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A sermon of the sacrami[n]t of the aulter made by a famouse doctoure called Fryderyke Nausea in Almayne and lately out of latyn translate into englysh by Iohn More
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Nausea, Friedrich, d. 1552.; More, John, fl. 1533.
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1533
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STC 18414; ESTC S106361
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A sermon of the sacrameÌt of the aulter made by a famouse doctoure called Fryderyke Nausea in Almayne and lately out of latyn translate into englysh by IohnÌ More IohnÌ More to the chrysten reader IT happened me but late good chrysten reader to receyue and reade in a booke of a vertuouse connynge man called Fryderyk Nausea a booke of sermones surely meruelouse mete for the season For as lenton is a tyme wherof our sauyour Chryste hym selfe sheweth vs then sample that ought esspecyally to be spent in fastynge dyuyne seruyce and sermones so shall not I thynke a man lyghtly fynde many sermons made of late more frutefull and godly thaÌ I fynde many of hys in that one booke Dyuers wherof after I had onys perused redde and that they so specyally well lyked me that I determyned vtterly wyth my selfe to translate into oure tongue some one for mo the shortnesse of tyme wolde not suffer before thys instaÌt feast of Easter so nere commynge vppon before the booke came to my hand but when I had so determyned then fared I wyth all those as doth some yonge lewde scatterloue that went a woynge whyche hauynge the choyse of dyuerse so indifferently and therwith so well lyked theÌ euerychone that wottynge not whyche to chose fayn wold wedde them all and is sory that he maye wedde but one So I though bothe I lyked the tother no lesse then thys and as fayne wolde haue translated them all as thys one yet syns I coulde not do any mo in the tyme vppon consyderacyon that thys sermon most agreed wyth thys blessed feast of Easter at hande as beynge grounded vppon these wordes Hoc facite in mei commemorationem I left the rest and choyse me thys to âorne ⪠whyche yet surely I wolde myche rather haue wysshed to haue be traÌslaâed by some other that better coulde haue handeled it For who had ben able as wel to haue sette it forth in oure toÌgue as lyuely as Nausea hath done it in y e laten sholde haue done a thyng very worthy prayse But for as myche as that perfeccyoÌ in lernynge and eloquence neyther is in me no skant can in so yonge a man be lokyd for I muste huÌbly requyre you all good chrysten readers to accepte my good wyll and take thys worke in good worth Hoc facite in mei commemorationem Do ye this in the remembraunce of me AS ofte as I speke vnto you of the worde of god my well beloued bretherne in the meane whyle coÌsyder the state of our tyme and condycyon of men so often I sorowefully sygh am sycke bycause I perceyue which I am ryght sory to se that these wordes of saynte Paule no lesse trewly then sorowfully may be veryfyed in vs we be they whome thendes of the worlde is come to In whose miserable tyme all those thynges now happe hepyd on in a nothers necke whyche our lorde Iesu Cryst the very trewth both ernestly and truely shewed shold come in thende of the world For as to leue spekyng at this tyme of the horryble warres batayls that be at these dayes thorough out chrystendome ye and amonges them to whiche as beyng oure chyefe heddes and rulers vnder Cryste here on erth oughte to lyue moste in reste and peace and also of the innumerable coÌtagyons and dedely dyseases that reygne and specyally of the great pestilence in Germany besydes the sharpe and cruell famine with such other lyke myschyefes who seeth not euydently vnderstaÌdes not that this is euyn the last ende of the worlde in whych as criste hym selfe prophecyed Iniquyte hath begonne to habound and many mennes charyte waxe colde so that were yt not for y e electes there shold be no fleshe safe for as myche as yf yt were possyble the chosen people selfe y â lyue now at this daye myght seme to be seduced from the trewe catholyque fayth of Chryste syns now I say I se not allonely nacyon agaynst nacyon realme agaynste realme or house agaynste house but rue the fathers agaynst theyr chylderne the chylderne agaynste theyre fathers a one brother wyth great cruelty to arise agaynst the other which thynge surely ye were yt but for this cause