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death_n	aaron_n	brother_n	consecration_n	18	3	10.1251	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69201	A sermon preached at the Tower of London, by M. Dering the xi. day of Dece[m]ber. 1569; Sermon preached at the Tower of London, the eleventh day of December. 1569	Dering, Edward, 1540?-1576.	1569 (1569)	STC 6695; ESTC S113566	14,796	48

mercy wee shoulde so assure our selues of it as yf we eate his very flesh or drinke his natural bloud The like phrases or speaches are plaine and often in the scripture Christ is our head and we his members hee dwelleth in vs and wee in him He is the corner stone wee are the building vp Hee the vine and we the braunches His body is the meate aud wee the eaters Whose harte is so dull that is not stirred vp with these speaches or who vnderstandeth not by these speaches y t Christ would shew the aboūdance of his loue toward vs and the great boldnes that Christ will haue vs to put in his mercy As for transubstantiation it is so straunge from the sence of the scripture that yf the Pope had not bene I thinke it neuer had bene thought of And yf the Councell of Lateranne had not bene it had neuer bene named But let vs way the wordes a litle and conferre thē with these late popish follies Christ sayth take eate thys ys my bodye But the Pope sayth take not eate not site a farre of and tooke on fall downe and worship This is my body Was not this theyr manner of preaching How els could this haue bine your māner of practise when you came to the Sacrament or as you rather called it the sacringe of your Masse Christ sayth Drink you al of this this is my bloud The Pope vtterly denieth it proueth it by good reason His body sayth he cānot be with his bloud there is concomitantia the one followeth the other and therefore you shal not drinke it yet it is his bloud Christ sayth as ofte as you doe this preach forth the death of the Lorde vntill he come The Pope sayth that is not necessary If you say Masse dayly it skilleth litle though you preache not once in a yeare What maner of vicar call you this man that dispenseth his masters doctrin thus deceitfully or what hope can you haue of trāsubstātiation whē it hāgeth vpon his credit y e dealeth thus vnfaithfullie O dearely beloued be not deceiued These thinges bee to playne to be dissembled It is his owne mouth that speaketh these thinges which sayth he can not erre Wee know that there is no truth in hym and whatsoeuer hee doth it is against Christ and his eternall Gospell For the wordes thys is my body I trust I haue proued it they be not wordes of errour to make you beleeue the thing that is not the meaning is plaine The bread is a warrant pledge vnto you that as sure as you eate it which is the signe so sure your fayth feedeth on all the fruytes of his Passion and the righteousnesse and true holines of his humaine bodye couereth all your sinnes before God his Father and clotheth you roūd about with ioy and gladnes These are the riches of Gods aboundant graces which make the poore penitent sinner to seeme more glorious then all y e worldly treasure This is the secret Manna with which God fedeth his elect y t maketh the hungrie hart more glad joyfull then all the bread of Princes These riches they haue spoyled you of that haue sold vnto you so deare theyr transubstantiation This foode they haue taken from you y t haue fed you so long with a fancie of Christes naturall body For the wordes this is my body are not straunge Such phrases in y e scripture are euer vsed vpon like occasiō In y e 33 chapter of Gene. Iacob calleth his altar the mightye God of Israell yet y e altar was not God but set vp in memory howe mightely God had preserued him In the 12. of Exod. God sayd to Moses of y e Pascall Lābe This is the Lordes passouer yet it was not the passeouer but the sacrifice of the Lordes passouer when in killing the first borne in the lande of Egypte he passed ouer the houses of the children of Israell In y ● 7. chapter of Leuitieus where God geueth to Aaron y e shoulder and brest of the sacrifices for hys portion he sayth thus this is the annoynting of Aaron yet the breste and shoulder of the beastes were not the oyle wherewith Aaron was annoynted but a signe or token of his annoynting In the 6. of Numery when God setteth forth the law of the Nazarites he forbiddeth them to defile them selues at the death of theyr father mother brother sister added this clause Because the consecratiō of his God is vpon his head Yet the heare vppon his head was not his consecration but the signe of his consecration In the 5 of Numery where God setteth forth the law of gelousie the water whereby the woman is tried is called often the cursed water and yet the water was not cursed but shewed the woman to be accursed detestable In the 19. of Deuteronomye speaking of a false witnesse bothe parties are bid to stand before the Lord. Yet he meaneth before the Priest in whose brest was Urim and Thummin a liuelye representation of the Lord. In the 26. of Deuteronomye teaching what they shall doe that offer theyr first fruytes it is written Thou shalt say this before the Lord Yet he meaneth before the altar a present signe of the Lord. Oftentymes in the law the Arke is called the Lord God Yet the Arke was not God but a liuely representation of the Lord God In the 17. of Genesis God speaketh of circūcision this is my couenaunt Which yet God him selfe expoundeth in the verse following this is the token of my couenaunt And what can be more plaine thē this so S. Paule saith the rocke was Christ. Yet Christ was not the rocke that was in Horeb but the water of the rocke was the signe of Christes bloud which quencheth the thirst of all his elect and chosē So S. Paul calleth Baptisme Lauacrū regenerationis the washing of the new byrth yet y e water doth not regenerate but the holy Ghost An hundreth such speaches you haue in the scripture where the signe hath the name of the thyng signified And how are you so bewitched that in this one Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ you can not beare y t phrase which is so vsual in the scriptures But so it is S. Paules prayer hath taken effect in the Popish kingdome he that is ignoraunt let him be ignorant still But I hope dearly beloued better of you God I trust hath lightned you and you doe vnderstand his holy scriptures You wil come inspirite and trueth to these holy misteries and you haue forsaken your olde leauen of al Romish Idolatry Now a woord or two of the fruite of eating and drinking Christ so I will make an ende To eate and drink Christ is as I haue sayd to come vnto Christ to beleeue in Christ and the fruit of this is he that commeth vnto him he shall not hunger Againe and