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A19362	An epistle or godlie admonition, of a learned minister of the Gospel of our sauiour Christ sent to the pastoures of the Flemish Church in Antwerp, (who name themselues of the Confession of Auspurge,) exhorting them to concord with the other ministers of the Gospell. Translated out of French by Geffray Fenton. Here may the christian reader lerne to know what is the true participatio[n] of the body of Christ, & what is the lauful vse of the holy Supper.	Corro, Antonio del, 1527-1591.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.	1569 (1569)	STC 5787; ESTC S108710	46,646	132

interpretation of these words the vine and that are you handlyng the branches coulde we say for all that that Iesus Chryst would comunicate his substance into a grape and that the Apostles should be transnatured into braunches sure who were of such opinion discouered sufficiently his ignorance and infirmitie 27 Notwithstanding you others my brethren make your principall piller vppon suche manner of speakings and all to make the poore ignorant people beleue that Chryste hath made promise to giue himselfe with the bread bycause that hauing taken bread and breaking it he said this is my body which woordes simply vnderstanded are as much as to say my body which is broken offered deliuered and sacrifised for you is bread or like too this bread whiche you breake eate and digest for the nouriture of your body In like sort I being the heuenly bread shal be broken for you to the end you may haue spiritual eternal life therfore do celebrate this that is to say this breaking and receite of bread in remembrance of me 28 To make cōclusion of this matter I vnderstand that our redéemer Iesus is Comparison betwene the first and second Adam the frute of lyfe who hauing put himself on the trée of the Crosse hath defaced the sinne and transgression whiche the frute of the trée defended brought to vs And euen as Adam hauyng eaten of suche a frute did make hymself enimie of God in contrary manner when wée participate with Iesus Christ crucified we are receiued into the good fauour and loue of oure Heauenly Father and that by the onely bountie merite and intercession of the self hée who on the trée of the crosse did constitute hymselfe the frute of lyfe for vs beyng assured that the participation of that precious Frute is not done either by water wine bread or any other creature whatsoeuer but by the woorke and operation indicible of the holy spirit who hauing called the chosen and predestinate of God doeth teache them their Meane to receiue Chryst Election Vocation Penance sinnes and abhominable transgressions by meane of the presentation of the holie Lawe hée sheweth vnto them theyr damnation sentence of eternall death the whiche they féele so in their heartes that by experience they may well assure them selues that the ire and wrathe of God hath bin so manifested to them that they haue swallowed pangs of death and The true preparation to knowe Chryst is to know the necessitie wee haue of hym séene before their eyes the throate of hell confounde and deuoure them there they fynd the frute of the trée of knowledge of good and euill they sorrowe and wéepe with a penaunce most bitter the miserable bankets or repasts whiche they haue taken of such a meate and fruite not only in the person of their father Adam but also with their proper mouth 29 After that by such means the holy spirit hath abased the arrogācie of man his pride and presumption and shewed him by experiēce the diffinitiue sentence arest irreuocable of the eternal ageinst sinners he beginneth to comfort and giue him good hope shewing him as a far off The faithefull feele the presence of Christ in their hart the Trée of lyfe and the viuifying fruite hanging vpon it the whiche by little and little degrée and degrée fayth and fayth and vertue and vertue makes him eate swallow and digest the heauenly bread Iesus Chryst yea with such experience féeling that no meat in the world of how great nouriture soeuer it be is so sensible in the bodie as the frute of life Iesus Chryst is in the soules of the faythfull with such manifestation by good woorkes outwardly that others may see knowe with what meate they be fed 30 For when we eate of euery other The life of a christiā sheweth that he hath Christ in him meate the body of him that eateth proueth only the presence of the meate But in suche as eate Chryst the true frute of the trée of life is discerned suche an example in their persons such ioy and pacience in afflictions such care to mortifie the old Adam such a renūciation of the things of the world with affection to the lyfe eternall that their neighbours and freendes acompanying them may sée that they eat other meate than the deuourers of ceremonies do 31 When they haue truely essentially and really participated of the bodie and bloud of Chryste by faith as is sayd of Iesus Chryste all entier true God and true man they assure them selues of suche a coniunction with him that they haue no néede to goe to searche hym eyther in the armorie of Préests or betwene the hands of men too receiue him either with the bread or with the water as being fully assured that Iesus Christ dwelleth in them and that they be flesh of his flesh and bones of his bones 32 And yet for all this they forbeare not to aproch to the holy table of the Lord to celebrate the holy Supper with theyr brethren and chyldren of the same heauenly father Neither go they thither to receiue Chryste of newe in bread or in wyne by grace or merite but their first cause of going thither is to certifie to al the church that they are of the number of those that receiue Iesus Christ for their only redéemer sauior for their eternal sacrificator their chief king lord souerain prophet doctor to teach them in al truth 33 Secondly they take the holy supper as a gage assurāce of the good wil of the heuenly father towards thē the same being so constant firme that it wil neuer change For euen as God hath promised by othe that the sacrificator shal be eternal euen so shall be the sacrificature and sacrifice for expiation of our sinnes 34 Thirdly they receiue in the Supper the seale of ratification cōfirmation of grace with recōciliation prononoūced by the preaching of the gospell to the end that by such mean faith might be augmented in them seing that God is not only cōtented to giue them y● word of reconciliation to assign his promises with the bloud of his proper sonne but hath also signed and sealed his Gospell of reconciliation with seales declaring in a wonderfull maner the very things conteined in the letters patentes and promis of the gospel happy newes 35 Fourthly the faithful see in the holy Supper as in a table and liuely portrait the communion and participation which they haue inwardly in their hartes with Iesus Christ knowing also that al the noriture spiritual vigor which they see in thē comes of the presence of hym whom they consider and beholde figured represented in the holy and sacred Ceremonie of the Supper by meane of which consideration they render thanks to the Lorde Sacrifice of thanks giuing in the holy Supper for the fayth hope mortification constancie whiche they féele to be communicated to them by the power and benignitie of