greueth me very myche for that I perceyue those clene departed from charyte stryuynge wythin theym selfes persecutynge one a nother as mortall enymyes shamefully ragynge eche agaynst other euen as agaynst theyr vttermost dedely aduer saryes whyche be not onely bretherne as beynge created of on eternall father but also brethern thorough grace and fayth and named the children of god whome as saynte Paule sayth syns they be of one housholde fayth oughte specially to be freÌdes and one of them gladde to do for a nother who me I say Criste our lorde gentyll redemer in so farforth hath exhorted vnto a mutuall charyte shewing it as a thynge so necessary that wythout that they can not be knowen for his dyscyples or by any other meanes then by that mutual charite decerned from infydeles that he sayth amongest other thynges I geue you a newe commauÌdement that you loue on a nother as I haue loued you so loue you betwen your selfs By this shall all men knowe you be my dyscyples yf you haue loue amongest you This is my precepte to loue eche other as I haue loued you And agayn This I coÌmaunde you to loue to gether as my father hath loued me so haue I loued you Abyde you in my loue But howe loued Chryst vs Surely so as hym selfe sayth that he loste hys lyfe for oure sake then whyche kynde of loue no man can haue a greater whyche also thapostles recyteth almoste in euery place Of whyche trewly ineffable loue towarde vs his owne he hath left behynde hym an inspekable token testymonyall and perpetual memoryal in that he gaue him selfe to be eaten of vs made therby both the feaste and the geste bothe twayne As the prophete Dauid sayde Our most mercyfull pytyful lord hath made a remeÌbrauÌce of his meruayles and hath geuen meate to theym that dreded hym For why our lord Iesu Cryst instytutyng this hygh excellent wonderfull holy sacrament gaue fode to those that dreded hym and for pytye he had on vs lefte that sacrament vnto vs as a memoryall remembrauÌce not onely of y e offering of hym self for our sake vpon the crosse also gaue him self as meate to all suche as worsshyppe hym drede hym loue him honoured him as saint Paule sayth Do you this as ofte as you drynke yt in the remembraunce of me for as oft as you shall eate thys brede and drynke of thys cuppe you shall shewe the dethe of our lorde tyll he come but also left this blessed sacrament vnto vs for a memoryall and remembrauÌce of his inspekable loue toward vs by which loue he was broughte for our sakes to the most bitter crosse shamfull deth in whych he myght be wyth vs
as he was before in y â sacrament accordyng to his own êmise where he sayth And lo I am wyth you for euer euen to the worldes ende whyche all though yt may be vnderstanden of y e maner of presence by whyche he is euer present wyth vs by his powre grace and dyuyne maiesty yet semeth it more lykely he ment of the sacrameÌtall presence syns hys dyscyples knewe well inough he sholde neuer be from them as concernynge the former presence but they were not iÌlyke wyse sure of hys presence in that sacrament whyche in so farforth was harde to be byleued and perceyued y e many of hys dyscyples went backe and went no more wyth hym And therfore oure sauyour Cryste fyrst to fulfyll the fygure of scrypture gaue hym selfe mete to vs. Surely that fygure was manna gyuen from heuyn to the chylderne of Israell wyth whyche they were fedde .xl. yere in deserte Cryste the interpretour who sayth Truely truely I tell you it was not that Moyses gaue you the brede out of heuyn but my father gyueth you the trew brede out of heuyn I am the brede of lyfe your forefathers hath eatyn maÌna in deserte and be dede This is brede descendynge froÌ heuyn so that who eateth hereof shall not dye whereby it well appereth that manna in deserte was but a shadowe and fygure of the very maÌna that is to witte of the body of Iesu Cryst to be gyuen to vs to eate syth also thapostell wryteth that thynge and the history thereof but as a figure of that whyche after was to be fulfylled Secondely he gaue hym self meate vnto vs to accomplysshe in dede that he promysed by worde which god wold haue so sure and so trewe that he sayth Heuyn and erth shall passe but not my wordes But now Cryste promysed to gyue hys flesshe for oure fode sayenge I am the lyuely brede whyche am descended frome heuyn who eateth of this brede shall lyue for euer And the brede which I shall gyue is my flesshe for the lyfe of y e worlde For why my flesshe