also how excessiuely he caused the Israelites to woork without any hope of wages how he wold not suffer them by any meanes to sacrifice to the Lord nor to go foorth of the land of Egipt Which thing continued not for one yéer or two but for the space of foure hundred thirty yéeres Heer may we liuely beholde a draught of our misery We were all lost and destroyed in Adam We were holden captiues in the helly Egipt vnder the tiranny of a spirituall Pharaoh which is the Deuil This tirant was strong and mightie he suffred vs not to serue our god He made vs to labour incessantly in slauish and vnfrutefull woorks of sin to the establishment of his owne kingdome He flew not onely our men Children but he led vs all indiferently to vtter ruin and destrustion And this tiranny bad not onely cōtinued for a certain time but had béen eternall and for euer parmanent if the mercy and power of our God had not plucked vs out of it by the ministery of the true Moyses which is our Lord Iesus Christe who is the true Lamb whiche the heauenly Father hath deliuered to death to deliuer vs from it and purchase vs eternal life As it is said that God so looued the world that he hath giuē his only begotten sonne that who soeuer beléeueth in him should not perish but haue euerlasting life Now then seeing this good God hath doon in vs so great a pleasure as to frée vs from the tiranny of the Deuil of sinne of death of hel séeing the his looue was so great that he deliuered his onely Sonne to the cruel and ignominious death of the crosse for vs which were the seruants and bond slaues of Sathan his welbelooued for vs whiche were his enemies the iust and the Lamb without spot for vs which were sinners and corrupt the onely heir of Paradise for vs which were worthely heires of hel ought we not tobe rauished with admiration of this great and vnspeakable looue of God towards vs and our tungs tobe for euer displayed to publish with loud voice the praise of the benefit of our redēption It is very resonable and therfore we sée that Iesus Christe admonisheth vs of our duty in this behalf speaking of the selebration of the holy Supper Doo this in remembrance of me And S. Paule expresseth what remembrāce this is whē he aduertiseth vs that as often as we shall eat this bread drink this cup we shew the Lords death til he come Seeing then the God requireth of vs a true acknowledging of his benefits whiche we receiue at his hands boūtifulnes by the menes of our Lord Iesus Christ let vs take héed that we be not spotted with the fault of in gratitude especially if we will not incur the wrathfull displeasure of God and acknowledge him for Iudge whome we would not acknowledge for a gentle and merciful father as S. Paule also to this purpose thretneth the ingrate and forgetful when he saith whosoeuer shall eate this bread and drinck the cup of the Lord vnworthely eateth and drinketh his owne damnation And rightfully is the vengeance of God displayed against them which wickedly suppresse the glory of God in that that concerneth their owne saluation For if so be that a murderer redy to be hanged for his wicked déeds casting away reiecting his Princes gratious pardon not vouchsauing to thank him for it deserueth worthely the gallous or if a Childe deserue the rod for not giuing once I thank you to his father when he hath receiued at his hands great and singuler benefits much more we whiche for our sinful and wicked déeds deserue tobe hanged in hel if we contemne the grace of God our souerain prince and make no count of this euerlasting benefits which our heuenly father presenteth vs withall in Iesus Christe who is offered to vs in the Supper by good right reason we are worthy to perish for our vnkindenes and vnthankfulnes But héer must we diligently mark the points that folowe First this acknowledging must be made to one only God by his only sonne Iesus Christ For euen as God by his onely sonne hath created vs redéemed vs frō euerlasting death so wil he that to him alone by him alone in whome he is wel pleased we render thanks for all his benefits As we sée how S. Paule setteth this foorth vnto vs in many places and precisely in the Epistle to the Ephesians where he saith Blessed be God euen the father of our Lord Iesus Christe whiche hath blessed vs with all his spirituall blessing in Heaueuly things in Christe as he hath chosen vs in him before the foundation of the world but they which call vpon Saints and put their trust in them or in their merits they also whiche make them patrons and aduocates to God warde and like wise they whiche trust in their owne strength in their owne frée will