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A26478	A testimony of antiquity shewing the ancient faith in the Church of England, touching the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord here publickly preached, and also received in the Saxons time, above 600 years agoe.; Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. English	Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.; Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.	1675 (1675)	Wing A677; ESTC R38168	20,773	42

life before that the last day of the universal resurrection do appear If we cannot search out throughly all the mysterie of Christs Incarnation then ought we to betake the rest unto the might of the Holy Ghost with true humilitie and not to search rashly of that deep secretness above the measure of our understanding They did eat the Lambs flesh with their loynes girt In the loines is the lust of the bodie And he which will receive that housel shall cover that concupiscence and take with chastitie that holy receipt They were also shod What be shoes but of the hides of dead beasts We be truly shod if we follow in our steps and deeds the life of men departed which please God with keeping of hiscommandements They had Staves in their hands when they eat This stafe signifieth a carefulness and a diligent overseing And all they that best know and can should take care of other men and stay them up with their help It was injoyned to the eaters that they should eat the Lamb in haste For God abhoreth slouthfulness in his servants And those he loveth that seek the joy of everlasting life with quickness and hast of mind It is written Prolong not to turn unto God least the time pass away through thy slow tarrying The eaters might not break the Lambs bones No more might the Souldiers that did hang Christ break his holy legs as they did of the two Theeves that hanged on either side of him And the Lord r●se from death sound without all corruption and at the last judgment they shall see him whom they did most cruelly wound on the Cross This time is called in the Hebrew tongue Pasca and in Latine Transitus and in Enghish a Passover because that on this day the people of Israel passed from the land of Aegypt over the Red sea from bondage to the Land of promise So also did our Lord at this time depart as saith John the Evangelist from this world to his heavenly Father-Even so we ought to follow our head and to go from the devil to Christ from this unstable world to his stable kingdom Howbeit we should first in this present life depart from vice to holy virtue from evil manners to good manners if we will after this corruptible life go to that eternal life and after our resurrection to Christ. He brings us to his everliving Father who gave him to death for our sins To him be honour and praise of well-doing world without end Amen This Sermon is found in diverss Books of Sermons written in the old English or Saxon tongue whereof two books be now in the hands of the most Reverend Father the the Arch-bishop of Canterbury Here followeth the words of Aelfricke Abbot of St. Albons and also of Malmsbery taken out of his Epistle written to Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburn It is found in a book of the old Saxon tongue wherein be XLIII Chapters of Canons and Ecclesiastical Constitutions and also Liber Poenitentialis that is a Penitential book or Shrift book divided into Four other books the Epistle is set for the 30. Chapter of the Fourth book Intituled in the Saxon tongue be preost sinothe that is a Synod concerning Priests and this Epistle is also in a Canon book of the Church of Exeter SOme Priests keep the housel that is hallowed on Easter day all the year for sick men But they do greatly amiss because it waxeth hoary And these will not understand how grievous pennance the Penitential book teacheth by this if the housel become hoary and rotten or if it be lost or be eaten of Mise or of beasts by negligence Men shall reserve more carefully that holy housel and not reserve it too long but hallow other of new for sick men alwaies within a week or a fortnight that it be not so much as hoary For so holy is the housel which to day is hallowed as that which on Easter day was hallowed That housel is Christs body not bodily but ghostly Not the body which he suffered in but the body of which he spake when he blessed bread and wine to housel a night before his suffering and said by the blessed bread This is my body and again by the holy wine This is my blood which is shed for many in forgivness of sins Vnderstand now that the Lord who could turn that bread before his suffering to his body and that wine to his blood ghostly that the self same Lord blesseth daily through the Priests hands bread and wine to his ghostly body and to his ghostly blood Here thou seest good Reader how Aelfrick upon finding fault with an abuse of his time which was that Priests on Easter day filled their housel box and so kept the bread a a whole year for sick men took an occasion to speak against the bodily presence of Christ in the Sacrament So also in another Epistle sent to Wulfstane Arch-bishop of York he reprehending again this overlong reserving of the housel addeth also words more at large against the same bodily presence His words be these SOme Priests fill their box for housel on Easter day and so reserve it a whole year for sick men as though that housel were more holy then any other But they do unadvisedly because it waxeth black or altogether rotten by keeping it so long space And thus is he become guilty as the book witnesseth to us If any do keep the housel too long or loose it or Mise or other beasts do eat it see what the Penetential book sayeth by this So holy is altogether that housel which is hallowed to day as that which is hallowed on Easter day Wherefore I beseech you to keep that holy body of Christ with more advisement for sick men from Sonday to Sonday in a very clean box or at most not to keep it above a fortnight and then eat it laying other in the place We have an example hereof in Moses books as God himself hath commanded in Moses law How the Priests should set on every Saterday twelve loaves all new baked upon the Tabernacle the which were called Panes praepositionis and those should stand there on Gods Tabernacle till the next Saterday and then did the Priests themselves eat them and set other in the place Some Priests will not eat the housel which they do hallow But we will now declare unto you how the book speaketh by them Presbyter missam celebrans non audens sumere sacrificium accusante conscientia sua Anathema est The Priest that doth say Mass and dare not eat the housel his conscience accusing him is accursed It is less danger to receive the housel then to hallow it He that doth twice hallow one Host to housel is like unto those Hereticks who do Christen twice one child Christ himself blessed housel hefore his suffering He blessed the bread and brake thus speaking to his Apostles Eat this bread it is my body And again he blessed one Chalice

