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A19270	A briefe homily wherein the most comfortable and right vse of the Lords Supper, is very plainly opened and deliuered, euen to the vnderstanding of the vnlearned and ignorant. Made to be vsed throughout the Diocesse of Lincolne, before euerie celebration of the Lordes Supper, in all such churches and parishes as haue not a sufficient hable preacher allowed vnder the hand and authentike seale of the Bishop there, and to be read by the minister of each such place, so distinctly and in such sorte, that all which shalbe then assembled, may well heare and marke the same.; Certaine sermons wherin is contained the defense of the gospell nowe preached	Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594.	1580 (1580)	STC 5684.5; ESTC S118236	7,401	16

vnto him most heartie thankes for the same and the residue of his benefites not at this present time onely but euer hereafter vntill the time of his comming This is the godly and Christian trial of our selues which if we do vse by the grace of Gods spirite working in vs we shall become either worthie guestes or much more fit then otherwise we should be without such triall Happily some will thinke that this admonition is a terrour and torment to their consciences to feare men from comming to this blessed Sacrament rather then an exhortation or incouragement vnto it For if the danger be in it selfe so great as the vnworthie receiuer eateth dampnation to himselfe and the preparation and triall so straight as you haue made it it were better neuer to come to it For what one is there among a thousand that doeth in this manner trie his conscience or if he doe he must needes feele so great want and imperfection either in sorrowe for his sinnes or in sense of Gods wrath or in weakenesse of his faith or in the study of new life or in the coldnesse of his charitie or in his feblenesse to giue thanks to set forth the glorie of God or in al these things that he must needes be ouerwhelmed in conscience and feared to make himselfe partaker of these holy misteries But dearely beloued Let not this feare shake our consciences nor driue you backe from this blessed table This examination and triall must be within the bounds of humane frailtie and God in this as in all other doinges for Christ his sake will vse his mercie and clemencie for he knoweth our corruptions and imperfections and will haue regard of our infirmities Onely let vs not be secure slack and negligent but feeling by this triall great want in our selues let vs with lowly humble confessing heartes acknowledge the same and say vnto God I am sorie O Lord for my sinnes but not as the grieuousnesse of them requireth augment O Lorde by thy spirite the sense of thy wrath in mee I beleeue and knowe with other Christians that thy sonne hath shedde his bloud for me but increase my faith O God helpe mine vnbeleefe I desire to liue according to the calling of a Christian but the fleshe and the world maketh this study colde in me therefore doe thou strengthen me with thy blessed spirite I knowe it is my bounden duetie to yeeld vnto thee immortall thankes aswell for all other thy benefites as principally for the whole worke of our redemption by the death of thy dearely beloued sonne But I feele this zeale to be so faint and feeble that it is nothing according to my duetie and for that cause I lift vp mine eyes to the throne of thy mercie humbly desire thee to pardon al my imperfections and to heale all mine infirmities The sense and knowledge of my weaknes may not feare me frō this holy table For this heauenly feast is a medicine for them that be sick a comfort to them that be penitent sinners a free and liberall gift to such as be poore and haue nothing of them selues Christ in this feast is giuen as meat without which we know we must of necessitie perish And he is giuen as life vnto vs therefore without him we can haue nothing but death The best worthinesse that we can bring to these reuerend and holy misteries is that we confesse our owne vnworthines that thy mercie may make vs worthy that we despaire in our selues that thy grace may comfort vs that we humble our selues to the end thy goodnesse may raise vs vp that we accuse our selues to the end thy sonne by his merite may iustifie vs. For though of our selues we are hable to do nothing yet by him we shalbe hable to do all thinges These or like cogitations if we haue in preparing our selues to that blessed nourishment of our soules he that breaketh not a bruised reede nor putteth out smoking