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A68376	A testimonie of antiquitie shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord here publikely preached, and also receaued in the Saxons tyme, aboue 600. yeares agoe.; Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. English and Anglo-Saxon	Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.; Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.	1566 (1566)	STC 159.5; ESTC S122220	34,758	172

bread and wyne to housell before his suffering and sayd this is my body my bloud Yet he had not thē suffred but so notwithstanding he turned through inuisible might y t bread to hys owne body y t wyne to his bloode as he before did in y e wildernes before y t he was borne to mē whē he turned that heauenly meate to his fleshe and the flowing water from that stone to hys owne bloude Verye many ate of that heauenlye meate in the wildernes and dranke that ghostlye drinke and were neuertheles dead as Christ sayd And christ ment not that death whiche none can escape but that euerlastynge death whiche some of that folke deserued for their vnbeliefe Moyses and Aaron and many other of that people whiche pleased God eate that heauenly bread and they dyed not that euerlastyng death though they dyed the common death They sawe that the heauenlye meate was visible and corruptible and they ghostly vnderstode by y t visible thing and ghostly receyued it The Sauiour sayeth He y t eateth my fleshe and drinketh my bloud hath euerlasting lyfe And he bad thē not eate y t body which he was going about w e nor y t bloud to drink which he shed for vs but he mēt w t those wordes y t holy housell which ghostly is his body his bloud he y t tasteth it with beleauing hart hath that eternall life In the old law faithful mē offred to god diuers sacrifices that had fore significatiō of Christes body which for our sinnes he himselfe to his heauenly father hath since offred to sacrifice Certaynlye this housell whiche we doe nowe halow at gods alter is a remembraūce of Christes body which he offred for vs and of his bloude whiche he shedd for vs So he him selfe commaunded do thys in my remembraunce Once suffred Christe by hym selfe but yet neuerthelesse hys suffrynge is daylye renued at the masse through mysterye of the holye housell Therefore that holy masse is profitable both to the lyuing and to the dead as it hath bene often declared VVe oughte also to consyder diligently how that this holy housell is both Christes body and the body of all faythfull men after ghostly mysterye As the wyse Augustine sayth of it Yf ye will vnderstand of Christes body heare y e apostle Paule thus speaking Ye truely be Christes body and his members Nowe is your mysterye sett on Godes table and ye receyue your misterye whiche mistery ye your selues be Be y t whiche ye se on the alter receiue that whiche ye your selues be Agayn the apostle Paule saith by it We manye be one bread and one bodye Vnderstand nowe and reioice many be one bread and one body in Christ He is our head and we be his limmes And y e bread is not of one corne but of many Nor the wine of one grape but of manye So also we all should haue one vnitie in our Lord as it is writtē of the faithfull armye how y t they were in so great an vnitie as though all of them were one soule and one harte Christ halowed on hys table the mysterye of our peace and of our vnytye he whyche receyueth that mysterye of vnytye and kepeth not the bonde of true peace he receyueth no mysterye for hym selfe but a witnesse agaynst hymselfe It is very good for Christen men that they goe often to housell yf they brynge wyth them to the alter vngyltynes and innocencye of harte To an euill man it turneth to no good but to destructiō if he receiue vnworthely y t holy housell Holy bookes commaūd y t water be mengled to y t wine which shalbe for housell bicause y e water signifieth the people and the wine Christs bloud And therfore shall neither y e one without the other be offred at y e holy masse y t Christ may be with vs we with Christ the head w t the limmes and the limmes with the head VVe would before haue intreated of the lambe whiche the olde Israelites offered at their Easter tyme but y t we desired first to declare vnto you of this misterye and after how we should receyue it That signifying lambe was offred at the Easter And the apostle Paule sayeth in the epistle of this present day that Christ is our Easter who was offred for vs and on thys day rose from deathe The Israelites did eate the lambes fleshe as God commaunded wyth vnleuened bread and wylde lettisse so we should receyue y t holy housell of Christes bodye and bloud without the leauen of sinne and iniquitie As leauen turneth the creatures from their nature so doth sinne also chaunge the nature of man from innocencye to foules spottes of giltinesse The apostle hath taught how we should feast not in the leauen of euelnesse but in the swete dough of puritie and truthe The her be whiche they shoulde eate with the vnleauened bread is called Lettisse and is bitter in taste So we shoulde with bitternesse of vnfayned weepinge purifye our mynde if we wil eat Christes bodye Those Israelites were not wont to eate rawe fleshe although god forbad them to eate it rawe and sodden in water but rosted wyth fyer He shall receyue the bodye of God rawe that shal thynke wythout reason that Christ was onelye man lyke vnto vs and was not God And ●e that wil after mans wisedome search of y e mysterye of Christes incarnation doth lyke vnto hym y t doth seeth lambes flesh in water bycause that water in thys same place signifieth mans vnderstāding but we should vnderstād that al the misterie of Christs humanity was ordered by y e power of y e holy ghost And thē eate we his body rosted wyth fyre because the holy ghost came in fyrye lykenes to the apostles in diuerse tonges The Israelites should eate the lambs head y e fete and y e purtenaunce and nothing therof muste be left ouer night Yf any thing therof were lefte they did burne y t in the fyre and they brake not y e bones After ghostlye vnderstandinge we doe then eate the lambes head when we take hold of Christes diuinitye in our beliefe Agayn when we take holde of hys humanyte wyth loue then eate we the lambes feete bycause that Christ is the beginnyng and ende god before all world and man in the ende of thys worlde VVhat bee the lābes purtenaūce but Christes secrete preceptes and these we eat whē we receiue with gredines the worde of lyfe There muste nothing of the lābe be left vnto the morning bicause y t all godes sayings are to be searched w t great carefulnesse so that all his preceptes maye be knowen in vnderstāding deede in the nyght of thys present lyfe before that the last day of the vniuersall resurrection do appeare If we can not search out throughly all the mistery of Christes incarnation then

beoþ soþlice gesceode gif ƿe efenlaecaþ mid urum faerelde and ƿeorce forþfarenra manna lif ðaena ðe Gode geþugon ðurh gehealdsumnysse his beboda Hi haefdon him staef on handa aet þaere þigene Se staef getacnaþ gymene hyrdnysse þa ðe bet cunnon magon sceolon gyman oþra manna mid heora fultume underƿriþian þam gemettum ƿaer beboden ꝧ hi sceoldon caflice etan forðam ðe God onscunaþ ða sleacnysse on his ðegnum and ða he lufaþ ðe mid modes cafnesse ðaes ecan lifes mirþe secaþe Hit is aƿriten Ne elca ðu to gecyrranne to Gode ðylaes þe se tima losie þurh ða sleacan elcunge þa gemettan ne moston ðaes lambes ban scaenan ne ða cempan ðe Crist ahengon ne moston tobraecan his halgan sceancan sƿa sƿa hi dydon þaera tƿegra sceaþena ðe him on tƿa healfa hangodon ac driht aras of deaþe gesund buton aelcere forrotodnysse And hi sceolon geseon aet ðam micclan dome hƿaene hi geƿundodon ƿaelhreoƿlice on rode þeos tid is gehaten on ebreiscum geneorde Pasca ꝧ is on leden Transitus on englis Faereld forþan ðe on ðisum daege ferde Godes folc fram egipta lande ofer ða readan sae fram ðeoƿte to ðam behaitenan earde Vre driht ferde eac on þisne timan sƿa sƿa se Godspellere Iohns cƿaeþ fram ðisum middan earde to his heofonlican faeder ƿe sceolon fylian urū heafde faran frā deofle to criste frā þissere unscaeþþigan ƿorulde to his staþelfaetan rice ac ƿe sceolon aerest on urū and-ƿeardan life faran frā leahtrum to halgum maegnum fram unþeaƿum to godum þeaƿum gif ƿe ƿillaþ aefter ðisum laenan life faran toþā ecan aefter urū aeriste to haelende Criste He us geli●de to his lifigendan faed●r ðe hine sealde for usū synnum to deaþe Si hun ƿuldor and lof ðaere ƿ●ldaeda on ealr● ƿorulda ƿorulo AMEN MEn beloued it hath bene often sayd vnto you aboute our Sauiours resurrection how he on this present day after hys suffering mightely rose from death Now will we open vnto you through Gods grace of the holy housell whiche ye shoulde nowe goe vnto and instructe your vnderstandyng aboute thys mysterie both after the olde couenaunte and also after the newe that no doubting may trouble you about thys liuelye foode The almyghtie God badde Moyses his captaine in y e land of Aegypt to commaunde y e people of Israell to take for euery familye a lambe of one yeare old the night they departed out of y e countrey to y e land of promise to offer y t lambe to God after to kill it to make y e signe of y e crosse with y e lābes bloud vpon the side postes the vpper poste of their dore afterward to eate y e lambes flesh rosted vnleauened bread w t wilde lettisse God sayth vnto Moyses Eate of y e lābe nothing raw nor soddē in water but rosted w t fire Eate y e head y e feete and the inwardes let nothing of it be left vntill y e morning if any thing therof remaine y t shall you burne w t fire Eate it in this wyse Gyrde your loynes do your shoes on your fete haue you staues in your hādes eat it in hast This time is y e lordes passeouer And ther was slain on y t night in euery house throgh out Pharaos raigne the first borne child and Gods people of Israell were deliuered frō y t sodeine death through the lābes offring his bloudes marking Thē said God vnto Moyses Keepe this day in your remembraunce and holde it a greate feast in your kinredes with a perpetuall obseruation and eate vnleauened bread alwayes seuen dayes at thys feaste After thys deede God ledde the people of Israell ouer y e redde sea w t dry foote and drowned therin Pharao al his army together w t their possessions fedde afterward y e Israelits fortie yeares with heauenlye foode gaue thē water out of the hard rocke vntil they came to the promised land Part of this storye we haue treated of in an other place part we shall now declare to witte y t which belongeth to the holy housell Christian men may not now kepe that olde lawe bodely but it behoueth them to know what it ghostlye signifieth That innocēt lambe which the old Israelites