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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

Â¶ A MOST excellent Sermon of the Lordes Supper wherein briefely and yet plainly yenough 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. Matthew 17.5 This is my beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased heare yee hym Imprinted at London nigh vnto vnto the three Cranes in the Vintree for William Ponsonby Â¶ To the reuerend Father in God Thomas Bishop of Couentrie and Lichfielde FInding mee self vnable in all respects reuerend Father to requite the least benefit receiued at your Lordships hands I haue long intended to present your Lordship with some thing whereby you might at the leaste perceyue my grateful mynd in accepting your vndeserued goodnesse often vnto me shewed And finding nothing which might pleasure your Lordship being no lesse skilful in learnyng than godly in life for as Salomon saith He that is ful abhorreth an hony combe I thought I coulde not better please you which are no lesse carefull for the Christian Congregation than is the Father for his children than by taking in hande some such matter wherby I mee selfe might be well occupied the Christian common Wealth edified and God glorified For this cause that the vnlearned not onely of your Diocesse but also of all places els in England which are destitute of painfull Preachers of Gods woord for who knoweth not that the labourers in Gods Vineyarde be verye fewe might be instructed at the leaste by reading in the true profession of Iesus Christ I haue presumed to translate foorth of Frenche a Sermon of the Lordes Supper made by the learned and graue Father mayster Henry Bullinger Neither dyd I perceyue whereby I might more profit all meÌ„ than by handelyng the Lordes Supper which yerely and often ought to be receyued of al men nor wherein I might better serue my carnall and transitory countrey than in setting foorth that foode whereby we are fed to out spirituall and euerlasting countrey For if we ought to trauaile painefully for the foode of the body according to the admonition of the Apostle Saint Paul That if any would not worke the same should not eate whiche although we haue in abundance mainteyneth vs not alwayes being by syn made subiect to death howe much more painefull ought we to be for the atchieuing of the foode of the soule Christe Iesus which is the bread of life wherof if we eate by faith we shall not die being by grace made partakers of euerlasting life Wheras there be many which haue learnedly godly handeled this argument I am moued to thinke my labour best bestowed vppon this authour because there is none which I haue read that dooth in so briefe a summe in my simple iudgement more plainly set foorth the doctrine of the Lordes Supper to the comfort of the professours of the Gospel or more sensibly disclose the errours thrust into the Church of God concernyng the same to the griefe of the aduersaries of the truth both the which poyntes he hath so aptly handled that I knowe not in whether he hath vsed more facilitie It may be that some which haue not only trauailed of purpose into FraÌ„ce the hithermost coastes whereof I neuer saw there to learne the french tongue but also at home haue diligently studied to attayne the finenes of the Englishe tongue wherein I confesse I was neuer curious might haue translated this Sermon much more finely than by me it is I enuie not their skill neither disdaine I their trauaile I haue done myne indeuour so neare as I could to vse my selfe like a faithful Interpretour in yeelding the sense of the Authour truely and yet in such sort as best might be vnderstood by the vnlearned Reader Touchyng the testimonies of holy Scripture alleged by this authour in this Sermon I haue thought good rather to set them down after the last translation of the Bible set foorth by aucthoritie than to translate them foorth of the French that I might the rather hereby cut of the cauilles of the aduersaries of the truth whith they are woont to make vpon the diuersitie of Translations And that the diligent Readers if it shal please them to conferre the Testimonies with the Text may the more easily find forth the same I haue quoted in the Margent both chapter and verse whence they are taken Thus haue I yeelded vnto your Lordship the causes of my bold enterprise with the order of the handeling of the same which if it may please God to blesse with the increase of the Readers knowledge I haue my desire God long preserue your Lordship to the comforte of his Church Your Lordshyppes to commaund I. T. Â¶ A Sermon of the Supper of our Lorde Iesus Christe the Sonne of God. THe Apostles the Euangelistes Paul also the vessel of election and Apostle of the Gentiles haue diligently and perfectly described the holy and mysticall Supper of our Lorde and Redeemer Iesus Christ in these wordes When the Euen was come the same night in which Iesus was betrayed he sate downe with the twelue And as they dyd eate Iesus when he had