or good woorks rob God of his glory and can not giue him true thanks for the benefit of redemption For we cannot giue to any creature the least iot that may be in the matter of our saluation but wee commit sacriledge against God the creator And therfore renouncing our selues and euery liuing creature let vs say with the Apostle vnto the King euerlasting immortall inuisible vnto God only wise be honor and glory for euer and euer Amen Secondly thanks must be giuen not with the mouth only but with the hart also For séeing that God is a spirit he riquireth a seruice of vs that is agréeable to his nature that is to say he wil be serued of vs in spirit and trueth And therfore when that praising of God for the benefit of redemption cōmeth in question we must haue our harts lift vp on hye and there must be a consent and mutuall agréement betwéen our inwarde affections and our tungs as we sée how Dauid exhorteth himself to the same when he saith My soule praise thou the Lord all the is within me praise his holy nāe My soule I say praise thou the Lord forget not all his benefits And the blessed Virgin singeth the self same in her song saying My soule magnifieth the Lord and my spirit reioyceth in God my Saueour now all hipocrits and wicked persons also they that sing praise in an vnknowen tung are héer reprooued For where there is no vnderstanding ther is no affection nor wil and consequently no Faith without which what soeuer we doo be it neuer so faire and glorious before men it is but sinne and abhomination before god Let vs take héed therfore the in this be half we wander not and go astray lest we be condemned with the Ievvish people whiche honored and serued God in vain in so muche as they came néer vnto him onely with their mouthes and honoured him with their lips but not with their harts Thirdly it must be doon at all
ryot other worldly vanities which is asmuch as if we wold haue lodged God the father the sonne and the holy ghost in a moste stinking and filthy priuy We must therfore be sory for our wicked life passed vsing a true and seuere examining of our selues which may bring forth in vs a displeasantnesse and horrour of our fore passed renting and breaking by all maner of menes of the law of God to folow the wil of the Deuil of the world and of the flesh Now the breking of the bread of the Supper which is omitted in the paosure of the Papistê should cause vs to acknowledge and detest our wickednesse that is to say whatsoeuer is fouÌ„d in vs contrary repugnaunt to the pure and holy law of god For in that that the bread is brokeÌ„ for vs or rather in the that we breke the bread of the Supper our of Lord Iesê° Christe it signifieth vnto vs that indéed it is we that it is our sinnes and iniquityes which haue crucified put to death the Lord of life who is the very same Iesus Christe our lord So that we must not doo as in times passed the Infidels did which made great lamentatioÌ„s and inuectiues against the Iewes Pontius Pilate Herod Iudas and them that had executed and put Christ to death and in the mene season flattered theÌ„ selues vaunting of their owne merits and deserts and did not narowly consider that Iudas Pontious Pilate and Herod were but executers and ministers of their impietyes and sinnes Let vs therefore consider in the breaking of the bread that our sinnes yea the sinnes of euery one of vs seuerally crucified the sonne of God brake him with the sorowes of the first and second death as namely the woords of the Supper doo shew that the body of Iesus Christ was broken for vs his blood was shed for the remission of our sinnes And our heauenly father witnesseth the same speaking of the death of his sonne for the sinnes of my people haue I smitten him TheÌ„ if it be so that our sinnes beeing way in the balaunce of the Iustice of God were found to be so weightie and of so great importaunce that his wrath could neuer haue béen appeased towards vs but by the death of his onely Sonne which maketh ful satisfaction I say by the cruel and ignominious death of the crosse How should not we hence forwarde detest abhorre our sin as that which is the cruel bloody murtherer of the onely sonne of God Beholde the Sun the Moon behold the element beholde the vale of the Temple beholde the stones Rocks which were mooued at the death of Iesus Christe which shewed foorth tokens of sorow and we which bere within our selues the cause of his death shall not we haue in horrour and detestation this cursed enemy sin that is lodged within vs Shall we suffer him to rule dwell in vs as before that it may bring home death vnto vs Not so but we must detest