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A03909	A faithful declaration of Christes holy supper comprehe[n]ded in thre sermo[n]s, preached at Eaton Colledge, by Roger Hutchinson. 1552. Whose contentes are in the other syde of the lefe.	Hutchinson, Roger, d. 1555.	1560 (1560)	STC 14018; ESTC S104326	58,400	142

distribution of Christes supper this is papistical leuē supersticious doctrine to make the scriptures a nose of wax a tenes baull and to wrest them to euery purpose To blesse here is to giue thākes to God the father for his merciful beholding of our misery for pardoning Adams disobedience and for sending his sonne to be borne of a woman to grind and breake in sonder the Serpentes head that is to destroy the power of the deuill through death thorow his crosse and by theffusiō and shedding of his bloud And the cup of blessing of which Paul speaketh is asmuch to say as the cup of thankesgeuing For he expoundeth it euen so in the next Chapter himself And where as Marke saith that Christ blessed Mathew and Luke say expoūding on another that he gaue thākes For this vse entent and purpose this sacrament was chiefly and principally ordayned that we should not forget the great clemency and special fauor of the eternal God for the death and passion of Christ our Lord but reserue this his benefit in continuall memory And therfore many of the elder Fathers doe name this holy Sacrament 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a renderyng of prayse and a thankesgeuyng It foloweth in the text how after that Christ had geuen thankes That he brake the bread and gaue it to his Disciples and bad them take and eate it and he toke the Cup lykewyse and gaue it them saying Drinke of it euery one Or as Luke saith he toke the cup and sayd Accipite and diuidite inter vos take this and deuide it among you Christ our maister doeth not receiue this holy Sacrament alone but with his Disciples nether do we reade in all the newe Testament that euer any receiued it priuatly or seuerally from others The Actes of y e Apostles testifie that they which beleued resorted together oftentymes to celebrate this Sacrament But they doe not speake of any priuate receit for Christ ordayneth here no priuat Masse but a Communion Let vs folowe hys example and celebrate Christes supper not as our forefathers haue done many yeares and of long tyme but as Christ who is before all tyme and all yeares ▪ did celebrate it first and as his Disciples did vse it in the primatiue Apostolike church You will say there hath bene a custome cōtrary many yeares and I haue heard some say that when the deuotion of the layte and temporalte waxed cold that the Apostles and their successors gaue liberte to ministers to receiue it alone I aunswere this custome begon but of late dayes and not many yeares agone For as Cronicles do make plain and euident relation Gregory surnamed the great the first Bishop of Rome of that name was the first founder of priuat Masses who was Anno dom 595 almost for the space of six hundred yeres there was no priuat receit Moreouer this is most certayne and true that the Orientall church neuer vnto this day did allow or vse priuate masses as app●reth plainly of the name which thei giue to this sacrament For they cal it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is a cōmunion or a cōming and assēble together of many in one place And for an euident profe of this you shal vnderstand y t Plinius he that was Profos Bithiniae that is gouernour captain of Bithinia In the time of y e wise Emperor Traianus this Pliny I say in a certen Epistle which he writeth to the forsayd Emperour De ritu christianorum of the rights and fashions of the christians is a witnes hereof that the Grekes in his time had a communion and no priuat masses And other learned writers do credibly report that certain churches of the Venetians within this .xxx. yeares and lesse did not celebrate the Lordes supper alone or any man priuatly by himselfe And it may wel be that they do so stil at this day of these it is euident that priuat masses be not of so auncient and long cōtinuaunce or so vniuersally receiued as the papistes do face and bragge the matter after their accustomed sort But you wil go further with me say If the laite will receiue they may for they were neuer restrained but if they will not thinking themselues vnworthy to receiue it often thēselues why may not the priest receiue it alone for them We may pray one for another so we ar exhorted to do but no man may receiue the sacrament for others but for himself only That which thou receiuest thou receiuest by thine own faith and for spiritual fode to thyne own soul and not to others For it is written iustus ex fide sua viuet the rightuous man shall liue by faith by his own faith and not by an other mans faith nor by anothers receit And as no man hath norishment or sustenaunce of the meat which another doth eat so this spiritual fode doth profit only such as take and eat it themselues according to Christes precept they be not edified nor refresshed with an other mans spirite with an other mans faith or receit no more then they be regenerat renewed with the baptime of others For if it be true that Paul saith Qui enim manducat bibit indigne iudicium sibi manducat et bibit that is he that eateth and drinketh vnworthely eateth and drinketh to his own condemnatiō not to any other mans condemnatiō Ergo he that eateth and drinketh worthely eateth but to his own health and saluation and not to the health and profit of others The benefit the fruit and the whole cōmodite of this sacrament dependeth vpon the promises which Christ hath annexed to it whiche promises be pronounced only to those that come to his supper themselues as these promisses Whosoeuer eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath eternal life I wyl raise him vp saith Christ at the last day and he dwelleth in God and God in him these promisses I say be not made to thee onles thou come to Gods table thyself another mans receit doth nothing profit or edify thee Therfore Paul vnto the Corinthians after that he restraineth them from making any banket or refection before this supper afterward speaking of this Sacrament he commaundeth boeth priestes and others not to receiue one for another but one to tary for another saying Alius alium expectate cum conuenitis ad manducandum Tary sayth Paul one for another when ye come together to eate He speaketh these wordes of Christes supper for he forbiddeth the Corinthiās in the same Chapter to eate any other meat in the house of prayer then bread and wyne in commemoration of the death of Christ. Ambrose a learned and holy father of Christes church doeth so construe and take this text disalowyng and reprouing al priuat receit and also Theophilact For Ambrose saith vpon this text Ab inuicem expectandum est vt

