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A10468 The boke of Barthram priest intreatinge of the bodye and bloude of Christ wryten to greate Charles the Emperoure, and set forth. vii.C. yeares a goo. and imprinted. an. d[omi]ni M.D.XLviii. Cum preuilegio, ad imprimendum solum.; De corpore et sanguine Domini. English Ratramnus, monk of Corbie, d. ca. 868.; Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.; Hugh, William, d. 1549. 1548 (1548) STC 20749; ESTC S115653 21,331 36

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in the deserte by a spiritual meate an inuisyble drinke dyd eate hys body drynke hys bloude As the apostell wytnesseth sayeng our fathers haue eaten the same spirituall meate dronken the same spirituall drinke here we cannot know by reason how this thinge was done Yet to the doynges fayth must be adhibited for it is he truly whych by hys omnipotente vertue turneth the breade the wyne spiritually into hys flesshe hys bloude also whyche at the tyme made inuycyble the manna that was gyuen from heauē hys body the water powred out of the rocke his blode The which Dauid perceyuinge dyd protest in the holy goost sayenge man hath eaten the breade of angels It ware a fond thynge to suppose that thys corporall manna geuen to oure fathers fedeth the heuenly hoost of angels or that they do eate any suche meate which be rether fedde wyth the dayntyes of goddes worde The psalmyst declar●th playne or the holye goost rather speaketh in the psalmyste both what our fathers receyued in that heauēly manna and what the faythfull ought to beleue in the mysterie of the body blode of christ in the both truly christ is signifyed whych is not only the meate of angels but also fedeth the soules of the faytfull And neyther of these happen in corporall tast or feadyng but in the vertue of the spirituall worde The euāgeliste teachet that Iesus christe before he suffred toke breade gaue thākes distributed it to his apostles sayeng thys is my body whych shal be geuē for you do this in my remembraunce Lykewyse he toke the cup after he had supt sayeng thys is the newe testamēt in my bloude which shal be shed for you We se that christ dyd worke the mistery of his body blode before he suffered We dought not but euery faythfyll man beleueth that the breade was made the bodye of christe whych he gaue to hys disciples sayeng thys is my body that is geuē for you And also that the cuppe dyd cōteyne the bloude of christ whereof he sayeth thys cuppe is the newe testament in my bloude that shal be shedde for you Therfore as he coulde turne the substance of breade and the creature of wyne into hys proper body before he dyed So coulde he in the deserte turne the manna and the water of the rocke into hys flesshe bloude not wythstandinge that his fleshe was hanged on the crosse for vs. And hys bloude shed for vs longe after heare also we ought to consyder what is ment by thes wordes excepts you shall eate the flesshe of the sonne of mā drynke hys bloude you shall not haue lyfe in you He sayde not that hys flesshe whych hanged on the crosse shulde be eatē in pecys eaten of the Apostles nor that hys blode whych he shedde for the redēptiō of the world sholde be gyuē hys disciples to drinke for it ware a wycked thing yf hys fleshe shuld be eatē or his bloud dronkē as the infydelles toke it Therfore he sayd to his disciples takyng the wordes of christ not vnfaythfully yt scarcely perceyuing how the same was to be vnderstand thes doughtes offēde Therfore yf you shall se the sonne of mā ascendynge thether where as he was before As though he shulde saye you maye not thynke my fleshe to be eatē of you corporally or my bloude to be drouken of you corporally neyther that my flshe shal be deuyded into pecys for asmuch as after my resurrectiō ye shal se me affende into heauē wyth the fulnes of my holy body blode thē ye shal wel perceyue that my fleshe is not to be eatē of thos that beleue as the infydels thynke but that the bread the wyne chaunged by a mysterye into the substance of my body bloude is to be receyued of the faythfull he sayeth also cōsequētly The sperite is he that quickeneth the flesh profyteth nothing after eny such sorte as the vnfaythfull vnderstande other wyse it gyueth lyfe as the faythfull take it by a mysterye And therfore he sayeth the sperite is he that quickeneth So in this mysterye of the body bloude of Christe here is a spirituall operacion geuyng lyfe wyth u●e the whych operacion the mysteryes be vnprofyatable for well maye they fede the bodye but the soule they cannot Here springeth a questiō ●●e whych proposed some saye that thos thynges be done in verite not in mysterye wherin they shewe them selues playn●lye to repungue agaynst the wrytynges of the holye fathers Saynte Austen the doctour of the churche in the thyrde of hys boke de doctrina christ●ana wryteth thus Excepte you eate sayeth our sauyour the fleshe of the sonne of man drynke