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A17372 The principles of the true Christian religion breifelie selected, out of manie good bookes. first reade: and then iudge. Butterfield, Swithun, d. 1611. 1590 (1590) STC 4206; ESTC S109600 46,918 109

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1. Cor. 6 15 17 19 2 Cor. 13. 5. Rom. 8. 9. partaker of Christ his benefites And after this lyfe to haue eternall in heauen with Christ Iesus my Sauiour In this holy Sacrament we are made 1. Cor. 10. 17. Rom. 12 5. members of Christ and vnited together by his holy Spirite dwelling in vs. The Ephe. 5 30 32. manner of Christ his presence and of our vniting and howe wee eate Christ and drinke his blood is a great secret and more then my tongue can expresse or any mans minde able to conceyue When wee receyue this holy Sacrament Col. 3 1. we must as deuoutly as wee can lift vp our mindes into heauen where Christ is And by our fayth receyue Gal. 2 20. Ephe. 3 17. Iohn 3 16 5 24. ephe 2 8 3 17. acts 10 43 26 18 15 9. gal 5 6. Heb 11 6. grace and vertue from his verie bodie By our true and liuely fayth we are made partakers of Christ and vnited to him by his spirite dwelling in vs and doe obteyne remission of our sinnes and saluation At the receyuing of this holy Sacrament Matth 28 20. Iohn 17 22 23. 2. Cor. 13. 5. Rom. 12 5. Christ is present by the working of his holy spirite and doth make vs one with him and members one of another And we be partakers of the godly nature 2. Pet. 1 4. in that we flee the corruption which is in this world through lust Euery one which receiueth this holy Sacrament 1 Cor 13 2 3. worthily in true fayth repentance 1. Cor. 10. 3. 4. Iohn 6. 54. to 57 63 2. cor 13 5. 1. cor 6. 15 17 19. Rom 8. 9. 12 5. ephe 5 30 1. Cor. 10 17. and charitie doe then receyue the body of Christ working by his spirite and forgiuenesse of all their sinnes Christ then dwelleth in them and they in him and are vnited to him and made members of his bodie and also members one of another by the secret and marueylous working of the holy Ghost Christ doth out of the substance of Gal. 2. 20. Rom. 8. 9. 10. 11 his flesh giue life vnto our soules And we do liue by his holy spirit and vertue abiding in vs. And by that vertue and power we doe hate sinne and the deuill and ouer come them Thus are the faythfull f●d with Christ Iohn 14 23. 1. Iohn 3 24 4. 13. Ephe. 3 17. 2. Cor. 1 22. Rom. 8. 11. his body and doe liue by his holy spirit and vertue abiding in them And thereby their fayth is nourished and strength●ned and their soules fed with this spirituall foode in Christ vnto eternall life This is our communion with Christ and the eating of his bodie and the drinking of his blood Thus by our true faith and the working of the holy ghost we are made his members and members one of another so one body in Christ he being our heade from whom wee all Rom. 12. 5. Col. 1 18 to 2● doe drawe of his fulnesse So wee eate Christ in such sort as hee abydeth in vs. The maner of the receyuing of this grace and vertue and the incorporating Ephe. 5 30 32 of the faythfull into Christ is a great secrete and more then our tongues can expresse or our mindes able to conceyue This holy Sacrament which some call the Lordes supper others the holy Communion of the body and blood of our Lorde and sauiour Iesus Christ and commonly the holy Communion Christ did institute and ordeyne at his Mat. 26 to 31. Mar. 14 22. to 26. Luke 22 19 20 last supper with his disciples Which institution saint Paul expoundeth and declareth in these words following I haue receyued of the Lorde that 1. Cor. 11 23 to 30. which I also haue deliuered vnto you That the Lord Iesus in the night he was betrayed tooke breade and when he had giuen thankes he brake it and said Take eate this is my bodie which is broken for you this doe yee in remembrance of me After the same maner also he tooke the cuppe when he had supped saying This cuppe is the new testament in my blood This doe as often as ye drinke it in remembraunce of mee For as often as ye shall eate this breade and drinke this cuppe yee shewe the Lordes death till he come Let a man therefore examine him selfe and so let him eate of this breade and drinke of this cuppe For hee that eateth and drinketh vnworthily eateth and drinketh his owne damnation because hee discerneth not the Lords bodie Further Saint Paule sayeth The ● Cor. 10 16 17 cuppe of blessing which wee blesse is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ The bread which we breake is it not the communion of the bodie of Christ For we that are many are one bread and one bodie because we all ar● partakers of one bread Note that as the breade is Christs bodie So is the cup the new Testament The new Testament is the promise of saluation made to all beleuers in Christ Therefore the eating of Christs bodie is spirituall and so sayth Saint Paul 1. Cor. 10 1 2 3 4. This forme order of the Lords Supper we ought to hold wholy to keepe for the remembrance of his death and benefites till he come againe at the end of the world to iudgement THis holy sacrament is a distributing The holy Sacrament what it is wherefore ordeined of sanctified bread and wine in the assembly of the faithfull according to the commandement of Christ To testifie that hee hath deliuered his bodie to death and shedde his blood for our redemption The visible signes of the Lords supper are bread wine The things signified is the breaking of Christs body by the separation of his soule from his body and the shedding of his blood for our redemptiō And also our vnion with christ that Christ maketh the faithfull pertakers of his body blood as surely and verely as they receiue the sāctified bread and wine And that the remembraunce thereof with prayse and thankes vnto Christ for the same is vnto our soules Rom. 8 11 spirituall meate and nourishment and strengthening vnto our fayth So the inuisible grace in this Sacrament is Christ himselfe This holy Sacrament was instituted 1. Cor. 11. ●6 Suke 22 19. appointed to bee done of all the faithfull in remembrance of Christ his death and the benefites wee receyue thereby And that wee should publikely declare and confesse till hee come againe to iudge that all our trust for eternall life and saluation is in his death and merits Also this holy Sacrament is appointed Heb. 13. 15. 1. Cor. 10 31. Ephe. 5 20. Col. 3 17. to be a ceremonie of prayse thankesgiuing And that in celebrating it in our assemblies we doe with prayse and continuall thankes glorifie Christ and giue him thankes for his death and passion Further