it as that that before time seperated vs from God our chéefest happinesse as that that caused vs to loose the Image and similitude of God according to which we were created at the beginning by god It is that that hath wholly destroyed vs that hath depriued vs of holinesse and righteousnes that hath banished vs out of paradise that hath made vs flaues to the tiranny of the deuil the hath made vs subiect to so many miseryes and diseases and tobe short bothe to the first and second death it is that which after it had set a bar deuision betwéen God and vs caused vs to sée our owne filthines purchased vnto vs shameful vilanous infamy made vs to tremble at the voice of our God which was before moste pleasant loouing vnto vs It is that wherby the wrath of God is heaped vpon men that maketh the Earth to become barrain and to bring foorth thornes and thistles that causeth women to bring foorth in sorow and that men eat their bread in the sweat and labour of their bodyes Séeing then that sin bringeth foorth and procureth vnto vs dayly so many miseries it foloweth the we ought to withdraw our selues from it if we wil not be wilful enemies of our owne happines saluation Now theÌ„ I cite héer all disordered and flaunderous persons which notwithstaÌ„ding are so impudent to present them selues to the Lords holy table I aske them what it is that they promised to God and his church in baptisme They wil answer me that they promised God to renounce the Deuil and all his works But one of the chéef and principall works of the deuil is sin Why doo they not then abstain from it Why are they traytours disobedient to God and his Church Why haue they conspired with the deuil the world and the flesh against their owne saluation How dare they present them selues béefore God to aske him pardon and remission of their sinnes séeing that more and more they hepe sin vpon sin and crucifie kil again as much as in them lyeth the sonne of God or at the least make a scorne scoffe of the purging of his blood which was applyed vnto them in Baptisme Put the case that a wicked man poor and destitute of all help were fallen into a mire wheÌ„ce out he could by no menes raise vp him self and that some yung Prince passing that way took the paines to draw him out of this ditch to make him clene to clad him with gorgeous and pretious apparel if this wicked man poor miserable caitif fall again into this mire beray bothe him self and his apparel béeing moreouer in great daunger of his life would not one think that this man were maruelously vnkinde and a contemner of that princely bounty and goodnesse and on the other side a wilful sworne enemy of his owne helth worthy tobe lost cast away with out any help or assistance Euen so soundeth our cause with Iesus Christe We fel all into the pudle of sin in the person of Adam we are all wicked dooers and worthy of an hundreth thousand gibbetê before God we can by no meanes get out of our selues and out of the ditch of destruction wherinto we are al fallen of our owne fault Beholde the Sonne of God the king of kings the Lord of Lords which commeth to draw vs out of this pudle which commeth to wash vs with his pretious blood whiche vouchsafeth to clad vs with the proper Cloke of his righteousnes innocency If we coÌ„e again to wallow our selnes in the puddle of sin if we plese our selues in it if we defile be durt the robe of innoceÌ„cy which he hath giueÌ„ vs in baptisme are we not manifest contemners of the inestimable looue gift of Iesus Christe are moreouer worthy to rot a thousand times in our filthynes or rather to gnash our téeh euerlastingly with the deuilê in hel It is euident
we sée also the ther were great notable abuses on their behalfe that made profession of the true woord of god How many were there which knew no more then the Papists to giue any reasoÌ„ of their faith and which presented them selues like beasts to the Lords holy Supper Some came thither as ignoraÌ„t asses other as swine leding a dissolute slanderous life I wil not speak of an infinit number of hipocrits false brethern traiters Apostates which were vnknoweÌ„ had a countenance shew of honestie Therfore is was not without cause that the wrath of god was kindled against his people that they were scourged with stripes for wittigly abusing of the knowledge of his holy name Now that this good God through his Sonne Iesus Christe may cast his pitiful and merciful eye vpon this so poore and desolate Realme it behoueth bothe the one and the other to learne hence forwarde to serue and honor God according to his woord better then they haue doon espetially that they take