and after Arch-bishop of York who made Aelfrick Abbot of St. Albons Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburn unto whom Aelfrick writeth the first of the Epistles we here speak of Elfleda a Nun of Romesey and Wulhilda Abbess of Barking lived in the daies of King Edgar And last of all Wulfritha King Edgar's Concubine All these I say with some other more be Canonized for Saints of this Age in which Aelfrick himself lived in great fame and credit Also Leofrick and Wulfsine whom we have shewed to have been the givers of those anon-books wherein be seen Aelfricks Epistles be reverenced for most holy Men and Saints of their Churches And these two lived Bishops in the coming in of the Conqueror Thus do some men now-a-daies not only dissent in doctrine from their own Church but also from that Age of their Church which they have thought most holy and judged a most excellent pattern to be followed Wherefore what may we now think of that great consent whereof the Romanists have long made vaunt to wit Their Doctrine to have continued many hundred years as it were linked together with a continual chain whereof hath been no breach at any time Truly this their so great affirmation hath uttered unto us no truth as good Christian Reader thou mayest well judge by duly weighing of this which hath been spoken and by the reading also of that which here followeth whereunto I now leave thee Trusting that after thou hast well weighed this matter of such manner of the being of Christs Body in the Sacrament as sheweth this Testimony no untruth or dishonour shall need to be attributed to Christ's loving words pronounced at his last Supper among his Apostles no derogation to his most Sacred Institution no diminishing of any comfort to Christian mens souls in the use of his reverend Sacrament but all things to stand right up most agreeably both to the verity of Christs infallible words and to the right nature congruence and efficacies of so holy a Sacrament and finally most comfortable to the conscience of man for his spiritual uniting and incorporation with Christ's blessed Body and Bloud to immortality and for the sure Gage of his Resurrection Amen A SERMON Of the PASCHAL LAMB And of the Sacramental body and bloud of CHRIST our Saviour Written in the old Saxon tongue before the Conquest and appointed in the Reign of the Saxons to be spoken to the people at Easter before they should receive the Communion MEN beloved it hath been often said unto you about our Saviours Resurrection how he on this present day after his suffering mightily rose from death Now will we open unto you through Gods grace of the holy housell which ye should now go unto and instruct your understanding about this mystery both after the old Covenant and also after the new that no doubting may trouble you about this lively food The Almighty God bad Moses his Captain in the land of Aegypt to command the people of Israel for to take for every family a Lamb of one year old the night they departed out of the country to the land of promise and to offer that Lamb to God and after to cut it and to make the sign of the Cross with the Lambs blood upon the side posts and the upper posts of their door and afterward to eat the Lambs flesh rosted and unleavened bread with wild lettice God saith unto Moses Eat of the Lamb nothing raw or sodden in water but rosted with fire Eate the head the feet and the inwards and let nothing of it be left until the morning if any thing thereof remain that shall you burn with fire Eat it in this wise Gird your loins and doe your shoes on your seet have you staves in your hands and eat it in hast This time is the Lords Passover And then was slain on that night in every house throughout Pharoahs raign the first born child and Gods people of Israel were delivered from that suddain death through the Lambs offering and his bloods marking Then said God unto Moses Keep this day in your remembrance and hold it a great feast in your kinreds with a perpetual observation and eat unleavened bread alwaies seven daies at this feast After this deed God led the people of Israel over the red sea with dry foot and drowned therein Pharaoh and all his army together with their possessions and fed afterward the Israelites forty years with heavenly food and gave them water out of the hard rock until they came to the promised land Part of this story we have treated of in another place part we shall now declare to wit that which belongeth to the holy housell Christian men may not now keep that old law bodily but it behoveth them to know what it ghostly signifieth That innocent Lamb which the old Israelites did then kill had signification after ghostly understanding of Christs suffering who unguilty shed his holy blood for our Redemption Hereof sing Gods servants at every Mass Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis That is in our speech Thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Those Israelites were delivered from that suddain death and from Pharaohs bondage by the Lambs offering which signified Christs suffering through which we be delivered from everlasting death and from the Devils cruel raign if we rightly believe in the true Redeemer of the whole world Christ the Saviour That Lamb was offered in the evening and our Saviour suffered in the sixt age of this world This age of this corruptible world is reckoned unto the evening They marked with the Lambs blood upon the doors and the upper posts Tau that is the sign of the Cross and were so defended from the Angel that killed the Aegyptians first born child And we ought to mark our foreheads and our bodies with the token of Christs rood that we may be also delivered from destruction when we shall be marked both on forehead and also in heart with the blood of our Lords suffering Those Israelites eat the Lambs flesh at their Easter time when they were delivered and we receive ghostly Christs body and drink his blood when we receive with true belief that holy housell That time they kept with them at Easter seven daies with great worship when they were delivered from Pharaoh and went from that land So also Christian men keep Christs resurrection at the time of Easter these seven daies because through his suffering and rising we be delivered and be made clean by going to this holy housell as Christ faith in his Gospel Verily verily I say unto you ye have no life in you except ye eat my flesh and drink my bloud He that cateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me and I in him and hath that everlasting life and I shall raise him up at the last day I am the lively bread that came down