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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13142	A summe or a briefe collection of holy signes, sacrifices, and sacraments instituted of God euen since the beginning of the world, and of the true originall of the sacrifice of the Masse; Sum or a brief collection of holy signes, sacrifices and sacraments.	Ling, Nicholas, fl. 1563.; Brett, John, Sir, attributed name.; Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl of, 1590-1628, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 23434; ESTC S113014	129,473	362

the liuing bread which came downe from heauen if any man eate of this bread hee shall liue for euer and the bread which I giue is my flesh which I will giue for the life of the world verilie verilie I say vnto you except you eate the flesh of the sonne of man and drinke his bloud you haue no life in you whosoeuer eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath eternall life and I will raise him vp at the last day For my flesh is meate indeede and my bloud is drinke indeed I am the bread of life this is the bread which cōmeth downe from heauē that he that eateth of it should not die he that eateth of this bread shall liue for euer and he that eateth me euen he shall liue by me he that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud dwelleth in me and I in him I am the bread of life he that commeth vnto me shall not hunger and he that beleeueth in me shall not thirst and this is the will of him that sent me that euerie one which seeth the sonne and beleeueth in him should haue euerlasting life and I will raise him vp at the last day Verilie verilie say vnto you hee that beleeueth in me hath euerlasting life hee that beleeueth in me though he were dead yet shall he liue and whosoeuer liueth and beleeueth in mee shall neuer die By this and many other sweete and comfortable promises of our Sauiour in his word it appeareth plainly that life is promised to all the faithfull and true beleeuers And seeing by our Sauiours owne words none can be partakers of this life but such as truely eate his flesh drink his bloud it must needs follow that truely to beleeue in Christ is truely to eate his flesh drinke his bloud and that without true faith it is impossible to be partaker of the true reall naturall flesh and bloud of Christ To bee partaker also of the flesh of Christ is not carnally to apprehend feede vpon his materiall naturall substāce for in that sense our Sauiour saith his flesh profiteth nothing But to be partaker of the spirituall graces of his true naturall flesh in receiuing his precious body and bloud by a true faith as before which is the very precious foode whereby the soule liueth and is sustained to life euerlasting and is apprehended onely by saith whereby also Christ is said truely to dwell in vs and we in him and therefore all the wicked and vnbeleeuers which come vnto the cōmunion of the body bloud of Christ are refusers mockers and despisers of his body and bloud and by receiuing the sacrament vnworthily doe most worthely eate and drinke their owne damnatiō seeing by their lacke of true faith and beleefe they refuse mocke despise yea and violently th●ust away from them so precious a treasure as the body and bloud of Christs is and come not with reuerence to receiue and feede vpon the same by a true liuely faith as all the beleeuers do who without great reuerence and dread with acknowledgment of their owne vnworthinesse dare not presume to come to this holy table of the Lord and communion of the body bloud of Christ hauing also a true faith working by charitie fruitfull in true repentance and in a vertuous godly life which they haue receiued and do acknowledge to be of the free gift of God through the vnspeakable working of the holy Ghost the same true faith in euery of their hearts by which euery of them doth in their minde and soule partake and feed vpon the true reall and naturall body bloud of Christ seated in the heauens at the right hand of God whither through the worke of the holy Ghost and by their true faith they are lifted vp in the very instāce of receuing these sacramental elements according to Christ our Sauiours owne institutiō in remembrance of his death and passion For which cause euery one is commanded to trie and examine himselfe whether he haue this gift of true faith which is required to be the instrumēt meane to be made a true partaker of this precious body and bloud and by the body and bloud of the spirituall graces of the same whether he be in true charitie and in the way of true repentance and of a vertuous and godly life before he eate of this bread and drinke of this cuppe lest eating drinking of this holy sacramēt vnworthily because he commeth without true faith fruitfull in the effects aforesaid he put from himselfe and be a mocker also a despiser of the precious treasure of Christs reall naturall flesh and bloud offered by these sacramentall elements of bread and wine and so wo●th●ly plucke vpon himselfe his owne iust damnation in as much as by lacke of true faith he hath not receiued but refused and despised the rich ieweli that was offered whereby Christ would haue dwelt in him and he should haue dwelt in Christ for euer according to his most mercifull promise made in his word By the similitude of vnion of many cornes and many grapes in these sacramental elements the faithful are put in minde that as the bread which they receiue and eate in the sacrament was made of many cornes and by the liquor of water kneaden into dowe and yet is but one bread and as the wine was made of the iuice of many grapes and yet is but one wine so they that receiue and eate Christs body and drinke his bloud by a true and liuely faith watered with the liquor of godly and true charity are made one body and one flesh with him as liuely members and fruitfull branches of his mysticall body the Church wich is the whole companie of Gods children which are in heauen and in earth of which fellowship and mysticall body these elements are a sacrament as well as of his naturall body declaring the perfect cōiunction which all the faithful of the church militant here on earth haue with their fellowe members the church triumphant together with their head Iesus Christ who all make but one body of Christ being compact knit together to him as to their head according as the Apostle Saint Paul affirmeth in the 1. to the Corinthians cap. 10. The cup of blessing which we blesse is it not the cōmunion of the b●o●d of Christ The bread which we breake is it not the cōmuniō of the body of Christ For we that are manie are one bread and one bodie because we all are partakers of one bread In the 12. chapter of the same epistle he saith For as the bodies is one and hath manie members and all the members of the bodie which is 〈◊〉 th●ugh they bee manie yet are but one body euen so is Christ for by one spirit we be all baptized into one body whether we be Iewes or Grecians bond or free and haue beene all made to drinke into one spirit Therefore if one member suffer all suffer with it if

