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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50002	O basanos tes aletheias, or, The touch-stone of truth wherein verity by scripture and antiquity is plainly confirmed, and errour confuted / delivered in certain sermons, preached in English by James Le Franc ...	Le Franc, James.	1663 (1663)	Wing L942; ESTC R11511	73,260	166

Philosophers called justly man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little world me thinks they had much better said if they had called him the great world for what is in heaven or earth in comparison of him for whom they were created they shall pass as S. Peter tels us 2 Pet. 3.10 but man that noble creature shall remain for ever it is true that the consideration of the Universe gives us a sublime conception of our Creatour but if we consider within our selves we shall see that we are the subject of all the marvellous effects of his providence for in man his admirable power goodness and wisdom did most gloriously appear as the Royall Prophet tels us in the 8. Psalm saying being ravished in admiration thou hast crowned him with glory and honour But man in the estate of his integrity considering himself so glorious pride appeared and sollicited him to sit upon the throne of his master and this glorious creature being overcome by that monstrous sollicitation in his desire to be like unto God did become the most odious of all the creatures and which is the highest of all miseries he became the slave of the Prince of darkness so that of himself he could not return into the favour of his God if God had not sent his blessed Son our onely Redeemer into the world to appease his anger by the satisfaction he gave to his divine justice for our sins which is such a favour unto repenting sinners that they must never be without a sacrifice of thanks-giving Moreover by another effect of his divine goodness God presents unto us the great benefit of our redemption by the continual preaching of the Gospel and confirms and seals it by the administration of the holy Sacraments and especially that of the Lords Supper which is a Sacrament of his death and passion as S. Paul speaks 1 Cor. 11.26 saying as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come which Sacrament is mentioned in our Text for the Evangelist speaking of its institution after the celebration of the Passover saith as they the Apostles were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it broke it and gave it to his disciples saying Take and eat this is my body which words I have chosen to entertain you with by the special assistance of the blessed Spirit and for a clear intelligence of them we shall consider three things in our Text. First the Subject of the proposition this Secondly the Attribute My body Thirdly the copula is which joyneth the Subject with the Attribute This is my body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this which is a demonstrative pronoun is taken in this place not adectively but substantively and for its explanation you must observe that this doth not signifie an uncertain individuum or a substance indefinitely as Aquinas will have it for if it were so this should demonstrate another substance as well as that of the body of Christ neither doth this signifie or demonstrate the predicate the body of Christ as if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this should be the same with it as Scotus speaks for if it were so the proposition should be identical should signifie nothing else but this body of Christ is the body of Christ which is absurd nor is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this to be understood of that which had been bread as if some body speaking of that which Moses held with his hand which had been a rod should say this is a serpent or that which was water at the marriage in Cana is wine for if it were so there should have been a sensible conversion of the bread into the body of Christ as there was in the changing of the rod into a serpent and of the water into wine nor is that Pronoun this taken adverbially for hic here as those of the Church of Rome will confess with us for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this is referred to the bread which Christ took broke and gave to his disciples and so demonstrates not a common but sacramental bread where the substance and quality remaining the common use is onely changed into a sacred one as S. Austin doth teach us And it matters not that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 bread is of the masculine gender for by the rule of the Grammar when the substantive is understood and not expressed the adjective must be the neuter gender by way of a substantive in those things that are without life and so we may say hoc est terra this thing is earth that is used somtimes in the Scripture as those that understand Greek may see in 1 Pet. 2.19 where the Apostle saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for this is grace 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being neuter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 feminine but it is so clear that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this demonstrates the bread which our blessed Saviour broke and gave his disciples that the grand Apostle S. Paul cals it so 1 Cor. 10.16 the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ and in cha 11. after he had told the Corinthians that he had delivered them that which he had received from the Lord that is the manner of the administration of the Sacrament saith 26 27 28. as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup c. but let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and if we call antiquity to witness Tertullian will tell us in his Book against the Jews Nos audiamus panem quem fregit Dominus esse corpus Salvatoris Let us hear that the bread which Christ broke is the body of our Saviour which you must understand sacramentally so S. Jerome ad Hebidiam moreover in the same sense Irenaeus lib. 4. cap. 57. saith that our Lord taking bread confessed it to be his body and Theodoret. dial 10. cap. 8. teacheth us that in the exhibition of the mysteries Christ called bread his body 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Councils also shew us the verity of our assertion for the 37. Canon of the Code of the Canons of the Councils of Africa tels us that in holy places where Divine Service is celebrated nothing more is offered but the body and bloud of Christ hoc est panis vinum aquâ mixtum that is bread and wine mingled with water so the Council in Trullo at Constantinople with the Council of Neocaesarea which forbids certain Priests to give the bread and cup coram Episcopo before a Bishop And I wonder to hear those of the Church of Rome cavil so much at that word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this when they amongst themselves are not agreed upon it for they dispute among themselves about the consecration of the bread which Christ gave his disciples some say with the Greeks as those of the

