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B08142	A most godly and vvorthy treatis of holy signes sacrifices, and sacraments instituted of God, euen since the beginning of the world. Very necessary for Christian understanding. ; Seene and allowed by authority..	Worseley, Edw.	1609 (1609)	STC 23434.5; ESTC S95424	138,496	398

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 bl●ssing which we blesse is ●● not the ●ōmun●on of the bloud of Christ The bread which we breake is it not the cōmuniō of the bo●y ●f Christ For we that are manie are one br●●d and one bodie because we all ar● partakers of one bread In the 12. chapter of the same epistle he saith For as the bodie is one and hath manie members and all the members of the bodie which is one though 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 dr●nke into one spirit Therefore if one member suffer all suffer with it if one member bee had in honour all the members reioyce vvith it Novv you are the body of Christ and members for your part By which words the Apostle sheweth that all the faithfull both in heauen in earth make but one mystical body of Christ and that the whole Church together make but one Christ being all in particular the seuerall members of his said mystical body wherof ●e himselfe is the head of which fi●me and stedfast coniunction Baptisme the Lords supper are an effectuall declaration and resemblance and perfect seales of assurance to all the faithfull for by Baptisme is declared their new birth into one spirit and by their participation of the body and bloud of Christ is manifestly shewed opened sealed assured vnto them their newe planting incorporating into Christs body who being made liuely members of the same they are guided gouerned and ruled by one selfe same spirit of Christ according as the Apostle affirmeth in the 4. chapter of the epistle to the Eph●sians There is one body and one spirit euen a● you are called in one hope of your vocatiō There is one Lord one faith one Baptisme one God father of all which is aboue all through all and in you all That we be henceforth no more children wauering and caried about with euery winde of doctrine by the deceit of men and craftines whereby they lie in waite to deceiue but let vs follow the truth in loue and in all things grow vp vnto him which is the head that is Christ by whom all the body being coupled and knit together by euery ioynt for the furniture thereof according to the effectuall power which is in the measure of euery part receiueth increase of the body vnto the edifying of it selfe in loue till we all meete together in the vnity of faith and knowledge of the Sonne of God vnto a perfect man and vnto the measure of the age of the fulnes of Christ And in Gal. 3. it is thus said For yee are all the Sonnes of God by faith in Christ Iesus for all yee that are Baptized into Christ haue put on Christ By which words the Apostle noteth that all the whole church are but as one man in Christ Iesus making but one mysticall body of Christ whereof the sacraments of Baptisme and the Lords Supper are a declaration resemblance testimony perfect seale of assurance so that Christ being nowhead of his church and the Church which is the company of the faithfull being made one body with him he nourisheth and feedeeth all and euery member of the same and through the worke grace of his holy spirit ioyneth them together by their particularioints so that euery part hath his iust proportion of foode that at length through the vertue receiued extended from him as from their head euery part may grow vp to perfection in which communion and fellowship of the members of Christ together with their head great comfort is laide vp to a true Christian soule For as the Apostle saith if one member suffer all suffer with it and if one member be had in honour all the members reioyce with it because that which is comfort and honour to one is comfort and honour vnto all in asmuch as all be made partakers therof through Christ their head who by the lace of loue hath vnited and fast ioyned them one with another and coupled them all to himselfe through his exceeding charitie spreading it selfe and ouershadowing them all that in all good things as also in their euill afflictions and sorrowes Christ himselfe with all his members do partake and common together according as by himselfe is affirmed in his word that whatsoeuer is done to the least lowest of his members in his said mysticall body be it good or euill it is done vnto him he being the head of that body frō whence euery member draweth his life and feeling for how can a man offend the least part of the body being a liuely and quicke member and the whole body and head not feele it and what suffereth the furthest part of the foot that the whole body and head suffereth not seeing that it is the head that giueth motion sense and perfect feeling to all the body euery member of the same and what suffereth the furthest lowest and least part of the foot that the whole body and head suffereth not and what benefite also can be done vnto any litle part of the foot in which all the body and specially the head taketh not comfort and reioyceth So then if any one member be feeble and weake in faith yet the churches faith which is the company of all the faithfull ioyned to and with their head is stable and assured strong and if the repentance of some one member be suddaine small and short yet the repentance and sorrowes of the church ioyned with her head is plentifull deepe large and sufficient whereof this short and

this interpretation the visible sacrament is the Testament that is to say the holy signe of the inuisible sacrifice The like interpretations are described by Tertulliā against Marcion Tertul. lib. 1. 3. 4. the heretike wherefore then O Massalians haue yee not followed the holy doctors of the Church which would not blaspheme against God by a witchcraft of transubstantiation but haue freely acknowledged the sacrament Vt quid paras de●tem ventrem crede manducasti ca. Vt quid de con secratione distinct 2. August in li. de remedi to be a signe or holy visible figure signifying in spirit by faith the which is inuisible wherefore prepare yee the mouth the belly to deuoure the flesh of Christ corporally why do yee not offer your soules by liuely faith worthily to eate Iesus Christ why did you not interprete the eating of the body of poeniten in Iohn tract 25. cap. 6. S. Hieron in epist ad Eph. Iesus Christ by the notable distinction of the holy Doctor Ierom saying the flesh of Iesus Christ is vnderstanded fleshly when there is mention made of the shedding of bloud and crucifying Ca. dupliciter eadem distinct of the body of Iesus Christ for our saluation But spiritually when it is sayd that the flesh is the true meate which must be eaten For another holy doctor I will alledge Gelase Bishop of Rome who disputing against the heretikes Saint Gelase against Eutychius Nestorius Eutichians and Nestoriens doth affirme that the bread and wine consecrated made sacraments do not leaue in substāce still to be bread wine but are figures and signes of the body and bloud of Iesus Christ by the misterie of the sacrament S. Ambrose in his booke of sacraments cap. 11. Will yee haue more large witnesses of S. Ambrose who vpon the Epistle to the Corinthians hath expounded eating and drinking the bread and Origin in Leui. homil 7. the wine to signifie the fleshe and the bloud of Iesus Christ offered for vs Origen also in his homilies hath expounded the sacraments to be figures which must be examined spiritually and not S. Chrys in homil 31. cap. 15. com 1 Psal 22. carnally for this faith saith he that the letter killeth if it be not vnderstood spiritually when it is written to eate the fleshe of Christ Wherefore Saint Chysostome warneth to honour this sacrament in offering the soule vnto God for which Christ was crucified and that by this holy sacrament of breade and wine is signified vnto vs the likenesse of the body and bloud of Iesus Christ To make an end it behoueth to bee ruled by the holy interpretatiō of our doctor Iesus Christ and of his Apostles to honor reuerence his holy sacraments ordeined of him for outward signes to lift vppe our mindes to heauen to take that which is represented by the signes not to esteeme them as vaine paintings or fantasies but worthely to receiue them in liuely faith by the vertue of the holy Ghost to the end to bee fed and nourished with heauenly bread in the health of our soules to come to life euerlasting Let vs then be assured in Iesus Christ as members of his body Let vs all come into vnity to communicate one only bread to drinke one only wine made of many graines knit together to the end that wee may say with the holy Apostle all we the faithful are the body of Iesus Christ saued and redeemed by his body crucified bloud shed for vs. Thus dwelling and abiding by faith in Iesus Christ eating him drinking his bloud Let vs beleeue surely that hee was crucified dead and risen againe his body ascended into heauen sitting on the right hand of God in a certaine place vntill that he returne with 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 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 in comprehensible 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 be 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