hys bloude you shal haue no lyfe in you He semyth to commaund a wycked thyng therfore it is a fygure cōmandyng vs to be cōmunicators of hys passion surelye also profytable to peruerte in our memories that his fleshe was ●ōdyd crucifyed for our sakes Thus saynt Austen affyrm●th the mysterye of the body and bloud of christ to be celebrate of the faythfull vnder a fygure for he sayeth it is no poynte of religion but rather of iniquite to take hys flesshe a●d hys bloud carnally as they did whych vnderstode not christ●s wordes spyry●uallye but carnallye wente back therfore and departed from hym Among many thynges in hys Epystell to bonyeface he wryteth thus Truelye we vse to saye of tymes when Ester draw●th nere that tomorowe or nexte daye shal be the passyon of the Lorde not wythstandyng he suffered hys passiō many yeres befor Neyther dyd he suffre but ons Also on Easter day we customably saye this daye the Lorde hath rysen And it manye yeares hath passyed in dede syns he rose for sayēg this we shuld be reported as shameful lyers sauing that we do name thys after the sim●litude of the dayes them selues wherin the thinges were done So we may say thys is the daye though it be not the day it selfe in dede But by the reuelacyon of tyme lyke vnto it And so we say the thynge is done this day for the celebraciō of the sacramēt whych is not done thys day in dede but was done a great whyle before was not christ once offred in him selfe And yet in the sacramēt he is offred to the faythful people not only euery Easter but euery day nether is he founde a lyer that answereth to a man askyng the questiō that he is offered For yf the sacramēt had not a certayne sym●litude of those thinges wherof they be sacramētes they were no sacramētes at all for the lykenes many tymes the sacramētes take the names of the thynges thē selues Therfore lyke as after a sorte the sacramēt of the body of christ is the body of christ the sacramēt of the bloud of christ is the bloud of christ So the sacramet of fayth is fayth Thus we perceyue that saint Austē affyrmeth the sacramēt to be one thyng the thynge it selfe
mysterye of the lord and vnto that thyng whych you your selues be you answre amē And in answryng you subscrybe therefore thou hearest the body of christ thou answrest amen Be thou a mēbre of the body of christ that that the amen may be true and wherin in breade we wyll speake nothynge or oure owne heades but heare the Apostell We beynge manye sayeth he are one breade and one bodye c. Therfore Saynte Augustyne hath taught vs that as the bodye of Christe is sygnyfyed in the breade whyche is on the alter so is the body of the people that receyueth it Also he hath euidently shewed that the proper bodye of chryste is that body in the which he was borne of the virgyn marye in the which he sucked in the whiche he suffred in the whiche he dyed and was buried in the whiche he rose and ascended into heauen in the whiche he sytteth of the ryght hand of the father and in the whiche he shall come agayne to iudgemet But this whiche is set on the lordes table conteyneth the mysterye of the very body euen as it dothe of the mysterye of the beleuyng people For the appostle sayeth We beynge maney are one breade and one bodye YOURE wysdome most excellente prynce may perceyue that I haue prouyd by the testimonies of holy scryptures and of the holy fathers that the breade whiche is called the body of chryste and the cup called his blode is a fygure because it is a mysterye And that there is no small dyfference betwene the mystycall bodye and the bodye that suffered was buryed and rose agayne For this whiche suffered is the proper body of oure sauyour Neyther in it is any fygure or signifycacion but the manifestacyon of the thying it selfe is knowen And the visyon of it shulde be desyred of the faythfull For after we shall se it youre desyre shal be accomplyshed for he and the father be all one not in the respecte of our sauyours bodye but in the respecte of the fulnes of deuinite that dwellethe in the man chryste But in this mystycall body is a fygure not onely of the proper body of chryst but also of the people beleuyng in christ For doutles it beareth the fygure both of the body of chryst that suffered rose agayne and of the people borne agayne by baptysme and made alyue from the death of sīne Let vs adde also that the breade and the wyne named the bodye and blode of chryst do represent the memorye of the lordes passyon death For he sayeth in the gospell Do this in my remembraunce the whiche paule expoundeth sayenge So oft as ye eate of this breade drynke of this wyne you shall shewe the death of the lorde tyll he come Thus we be taught both of chryst and of paule that the breade and the wyne set on the altare are set for a fygure or a memory of the lordes deathe that it maye putte vs in remembraunce in the tyme present what hath bene done in tyme past that we made myndfull of his passyon