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A sermon of the sacrami[n]t of the aulter made by a famouse doctoure called Fryderyke Nausea in Almayne and lately out of latyn translate into englysh by Iohn More
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Nausea, Friedrich, d. 1552.; More, John, fl. 1533.
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yet is there none therin greater then thys And surely vnlesse we leue thys so horryble a wyckednesse we shalbe sure of the greate stroke of god ye and that more then men can tell of For in god as saynte Peter wryteth neyther is there none nor neuer shall be any lacke of powre but he can delyuer good men out of theyr teÌ„ptacioÌ„ and euyll men can he reserue to euerlastyng punysshement In whych nuÌ„ber to thenteÌ„t we may not be it shalbe nedefull and expedyent we leue so shamefull handelyng of thys holy sacrameÌ„t of thaulter doyng penaunce for that is past which I trust to god we will and that after we haue proued ourselfes as saynt Poule wolde we shold we wyll I truste eate of that brede that is to wyt the body of our lord in forme of brede And when we haue decernyd the body of our lorde frome other meate then maye we worthyly receyue it To the whych yt is requysyte that fyrst we shold byleue the playne worde of Cryste This is my body whych shal be delyuered for you on the crosse as theuaÌ„gelystes with one accorde wryteth demaundynge no reason thereof askyng no questyons as the vnbyleuynge Iewes dyd Howe can this maÌ„ geue vs his flesh to eate This is a hard saing And who can heare hym as the scysmatyques sayde To them that wyll denye yt and aske this questyon of vs how can there be the body of Cryst vnder the forme of brede and so forth How can we answere theÌ„ better then wyth y e sayeng of Esaias If you byleue not you shall not vnderstande And bycause all thynges be possyble to hym that byleueth Cryste who cometh to god must byleue For Cryste hym selfe sayde to saynt Thomas of Inde Be not vnfaythful but byleue Blessed be they that haue byleued saw not That we compreheÌ„de not by wyt that we se not at eye let vs byleue besydes the comen order of nature why honour we not Chryste that suffered for vs in that sacrament of thaulter syns tyll this oure of all as many as be haue ben there is none that hath brought any thynge forth to proue that we ought or may departe from that fayth whyche the hole catholyke chyrch so longe agon hath kepte and approued whyche the euangelystes apostles wrytynge so euydently reache shewyng wyth one coÌ„sent agrement that Cryste sayd This is my body that is geuyn for you Agaynst which there is not so myche as one tyttell of scrypture y â— sheweth in any place manyfestly the coÌ„trary herof or sayth that there is not y e bodye of our lorde Iesu Cryste It is also very agreable vnto the ineffable loue of god towarde man kynde that those whome he had redemed wyth this precyouse blood bodye of his sonne he wold also by a certayne inspekable meanys fede theÌ„ with his flesh blood body so to be ê¯forted by this secrete presence of his sonne as by a plegge tyll he sholde come gloriousely in the syght of all the worlde God forbede it therfore we shold gyue any place at all to all these folysshe sophistycall sutteltyes brought agaynste this sacrameÌ„t which argumeÌ„tes we haue coÌ„futed before by hole sounde reasons of holy scripture which were such as neuer none yet hytherto were able to impugne ye the leste part of them syns there is nothyng stroÌ„ger then truth and also this is y e fayth that euer hath y e ouer hand by which all thinges as Cryst hym self sayth be possyble wherby I am more ledde to byleue one word of the prophete y â— saith He sayd the worde and it was done then all y e colored crafty suttyll argumeÌ„tes or opinioÌ„s of Arystotell Plato other phylosophers or heretykes So mych before all y e reasoÌ„s prynciples that euer coulde be brought pÌ„fere we this wordes Hoc est corpus meuÌ„ Thys is my body Nor it is not lefull that any reason of man shold be preferred before the worde of god for as myche as saynt Peter saith we ought more to byleue iÌ„ god obay him then men Nor this obieccyon can not staÌ„de if one shuld say that Cryste sytteth in heuen on the right hande of his father nor wyll not be with vs tyll tyme he come to iudge in y e daye of iudgemeÌ„t For I wil answere here vnto y t he y t is euery wher euer with whom nothing is impossible may be gloriously with his father in heueÌ„ shal come in a vysyble body to iudge both nowe is wyth vs shalbe with vs as hym selfe sayth euen to thende of the world not in no visible body but in y e sacrameÌ„t iÌ„ the forme of brede And also let these heretykes tell vs howe this may be y â— Cryste sholde be veryly here with vs on erth and yet hym selfe veryly in heuen For y t he so was in dede hymself witnesseth where he saith No man ascendeth vnto heueÌ„ but he y t hath descended out of heuen the sonne of man why che is in heuen If they byleue this why noty t What they by leue neyther nother ye what they byleue nothyng at all as we may easely perceyue by theyr frutes they do not Nor agayn this reason can not hold that yt semeth a iestynge stocke a folyshnes to byleue that Cryste can be or ought to be vnder the forme of a litle piece of brede there to be hyd conteyned then say farther that yt profyteth nothynge and so forth I wold answere yf they wold so say that they nothyng dyffer neyther from the vnbyleuyng Iews nor yet reprobate Paynyms that were before tyme. For by this meanes they nother shall nor can beleue any poynt of the catholy like faith for as mych as saiÌ„t Paule sayth Nole Cryste is crucyfyed that is to say all y e hole fayth of Cryste euery worde of hys is occasyon of ruyne to the Iewes amongest the paynyms takeÌ„ for very folly who was I praye you more mocked at theÌ„ saint Poule when he taught the resurreccyon of Criste of dede folke were not the Iews offended in Cryste reprouynge him of folly when he said himselfe was brede meate from heuyn when they murmured amonges them selfes sayd Is not this the sonne of Ioseph whose father mother we knewe Now then sayth he that I am descended from heuen for they thoughte yt but a folyshe thynge to byleue god incarnate or to byleue yt possyble for any that desceÌ„deth from heuen to erth myght be at the same self momeÌ„t in heuen styll to Trewly saynt Paule sayth The word of the crosse to them y t shall peryshe is but folyshnes but to them y t shal be safe y t is to wyt to byleuers yt is the powre of god wherfore we may lightly gather that we muste byleue this very bare word of god in which he sayd This is my body y