flaxe will not cast aside our infirmitie but wil mercifully receiue vs. The sorrowfull Father which with care for his sonne cried vnto Christ I beleeue Lord but helpe mine vnbeleefe Though his faith as it might appeare was very weake yet obtained he his purpose at Christ his hand to haue his sonne by miracle healed If our faith be but as a graine of mustard seede yet it wil much preuail with Gods mercie The Apostles of Christ which were admitted to his last supper were notwithstanding weak touched with many infirmities although thei were not altogether wicked faithlesse as Iudas was they beleeued in Christ they loued Christ they loued one another yet at the very table of the Lord they shewed their weaknes Peter not w tout some reproch of y e residue preferred himself before thē al Though al other saith he be offēded by thee yet wil not I be offended by thee They ambitiously contended among themselues which of them shold be the greater I wil not mentiō that immediately after Supper they through timerousnes fled from Christ for the time forsoke him which was an euident token of the weaknes of their faith after the knowledge of his doctrine experience of many wonderfull miracles Yet it pleased the great mercie of our sauiour fauourably to accept them and to admit them as singular instrumēts of his grace We may not therefore for our weakenes imperfection despaire or refuse the comfort of that heauenly table but rather let vs in all dutifull sort approch thervnto pray most hartily euerie one of vs al that we may be fit and worthy guestes for the same which God our Father grant vs for his sonnes sake Christ Iesu our sauiour by the working of his moste holy comfortable spirite to whom be all honour prayse and glorie for euer and euer Amen FINIS Matth. 26.26 Mar. 14 22. Luk. 22.19 Rom. 10.17 1. Cor. 11.24 1. Cor. 11. ver 24 25 26. Gen. 6. ver 18. 9. ver 9. 19. ver 9 11 12. Rom. 4. ver 11. Gal. 3. ver 26 27 28. 1. Cor. 12. ver 12.13.27 Io. 6. ver 57. 1. Cor. 11. ver 18 21 22. Ephe. 3. ver 17. Io. 1. ver 29. Heb. 9. v. 14 Io. 6. ver 47 Ephe. 3. ver 17. 1. Cor. 11.28 Deut. 6. ver 5. Leuit. 19. ver 18. Matth. 22 ver 37 39. Deut. 27. ver 26. Gal. 3. v. 10. Iohn 6. ver 47 53 54. Iohn 3. ver 16. Marke 1. ver 24. 3. ver 11. Rom. 6. ver 1 2 3 c. 1. Cor. 1. ver 24 25 26. 1. Cor. 1. ver 27. Psal 78. ver 39. Iohn 6. ver 36. Marke 9. ver 24. Matth. 17. ver 20. Matth. 26. ver 33.

A BRIEFE HOMIly wherein the most comfortable and right vse of the Lords Supper is very plainly opened and deliuered euen to the vnderstanding of the vnlearned and ignorant Made to be vsed throughout the Diocesse of Lincolne before euerie celebration of the Lordes Supper in all such Churches and Parishes as haue not a sufficient hable Preacher allowed vnder the hand and authentike seale of the Bishop there and to be read by the Minister of each such place so distinctly and in such sorte that all which shalbe then assembled may well heare and marke the same IMPRINTED AT London for Ralph Newberie dwelling in Fleetstreete a little aboue the Conduit An. Dom. 1580. A BRIEFE HOMILY wherein the moste comfortable and right vse of the Lordes Supper is very plainely opened and deliuered euen to the vnderstanding of the vnlearned and ignorant THat wee doe not come negligently to the Lordes table wherevnto we nowe prepare our selues let vs call these thinges following to our remembrance This Sacrament vsed according to the institution of Christ consisteth of two parts that is the outwarde signes which are Bread and Wine and the inwarde thing whiche is the body and bloud of our Sauiour Christe the true foode of our soules which onely nourisheth vs to eternall life Now as man consisteth of two partes body and soule so the body feedeth vpon the outward elements of Breade and Wine but the soule feedeth in deede and truly vpon Iesus Christ crucified The outwarde eating by the instrumentes of the bodie causeth all our senses our hearing our seeing our feeling our tasting to helpe our inward eating by faith and by the same quickeneth stirreth strengtheneth and increaseth our faith that we may eate the bodie and bloud of Christe more effectually and fruitefully For when the faithfull Christian heareth the wordes of Christes institution sound in his eares This is my body that is giuen for you c. This is my bloud that is shed for the remission of your sinnes It stirreth vp his faith for faith is by hearing to lay strong holdfast vpon this promise and in his heart doeth assure himselfe that Christe died and shed his bloud not onely for the