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A08844	A faithfull admonition of the Paltsgraues churches to all other Protestant churches in Dutchland. That they would consider the great danger that hangeth ouer their heads as well as ours by the Popedome, and therefore Christianly and brotherly cease the priuate vnnecessary and now too much growne strife vvith vs. Together with a short abstract of the warning about the Iesuites bloodthirsty plots published in print at Tubing. Published by authoritie. According to the original printed in the Electors palsgranes [sic] country at Nustadt, vpon the Hardt, Englished by Iohn Rolte.	Rolte, John.; Beard, Thomas, d. 1632.	1614 (1614)	STC 19129; ESTC S114063	23,398	47

Doe this in remembrance of me that is take this bread and eat it in remembrance that I as the true heauenly breade gaue vp my body for you euen to death on the crosse and haue spilt my bloud for the forgiuenes of your sinnes and shall be vnto you a true meat drinke to euerlasting life which meat and drinke neuerthelesse you must eat by true faith and let slip into your hearts that it may comfort wash quicken your selues both in life and death Admit now that we did erre with such a construction of ours yet did not such an error concerne the grounds of saluation for Saluation dependeth not in the bodily eating and drinking of the body and blood of Christ but saluation standeth in the spirituall eating and drinking of the body and blood of Christ as D. Luther confesseth himselfe therefore and if indeede we did erre about the bodily eating and drinking of the bodie and blood of Christ yet neuerthelesse did we not ouerthrow the ground of saluation with such an error Wherefore they haue no sufficient and vrgent cause for this points sake namely for so much as concerneth the holy supper wherefore they should condemne vs as heathens and with such condemning any longer hinder the highly needefull agreement of the Protestant Churches Intruth it were well to be wished Rom. 12.16 Rom. 15.5 1. Cor. 1.10 that we were all of one mind and vsed one forme of reasoning euen all of vs together of all and euery point of Christian Religion as also the Apostle Paul in diuers places most truely admonisheth vs therunto But it is vnpossible that wee can euer bring it perfectly to that passe in this life 1 Cor. 13.9 For we know but in part and God giueth alwaies more light in spirituall matters to one then to another as a man may notably see in the writings of the old fathers whereof not anie of them agreede in all things together If then wee shall not loue one another before and as brethren hould together till such time as we haue one vnderstanding and meaning altogether in all godly matters then shall wee neuer in this life loue one another and hould together as brethren Now then this is the very Pith of the whole Christian Religion that we doe out of a pure hart and a good conscience and faith vnfained first loue God who gaue his sonne to death for vs and then also our selues that we loue each other Therefore Paul giues vs not onely this commaund that wee should bee of one minde in all things and should be diligent to vse one forme but he giues vs also yet another commaundement to this effect that though there were some difference found in vs about the vnderstanding of godly matters we should not breake the bond of loue and part the vnity of the spirit but beare patiently the one with the others ignorance and weakenesse Paules words are these Phil. 3.15.16 Let vs therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded and if yee be otherwise minded God shall reueale euen the same vnto you Neuerthelesse in that whereunto we are come let vs proceede by one rule that we may minde one thing That is the commaundement of the Apostle Paul namely that we seperate not our selues for one point or other but giue place to God whosoeuer he bee that at the present houlds any vnfit thing to make it more knowne vnto him in his time And in the meane time walke peaceably as is saide according to the common rule or ground of Christianity wherein by the grace of God we do agree This command of the Apostle Paul louing brethren wee intreate you to consider and to begin from this time forth to liue brotherly and peaceably with vs. We do not desire that you should for our sakes be silent in any thing you hold to be truth or not to confute our grounds if you can do it But onely this is our desire that you would for those errors sake which we hould in your opiniō of the holy supper not so shamefully raile vpon vs and condemne vs in your sermons and writings When you shall but doe so then is the peace readily accomplished For we desire not to condemne you But when you liue godlily according to the knowledge which God hath giuen vnto you then hould wee you for children of God for brethren in Christ Iesus for all the errors which wee are perswaded that you haue about the holy supper And therefore it resteth in you louing brethren you can helpe the Churches of God if you so please And there is iust cause why you should please being it is so Gods pleasure and also our great necessitie requires it for it is vnpossible that ours namely the Protestant Churches should be able long to stand if we do not quickly make peace one with another and lay downe the vnhappie contention that hetherto hath beene betwixt vs. For by such strife doe we make our selues naked of all armor which wee should haue both from God and man against the Pope Psal 133. It so being that God will not assist the contentious but if wee agree and call vpon him with an humble spirit then will he bestow vpon vs his grace and blessing And indeede the power of the Protestant Princes and States is also not sufficient to counteruaile the Popedomes if they seuer themselues into two or three sides and the one part shall helpe to rippe vp the other As touching the common man he vnderstands almost nothing any more now of the abominations of the Popedome for that he heares almost nothing else from the Pulpet but onely railings vpon the Caluinists yea he heares that according to their teachers suggestions the Papists are not by much so bad as the Caluinists and therefore is it not possible that in the time of necessity hee should haue a sound zeale to fight against the Popedome but in time he will hould as much of one Religion as of another And grant it that we should neuer be bodily set vpon by the Papists yet are we at this very present so set vpon by them spiritually as neuer before the like The Iesuites plot subtilely day and night how they may make their bad cause good with serpent-like writings and on the contrary side bring our good cause into all euill suspicion not onely to the common man but also and that most especially to all great Princes We in the meane time are together by the eares and the youth of the Protestants study almost nothing else but how the Lutherans may match with the Caluinists and the Caluinists with the Lutherans that is God be mercifull vnto vs almost all the diuinity in our times of the Protestants and should not a man also find a great number amongst the Preachers who doe not well and groundedlie know whereon dependeth the certaine grounds of strife betwixt vs and the Papists and wherfore our forefathers did separate themselues