héede that héerafter they prophane not by any meanes the holy supper of Iesus Christe our lord To this ende and purpose they may read this little tretise wherin they shall finde the the true preparing of our selues to the Lords supper consisteth not in decking of the body fair garments pomps countenaunces and outward profession of the name of God but in clenenesse of hart and vp rightnes of conscieÌ„ce to th' end that God who is a spirit may be also serued of his in Spirit and trueth The Preface ¶ To come worthely to the holy Supper of our Lord Iesus Christe we must examine our selues according too the admonition of the Apostle Saint Paule Now the examination of our selues consisteth cheefely in foure poynts that is to say in Faith repentance giuing of thanks to God and looue towards our neighbours Of Faith. The first Article FIrst of all we must haue faith that is to say a certain infallible assurance firme perswasioÌ„ that God is a merciful father vnto vs in the name of his sonne Iesê° Christe our Lord whoÌ„e he deliuered to death for vs This faith coÌ„meth not of vs nether is it grouÌ„ded vpon vs nether vpoÌ„ any other thing the is in vs but it commeth from God and is grounded vpon God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost and vpon the promises of the gospel confirmed inwardly within vs by the working of the holy Ghost whiche cryeth in our harts Abba that is to say father Furthermore this faith is nourished confirmed and increased in vs by the holy Sacraments For in the Supper God as a good father after that hee hath once brought vs into his Church by baptisme nourisheth vs spiritually with the proper substance of his Sonne Iesus Christe applying and making proper vnto euery one of vs the merit of his death passion To this end and purpose is it that Iesus Christe him self giueth vs the bread and Wine that he commaundeth vs to eat and drink it that he saith that the Bread is his body whiche is giuen for vs and that the Wine is his Blood which is shed for the remission of our sinnes by whiche woordes he giueth him self wholly vnto vs he wil be our nourishment and spyrituall life hée will dwell in vs by his holy Spirit and wil that we abide in him by faith that through beléef we may not perish but haue eternall life wherof he is the onely heyre and giuer In like sorte the breaking of the Bread of the Supper serueth to the confirmation of our faith and sure warranting of our saluation in so much as it assureth vs and causeth vs to see with spirituall eyes that Iesus Christe was once broken with the paines of death in Ierusalem to deliuer vs from the same and to get vs eternall life Also in that that by the commaundement of Christe Iesus we take the Bread in our hands and then the Cup more ouer in that that we eate the Bread and drink the Wine whiche turn into the nourishment of our bodyes we are certyfied that by the haÌ„ds of Faith we take and embrace Iesus Christe our Lord for our onely Saueour and redéemer and that by the same Faith we eat his body spiritually and drink his blood to the hope of eternall life Now euery one of vs must liue by his owne faith according as we may make our confession in the beleef whiche is called the Apostles in that that euery man saith by him self I beleelue in God and saith not we beleeue We must not heer cast our braines or think vpon the beléeuing or vnbeleeuing vpon the worthynes or vnworthynes of an other man but vpon our owne For Saint Paule dooth not teach vs to examin other men or that other men should examine vs but he saith namely let a man examine him self Therfore let euery one of vs for his owne parte be assured in his hert that Iesus Christe the trewe Messias is come into the world to saue sinners amongst whome he ought to account and estéeme him self by the example of s. Paule the chéefest Let him beléeue that Iesus Christe came down from Heauen into Earth to lift him vp from Earth to HeaueÌ„ that he was made the Sonne of man to make him the Childe of God that he was conceiued by the holy Ghost and that he was borne of the Virgin mary to purifie and clense his wicked conception birth Let him perswade him self that the Sonne of God hath ouercome the Deuil to deliuer him from the tiranny and slauish subiection of the deuil that he hath fulfilled all the Law loouing God his father with all his hart streÌ„gth and might and his neighbour as him self to get him iustice that he appéered before Pilat an earthly Iudge and receiued as euil dooer sentence of condemnation for this life to exempt him from appering before the terrible iudgement seat of Gods iustice to receiue sentence