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A11083	A treatise of the preparation to the holy supper of our onely saueour and redeemer, Iesus Christe Necessarie for all them that vvil vworthely approche to the Lordes holy table. Also a dialogue containing the principall points, which they that wil recieue the Supper ought to knowe and vnderstand. By Yues Rouspeau minister of the vvord of God. Ttanslated [sic] out of French into English by R.B.; Traitté de la preparation à la saincte cene. English.	Rouspeau, Yves.; R. B., fl. 1570.	1570 (1570)	STC 21351.5; ESTC S106673	28,200	65

because they haue no true Faith without which we can not be members of Iesus Christe nor consequently receiue life of him who is the only hed of the faithful F. What then doo the Infidels whē they receiue the Sacrament of the Supper C. They eat and drink their owne damnation in sted of receiuing the pledges and gages of their salnation F. Where must the true faithful séek Iesus Christe to inioy him and to haue the fruition of him C. In heauen For if we be risen again with Christe we must séek the things that are on hye where Christe is sitting on the right hand of God. F. Is not this the matter that the auneient Bishops vsed in the celebration of the Supper to say to the people Sursum corda that is lift vp your harts C. Yes And therfore the people answered Habemus ad Dominum We haue them to the lord Now that Iesus Christ is in Heauen and we on earth how can wée be ioyned vnite or made one with him C. By faith and by the woork of the holy Ghost whiche can wel ioyne and knit that that is otherwise seperated by distance of place F. What shall we then say of them that séek Iesus Christe in the Elements of the Supper and say that there is a Transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the body and blood of Iesus Christe C. They erre diuers and sundry waies F How so C. First they speake against thrée Articles of our Beleef that is that Iesus Christ is ascended vp into Heauen that he sitteth on the right hand of God and that he shall not depart from thence til he come to iudge vothe the quick and the dead F. What more C. By their transubstantiation also they abolish the signe of the Sacrament that is to say the bread and the wine and consequently they abolish the Sacrament of the Supper which cānot be without the signe F. This doctrine of Transubstantiation hath it no other absurdities C Yes for it giueth holy thingꝭ to swine and graniteth that the Insidels may eat Iesus Christe Moreouer it maketh men Idotaters and causeth them to worship the Sactament F. Say on C. It maketh also the glorious body of Iesus Christe subiect to rotting and filth Tobe short it abolisheth the true humanity of the sonne of God making him an infinit body and such an one as is in all places F. But hath not Iesus Christe said that he would be with vs vnto the ende of the world and where as two or three should bee gathered togither in his name there hee would be in the middest of them C. Yes But these places must be vnderstood of the presence of his diuinitie and not of his humanitie F. How canst thou prooue that C. By the witnasse of Iesus Christe him self whiche saith that wee shall alwayes haue the poore with vs but him we shal not haue alwaies and S. Peeter saith the Heauen must contain Iesus Christe vntil the restoring of all things F. Therfore thou wilt conclude that although Iesus Christ by his diuinitie and his holy Spirite be alwaies with vs yet notwithstanding touching his humanitie he can be but in one certain place that is in Heauen C. Yea as S. Augustine also witnesseth saying Vntil heauen be ended the Lord shal be alwaies on hie But the trueth of the Lord is also with vs For his body wherein he was raised must needs be in one certain place but his trueth is spread throughout F. What is the summe of this true faith which seeketh not Iesus Christe in Earth but in Heauen C. I beléeue in God whiche hath created me I beléeue in Iesus Christe which hath redeemed me from sin from Sathan from Hel and from death I beleeue also in the holy Ghost which hath sanctified me F. Why saiest thou perticulerly I béeleeue and not we beleeue C. Because that euery one must examin himself and liue by his owne faith and not by the faith of other men F. How must that be doon C. When we doo euery man particulerly for him self apply Iesus Christe vnto him self with all his blessings and riches F. What riches are there in Iesꝰ Christ C There is saluation for the lost life for the dead trueth for the liers wisdoine for the ignoraunt Iustice for the sinners