of a sensitive life which makes us subject to hunger thirst sorrow and death to redeem those who by their sins were made a sinfull flesh was it not enough for our blessed Saviour to accomplish the law for the elected sinners dye for their sins and rise for their assurance yea we must truly say that it is enough to make us confess the insinite love of our God towards us and exclaim every one of us as the grand Apostle S. Paul Rom. 8. with a great affection towards him who loved us I am perswaded that neither death nor lise nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor beight nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Nevertheless our blessed Redeemer knowing that since the fall of Adam in which we have been all corrupted our nature is so weak with its faculties that we cannot well remember those things which concern our salvation hath shewed us another effect of his sacred love he gave us his Word that we may have continually before our eyes Jesus Christ and him crucisied and left us the holy Sacraments and specially that of the Lords Supper to seal unto our souls the great mystery of our redemption that we might remember what Christ did for us upon the Cross for as Christ himself saith S. Luk. 23.19 this doin remembrance of me and S. Paul 1 Cor. 11.26 as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do shew the Lords death till he comes remember then dear brethren that great and sublime mystery of our redemption that in the reception of the holy Sacraments your souls may be sealed with the sacred seal of the holy Ghost for your eternal salvation But before you come to the sacred banquet of our Lord where his body and bloud is served for our celestial meat and spiritual drink prepare your selves examine your life and consider your inward and outward actions to abhor the sins and corruptions of them that coming with a strong resolution to leave sin and embrace that noble daughter of heaven vertue you may worthily participate of the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Jesus Christ for as S Paul saith 1 Cor. 11.28 Let a man examine himself not his neighbour as many pretended Saints do and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup. Remember that you go unto that sacred banquet with reverence and in the consideration of your sins go with humility for Christ takes a singular pleasure to dwell in the house of an humble Christian if he comes unto Zacheus his house Zacheus must come down first as you read S. Luk. 19.5 Zacheus make haste and come down for to day I must abide at thy house and so S. Jam. 4.6 saith that God resisteth the proud and giveth grace unto the humble Let us come by faith for it is the sacred mouth and spiritual hand with which we apprehend the body and bloud of Jesus Christ as by faith we have a sacred union with our blessed Saviour let us not be Capernaical but Apostolical prepare not your teeth beleeve and thou hast eaten it saith S. Austin do you not say how shall I send my hands and arms to heaven send your faith Moreover remember that you come with a sincere and not hypocritical repentance that you may not be like unto Judas who kissed his Master to betray him for you know that it is by that noble but sorrowfull vertue repentance that we must come unto that sacred banquet of the lamb slain for our sins for we do not come unto that sacred banquet as innocent unto the goodness of our God but as repenting sinners unto his grace but brethren you must be void of envy hatred and malice lest you should take the holy Sacrament to your own condemnation you know that it is a Sacrament of our union nor onely with Christ but also amongst our selves for as the Apostle says 1 Cor. 10 We who are many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread do ye not absent your selves from that sacred banquet lest you entertain communion with the god of this world and conserve in your selves hatred and malice to your own destruction indeed the more you absent your selves from the Sacrament the more will the devil keep you from it so that at last ye will despise the holy Sacrament and procure to your selves a kinde of hardness to sin But further give me leave to beseech you to look upon the meat and drink of that blessed and sacred banquet Christ himself whose body and bloud is precious meat and drink Christ the heavenly bread from whom we draw the spiritual water of wisdom righteousness sanctification and redemption for as the Apostle speaks 1 Cor. 1.30 Christ is made unto us wisdom righteousness sanctisication and redemption Consider those that serve at that mystical Table the holy Angels they serve but they eat not the meat of that sacred Table is not for them it is onely for repenting sinners which things if you seriously look upon I am sure that you will endeavour with the grace of our God to prepare your selves for a worthy reception of the Lords Supper that you may be partakers not onely of the external signes and Sacramental bread but also of Christ the thing signified by them the heavenly bread who will preserve you from eternal death and bring you into the glorious kingdom of his Father to enjoy after the sacred banquet of grace the glorious banquet of glory Amen TO THE Right Worshipfull Right Vertuous and truly Religious my much Honoured Friend WILLIAM ADAMS Esq Felicity and Peace Sir THE Merit and high Repute of your Civility is as a Voice that is heard not onely in all the places where you have been but in many others also which were not honoured by your Presence Fama volat and indeed wheresoever I come I hear great Commendations of your Worship The world saith and that with Justice that your Piety and Modesty is incomparable and an Example to the Nobility that lives far and near that Temple of Honour where you have your Noble Habitation But Sir give me leave to say that your Learning is not obscure and though you be young in years yet you are old in Prudence Nay I must confess that your Worship is indued with such rare and eminent Qualities that there be few among Persons of Eminency who do enjoy them It is not then without Designe that I am sollicitous to present the Spiritual Kingdom of our Saviour against the Monarchical Reign of our Chiliastes to your most piercing sight for having its Review and Approbation by so clear a Judgement I shall not fear what Eye it may be exposed to for its Censure I hope Sir that you will receive this Sermon although not worthy of your Acceptance the which indeed I dare