of death euer lasting damnation for that he had offended one eternall and euer lasting god Let him assure him self that the same Iesu Christe went down to hel for him that is to say that he suffred the sorrows and terrours of the second death and of the sincere wrath of God to deliuer him that he dyed a death accursed of God in that hée was hanged on the Crosse to purchase him life blessing before God that he rose again for a gage and assurance of his resurrection that he assended into Heauen for a certain token that he also shal assend thither that he sitteth on the right hand of God his Father to bée for him an euerlasting Préest teacher king defender reconciler and aduorate tobe short the he shall come at his last comming for his comfort ful redemption We must also euery one of vs for his owne parte make proper
because they haue no true Faith without which we can not be members of Iesus Christe nor consequently receiue life of him who is the only hed of the faithful F. What then doo the Infidels wheÌ„ they receiue the Sacrament of the Supper C. They eat and drink their owne damnation in sted of receiuing the pledges and gages of their salnation F. Where must the true faithful séek Iesus Christe to inioy him and to haue the fruition of him C. In heauen For if we be risen again with Christe we must séek the things that are on hye where Christe is sitting on the right hand of God. F. Is not this the matter that the auneient Bishops vsed in the celebration of the Supper to say to the people Sursum corda that is lift vp your harts C. Yes And therfore the people answered Habemus ad Dominum We haue them to the lord Now that Iesus Christ is in Heauen and we on earth how can wée be ioyned vnite or made one with him C. By faith and by the woork of the holy Ghost whiche can wel ioyne and knit that that is otherwise seperated by distance of place F. What shall we then say of them that séek Iesus Christe in the Elements of the Supper and say that there is a Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Iesus Christe C. They erre diuers and sundry waies F How so C. First they speake against thrée Articles of our Beleef that is that Iesus Christ is ascended vp into Heauen that he sitteth on the right hand of God and that he shall not depart from thence til he come to iudge vothe the quick and the dead F. What more C. By their transubstantiation also they abolish the signe of the Sacrament that is to say the bread and the wine and consequently they abolish the Sacrament of the Supper which caÌ„not be without the signe F. This doctrine of Transubstantiation hath it no other absurdities C Yes for it giueth holy thingê to swine and graniteth that the Insidels may eat Iesus Christe Moreouer it maketh men Idotaters and causeth them to worship the Sactament F. Say on C. It maketh also the glorious body of Iesus Christe subiect to rotting and filth Tobe short it abolisheth the true humanity of the sonne of God making him an infinit body and such an one as is in all places F. But hath not Iesus Christe said that he would be with vs vnto the ende of the world and where as two or three should bee gathered togither in his name there hee would be in the middest of them C. Yes But these places must be vnderstood of the presence of his diuinitie and not of his humanitie F. How canst thou prooue that C. By the witnasse of Iesus Christe him self whiche saith that wee shall alwayes haue the poore with vs but him we shal not haue alwaies and S. Peeter saith the Heauen must contain Iesus Christe vntil the restoring of all things F. Therfore thou wilt conclude that although Iesus Christ by his diuinitie and his holy Spirite be alwaies with vs yet notwithstanding touching his humanitie he can be but in one certain place that is in Heauen C. Yea as S. Augustine also witnesseth saying Vntil heauen be ended the Lord shal be alwaies on hie But the trueth of the Lord is also with vs For his body wherein he was raised must needs be in one certain place but his trueth is spread throughout F. What is the summe of this true faith which seeketh not Iesus Christe in Earth but in Heauen C. I beléeue in God whiche hath created me I beléeue in Iesus Christe which hath redeemed me from sin from Sathan from Hel and from death I beleeue also in the holy Ghost which hath sanctified me F. Why saiest thou perticulerly I béeleeue and not we beleeue C. Because that euery one must examin himself and liue by his owne faith and not by the faith of other men F. How must that be doon C. When we doo euery man particulerly for him self apply Iesus Christe vnto him self with all his blessings