is represented Doc. Luther saith the tokens in the holy supper which men eate drinke with the bodily mouth are not onely bread and wine but also the body and the blood of Christ present in the bread and wine vnseene We say the body and blood of Christ are not the tokens but the betokened heauenly riches which cannot be laid hould on neither fed on by the bodily mouth but onely by faith But the tokens which we shall and can eate and drinke in the supper with our bodily mouthes we say are bread and wine ordained of Christ to this holie vse that through such bodily eating of tokens the spirituall blisse making feeding by the betokened heauenly riches Namely the true body blood of Christ which is performed by faith are represented confirmed and sealed And so in no manner of waies doe wee teach that men doe eate and drinke onely bare bread and wine in the supper as the contentious falsely accuse vs but wee doe teach that men eate and drinke in the supper both bread and wine and also the true body and blood of Christ but with this difference that men eate and drinke the bread and wine with the bodily mouth but the bodie and blood of Christ with the spirituall mouth namely by faith by which onely a man can blessedly take hould on Christ And therefore there is no strife betwixt D. Luther and vs whether we eate and drinke the true body and true blood of Christ in the supper but there is the difference how we eate and drinke the true bodie and true blood of Christ in the supper We say we eate and drinke the true bodie and true blood of Christ in the supper onely spiritually by faith D. Luther D. Martin Luther Tom. 1. fol. 208. Tom. 2. fol 197. tom 3. fol. 487. saith wee doe not onely eate and drinke the true body and blood of Christ in the supper spiritually by faith but also bodily with the mouth That cannot wee beleeue Not that we would not gladly beleeue the word of God but because wee cannot finde in our iudgements The body of Christ is eatē with the mouth of the faithfull vnfaithfull as well of Iudas as of Peter that that is Gods word that wee should eate and drinke the bodie and blood of Christ with our bodilie mouthes D. Luther saith Christ hath said it in that hee tooke the bread and said Take eate this is my body Now dowe gladly beleeue the words of Christ but that the words of Christ should haue such an vnderstanding as D. Luther giues them as if he had said namely In or vnder the bread is my body vnseene and yet really together with it And therefore when you eate the bread with your mouthes so doe you therewith eate my body also with your mouthes it being in or vnder the bread hidden That that should be the meaning of Christ that cannot we beleeue For such a construction runneth against the articles of the Christian faith and the whole holy Scripture therein being plainely testified that Christ hath but one body wherewith he sat at table in their open sightes at the time of the first supper And wherewith hee also in open sight ascended into heauen fortie daies after his resurrection but not much the better if hee hath one body at present seene in heauen and an other vnseene on earth in euery host one But we vnderstand that this is the meaning of Christ when he tooke the bread and spake This is my body which is giuen for you as if he had said that shall bee vnto you a remembrance of my body which I haue giuen for you to death that so I as the right heauenly bread may feede you to euerlasting life or which is to one effect that so I may deliuer you from the euerlasting hunger and misery which else you must haue suffered in hell We vnderstand that that was the meaning of Christ in these words This is my body which is giuen for you Whilest he presently after saith doe it in remembrance of me and whilest in al Sacraments God vsed so to speake he naming the tokens euen so as if they were the betokened treasures themselues For example when he ordained circumcision he said Gen. 17.10 Gen. 17.11 Rom. 4.11 This is my couenant yet was it not otherwise ment then if he had said This is a token or seale of my couenant euen as presently God himselfe declared where he for the words this is my couenant presently vseth these words It shall bee a signe of the couenant betwixt me and thee Also the Easter lamb is called of God the Pascha which is in dutch as much as Passeouer Exod. 12.27 Exod. 12.17 Exod. 13.16 when hee made his deuouring Angell passe by the houses of the children of Israell And yet it was not meant by it as if the Easter lambe were the Passeouer it selfe but that it should bee a token and a remembrance of the Passeouer as the Lord againe himselfe declared where he said This shall bee a token to thee in thy hands and a remembrance before thine eies Euen so doe wee vnderstand that also in this sacrament namely in the holy Supper Christ spake Sacramentally and so said first This is my body which is giuen for you and after added doe such in remembrance of me thereby demonstrating that hee called the bread his crucified body for vs therefore because hee ordained it in remembrance or for a witnesse seale or pledge of his crucified body for vs. In which opinion that confirmeth vs also Ioh. 6. which wee finde in the holy Scripture that Christ most flatly againe and againe casteth away the bodily eating and drinking of his body and blood With these two grounds first Vers 61.62 that hee would ascend to heauen where wee could not sease on him or eate him with our bodily mouths Secondly that also Vers 33.63 such a bodily eating drinking of his body and bloud was not profitable vnto saluation But rather who so doth eat and drinke him spiritually or as hee had presently said before he that commeth to him and beleeueth in him he shal haue euerlasting life and he will raise him vp at the last day Whilst now Christ hath againe and againe cast away expresly the bodily eating and drinking of his body and blood therefore cannot wee beleeue that hee would ordaine against himselfe a bodily eating and drinking of his body and blood in the Supper Those bee our grounds which mooue vs to hold that the words of Christ This is my bodie are not so to bee vnderstood as if the body of Christ were really there present hidden in the bread as they sing hidden in the bread so little but that the bread the same food should be a remembrance or putting vs in minde of the body of Christ which hee gaue vp to death on the crosse for vs as Christ presently himselfe hath cleared and said