eat when we receive with greediness the word of Life There must nothing of the Lamb be left unto the morning because that all Gods sayings are to be searched with great carefulness so that all his precepts may be known in understanding and deed in the night of this present

and after Arch-bishop of York who made Aelfrick Abbot of St. Albons Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburn unto whom Aelfrick writeth the first of the Epistles we here speak of Elfleda a Nun of Romesey and Wulhilda Abbess of Barking lived in the daies of King Edgar And last of all Wulfritha King Edgar's Concubine All these I say with some other more be Canonized for Saints of this Age in which Aelfrick himself lived in great fame and credit Also Leofrick and Wulfsine whom we have shewed to have been the givers of those anon-books wherein be seen Aelfricks Epistles be reverenced for most holy Men and Saints of their Churches And these two lived Bishops in the coming in of the Conqueror Thus do some men now-a-daies not only dissent in doctrine from their own Church but also from that Age of their Church which they have thought most holy and judged a most excellent pattern to be followed Wherefore what may we now think of that great consent whereof the Romanists have long made vaunt to wit Their Doctrine to have continued many hundred years as it were linked together with a continual chain whereof hath been no breach at any time Truly this their so great affirmation hath uttered unto us no truth as good Christian Reader thou mayest well judge by duly weighing of this which hath been spoken and by the reading also of that which here followeth whereunto I now leave thee Trusting that after thou hast well weighed this matter of such manner of the being of Christs Body in the Sacrament as sheweth this Testimony no untruth or dishonour shall need to be attributed to Christ's loving words pronounced at his last Supper among his Apostles no derogation to his most Sacred Institution no diminishing of any comfort to Christian mens souls in the use of his reverend Sacrament but all things to stand right up most agreeably both to the verity of Christs infallible words and to the right nature congruence and efficacies of so holy a Sacrament and finally most comfortable to the conscience of man for his spiritual uniting and incorporation with Christ's blessed Body and Bloud to immortality and for the sure Gage of his Resurrection Amen A SERMON Of the PASCHAL LAMB And of the Sacramental body and bloud of CHRIST our Saviour Written in the old Saxon tongue before the Conquest and appointed in the Reign of the Saxons to be spoken to the people at Easter before they should receive the Communion MEN beloved it hath been often said unto you about our Saviours Resurrection how he on this present day after his suffering mightily rose from death Now will we open unto you through Gods grace of the holy housell which ye should now go unto and instruct your understanding about this mystery both after the old Covenant and also after the new that no doubting may trouble you about this lively food The Almighty God bad Moses his Captain in the land of Aegypt to command the people of Israel for to take for every family a Lamb of one year old the night they departed out of the country to the land of promise and to offer that Lamb to God and after to cut it and to make the sign of the Cross with the Lambs blood upon the side posts and the upper posts of their door and afterward to eat the Lambs flesh rosted and unleavened bread with wild lettice God saith unto Moses Eat of the Lamb nothing raw or sodden in water but rosted with fire Eate the head the feet and the inwards and let nothing of it be left until the morning if any thing thereof remain that shall you burn with fire Eat it in this wise Gird your loins and doe your shoes on your seet have you staves in your hands and eat it in hast This time is the Lords Passover And then was slain on that night in every house throughout Pharoahs raign the first born child and Gods people of Israel were delivered from that suddain death through the Lambs offering and his bloods marking Then said God unto Moses Keep this day in your remembrance and hold it a great feast in your kinreds with a perpetual observation and eat unleavened bread alwaies seven daies at this feast After this deed God led the people of Israel over the red sea with dry foot and drowned therein Pharaoh and all his army together with their possessions and fed afterward the Israelites forty years with heavenly food and gave them water out of the hard rock until they came to the promised land Part of this story we have treated of in another place part we shall now declare to wit that which belongeth to the holy housell Christian men may not now keep that old law bodily but it behoveth them to know what it ghostly signifieth That innocent Lamb which the old Israelites did then kill had signification after ghostly understanding of Christs suffering who unguilty shed his holy blood for our Redemption Hereof sing Gods servants at every Mass Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis That is in our speech Thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Those Israelites were delivered from that suddain death and from Pharaohs bondage by the Lambs offering which signified Christs suffering through which we be delivered from everlasting death and from the Devils cruel raign if we rightly believe in the true Redeemer of the whole world Christ the Saviour That Lamb was offered in the evening and our Saviour suffered in the sixt age of this world This age of this corruptible world is reckoned unto the evening They marked with the Lambs blood upon the doors and the upper posts Tau that is the sign of the Cross and were so defended from the Angel that killed the Aegyptians first born child And we ought to mark our foreheads and our bodies with the token of Christs rood that we may be also delivered from destruction when we shall be marked both on forehead and also in heart with the blood of our Lords suffering Those Israelites eat the Lambs flesh at their Easter time when they were delivered and we receive ghostly Christs body and drink his blood when we receive with true belief that holy housell That time they kept with them at Easter seven daies with great worship when they were delivered from Pharaoh and went from that land So also Christian men keep Christs resurrection at the time of Easter these seven daies because through his suffering and rising we be delivered and be made clean by going to this holy housell as Christ faith in his Gospel Verily verily I say unto you ye have no life in you except ye eat my flesh and drink my bloud He that cateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me and I in him and hath that everlasting life and I shall raise him up at the last day I am the lively bread that came down