sanctification ctification for the impure ones redemption for the captiues F. Must we therfore by faith applye all these things vnto vs séeing we are by nature lost dead lyers ignorant sinners vnclene and captiues C. Yea for Iesus Christe hath taken vpon him all our miseryes and wretche ones to giue and communicate vnto vs all his blessings and riches as also in deéd they be distributed vnto vs in his holy Supper F. Let vs now speak of the second parte of our duty towards God which consisteth in repentance and first of all what repentance is C. It is a sorowfulnes and hafred of euil and a looue of that that is good F. Tobe sory and gréeued for our wicked nesse is it not necessary to knowe it C. Yes F. How doo we know the euil the is in vs C. First of all by our beginning for that that is borne of flesh is flesh Secondly because we transgresse the law of God which is the rule of all perfection Iustice Third ly by the ordinary afflictions whiche God sendeth vs because of our sinnes F. Haue we not also the Sacraments a glasse to beholde our sinnes in C. We haue so For is we were not sinners we should haue no néed of remission of our sinnes in Baptisme And if we were not in death it were in vain for vs to come to the Supper to séek life and saluation in Iesus Christe F. When we knowe our sinnes ought we not confesse them before God C. Yes According to the example of Dauid and the Publican if we wil be iustified before God. F. Why should we confesse and acknow sedge our sinnes before God C. To obfain parden and ful remission as God is iust and faithful to doo it F. For what end and purpose dooth God pardon vs our sinnes C For thrée principall ends F. What are they C. First to this end that we should reconcile our selues to our enemyes secondly that we should forgiue them thyrdly that we should abstain from sinne and liue to righteousnes F. Is there nothing in the Supper that exhorteth vs to flée and hate ●m C. Yes for in that that wee breake the bread of the Supper it sheweth vs that our sinnes did brute and breake the Sonne of God with the sorowes of death F. What foloweth then C. That we should condemne and detest our sinnes as the Authoures of the death of the Sonne of God. F. Is it sufficient to abstaine from euill and not to doo good C. No for euery trée that bringeth not foorth good frute is cut down and cast into the fyre And therfore the naughtie Sernant was cast into

¶ A TREATISE of the preparation to the holy Supper of our onely Saueour and Redéemer Iesus Christe Necessary for all them that vvil vvorthely approche to the Lords holy Table Also a dialogue containing the principall points whiche they that wil receiue the Supper ought to knowe and vnderstand By Yues Rouspeau minister of the vvord of god Ttanslated out French into English by R.B. ¶ Let a man examine him self and so let him eat of this Bread and drink of this Cup. Printed at London by Lucas Harison To the right worshipful S. Iohn Zouch of Codner Knight R. B wisheth a blessed life happy dayes with great increace of vvorship AMongst the sundry woorks of many anciēt learned wise men right vvorshipful I fide no one thing more generally cōmended then the trauel that procureth profit vtilitie to the common welth for to this end al the estate of mans life tēdeth that vvhilst vve cōtinue in this base territory heer our vvhole indeuour should be imploied to the ben fit of our cuntrey in some respect And for this cause the moste renovvned Emperours and famouse Princes of the vvorld in times past had alvvaies diligent care to aduaunce such as by their pollicy conserued their kingdomes in publique trāquilitie or by their valiantnes vanquished their enemyes or by iustice suppressed the vvicked either els by their vvritings learned documents instructed the Vulgaritie to vertuous liuing Anaxarchus amōgst the Phenicians alovved best of the maintainers of ciuil concord Numa Pompilius exhorteth the Romains ro recompence those largly that returned victorious from any battail Promotne us willed the Egiptians to make great accoūt of those that were true Iusticiaries And Bias king of the Argiues commaunded his people aboue all others to honour reuerence moste their vvriters and teachers of vvisedōe Octauian and Mecenas gratified virgil the lerned poet with such rich presēts that Seruius who vvriteth of him affirmeth that in short space hee was valued tobe worth six M. Sesterns vvhich amounteth to tvvo hundred M. crovvnes such zeale vnto vertue reigned in the noble Peares of that age that they accoūted those gifts best bestovved which vvere imploied vpō