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A68970	Two notable sermons. Made by that worthy martyr of Christ Maister Iohn Bradford, the one of repentance, and the other of the Lordes supper neuer before imprinted. Perused and allowed according to the Queenes Maiesties iniunction	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.; Sampson, Thomas, 1517?-1589.	1574 (1574)	STC 3500.5; ESTC S106383	58,380	201

transubstatiation beside the manyfold absurdities it hath in it whych to rehearse I omyt it vtterly ouerthroweth the vse of the Sacrament and is cleane contrary to the end wherefore it was instituted and so is no longer a scrament but an Idole is the cause of much Idolatry conuerting the peoples harts from an heauenly conuersation to an earthly and turning the Communion into a priuate action and a matter of gasyng and piping of adoring worshipping the worke of mens handes for the liuing God which dwelleth not in ▪ Temples made with mens handes much lesse lyeth he in pixes and chests whose true worship is in spirit verity which God graunt vs all to render vnto him continually Amen The Sacrament of Baptisme doth also teach vs that as the substaunce of the water remayneth there so in the Lords supper remaineth the substaunce of bread after cōsecration For as by Baptisme we ar engraffed into Christ so by the Supper we ar fed with Christ These two sacramentes the Apostle gladly coupleth together 1. Corinth 10. and. 1. Corint 12. VVear baptsed into one body saith he and haue dronke all of one spirit meaning it by the Cup as Chrysostome and other great learned men do wel interprete it As therfore in Baptisme is geuen vnto vs the holy Ghost and pardon of our syns whych yet ●ye not lurking in the water so in the Lords supper is geuen vnto vs the communion of Christes body bloud that is grace forgeuenes of syns innocency lyfe immortality with out any transubstantiation or including of the same in the bread By Baptisme the old man is put of and the new man put on yea Christ is put on but without trāsubstantiating the water And euen so it is in the Lords supper Wee vp sayth spirituallye in our soules do feede ou Christee body broken doo eate hys flesh and drynke hys bloud doo dwell in hym and he in vs but wythout trausubstantiation As for the tauill they make that wee are baptised into one ●ody meaning therby the mystical body not the natural body of Christ wherby they would enforce that we are fed with the natural body of Christ but we are not ingraffed into it but into the mysticall body and so put away the reason aforesayde as for thys cauill I say we may soone auoyde it if so he that we wyl consider how that Christ whych is the head of the mysticall body is not seperate frō the body and therefore to be engraffed to the mystical body is to be engraffed into the natural body of Christ to bee a member of his flesh and bone of his bones as Pope Leo ful wel doth witnes in saying that Corpus regenerati fit caro crucifixi The body sayth he of the regenerate is made the flesh of Christ crucified And here to I could adde some reasons for the excellēcy of Baptisme I trow it be more to be begotten then to be nourished As for the excellent myracle of the pa●efaction of the Trinifie and the descendyng of the holy Ghost in Baptisme in a visible forme the lyke whereto was not seene in the Lordes supper I wyl omyt to speake of further then that I would you shuld know how it were no mastery to set forth the excellency of this sacrament as well as of the supper It is a playne sygne of Antichrist to denye the substaunce of bread wyne to be in the Lords supper after consecration For in so doing and graunting transubstantiation the propertye of the humane nature of Christ is denyed For it is not of the humane nature but of the deuine nature to be in many places at once As Didimus de spiritu sācto doth proue there by the diuinity of the holy Ghost Now graunt transubstantiation and then Christes natural body must needes be in many places which is nothyng els but to confound the two natures in Christ or to denye Christes humane nature whych is the selie same that saint Iohn saith to denye Christ to be come in the flesh And this who so doth by the testimony of saynt Iohn in an Antichrist in his so doing whatsoeuer otherwise he do prate Reade saynt Augustine in hys Epistle to Dardanus and his .l. and .xxx. treatise vpon S. Iohn and easely you shall see how that Christes body must needes be in one place Oportet in vno loco esse but hys truth is in all places If ther be no substance of bread in the Sacrament but transubstantiation then Christs body is receiued of the vngodly and eaten with their teeth which is not onely against saint Augustine calling this speech except you eate the flesh of the sonne of man c. a figuratiue spech but also against the playne scriptures which affirme them to dwell in Christ Christ in them and they to haue euerlasting lyfe that eate hym whych the wicked haue not although they eate the sacrament He that eateth of this bread saith Christ shal lyue for euermore Therefore they eate not Christes body but as Paule sayth they eate in iudgement and damnation whych I trow be an other maner of thyng then Christes bodye And thys doth saint Augustine affirme saying none do eate Christes body which is not in the body of Christ that is as he expoundeth it in whom Christ dwelleth not and hee in Christ Which thing the wicked do not because they want fayth and the holy spirite whych be the meanes whereby Christ is receyued To the thinges which I haue brought herefoorth to improue transubstantiation I could bring in the fathers to confyrme the same which succeded continuallye many hundreth yeares after Christ Also I could shewe that transubstantiation is but a new doctrine not established before Sathan whych was tyed for a thousand yeares was letten lose Also I could shew that euer hetherto synce it was established in all times it hath bene resisted and spoken against Yea before thys doctrine the church was nothing so endowed with goodes lands and possessions as it hath beene synce It hath brought no small gayne no small honour no small ease t the Cleargy and therefore no maruel though they striue and fyght for it It is their Maozim it is their Helena God destroy it with the breath of hys mouth as shortly he wylfor his names sake Amen If tyme would serue I could would here tell you of the absurdities whych come by thys doctrine but for tymes sake I must omyt it Onely for Gods sake see this that thys their doctrine of transubstantiation is an vntruth already I haue proued forget not that it is the whole stay of all Popery and the piller of their Priesthood whereby Christes Priesthood Sacrifice Ministery and truth is letted yea peruerted and vtterly ouerthrown God our Father in the bloud of hys sonne Christ open the eyes and myndes of all our Magistrates and all other that beare the name of Christ to see it in time to Gods glorye and their own