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Thre godly and notable sermons, of the moost honorable and blessed sacrament of the aulter. Preached in the Hospitall of S. Antony in London, by Wyllya[m] Peryn preest, bachelar of diuinite, [and] now set forth for the auaunceme[n]t of goddes honor: the truthe of his worde, and edification of good christen people
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Peryn, William.
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wrought more vnlykely thynges wythout all meane alterations aboue al natural course as in the admirable chaÌ„ge of Lothis wit into salte of the rod of Moyses into a Serpente the water of Egypte into bloode the water in Cana into wyne Excepte that we wyll shewe our selues to haue lesse fayth then the deuyll expresseth vnto Christ in deserte when he offred hym stones to make therof bread For he there beleued Math. 4. that Christe beyng the soÌ„ne of god was able to make of stones breade whych is muche more vnlykely then of breade to make fleshe Furthermore the catholyke faythe teacheth and beleueth Tho. AqÌ„ in suÌ„ma q. 76. arti 3. Totus xpÌ„s est sub parte qua libet specie vl vini vel panis Augustinê° iÌ„ sermone Singuli accipimus dnÌ„m xpÌ„m et in singulis portionibus roâ—us est noÌ„ per singulas minuitur sed inâ—egrum se prebet singulis that in thys hooly sacrament is not onely the reall bodye of our sauiour christ but also there are al the dystyncte members and naturall lymmes as perfectly in euerye parte or portion of the hoost seuerally as in the whoole altogether And thys bodye is really there where euer any consecrate hoost is or portion therof And therfore all the coÌ„municantes or receauers therof receyue but one thynge and euery maÌ„ receaueth as muche as the whole multytude And agayn as much is receaued in the leste sensible portion as is receaued in iÌ„numerable hoostes no lesse for Christ is whoole in the whole in euerye portion therof This may we somewhat perceaue by the naturall example of the soule which is in the hoole body and yet is neuer the lesse in all and in euerye parte of the bodye For the soule is as well in the lytle fyngar as in the harte or in the whole bodye and there no more nether any lesse theÌ„ in the whole bodye and no more in the whole bodye then in the leste parte of the bodye for the soule is al whole in the whole body and all whole in euery parte But perhappes he that wyl be more curius theÌ„ faythfull wyll saye That the soule is a spirituall thynge but the body of Chrst is materiall Yet let the same remember that the body of Christ is now glorified A glasse or myrror broken resembleth representeth as many faces when it is loked in as it hath peces for in euery pece we may se our face and whyle it is whole we se but one face therfore also is it now a spiritual body hath lefte the material coÌ„dycions for it is deputyd and clarefyed from al materiall grossnes and is in moche more noble estate and dignite then is anye other passyble bodye for as moche theÌ„ as the soule may be whole in the body and whole and altogether in euery parte of the body by goddes worke and institucion Why shulde it seme vnto vs impossible that the glorefyed body of Christ god man by goddes synguler handy worke shulde be in the whole and in euerye parte of the hoste there also wher euer there is any consecrate hoost or sensible portion thereof And that really after a supernaturall and ineffable maner of beynge the whiche maner of beynge is appropriate and peculiar vnto the moost precyous body onely geueÌ„ vnto that bodye by specyal prerogatiue and to none other bodye eyther passible eyther impassyble neyther vnto angel neyther spirite as vnto the bodye of God man and moste excellent creature and moost worthyest And althoughe that we can not brynge forth the lyke myracle in the scriptures for the confyrmacyon of the same yet we shall brynge some as farre excydiÌ„ge aboue nature as this is And fyrst let vs coÌ„sider howe incessauntly swyftly and vniformely the SoÌ„ne and Moone hath their mocioÌ„ by nature wythout ceassynge whych is the vegetation and in maner the lyfe of all thynges and there ceassyng semeth the dyssolution corruption of al thinges Iosua 10. Yet at one worde of Iosua as goddes pleasure was the Sonne and the Moone stode styll ceasynge theyr naturall mocions yet the inferior creatures were preserued froÌ„ dissolutioÌ„ or vnnaturall alteration More ouer howe moÌ„struous vnto nature was it that in the tyme of kynge Ezechie 4. reg 20. 2. par 32. Esa 38. the Sonne shulde go backe agaynst her naturall and perpetuall course .x. degrees And howe myraculous was it that at the noone tyde Math. 28. Mat. 15. Luce. 22. when Christ was vpon the crosse the Moone shulde agaynste the vniformitie of her motion come sodeinly out from the East into the southe so settynge her selfe dyrectly betwene the earthe and the Sonne cause an vnnaturall an vniuersall eclyps of the Sonne Dionisius in epistola ad policarpum as saynt Denyse sayeth For he beynge in Egypte dyd see when the Moone wyth wonderous celerite arose from the East and entered betwene the Sonne and the earth causynge the great Eclyps whych continued syxe houres The monstruous wonders and myraculous workes of God shewed in these incorrupt bodyes aboue that is to say the Sonne and Moone are as impossible and as incredible vnto nature as is the myraculous beynge of Christes bodye in the sacrament Wherfore yf we beleue the one let vs then beleue the other for he that wrought the one hathe also wrought the other Moreouer immediatly after that the wordes of coÌ„secration are duely spoken by the preest ouer the breade then that whyche was breade before is nowe the very body of Christe whych taketh his myraculous beynge in that glorious sacrament not leuynge heaueÌ„ and yet is really and verely in the sacrament Nowe we muste not grossely ymagyne that he shulde descende from heauen passyng corpulentlye or bodely through the cloudes and so to enter conuey hym selfe vnder the lykenes of breade or into the sacrameÌ„t and so to be there Thomas Aqâ—i is in suÌ„ma q. 75. arti 7. Hec coÌ„uersio fit virtute infinita cuius est subito operari But we muste vnderstande beleue with the catholyke church that in one instaunt and time vnperceaueable he is present ineffablye in that glorious sacrament wythout bodelye motion out of heauen and yet styll remayninge in heauen is also verely and really in the sacrament As we maye be taughte by the spedye motion of the Sonne whyche in tyme imperceptible spredeth her beames from the East vnto the Weste ouerthwarte al the earthe Euen so spedelye is the naturall bodye of Christe in the holye sacramente and is not letted by the great dystance betwene heauen and earthe For the playne demonstracion of the possibilitie of thys verite we can aske no stronger or more euidente example then the myraculous workes that Christe shewed euen in that verye same bodye of hys Fyrste in an instaunt and tyme imperceptable that precious diuine bodye toke perfecte forme shape and lyfe in the virgineal wombe And yet wyth more myracle