may be made also partakers of the godly rewarde by the which we ar delyuered from death Knowynge that after we shal once come to the visyon of chryste we shall haue no nide of suche instrumentes by the whiche we are put in remembraunce what chryst hath suffered for vs. For we lokynge on hym face to face shall not be admonyshed by an externe admonicion of temporall thīges but by the contemplacyon of the truth it selfe Yet we may gyue thankes to the auctor of our helth ●t you shall not thinke for all this that the body and blode of the lorde is not receyued of the faythfull in the mysterye of the sacrament sayenge that fayth receyueth not the thyng loked vppon with oure eyes but that whiche is beleued For the meate is spirituall the drynke is spirituall feadyng the soule spiritually and gyueth the lyfe of euerlastyng secrete as our sauyour sayeth The spirite is he that quyckeneth the flesshe profyteth nothynge W●●●les I haue indeuered to obey the cōmaundement of your excellencye I a man of small importancye haue presumed to dispute of no small thynges yt not folowynge the presumptyon of myne owne estimacyon or Iudgement But the auctoritie of the olde fathers yf it happen that you approue these thynges as catholyke it muste be imputed to be merytes of our fayth which was not ashamed the glorye of your regall magnificēce layed awaye for a tyme to aske a responce of the truth of a pore man but yf they please you not let it be imputed to my folyshnes it coulde not with efficacye explicate that thynge whiche you desyred FINIS ¶ Imprynted at London in saynt Andrewes paryshe in the waredropt by Thomas Raynalde and Anthony Kyngstone
mutacion is made other wyse then corporallye also that not to be the thyng which is sene in verite but some other whyche is not perceyued to be thoughe hys power and peculyer benynge or yf they wyll not confesse thys nedes they must denye the body and bloud of christ whych is a wycked thyng to do not in wordes only but also in thought but forasmuch as they do confesse the body and bloude of christe to be there and that it cannot be there but by the reason of mutacion frome a worse thynge to a better it muste folowe that the mutacion be made not corporallye but spirituallye yet and so that we maye saye that it is do spiritually For vnder the veale of corporall bread and wyne is the spirituall bodye and bloud of christ yet is there not the existencie of too dyuers thynges that is to saye of the bodye and the spyrite but one and the same thynge after one sorte is the kynde of breade and wyne after one other sorte the body and bloude of christ for in that both of them are touched they be the kyndes of corporall creatures through the power by the which they at spiritually made they be the mysteries of the body and bloud of Christe Let vs consyder the well of holy baptysme whych is called not wythout a cause the well of lyfe because that is confyrmeth thos that discende into it wyth the mounte of a better lyfe maketh thē lyue to iustice whych ware before dead in synne The element of the water hath not hys power for yf it shuld not opteyne the vertue of sainctificaciō it could not wasshe away the spotte of synne And yf it sholde not cōteyne the vygore of lyfe vtterlye it sholde not be able to gyue lyfe to the deade I meane not my flesshe but ●n soule yet in the fountayne yf we haue respect onelye to the thynge whych our corporall sence comprehendeth we shall fynde nothynge but water subiecte to corruption and that whych hath none other vertue but to wasshe our bod●es Yt after that the vertue of the holy goost hath accesse by the concrea●●on of the baptyser yt is of the efficacy not only to wasshe oure bodyes but also by a spirituall power to wasshe awaye the spiritual fylthe frō our solles Lo in one element we se two thynges the one resystinge the other that is to saye a corruptyble thing to gyue in corruption and a thynge wythout lyfe to contrybute lyfe Therfore knowe that in thys well is one thyng sencyble and therfore mutable and curruptible Also an other thynge that onely fayth beholdeth and therfore incorruptible immortall And yf a mā requyre what that is whych wassheth the body it ●s nothynge but an elemēt but yf a man cōsyder that whych inwardely purgeth that is a lyuely vertue a vertue of sanctification a vertue of immortalyte therfore the lycore in hys propertie is corruptible in the mysterye holsome vertue euē so the bodye the bloude of christ cōsydered outwardely is a creature doughtles subiecte to mutabilite corrupciō but yf a mā pondre the vertue of the mysterye it is lyfe geuynge immortalite to thos that be partakers of it Therfore it is not al one thynge that is sene that is beleued For thos thynges that be sene do onely fede the corruptyble bodye they beynge corruptible them selues But thos thynges whych are not sene do fede the immortall solles they beynge immortall them selues The apostel wrytynge to the Corinthians