coolled oute of the diuine worde certeine speciall Textes importing oure charitable dueties and office vnto oure neighboure desiring you deare brethren to construe in the beste my intente tending simply and altogither to refute those Fables dreames and errours whiche I sée sundry with no smal diligence labor to support and mainteyne in the church of Christ wishing they participated rather with a spirite of humilitie and mildenesse in the correction of the opynions of others than to stryue to become inquisitors of other mens faith and much lesse to enter into sentence of iudgement ageynst suche as refuse their interpretations vntil they be assured by the spirit of God that such opinions are directly ageynst the heauenly word and that we haue witnesse in our conscience that God calleth vs to do it for then he himself wil cloth vs with the affection of his apostle who to gaine and reduce his brethren woulde not sticke almost to abandon his propre health euen so when wée féele suche a zeale moue Rom. 9. in vs euen then also shall we proue in our selues that God will blisse our enterprises Let vs then embrace peace and enterteine mutuall accord séeing that as there is nothyng that leuieth a more sharpe warre within vs than our owne discordes disdaines and partialities so of the contrarie if we marche vnder the ensigne of charitie supporting one an other in our infirmities it shall bée most harde eyther to breake our aray or put vs to flighte For as Salomon Eccl. 4. sayth The accorde of thrée strings is very harde to breake My litle childrē I am yet for a litle time with you you shall search me but as I sayd Iohn 13. to the Iews that whether I go they could not come I say also the same vnto you nowe giuing you this new commaūdement that you loue one an other as I say I haue loued you to the ende also that you loue one an other By this all men shall know that you are my disciples if you loue one an other That is the principall marke of oure christianitie all others that wée maye inuent may be folowed of the hypocrites but this is inimitable bicause it is peculiar only to the regenerate and those that bée renued by the spirite of God Bée you desirous of the moste exellent Cor. 12. 13. giftes and I wil shew you a way yet more excellent If I speke the languages of men and Angels and haue not Charitie I am as the mettall that soundes or Cimball that tynkes And if I haue the gifte of prophecie and knowe all secretes and euery science and if I had suche faith as I might transporte the mountaynes and haue not charitie I am nothyng if I distribute all my goodes to the reléefe of the poore and deliuer my body to be burned and haue not charitie it profiteth me nothyng Charitie is not easily incensed to anger but shée is mylde Charitie is not enuious Charitie is not insolente she swelleth not with anger she dothe not vse hir selfe dishonestly she searcheth not hir profite she is not despytefull she thinkes no euill Shée taketh no pleasure in iniustice but reioyceth in the truthe shée endureth all beléeueth all hopeth for all and suffereth all Charitie neuer falleth And a little after he sayeth These thrée thyngs remaine Fayth Hope and Charitie wherof the greatest is Charitie Those bée the effectes of Christian Charitie whyche is neyther vayne opinyon nor curtesye in outwarde shewe but rather a vertue bryngyng foorth wonderfull frutes Touchyng brotherly Charitie there is 1. Tessa 4. no great néede I write to you therof seing you are taughte of GOD to loue one an other for euen so you do towardes all your brethren whiche bée in Macedonie Brethren we exhorte you to surmounte more and more with diligence to liue peaceably If the vnction of the Spirite of God haue not yet taught you to loue your neighbors let vs feare that our doctrine is not rather learned of men than in the schoole of God He that sayeth he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darknes to this hour 1. Iohn 2. 3. who loueth his brother remayneth in the light and falles not but he that hateth his brother walketh in darkenesse and knoweth not whether he goeth for the darkenesse hath blinded his eyes By this are manifested the children of God and the children of the diuell Who so euer dothe not iustice and loueth not his brother is not of God for this is it you haue heard preached from the beginning that wée loue one an other not as Cain which was called wicked and killed his brother and for what cause did he kil him for that his woorks were wicked and his brothers were iust Brethren marueile not if your brother hate you in that we loue our brethren we know we are transferred from death to life who loueth not his brother dwelleth in death who hateth his brother is a murderer And you know that no murderer hath eternal life remaining with in him by this we know his charitie that he hath giuen his lyfe for vs we ought also to hazard our liues for our brethren And this is a most certeine and ample explication of the marke of oure christianitie which may serue as a touche stone to assure vs of our adoption Hate maketh quarels but charitie couereth Prouerb 10. Vers 12. al grudges This witnesse doth teache vs that the roote of dissentions debates is the default of christian charitie which doth not only couer outward sinnes but also the ignorances of the vnderstanding The furious mā moueth contention but Ibidem 15. Verse 17. 18. the pacient man appaiseth quarell this is a looking glasse wherin wée may behold the troublesome mynds of our tyme who vpon small causes will stirre vp strange quarels and debates Welbéeloued let vs loue one an other 1. Iohn for charitye is of God and who loueth is borne of God and knoweth God and hée that loueth not knoweth not God for God is charitie In this is manifested the charitie of God towards vs that he hath sent his only son intoo the world to the end we may liue by him In this is charitie not that wée haue loued God but bycause he hath loued vs and sent his son to bée the appointment for oure sinnes Welbeloued if God haue so loued vs we ought also to loue one an other Neuer any man hath sene God If we loue one an other God dwelleth in vs and his charitie is accomplished in vs by this we know that we dwell in him he in vs that he hath giuen vs of his holy spirit And a litle after If any say that he loueth God and hateth his brother he is a lyer for if he loue not his brother whome he séeth howe can he loue God whome he séeth not And we haue this commaundement of him that he that loueth God loueth also his brother This text hath no