taken bread and geuen thankes brake it and gaue it to his Disciples saying Take yee eate yee This is my body which is broken for you This doo in the remembrance of me Likewise also when he had supped he tooke the Cuppe and when he had geuen thankes he gaue it to them saying Drinke ye all of it and they all dranke of it Then he saide to them This is my bloud of the new Testament Saint Luke and Saint Paul haue This Cuppe is the newe Testament in my bloud which is shedde for you and for many for the remission of sinnes As often as you shall doo this doo it in remembrance of me For as often as yee eate this beead and drinke this Cuppe yee doo shewe the Lordes death tyll he come In the holy and mysticall Supper of our Lorde Iesus Christ we must not onely consider the woordes of the Institution presently recited but also we muste here ioyne the things going before with those whiche come after as such whereby the whole mysterie is more clearely and amply set foorth And first we must consider the doctrine which the Lord taught his Disciples in the Supper Secondly what he did and how he instituted this Supper that is to say howe the Lord celebrated it and ordeyned it to be celebrated by the Church vnto the ende of the world Finally of what sort the disciples were in this supper and how they behaued them selues therein that we may learne hereby howe we ought to behaue our selues in celebrating this most holy banquet and also that by the declaration of all these poynts we may vnderstand truely what the mysticall Supper of the Lord is that is to say speaking in the first place of the summe of the matter although it be inwrapped in shadowes and figures and proposing the

whole matter as it were to be beholden with one onely sight that it is a sacramentall Ceremonie or an holy action ordeyned for the Churche by Iesus Christe our Lord Redemer and high Priest wherby in setting before vs in this Banquet the bread and the wine being mystical tokens and pledges he commendeth vnto vs in like maner his doctrine and also maketh vs a full promise of euerlasting life the which in geuing his bodye to death and shedding his bloud he hath prepared for vs and offered them vnto vs to be receyued by faith in liuely meate and drinke and by this certification he ratifieth it vnto vs. Moreouer he representeth or signifieth by these tokens and pledges reneweth as it were setteth before our senses his giftes or benefites which the faithful receiue Also he gathereth together visibly his seruauntes into the companie and vnitie of his body finally he confirmeth vnto vs the remembrance of his death and passion and of our redemption admonishing vs in the meane season of our dutie which is chiefely to yelde him prayse and thankes giuyng Touching the doctrine as it is euerye where so is it also heere that is to saye a thing so excellent that it surmounteth all the rest which doctrine although it be diuers and most copious yet is it such as may be gathered into certaine and a fewe Articles For the first and chiefest matter which it handleth at large and most euidently is the principall poynt of our Christian religion and the ende of our mysticall Supper that is to say that the Lorde our God of his meere grace and mercy taking pitie of mankind sent into the worlde for the saluation of the faithfull his onely sonne our Lord Iesus Christ who by his death hath purged vs from all our sinnes and deliuered vs from death from hell and from Satan and made vs heires of life euerlasting And for so much as in this poynt consisteth chiefely all the matter of our saluation he commendeth vnto vs and repeateth this thing in many sortes and diuersely to the ende that we shoulde not forget him or lightly regarde him but that he myght shewe himselfe cleerely vnto the faythfull for euer as a most cleare lyght which myght shyne vnto them and lighten them Moreouer he figureth proposeth and commendeth vnto vs vnder most apt figures and shadowes this most excellent part of doctrine For in the beginning of the Supper the Lorde washed his disciples feete By the which acte after that he had lyuely declared vnto them a great humilitie of hart with charitie and affection of mutuall seruice and of all kinde of dutifull behauiour one toward another we reade that the Lorde sayde vnto Peter which gaynesayd him If I washe thee not thou hast no part with me And straight way afterward He which is washed needeth not saue to washe his feete but is cleane euery whit Whereby we gather that the Lorde hath taught hereby that they which are once receyued to the fauour of God and purged by the bloud of the Sonne of God receyued by fayth are fully iustified But bycause they which are iustifyed so long as they lyue in this world haue infirmities in their fleshe wherewyth they are after a sort soulied as be the feete of them which are washed with muddy water he signifieth that they should clense these spottes by continuall repentance Here vnto agreeth the worthy saying of the holy Apostle There is then no damnation