in dede is meate my blood is very drynk who cateth my flesshe and drynketh my blood dwelleth iÌ me and I in hym Thyrdely Cryst gaue hym selfe vnto vs for meate merueylously and ineffably to shewe vs hys hygh charyte by whych both bodely and gostely he wolde be wyth vs perpetually and all one wyth vs by incorporacioÌ as it is wont to be in loue For by the communion of the body and blood of oure lorde Iesu Cryste all we be made one hole body wyth Cryste Thapostell approuynge it sayenge thus The brede that we breke is it not the parrycypacyon of the body of our lorde bycause we menâây be but one brede and one body all that be partakers of one brede and one cuppe And for thys cause oure lorde Iesu Cryste and onely redemer to leue byhynde hym a remembraunce of hys loue towarde vs and by thensample of the same loue wold haue vs that be hys not onely loue hym but also one another and by the remeÌbraunce of hys most bytter deth gyue hym thankes togyther was content to be present wyth vs thoughe inuysybly yet bodely in that sacrament and by that communyon as we haue sayd be fore to be all one with vs so to leue thys blessed sacrament of thaulter behynd hym as a sure pledge of hys great loue towarde vs. Of thys it was that saynt IohnÌ sayde that at thys laste holy supper the instytucyon of that moste blessed sacrament of thaulter was made for a sygne of loue when he sayth Before y e feast daye of Easter Iesus knowynge y t hys howre was come in whyche he sholde departe out of thys worlde to hys father when he had louyd hys that were in the worlde he loued theÌ to thende And after supper so forth In whych saynt Luke answeryng with the other wryteth that Criste in hys laste supper sayde I haue inwardely desyred to eate thys pascall wyth you before I suffer and so forth And wythin a lytell whyle after And takynge the brede he sayd grace and brake it gaue it to theÌ sayenge This is my body that shall be delyuered for you Do you thys in remembraunce of me How in my remembraunce That you maye remember howe I haue loued all you that byleued in me who for the greate loue I bare you to thentente I maye be wyth you bodely to the worldes ende haue gyuen you meate myne owne body and myne owne blood vnder the forme of brede and so vnder the sacrament to the enteÌt that there may come in your myndes somtyme another greate charyte of myne by whych I dowre not to suffex deth for you whyche deth and charyte you ought to remember wyth the rendrynge of dewe thankes as ofte as ye consecrate and handell by myne ensaÌple this sacrament whyche thynge thapostell coÌfyrmynge sayth that Chryst the same nyghte he was betrayed takynge the brede and the cuppe delyuered it vnto his dyscyples and sayd Do you this in remembrauÌce of me As ofte as you eate of thys brede and drinke of this cuppe shewe you the deth of our lorde tyll he come and so forth With how fatherly a loue then Cryste instytuted thys holy sacrament of thaulter there is no good man that of these wordes of Cryste also of thapostell as well of that y â goeth before as foloweth vnderstandeth not syns he harde that oure lorde Iesu Cryste not onely had shewed in that hys charyte towarde vs whych he wolde sholde be êpetuall in that he toke vpoÌ hym our nature to make vs as saynt IohnÌ sayth men by partycypacyon goddes by fayth and all he toke of ours gaue vs agayn for our helth but also offered vppe to god hys father his owne body on the crosse as a sacrafyce for our recoÌcylyacyon his blood to be shed as a pryce and laua tory of our synne that beynge redemed from the myserable seruytude we myghte be clensed frome our vyce Wherfore to thentent the remembraunce of so hygh a benefyte might abyde in vs and the greatnesse of the loue of god more fyrmely fixed in our brestes in his laste supper as yt is wryten in the gospell of saynte IohnÌ in the pascall made wyth his dyscyples at his departynge oute of thys worlde to his father he gaue his body for meate and hys blood for drynke to be receyued of faythfull folke vnder the forme of brede ordeynyng this holy sacrament of thaulter as a êpetuall remeÌbrauÌce of hys passyon to thâ fulfyllyng of tholde fygures one of the greatest myracles that euer he dyd as a syngulare comforte of all those that are sorowfull for his absence As though he wolde say I shall not leue you fatherles not for y â I wyll come agayne to you my selfe but bycause I wyll be euer wyth you euen to the ende of the world by my mercy by my grace