sayeth know you not that all oure fathers ware vnder a cloude that all passed ouer the see that all they were baptysed in Moyses in the cloude in the see that all they haue eaten the same sprituall meate and that all they haue dronken the same spiritual drinke They dyd drinke of the spirituall stone folowing them the stone also was christ Thus we perceyue that the see had a kynde of baptisme the clowde also that the fathers of the olde Testamēt ware baptized in the cloude in the see Coulde the cloude or the see of thē selues haue the vertue of baptisme or coulde they sanctifye the people Yet dare we not accuse the Apostell of lyenge for that he sayd our fathers ware baptyz●d in the cloud in the see And although the baptysme was a type a fygure of the baptysme of christ that is now vsed in the church Yet no mā that hath hys wytnes wyl say that it also was not baptysme it selfe or that oure fathers ware not baptyzed therin except he wyll varye frome the Apostell as a mad mā Therfore the see clowde not in that they ware creatures bodyes deade toke the clerenes of sanctifycatiō of the holy speryte For in thē was a visyble forme whych appereth playnlye to the corporall sence and wythin a spirituall power which was onely euydent to the eyes of the mynde fayth Lykewyse manna geuen to the people frō heauē the water flowinge out of the rocke ware corporall and corporally they fedde the people gaue thē drinke Yt the Apostel nameth that manna that water spirituall meat spiritual drinke and why verely bycause that there was in thos corporall substāces a spiritual power of the worde whych fedde the myndes rather then the bodyes of the beleuynge people spiritually gaue thē drinke not wythstanding theyr meate and drynke dyd prefygurate the bodye bloude of christe whych the church doth ●●●●●rate Yet saynt Paule affyrmeth that oure fathers dyd eate the same spirituall meate and drinke the same spiritual drinke A mā wyll aske perauenture what he meaneth by this worde the same truly he meaneth that they dyd eate the same spirituall meate whyche the faythfull eateth drinketh now a dayes in the church we may not vnderstande dyuers thynges for christe is was alwayes on And the same christ whych fedde the people that ware thē baptyzed in the deserte in the clowde in the see wyth hys flesshe and his bloude fedeth now the people in the church of hys faythful with the breade of hys bodye the water of hys bloude thys thynge the Apostel dyd playnly declare by that which foloweth sayenge they haue eatē the same spirituall meate dronkē the same spirituall drinke They dyd drinke of the same spirituall stone followyng them the stone was christe So we vnderstande that christ was in the spirituall stone in the deserte And that he gaue the water of hys bloude to the people And afterwarde gaue to vs hys bodye whyche was borne of a virgyn crucifyed for the helthe of the faythfull And not only that we myght be redemyd but also that we myght drynke therof It is a maruelous thynge that Christ all though he was incūprehensyble inestimable And that he had not yt put vpon hym the nature of man had not yet tasted death for the helthe of the worlde nor redemyd vs wyth hys bloud For al that our fathers
to be another thynge wherof the sacramente is the bodye in the whyth christ suffered the blode whych flowed from his syde are the thynges but the mysteries of thē sayeth he be the sacramentes of the body and bloude of christ which ar celebrated in remēbraunce of chrystes passyon Not only at euery pascall solēnite but euery day in the yere And although there is but one body of the lord in the whych he suffered but one bloud that was shed for the helthe of the worlde yet the sacramentes of these thynges haue taken there names so that we cal thē the body and bloude of christe for the similitudes of the thinges which they signifye So they be called after the same maner as the pascall feaste and the resurrection are whyche verelye be celebrated yet chryste suffred but once in hym selfe and rose agayne nether can those dayes be reuoked for they are paste The dayes in the whych the memorie of the lordes passion resurrection be celebrated are named the selfe same dayes in whych chryst suffered and rose because they haue a symilitude of the verye same dayes in dede Wherfore we say thys day tomorowe or nexte daye is the resurrection of the lorde Not withstandinge that the day in the whiche be rose in dede is many yeares past Do we saye that the lorde is offered whan the sacrament of hys body and bloude be celebrated Where as he was offered but ones in hym selfe for the health of the worlde As the apostles sayeth christ suffred ones for you leauynge an example that you myght folow hys fotesteppes He doth not saye that he suffereth euery daye whych he dyd once He hath lefte vs an example whych is dayly presented to those whych beleue in the mystery of the bodye bloude of christ That whosoeuer shall come