to them which are in Christ Iesu which walke not after the fleshe but after the spirit Agayne the Lorde setteth before our eyes our redemptioÌ„ obtained by his death when he eateth with a great desire wyth his Disciples the Pascall Lambe beyng offered vp For we knowe that Iesus Christ is the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the worlde and that Christ our Passeouer is offered vp and that the sprinklyng of his bloud stayeth and keepeth farre from vs the destroying Angell Also that he clenseth our sinnes and refresheth vs with spirituall drinke guideth vs to eternall lyfe and maketh his father pacifyed with vs who were it not for this would still be angry agaynst our sinnes Moreouer he commendeth vnto vs the mysterie of our redemption by the bread and wine holily instituted for signes and Sacramentes of his bodye deliuered to death and of his bloud shed for vs and willeth vs that we neuer forget him Besides this he hath not onely commended vnto vs this principall point of our saluation in parables and figures but also hath expouÌ„ded it vnto vs most manifestly in cleere and euident woordes as when he sayth plainely that many mansions that is to say sufficient dwelling places are prepared with his heauenly father to receiue all the elect and that he departeth hence that by his death he myght open the heauenly dwellings to bring in thether his faythful seruauntes For I will receiue you euen vnto my selfe that where I am there maye ye be also And agayne he sayth I am the way and the truth and the life no man commeth vnto the father but by me Also Nowe are ye cleane through the word which I haue spoken vnto you Byde in me and I in you I omit here purposely many such lyke things for you haue sufficiently vnderstoode by that which wee haue alledged with what diligence and howe abundantly and aptly he hath expounded and commended vnto vs in his doctrine the which often in his Supper he repeated to hys Disciples the principall point of our saluation Nowe for so much as the doctrine of our Lord Iesus Christ doth not only shew vnto vs our redemption and teacheth that faith in Christ which truely iustifieth but also instructed vs to repentaunce and to a graue and earnest accusation of all our misdeedes a man may finde a singular discourse of all this matter in this Supper And because there be two sortes of men the one altogether hypocriticall and vnfaithfull wherof Iudas Iscariot which betrayed our Sauiour is the true patterne and the other righteous pure perfect and faithful neuerthelesse laden and burdened with vices and sinnes the which the other Disciples of our Lord doo represent the Lorde in the beginnyng addresseth his speache to Iudas and admonisheth hym grauely reproueth hym and toucheth him nearely threatening hym with euerlasting destruction Consequently he represseth his Disciples reasonyng among them selues who should be greatest he confirmeth comforteth and strengtheneth the weake the fearefull and ready to fall Also he aduertiseth them of their greeuous fall exhorting them after their fall to repentance in setting before them the example of Peter to whom he said Simon Simon behold Satan hath earnestly desired to sift you And the rest which is to be read in the .22 of S. Luke Out of all the which things we maye gather that in al the Sermons which are to be made to the people both before the Supper

Therefore the auncient ministers of the Church were accustomed in the beginning of the Supper to cry to the people Lift vp your hartes Whereunto in like manner the saying of the Apostle may be applyed when as he sayth Our Fathers did all eate of the same spirituall meate and did all drinke of the same spirituall drinke The which we reade in the .x. Chapter of the fyrst to the Corinthians Touching the rest wee will speake some other tyme how the vnfaythfull being partakers of the symboll and Sacrament and not of the thing which it signifieth eat and drinke their iudgement and condemnation The Lord in like manner tooke the cuppe after supper and distributed it amongst them all For he shedde his bloud for them all And as he is the meate of al so is he also the drinke of all Therfore sayd he playnly Drinke ye all of it And in like manner S. Marke affirmeth that they also did saying And they all dranke of it Let then the decrees and ordinauÌ„ces of all men whatsoeuer which ordinauÌ„ces commauÌ„d that the lay or secular should communicate at the Supper vnder one of the two kindes onely that is to say vnder the forme of breade giue place to these cleare and expresse woordes of the lord Now as he declared before what maÌ„ner bread it was which he gaue to his so dooth he here in lyke manner shew what manner cuppe or wine this is that is to say sacramentall This is my bloud sayth he of the new testament or This cuppe is the newe Testament in my bloud We haue declared before that in this speech there is a figure For the chalice or the cuppe is the SacrameÌ„t of the bloud of Christ by the which bloud the newe testament