redemption of the whole world generally but for his also perticularly and that he vndoubtedly is partaker of that blessed worke of our redemption When we heare these wordes Doe this in remembraunce of me Our faith is assured that it is Christes commandement that we should vse this Sacrament to cal to our remembrance the benefit of our saluation by the death of Christe and in heart and minde at all times but then especially to shewe our selues truely thankefull to him for the same When our sight beholdeth on the Table the Breade and Wine by Christes ordinaunce broken and powred out for vs to vse our faith is moued thus to thinke as surely and truely as my bodily eyes beholde vpon the table of the Lord the creatures of Breade and Wine as the outward parte of his Sacrament and see the same broken and powred out for me so assuredly doe I with the eye of my faith beholde the body and bloud of Christe broken and shedde for me vpon the altar of the crosse and the same my sauiour sitting now on the right hand of God the father with the same bodie and bloud now glorified wherewith vpon the crosse he paide the price of my redemption When we see the Minister offering to vs the bread and the cup and we receiue the same in our hand and by our sense feele them inwardly in our heartes our faith is moued to haue this cogitation As truly as our Sauiour Christe vpon the Crosse by his bodie broken and his bloud shedde wrought our redemption and offered the benefite thereof to all that would beleeue generally so truely am I assured that now in the vse of this holy sacrament by his minister he offereth the same to me particularly to be applied to my selfe And as surely as my hande receiueth the outwarde creatures so surely by my faith doe I receiue Christe himselfe and in my heart feele him and with my spirituall armes imbrace him as the onely price and meanes of my saluation When we eate of the holy bread and drinke of the reuerende Cuppe and by our taste haue sense of the sweetenesse of them and feele them passe downe into our stomacke there to rest that they may be according to their nature meanes to nourishe and strengthen our bodie and to continewe it in life our faith is stirred vppe by these senses thus to thinke Euen as certainely as my taste feeleth the sweetenesse of Bread and Wine and thereby perceiueth in deede that their operation is to nourishe and strengthen my body and to quicken my natural spirites which without such nourishment would perish euen so the taste of my faith and sense of my heart doeth feele the sweetnes of Christ his bodie bloud broken and shedde for mee and all mankinde vpon the crosse and perceiueth it thereby to be the only foode of my soule without which should perish both soule and bodie eternally And as certainly as I feele with bodily sense that the bread and wine passeth into my stomacke and there according to their proportion feede strengthen and quicken my naturall bodie and spirites so assuredly doe I with my inward and spiritual sense perceiue the bodie and bloud of Christ and the whole benefite of his death and passion to passe into the stomack of my soule and bosome of my heart there through the strength of a true Christian faith to be laide vp wrought and digested as that onely nourishment that kepeth the life of the soule and preserueth me both soule and body to eternal life They that will Christianly charitably and in the feare of God weigh and consider these thinges I trust will not thinke either that we make light account of the externall sacrament or in our doctrine teach a single and sleight maner of eating of Christ by faith as the fauourers of y e Church of Rome do charge vs. And I appeale to the consciences of all them that folow their doctrine whether euer they were taught to take such sweete instruction and comfort in the vse of that blessed sacrament or no These good fruites of that sacrament are much furthered and increased by sundrie other godly cogitations which the Scriptures teach true Christians to vse in the administration of it The word of God teacheth that the vse of the externall Sacraments is a maner of confession wherby men acknowledge them selues before God and the world that they are Christians Therfore the faithfull receiuer when he commeth to the sacrament thinketh this with himselfe I by comming to this place protest before God and his Angels and before all the creatures of heauen and earth that in my heart I detest the religion of Iewes Turks Infidels Heretiques and all other that denie saluation to come by the death of Christ I