geue the thankes vnto God And as touching these sermons iudge of them thy selfe as God shall geue the grace Thus fare thou wel in him y ● liueth for euer Amen The .25 of September ❧ THE FIRST Sermon on the Sunday next before Easter ¶ The sum of the Gospell THe Gospell of this day wel beloued in the Lord conteyneth a narration of suche things as our master Chris● did immediatly before he was through the couetousnes of Iudas enuy of his own nation betrayed vnto death It is a lōg processe as you haue heard worthy of perpetual remembraunce and a worthy matter to be declared to al men and women For it setteth forth plainly afore our eyes as it wer in a scaffolde the sede promised which by many darke ridels and figures is signified shadowed in Moeses and the Prophetes and conteineth the beneuolence the louing kyndnes the great tender mercy and good wil of God the father who so loued vs that for our honor he suffred his honorable and only begotten chylde to be dishonored and oppressed of malicious and couetous men And that so noble and worthy a benefite should not fall out of remembraunce which is the alone author of our redemptiō and our only comfort against sinne that we should reserue this his louing kindnes in continuall memory not be vnthankefull he hath commaunded vs by the mouth of Christ our Lorde to celebrate a commemoration of his fauour clemency of his sonnes dishonour death and to resorte vnto the holy sacrament of the same that is of Christes honorable body and bloud Because this matter is so long that it cānot be worthely declared in one hower nor ●wayne forasmuch as many be yet ignorāt of the fruit of the vse and cause of the mary and swetnesse of the Lordes supper knowe not what it meaneth nor what a sacrament is and Easter now draweth nigh at whiche time al men and women dispose them selues to come to Christes banket as I wold wishe they wold also aswell at other times and so come do whose praiers God doth not forget yet because the most part wil not come but at the aforesaid feast therfore and also for as much as it is a member parcel of the gospel of this sonday before Easter I thought it good to speake now of this matter which is an abbridgement of the whole scripture as wel for the erudition of those that be vnlearned as also that suche as be stubbornly wedded to their owne iudgements and are hardned against the truth may not excuse them selues by ignoraunce when to rendre an account of their faithes they shalbe cited to appere at the barre before the diuine maiestie But that you may y e better impresse in your hartes cary away that which I shal speke hereof I wil reherse vnto you that part mēber of this gospel which cōprehendeth Christes supper Whiles they were eating Iesus toke bread and when he had geuen thankes he brake it and gaue it to the Disciples and saied Take eat this is my body And he toke the cup thanked and gaue it them saying Drink of it euery one for this is my bloud of the newe Testament shed for many to the forgeuenes of synnes I say vnto you I will not drynke henceforth of this fruit of the vyne till that day when I shall drinke it new with you in my fathers kingdome And when they had geuen praises they went out in to mount Oliuete This matter is declared how we doe receiue Christes body and bloud in the sensible sacrament of bread and wyne also without the sacrament is shewed in the sixt chapter of S. Iohns Gospell That I may speake hereof to the promotion of Gods glory finde out suche lessons such doctrine in y e text which may be to your instruction edifying which be assembled here to serue God in praier hering his word let vs aske gods help spirit for the which I shal desire you to say the lords praier after me Our fa. c. This Gospel welbeloued in the lord is ful of spiritual erudition and heauēly comfort it hath as many good lessons fruitful matters as wordes yea and as many heresies be gathered of the words therof as good lessons as shalbe declared Lest thorow plenty of matter I be ouerlong and tedious I wil ouerrun it in order as the text leadeth speaking much or litle of euery sentence as I shal see nedeful for your enstruction desiring you not to loke for a learned profound declaration but only for a plain exposition and a faithful confession of the catholike faith First and in the beginning of the supper in that the text saith Whyles they were eating Iesus toke the bread Of this we may learne that Christ his disciples did celebrate this sacramēt of his honorable body and bloud not after the present vse and maner of the congregation but after other meates and drinkes First he did eate his passeouer and Easterlābe with his disciples after the custome of the old testament which passeouer and easterlambe was a figure and shadow of our sacramentall bread wyne For as they of the olde lawe did eat yearly an easterlambe in remēbrāce of their deliueraunce from Egipt and from the expression of Pharao so we of the new testament do receiue sacramentall bread and wyne in remembraūce of Christes death passion through which we ar deliuered from the Egipt of sinne from the gates of hell and from the power of the deuil And as the paschal lābe was ordeined and eaten the night before the children of Israel were deliuered frō Egipt so likewyse this sacrament was ordeined and eaten the night before we were deliuered from our sinnes And as when the Israelites were escaped out of Egipt they did eate neuertheles the paschal lambe which was called stil the passing by or their passouer and pasport because it was a remembraūce of their passage out of Egipt and they eating the same hartely reioysed offering him sacrifice and acknowledging with infinit thankes that they were the felowship of them that had such a merciful God So we now being deliuered from sinne doe eate neuertheles the sacrament which is stil called his bodi that once died for our deliueraunce and we hartly reioyce offring to him y e sacrifice of praise acknowledging with infinit thankes that we ar of the feloship of them which haue such a mercifull and mighty God thorowe Christ. And their lambe was a sacramēt not only of their deliueraunce out of Egipt but also it was a sacramēt of Christ to come that he thorow death should deliuer both the Iewes and all other men from the tiranny and bondage of Satā as Iohn the christener taught the Iewes saying Ecce agnus dei qui tollit peccata mundi behold the lambe of God whiche taketh away the sinnes of the world He nameth Christ a