is consecrated and dedicated and by the which we haue obtayned remission of sinnes We drinke therefore spiritually the bloud of the Lord by fayth as we also eate his body Furthermore these Sacramentes or symbols serue vs for a seale and for a true testimonie that the sonne of God hauyng takeÌ„ humane flesh is come into the world who hauyng gyuen his body and shed his bloud hath fully redemed his electe fulfyllyng all thinges promised and written in the lawe and Prophetes The which matter Sainct Paul in the Epistle to the Hebrues doth more at larg expounde vnto vs. The Lorde addeth herevnto So often as you do this do it in remembraunce of me And Sainct Paull sayth Ye do shewe the Lordes death till he come This sentence teacheth vs three thinges First that it is lawfull for the Church of Christe To celebrate this Supper so often as it will and that it is not bound or subiecte to any certayne number And for this cause the sentence of S. Augustine to Ianuarius is commendable The which he vttereth thus Some will say That we ought to receyue the communion euery day and other will say the contrary But he reconcyleth them well which admonisheth them to continue especially in the peace of Christ Let euery one do that which he beleeueth Godly according to his fayth that he ought to do For neyther of them both dishonoureth the body and bloud of the Lorde This foode may no wyse be contemned Consequently the ende of the Supper is shewed when as it is not once only but often tymes repeated This do ye in remembraunce of me For the Lorde by the holy assembly of his people and by this action the which after a sorte speaketh yea and layeth playnely before our eyes these things to be loked vpon by vs woulde that we shoulde retayne and imprinte in our memorie this great benefite and mistery of our redemption and of his passion that is to say that he had delyuered his body to death for vs and shed his bloud for the remission of our sinnes and gyuen them vs also in meate and drinke for our saluation Wherfore in beholdyng the bread and wyne we must not stay our selues only in the beholdyng of them but we must beholde the thinges which they represente vnto vs that is to say the passion of the Lorde and our redemption Our Lorde came once into the earthe he died once and hath purged and clensed vs all Afterwarde he ascended into heauen from thence he shall not come before he come to iudge the worlde Also our Lorde shall dye no more he died once but his only death hath strength and efficacy for euer And the Lorde worketh in vs through his holy spirite sanctification and lyfe To be briefe these thinges which we do serue vs for remembraunces remembraunces I say instituted touching thinges past to confirme refreshe often tymes the remembraunce of the passion of the Lord and of our redemption Wherfore the saying of S. Augustine agaynst a Manichee is prayse worthy The fleshe saith he and the bloud of this sacrifice were promised before the comyng of Christ by the oblations and offeringes Which were figures of them in the passion of Christ they were perfourmed by the trulie it selfe and after the ascentioÌ„ of Christ they are celebrated by the sacrament of the memoriall Lo what he sayth hereof Now the same Lorde in auncient tyme ordained the Pascall Supper which he called also a memoriall and commemoration that the benefit of the deliueraunce foorth of Egypte the true image and figure of the vniuersall redemption by Christ might be refreshed and renued euery yere to the remeÌ„braunce of the faythfull There was meate in both the two there were great benefites in both two but yet the truth is here in the Supper the shadow in the other in both two the remeÌ„braunce in both two saluation and lyfe through the Messias finally in both two there were prayses and spirituall reioysyng For in the Supper we are commauÌ„ded to shewe the death of the Lord which in deede is nothyng els but the commaundement which is gyueÌ„ vs to yeelde prayse and thankesgiuyng to the Lorde for his death And so this parte whereof we haue heretofore spoken is agayne repeated and for this cause we are often put in remembraunce thereof as of that thing which is not the least in that holy bankquet Now we are commaunded to do these thinges vntill he come That is to say vntill the Lorde returne in Iudgement All the sacrameÌ„tes of the auncient fathers were instituted vntil the tyme of correctioÌ„ that is to say vntill the coÌ„myng of Christ who by hys commyng into the worlde hath fulfilled al the promyses hauyng abrogated and abolished the shadowes and figures Therfore hath he now instituted this sacrament that it might be perpetual and immutable That is to say that it might indure in the Churche vntill the Lorde returne in iudgemeÌ„t fully to accomplish that which he promised by his word Who is he than that dare chaunge it If any haue bene so holde to make any such chaunge who is he which seeth not how greately he hath sinned agaynst God

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