them that vvere singuler in any facultie to th entēt that others in hope of prefermēt might the rather be incouraged to immitate their steps If that lack of liberalitie be found in the princes of this parfet time in remune rating the vertues vvhich abounded so plentifully in the nobilitie of those obscure dayes vvherin nature vvithout the knowledge of the eternall bare the onely svvay hovv much it is to be lamented I refer to the iudgement of those that by reading may discerne the praises belonging iustly vnto the one and by present sight may beholde the defaults of the other If a greater desire to pleasure their Countrey vvas found in that people which vvere gouerned only by the instinct of nature thē there is in those vvhich novv may be directed by that pure most blessed operatiō of the spirit of God vvhat punishmēt is due to their rechelesse negligēce let those that read the sacred Scriptures discide vvhere it is moste apparant to be seen vvith vvhat vigor God punished the vnprofitable seruāt hovv he cōmaūded that euery tre vvhich brought not forth good frute shuld be hevvē dovvn and cast into the fire These threatnings if nothing els vvould moue should stir vp euery man to make some increce of those talents vvhich God hath lent him rather then through slouthfulnes to bury them in obscuritie vvithout reaping gaines to them selues or yeelding a iust account to God benefit to their countrey trevv allegeance to their prince furtherance to their childrē or pleasure to their freends to vvhome they be bound To auoid these incōueniences to eschevv the infamy that breedeth through idelnes I thought it good to imploy my diligence in translating this small Treatise desiring rather to bee accounted a profitable Bee then to be suspected for a hurtfull Drone for though the Volume be not large nor my laboure great yet possible there is as great consolation to be found for the repentant sinner as in bigger Tomes And because I vvould signifie vnto your vvorship the good vvil I beare you and the desire I haue to acquit some parte of those curiesies vvhiche I haue receiued at your hands I haue presumed to craue your patronage to this the first frutes of my labour hoping that you vvil vouchsafe the acceptāce thereof in suche parte as vvith good vvill I offer it And though that it scape not free frō the cēsures of some vvhose delight is to carp at euery light occasion yet if it may obtain your fauourable liking my desire is satisfied and so vvith remembrāce of my dutie I take my leue wishing helth to your persō vvorship to your parentage and prosperoussuccesse in all your indeuours Your vvorships to commaund R. B ¶ Yues Rouspeau to the Christian Reader helth from Iesus Christe our Lord. AMongst the causes of common calamities and scourges wherwith God punisheth the world S. Paule maketh mention of the abuse and contempt of the Lords Supper sayīg for this cause many are weke and sick among you and many sléep For if we would iudge our selues we should not bée iudged Therfore we ought not to meruail that the last yéer God did so seuerely punish this poor Realme of France with plague war and famin For the contempt of the Gospel and the abuse and prophanation of the Lords holy Supper were the cause therof so that niether they that folowed the Popes faction ought to complain of God nor they likewise that make profession of the Gospel because there was a fault bothe in the one the other First touching the abuses of the Papists we are able to set down sure iudgement by the woord of God how that the Masse is wholly fraught with blasphemyes how it abolisheth the holy Supper of our Lord Iesus Christe how the remembrance of his death and passion is therin suppressed brought to nought how there is no communion and that in sted that Iesus Christe commaunded all his in generall to take eat and drink the bred wine one only taketh eateth driketh for all the rest We see there moreouer how they cause a creature tobe worshiped therin yea a morsell of bread in stede of the Creatour how they séek Christe Iesus there in earth wher as the word of God the Apostles créed the olde Canons teach vs to haue our harts lift vp on high and to séek him by faith in Heauen To be short there are to be séen many other detestable and infinit abuses whiche I now passe ouer with silence Now then séeing they haue obstinatly planted grounded thē selues in that affection yea for the maintenāce of so vile and wicked a thing haue put to death so many good mē so many holy true martirs of our Lord Iesꝰ Christe Hath not God rightfully visited vs in this behalf Secondly