and riches F. What riches are there in Iesê° Christ C There is saluation for the lost life for the dead trueth for the liers wisdoine for the ignoraunt Iustice for the sinners sanctification ctification for the impure ones redemption for the captiues F. Must we therfore by faith applye all these things vnto vs séeing we are by nature lost dead lyers ignorant sinners vnclene and captiues C. Yea for Iesus Christe hath taken vpon him all our miseryes and wretche ones to giue and communicate vnto vs all his blessings and riches as also in deéd they be distributed vnto vs in his holy Supper F. Let vs now speak of the second parte of our duty towards God which consisteth in repentance and first of all what repentance is C. It is a sorowfulnes and hafred of euil and a looue of that that is good F. Tobe sory and gréeued for our wicked nesse is it not necessary to knowe it C. Yes F. How doo we know the euil the is in vs C. First of all by our beginning for that that is borne of flesh is flesh Secondly because we transgresse the law of God which is the rule of all perfection Iustice Third ly by the ordinary afflictions whiche God sendeth vs because of our sinnes F. Haue we not also the Sacraments a glasse to beholde our sinnes in C. We haue so For is we were not sinners we should haue no néed of remission of our sinnes in Baptisme And if we were not in death it were in vain for vs to come to the Supper to séek life and saluation in Iesus Christe F. When we knowe our sinnes ought we not confesse them before God C. Yes According to the example of Dauid and the Publican if we wil be iustified before God. F. Why should we confesse and acknow sedge our sinnes before God C. To obfain parden and ful remission as God is iust and faithful to doo it F. For what end and purpose dooth God pardon vs our sinnes C For thrée principall ends F. What are they C. First to this end that we should reconcile our selues to our enemyes secondly that we should forgiue them thyrdly that we should abstain from sinne and liue to righteousnes F. Is there nothing in the Supper that exhorteth vs to flée and hate â—m C. Yes for in that that wee breake the bread of the Supper it sheweth vs that our sinnes did brute and breake the Sonne of God with the sorowes of death F. What foloweth then C. That we should condemne and detest our sinnes as the Authoures of the death of the Sonne of God. F. Is it sufficient to abstaine from euill and not to doo good C. No for euery trée that bringeth not foorth good frute is cut down and cast into the fyre And therfore the naughtie Sernant was cast into
vtter darknesse not because he had wickedly spent his Maisters Talent but because he vsed it not nor imployed it F. It is therfore requisit that euery one according to the talent which he hath receiued of God doo glorify him in that vocation wherunto he is called C. Yea. If we wil enter as the good seruant into the ioy of our Maister F. To doo this goodnes must we not haue knoweledge C. Yes F. By what meanes C. By the law of God and generally by all the holy Scriptures whiche shew vnto vs what the good woorks are whiche God requireth of vs. F. Are we not exhorted to the Supper to liue wel C. Yes that we are For in that that we are made one with Iesê° Christe made flesh of his flesh and bones of his bones further more in that that we are partakers of his holinesse and innocency it is to this end that we should be holy as he is holy F. What more C. In that also that we méet and agrée in the holy Church which is the communion of Saints in that that by the opperation and woork of the holy Ghost we call vpon one father which is holy to be short in that that we hear his holy woord and receine his holy Sacraments it ought also to mooue vs to holynesse F. This holynesse which God requireth of vs is it perfit in this world C. No. As the examples of the Saincts shew vs And moreouer vnto the last breth of our life we shall haue alwaies need to aske of God that he would forgiue vs our sinnes through his Sonne Iesus Christe F. And this holynesse which is not perfit can it please God which is parfit C. Yea. For so much as by the operation of the holy Ghost and by faith we obey the commaundements of God by Iesus Christ whiche couereth with the Cloke of his righteousnesse all our wants and imperfections F. Let vs come to the third parte of our duty towards God. C. We haue said that it consisteth in an acknowledging F. What acknowledging C. Of all the benefits which we haue receiued and receiue daily at the hand of God and espetially of the benefit of redemption by Iesus Christe F. Is it not for this cause