to it maye knowe that he ought to be assocyate to hys passions whose Image he loketh for in the holy mysteries accordinge to the sayeng of the wyse mā Thou arte come to the table of a greate man attende deligently what thynges are set before the knowynge that thou thy selfe must prepare lyke thynges To come to the table of a great man is to be partaker of the lordes souper The consyderation of the thynges set before the is the intellygence of the body bloude of christ Wherfore whosoeuer is partaker let hym know that he ought to prepare lyke thynges That is to say he muste imitate christ in dyenge wyth hym the remembraunce of whose death he acknowledgeth not onely in beleuinge but also in tastynge Furthermore saynt Paule sayeth to the Ebrews yt was meete that we shuld haue such a byshop That is to saye holy Innocent wythout spotte segregate from synners and hygher then the heauens whyche shall not nede as the other byshoppes dayly to offer for hys owne synnes and after for the synnes of the people Thys oure Lorde Iesus christe hath done in offerynge hym selfe once and that whych he dyd once he doth now dayly frequēt once he offered him selfe for the synnes of the people the same oblaciō is dayly celebrate among the faythfull but it in a misterye for that whych christ hath once fulfylled in offerynge hym selfe is dayly done in the church in the remembraunce of hys passion by the celebraciō of mysteryes Neyther it is falsly sayd that the Lord is offered or that he suffereth in the mysteries for asmuch as they haue the symilitude of hys death and passiō wherof they be representatiōs Wherfore the mysteries be named the body and bloude of christ because they take the appellation of thinges wherof they be sacramentes SAynt Ysodore in hye boke wherin he entreteth of the true sygnificatiō of words sayeth that a sacrifyce is an holy thynge done or the doynge of an holy thynge for by a mystical prayer it is cōsecrate in the remembraunce of the Lordes passion Therfore he cōmaundeth vs to call it the body and bloude of christ And though it be made of the frutes of the earth it is sanctifyed and made a sacramēt by the inuysible working of the holy ghost The greciās do call thys sacramēt eucharistia that is by interpretaciō good grace and what is better then the bodye and bloude of christ The bread and the wyne truely are comparyd to the body and blond of christ Because that as the vysyble substance of bread and wyne doth norysh and inebriate the externe mā so the worde of god which is the lyuely bread by hys perticipatiō doth recreate the myndes of the faythful And this catholike teacheth that the same mystery of the Lordes passiō muste be done for vs in the remēbrance of the same Thus he declareth that the Lords passion was once done that the memorie of it is represented in the solemnicies of holy thinges Wherfore the breade whyche is made of the frutes of the ground is transposyd whyles he is sanctifyed into the bodye of christ And the wyne that floweth oute of the grape by the sanctificaciō of the godly mysterye is made the bloude of christ not visybly but after the mynde of thys present doctor through the operation of the holy goost wherfore they ar called the body and bloude of Christ and so taken not bycause they do so appere externely but for that they ar so made by the worke of the holy gooste and for that they be an other thyng by the inuysyble power thē vysyble they seme to be He maketh a distinctiō whyles he sayeth The bread and the wyne be comparyd to the body and bloud of christ Bycause that as the substaunce of the visyble bread wyne doth inebriate and norysh the externe mā so the word of god which is the lyuely bread by the participacion of it dothe refreshe recreate the myndes of the faythful Herein he confesseth very playnly that what externe thinge soeuer we receyue it is accommodate to the refection of the body but the worde of god whych is the inuisible bread beyng in the sacrament inuisyble by thys participacion in quyckening the myndes of the faythfull feadeth thē Also the same doctor sayeth a sacrament is in some celebracion when the thyng is so done that it maye he vnderstonde to sygnyfye some what whych is to be taken wyth holynes by this he declareth that eny sacramēt in holy thynges conteyneth some secret that teaching which appereth visible that whych we ought to perceyue inuysyble be dyuers Afterwarde he declareth what sacramentes are to be celebreate amonge the faythfull that is the sacrament of baptysme and of the bodye and bloude of Christe whych are called sacramentes for that a deuyne vertue doth secretely worke the helthe receyued in them vnder the couer of corporall thynges Wherfore they be called sacramentes of secret or holye vertue He sayeth also that a mystery by his sygnifycaciō is that whych hath an hyd and secrete disposycion Here in we be taught that the bodye and bloude of christe be called mysteries bycause they