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A08846	A full declaration of the faith and ceremonies professed in the dominions of the most illustrious and noble Prince Fredericke, 5. Prince, Elector Palatine published for the benefit and satisfaction of all Gods people ; according to the originall printed in the High Dutch tongue ; translated into English by Iohn Rolte.	Rolte, John.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1614 (1614)	STC 19130; ESTC S1329	121,244	211

he not therefore dispaire in the grace and mercy of God but looke backe and consider the obligement which hee promised God in Baptisme and according to the same contract repent that is be hartily sory for al the euils he hath committed and entreate God that he will pardon the same for Christ his sake and after neuer doe so againe Then will God also consider his couenant and forgiue him his sinnes and giue him more strength to encounter the diuell as hee hath promised in Baptisme And so hath Baptisme his profit power and working so long as a man liueth vpon the earth though not at the very present when a man receiues it For all the promises of God are sealed vnto the beleeuers by Baptisme Ezech. 33 11. vnder which promises this is one where God saith So true as I liue saith the Lord God I desire not the death of the wicked but that hee returne from his way and liue And so is also this promise sealed to vs in Baptisme And therefore wee shall not follow the diuell Ioh. 8.44 who prouokes vs to dispaire Hee is a liar and a murtherer from the beginning But God is a faithfull God Psal 25.3 and neuer deceiued any man who hath put trust in his promises With this may and shall euery poore troubled sinner constantly comfort himselfe And the better to strengthen himselfe in such a comfort Of the holy Supper amongst other meanes he ought often to vse the holy Supper which is the second Sacrament of the new Testament ordained of Christ principally and instituted for that end to set his death before our eyes most cleerly and often times and to assure vs daily more and more of the partaking thereof or the fellowship of his crucified body and shead blood For this is the meaning where he tooke the bread and brake it and said This is my body which is broken for you take and eate c. as if hee spake to euery man in perticular behold heere beloued man I know well that thou art in sorrow for thy sinnes But be of good cheere for as sure as the bread is there broken before thine eyes and the wine is seuered from the bread so certainly was my body broken or put to death for thee vpon the Crosse and my blood was seuered and spilt from my holy body for the forgiuenesse of thy sinnes Also so surely as I giue thee the holy tokens of my body and blood to eate and drinke and thou hast part and fellowship therein as well as others euen so assuredly shalt thou haue part and fellowship in my true body and blood which I deliuered to the death of the Crosse the same was also performed for thy welfare Also thou shalt bee thereby deliuered from the euerlasting hunger and thirst which else thou must haue suffered in hell Lay hold then theron by true faith and as thou there takest eatest and drinkest the holy tokens of my body blood with thy mouth euen so shut vp my crucified body and shead blood into thy heart and then thou shalt neuer hunger and thirst For whosoeuer eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood Ioh 6.35 54 55 56 57. hath euerlasting life and I will raise him vp at the last day yea also in this life will dwell in him and he in me and will continually gouerne and comfort him with my spirit Therefore bee of good comfort beloued man though thou beest but weak No mē shal pluck thee out of my hand Ioh. 10.28.29 The father who hath giuen thee to me is stronger then all c. This is the first and principall benefit and vse of the holy Supper that wee namely as is aforesaid may bee assured in our hearts daily more and more thereby of the death of Christ and his blessed fellowship or of the couenant of the grace of God which is founded vpon the death of Christ as Christ saith This is the new couenant in my blood as if hee had said that shall be a token and seale or assurance and confirmation of the new couenant which I haue purchased for you with my blood The other benefit is that wee with this honourable ceremony shall publish honour and praise the death of Christ before the whole world as Christ againe said 1. Cor. 11.26 Doe it in remembrance of me And Paul As often as ye shall eate this bread and drinke this cup yee shall shew the Lords death till he come The third benefit is that thereby wee may demonstrate our selues openly to belong to the Communion of Christ and his Church and as the same fellowship requireth to liue holily and to loue one another as members of one body and to say more to reioyce in each other as Paul saith The cup of blessing which wee blesse is it not the Communion of the blood of Christ 1. Cor. 10.16.17 for wee that are many are one bread and one body because we are all partakers of one bread therefore fly from Idolatry 1. Cor. 10.14 and haue no fellowship with the diuels 1. Cor. 10.20.21 c. Also we are all baptised into one body by one spirit namely in Baptisme and haue been all made to drinke into one spirit namely in the holy Supper therefore shall wee as members of one body take care for each other and one member haue patience and compassion with another 1. Cor. 12 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27. And we beleeue lastly that for the most part God holdeth his Church vnder the Crosse and will first make it fully perfect and glorious hereafter in the life to come according to the patterne of his Sonne who entred into glory by affliction and sufferings CHAP. III. That we haue not founded and learnt such our faith from blind reason much lesse from the reuelation of Satan as some calumniate vs nor from the weake writings of men But onely and alone out of the infallible word of God through the gratious inlightening of his holy spirit THis is our faith which wee haue not founded learnt from blind reason as some accuse vs much lesse from Satans inspiration as some calumniate vs for causes which shall bee shewen in the fifth Chapter also not from the weake writings of men but onely and alone out of the vnfallible word of God through the enlightening of his spirit We reade indeed also the writings of men especially those whom God hath stirred vp in these last daies against the idolatrous Popedome such as were of Luther Melancton Zwinglius Oecalampadius Bucer Brentius Caluin Beza c. And confesse to the glory of God that we haue receiued information from them and do daily receiue the better how to vnderstand a ●ight the holy Scriptures and to vse the same to our profit But wee doe not found our selues in matters of faith vpon the same or any mans writings else but we found our selues in matters of