that the auncients called the holy Supper Eucharistia that is to say gratefulnesse good grace gining of thanks C. It is so F. Is this acknowledging necessary for all them the are partakers of the Lordê table C. Yea. As Iesus Christe hath she wed vs an example and moreouer hath commaunded vs to celebrate the Supper in remembrance of him F. What are the conditions of this acknowledging C. There are foure principall F. Which are the two first C. First it ought tobe giuen to one onely God by his only Sonne Iesus Christe Se condly it ought not tobe giuen not onely by mouth but also by hart F. Dooth it folowe héereby that all they which call vpon Saints giue not thanks for their saluation to one onely God by his Sonne Iesus Christe are gilty C. Yea. And they also erre which are Hipocrits praying in an vnknowen tung honouring God onely with their lips and not with their harts F Tel me the two last conditions of the acknowledging C. That is it ought to bee doon at all times that is to say aswel in aduersitie as in prosperitie To be short it ought to be practised not onely priuately but also publiquely and in the middest of the congregation of the faithful F. Seeing that we haue spoken inough of our duty towards God let vs now speak of our duty towards our neighbour C. It consisteth in true Charitie and brotherly vnitie whiche doo necessarily folowe faith and the true seruice of God. F. What is the true forme rule of charity C. That we looue our neighbours as our selues or that we looue one an other euen as Christe looued vs. F. How did Christe looue vs C. He looued vs when wee were his enemyes and when we were wicked and abominable before God. F. Haue we not héerein an example to looue our enemies although they be wicked and naught C. Yes For in this part we must be agréeable to the image of our hed Iesus Christe F. And this looue wherewithall Christe looued vs was it fained or did it continue but for a time C. No for he looued vs not in word only but in déed He looued vs not only for a time but euen to the end vnto death euen to the sheding of his pretious blood for vs. F. And ought we not to folow him héerin C. Yes To eschew all dissembling inconstancy wheÌ„ soeuer we debate of loouing our brethren and shewing our loue by déed F. Beside the example of Christe are we not exhorted to this true looue in the Super C. Yes F. By what reasons C. First in that that we doo all communicate togither at the Supper that we eat of the self same meate that we call vpon one self same Father that we haue one self same hed Iesus Christe that we are all quickened by his holy spirit it ought to stir vs vp to true looue and Brotherly charitie F. What more C. The making of the bread and wine of the Supper ought to exhort vs also vnto it F. How so C. Because that euen as the Bread is made of many cornes which are vnite to gither in one lump of Bread and as the Wine is made of many clusters of grapes which are afterwarde put togither in one licour so must the Christians whiche are many in them selues be ioyned togither by looue in one self same body whiche is the churche of God. F. This looue which we are exhorted vn to by so many reasons in the Supper can it be in them whiche bere malice and batred one against an other C. No. And therfore we must forget all iniuryes and reconcile our selues to them which haue offended vs and forgiue them with all our hart euen as wee would that God should forgiue vs. F. May we conclude by all that hath béen héertofore spoken that such as doo not their duty aswel towarde God as towarde their neighbour ought not to be receyued to the Supper C. Yea and therfore the true minister of Iesus Christe must take good héed that hée giue not that that is holy to such as are open ly knowen tobe Dogs and Swine F. The father of all mercy defend vs in such sort through his holy spirit with faith and repentance that we may publish his praises with a sincere affection and looue our neighbours as Iesus Christe hath looued vs that we come not to his holy Table to our damnation as Infidels and impenitents doo but rather to our saluation béeing assured that we inioy as truely eternall life with all riches and treasures which are in Iesus Christe as we inioy the Elements whiche he appointed vs for infallible witnesses of euerlasting life in the same his welbelooued Sonne Iesus Christe our LORD C. So be it FINIS Luc. 21.48 Iohn 4.24 1. Cor. 11.28 1 Esa. 35.5 6.7 Ioh. 3.16 2 Mat. 16.17 Ro. 7.18 1. cor 2.14 3 Math 11.25.26.27 Ioh. 1.13 6.26 (4) Ro. 8 15 Gal. 4.6 5 Math. 26.26 Mat 14.21 Luc. 22.19 1. 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