his humanitie as he went vp Neuerthelesse his power diuinity are distributed vnto vs spread ouer all the earth in all places specially in the holy sacraments which he hath left vnto vs for gages outward triall of our faith for a remembrance of the death and passion of our Sauiour Iesus Christ How to receiue rightly the Sacrament of the Lords Supper FOr as much as by the opinion of transubstantiation and consubstantiation in the sacrament the one holden by the followers of the church of Rome the other by those which followe the opinion of Luther the truth of the manhood of the sonne of God contrary to the truth of the worde of God the best ancient writers is apparantly and plainly denied though in words tongue they both do seeme to cōfesse it yet must it needs follow vpō both these opinions that the truth of his humanitie is cleane taken away and a new imagined humaine body in steede of a true naturall body giuen vnto him euen such a body as is inuisible which cannot be felt nor touched which holdeth and occupieth no certaine place but is in all places at once infinite incomprehensible and not distinguished nor differing in naturall qualities from the diuinitie all which is contrary to the instruction and plaine truth of holy scripture by which all christiā men are taught to beleeue that all true properties and qualities of an humane reall and naturall body are vnchangeable remaining and being in the person of our Sauiour Christ of whose reall naturall humane body holy scripture thus affirmeth that by the power of his diuinitie dwelling in the same bodily it is ascended and seated in the heauens at the right hand of God of whom it is thus affirmed by liuely voice from heauen in the first of the Acts Acts. 1. This Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen shall so come as you haue seene him go into heauen In the which place the Apostle Saint Peter affirmeth in the 3. of the Acts he must haue continuall permannece and abiding and be contained according to the proper and true nature of his humane flesh vntill his comming againe to iudgment saying And he shall send Iesus Christ which before was preached vnto you whom the heauens must containe vntill the time that all things be restored which God had spoken by the mouth of all his holy Prophets since the world begā So that in his humane reall naturall flesh he is not nor shall not be on earth naturally or supernaturally vntill his said comming to iudgment which doctrine notwithstanding it is assured and most true according to the instruction of holy scripture that his diuinity is vnseparable from his humanitie and his humanitie from his diuinitie his diuinity extending it selfe to all places both in heauen and earth being euerlasting infinite incomprehensible comprehending and contayning all things by his diuine power maiesty and his humanity being conteyned seated and resting locally in the heauens the fulnes of the God-head dwelleth in the same not being so conteyned of it but that it filleth the same and all other places also The incomprehensiblenesse of which vnseparable coniunction of the diuinity and humanity of our Sauiour Being perfect God and perfect man of a reasonable soule and humane flesh subsisting no earthly similitude may fitlier serue to expresse then the most shining and glorious body of the Sun the body wherof God hath locally set in the firmament to giue light vnto the world and to cherish comfort and nourish all things therein with his heate for as the light heate remaine by the diuine ordinance of God vnseparably ioyned to the body of the Sun which by the true power of God is placed and fixed in the firmament and yet with his light and heate filleth all the world so remaineth the diuinity of the Sonne of God vnseparably ioyned to to the humanitie locally placed and seated in the heauens by which coniunctiō he is not letted from spreading extending and filling all other places also who in his diuine essence power and great maiesty filleth and worketh all in all things according to the true and plaine doctrine of holy scripture yet the humāity according to the proper vnchāgeable nature of the same remaineth vndoubtedly seated and being but in one place at once being circumscriptible locall dwelling in heauen from whence he shall come in most triumphant and glorious maner to iudge both the quicke the dead retaining keeping still the essentiall properties of his true reall naturall body hloding and occupying but one place at once his diuinitie ouerspreading and enlarging it selfe to all places according to the excellent power maiesty and essentiall properties of the same Which sweete and comfortable doctrine and vndoubted article of our faith the doctrine and opinion of transubstantiation and consubstantiation do flatly and plainly impugne and ouerthrow as before hath beene shewed by which doctrine also of transubstantiation the truth of the blessed Sacrament is in plaine truth denied what colours pretences shiftes or shewes so euer be made to the contrary for how can there bee a sacrament of Christs precious body and bloud when as by the doctrine of the church of Rome the elements of bread and wine which by the power of the word of God are made a holy sacrament are taken away changed into the reall naturall flesh and bloud of Christ and after which change nothing but the very substance of Christ remaineth and hee is really carnally corporally present which if it be so true as they would haue it as they with fire sword would force euery one to beleeue then must Christs reall naturall carnall body be a sacrament of his body and not the elements which by their doctrine haue no essence or being at all but by the power of the word are transubstantiated into the carnall body of Christ or else there remaineth no Sacrament at all which for shame I thinke they will not affirme for the vndoubted truth is that the substance it selfe of Christs body and the Sacrament of the substance which are the elementes beeing distinct seuerall things cannot so be changed or giue place the one to the other that one selfe same thing should be both seeing the true nature and property of a Sacrament is according to the doctrine of holy scripture to declare offer giue to all the faithfull and true beleeuers that receiue the same with a liuely faith another thing then that it selfe is both in shew and substance or else it should nor cannot be properly a Sacrament for a Sacrament as the diuines do terme it Is a visible signe What a Sacrament is substance and pledge of inuisible grace giuen to all thē that receiue the substance of the elements by which they are and shall be made partakers of the inuisible grace offered giuē to al thē that through the working of the holy Gghost haue a true faith to