Scripture Clearance of the third contrariety betwixt Doctor Luthers opinion and the holy Scripture as wee haue aboue touched is this that the holy Scripture saith Christ once dying for vs can henceforth die no more Which is euen as much as if it said his body can be no more without blood and his blood can be no more really seuered from the body or be shead out of the body But Doctor Luthers opinion brings this with it that now euery day namely as often as the holy Communion is administred that the body of Christ is without blood and that the blood of Christ is really seuered from his body For the bread is indeed seuered from the wine really When now the body is in the bread and not in the wine and contrariwise the blood is in the wine and not in the bread then is it indeed manifest that they must be separated really from each other And Doctor Luther yeelds that that is his meaning where he saith I am to know that I receiue the body of Christ in the Sacrament without blood Tom. 3. fol. 529. Vpon this Contrariety doe wee not finde any thing of respect which Doctor Luther hath answered in his strife writings Neither doe wee see how it is possible to answere any thing groundedly and therefore it remaines as it is And this is now sufficiently spoken of the second cause why wee cannot giue approbation to Doctor Luthers opinion about the bodily presence of the body and blood of Christ in the bread and wine of the holy Supper namely whilest such an opinion hath not onely no ground in Gods word but also is manifoldly against the same 3 The third cause wherefore we yeeld not no Doctor Luthers opinion namely whilest it hath no testimony from the old Apostolicall Churches but was first batch●d in the blindest times of Popery The third cause is that such a construction hath no testimony from the Apostolicall Churches but was first founded many hundred yeeres after the birth of Christ in the very darkest daies of Popery as the Reader may easily come to vnderstand out of the following witnesses of the old Doctors of the Church Tertullian who liued about the yeere of Christ 200. saith The Lord tooke bread and diuided it amongst his Disciples and made the same his body in that he said This is my body that is a representatiō of my body Cyprian who liued about the yeere after Christ Serm. de Chrism 240. saith That the bread and the wine are the body and the blood of Christ as the betokening and the betokened thing vsed to be tearmed with one name Gregory Nazianzen Apologet. who liued about the yeere of Christs birth 360. nameth the bread a signe answerable to the body of Christ Chrysostome who liued about the yeere after the birth of Christ 370. saith Psal in 22. Bread and wine are a figure of the body and blood of Christ Also Homil 17. ad Heb. the Supper is a token and signe of remembrance of the death of Christ Augustine who liued about the yeere after the birth of Christ 390. saith The Lord hath commanded a representation of his body in the Supper a Psal 3. Also The Lord hath himselfe not spared to say This is my body when he gaue but a token of his body b Contra Adim C. 12. Also The Sacrament is named being one thing with the name of the same thing which it signifieth c Epist 23 ad Bonif. Also The Scripture vseth euen so to speake that it nameth the token as the betokened thing d In Joh. N. 63. Also The heauenly bread which is the flesh of Christ is in his kinde called the body of Christ it being indeed a Sacrament that is a holy token of the body of Christ which was hanged vpon the Crosse visibly palpably and dyingly And the offering of the flesh which is performed by the hands of the Minister is tearmed the suffering and dying of Christ vpon the Crosse not that it is the thing it selfe but that it betokeneth it as a mystery e Sent. Prosp Theodoret Dial. 1. who liued about the yeere after the birth of Christ 440. saith Our Sauiour himselfe hath changed the names and hath giuen the name of the tokens to his body and of his body to the tokens c. And in sundry places hee nameth the bread and wine in the Supper a representation and opponent signe of the body and blood of Christ Beda who liued about the yeere after the birth of Christ Super Lucam 730. saith Christ hath instituted in stead of the flesh and blood of the Lambe the Sacrament of his flesh and blood in the representation of bread and wine De coe●● Domini ad Carolum Magnum Bertram who liued about the yeere after the birth of Christ 800. when some began to beleeue the bodily presence of Christ in the Supper and being demanded thereabouts by Charles the great freely declared That the bread is figuratiuely and not really the body of Christ From the witnesses it is very manifest that the euill custome of the bodily presence of Christ in the Supper did not arise before such time as that Popery got the mastery Wherefore cannot wee otherwise estimate such a custome but for a Popish leauen About which no man hath any iust cause to wonder that Doctor Luther who otherwise was a deadly enemy to the Popedome did neuer encounter this abomination of the Popedome Euen Elias the Prophet also did not encounter the calues of Bethel 2. King 25.15 which Ieroboam had set vp but they remained euen vnto the daies of King Iosias and yet neuerthelesse they were Baalitish abominations God hath such a manner that hee accomplisheth not all by one man that so no man might be made an idoll but must ascribe the honour onely to him And also there were outward causes which were a hinderance to Doctor Luther that he could not attaine to the true ground of this matter For first hee was borne and brought vp in the Popedome and hee was a Frier full fifteene yeeres long in which many yeers and from his childhood the euill custome of the bodily presence of Christ in the bread was so strongly rooted in him that he could not easily remoue it out of his heart afterwards Euen as also many other Popish errours as the Purgatory Transubstantiation the Communion vnder one kind and honouring of the Sacrament calling vpon the Saints c. in the beginning of his Reformation for certaine yeeres together cleaue fast vnto him Secondly and whereas Doctor Carlstadt would shew vnto him that hee failed in this point then did not Carlstadt onely bring it in very vnbefittingly in that that he said that Christ with the word this pointed not to bread but to his by-sitting body at table which Doctor Luther could easily confute him in and so thereby he was more and more fortified in