did then kill had significatiō after ghostly vnderstanding of Christes suffering who vngiltie shedde his holy bloude for our redemptiō Hereof sing Gods seruauntes at euery masse Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis That is in our speech Thou lambe of God that takest away y e sinnes of the world haue mercy vpon vs. Those Israelites were deliuered from that sodaine death frō Pharaos bondage by the lambes offringe which signified Christes suffering through which we be deliuered from euerlasting death frō the deuils cruel raigne if we rightly beleue in the true redemer of the whole world Christ the Sauiour That lambe was offered in the euening and our Saniour suffered in the sixt age of thys world This age of thys corruptible worlde is reckened vnto the euening They marked with the lābes bloude vpon the doores and the vpper postes Tau that is the signe of the crosse and were so defended from the angell that killed the Aegyptians first borne childe And we ought to marke our foreheades and our bodyes with y e takē of Christes roode that we may be also deliuered from destruction when we shall be marked both on forehead and also in harte with the bloud of our Lordes suffering Those Israelites eate the lambes fleshe at their Easter time when they were deliuered and we receiue ghostlye Christ bodye and drinke his bloude when we receaue with true beliefe that holye housell That tyme they kepte with them at Easter seuen dayes with great worshippe when they were deliuered frō Pharao and went from that land So also Christen men kepe Christes resurrectiō at y e time of Easter these vij dayes because through hys suffering and risiing we be deliuered and be made cleane by goyng to this holy housell as Christ sayth in his ghospell Verely verely I saye vnto you ye haue no life in you except ye eate my flesh drinke my bloud He y t eateth my flesh drinketh my bloud abydeth in me I in him and hath y t euerlasting life I shall raise him vp in y e laste day I am y e liuely bread that came down frō heauē not so as your forefathers eate that heauenlye bread in the wildernesse and afterwarde dyed He that eateth thys bread he liueth for euer He blessed bread before his suffering and deuided it to his disciples thus saying Eate thys bread it is my body do this in my remembraunce Also he blessed wyne in one cuppe and sayd Drinke ye all of thys Thys is my bloude that is shedde for many in forgeuenesse

of sinnes The Apostles dyd as Christ commaunded that is they blessed bread wyne to housell agayne afterward in hys remembraunce Euen so also since their departure all priestes by Christes commaundement doe blesse bread wine to housell in hys name w t the Apostolike blessing Now men haue often searched do yet oftē search howe bread that is gathered of corne and through fyers heate baked maye bee turned to Christes body or how wyne that is pressed out of many grapes is turned through one blessing to the Lordes bloude Now saye we to suche men that some thinges be spoken of Christ by signification some thyng by thyng certaine True thyng is and certaine y t Christ was borne of a maide suffred death of his own accorde was buryed on this daye rose from death He is sayd bread by signification a lambe a lyon a mountayne He is called bread because he is our life angells life He is sayd to be a lābe for his innocencie A lyon for strēgth wherwith he ouer came y e strōg deuill But Christ is not so notwithstāding after true nature neither bread nor a lābe nor a Lyon VVhy is then y t holy housel called Christs body or his bloud if it be not truelye that it is called Truely the bread and the wine whyche by the masse of the priest is balowed shewe one thyng without to humayne vnderstanding an other thing they call within to beleuing mindes VVithout they bee sene bread wine both in figure in tast and they be truely after their halowing Christes body hys bloude through ghostly mistery An heathen childe is christened yet he altereth not his shape without though he be chaunged within He is brought to y e fontstone sinfull through Adams disobedience Howbeit he is washed from all sinne within though he hath not chaunged his shape without Euē so the holy fonte water that is called the welspring of lyfe is like in shape to other waters and is subiecte to corruption but the holy ghostes might commeth to y e corruptible water through the priestes blessing and it may after wash the body soule frō all sinne through ghostly mighte Beholde nowe wee see two thinges in this one creature After true nature that water is corruptible moysture after ghostlye misterye hath holowing mighte So also if wee beholde that holye housell after bodely vnderstanding then see we that it is a creature corruptible and mutable if we acknoledge therein ghostlye myght than vnderstand we that lyfe is therin and that it geueth immortalitie to them that eate it with beliefe Muche is betwixte the inuisible myghte of the holye housell and the visible shape of his proper nature It is neturally corruptible bread corruptible wine and is by mighte of Godes worde truely Christes bodye and his bloude not so notwithstāding bodely but ghostly Much is betwixte the bodie Christ suffred in and the bodie that is halowed to housell The bodie truely that Christ suffered in was borne of the flesh of Marie with bloud and with bone with skinne and with sinowes in humane limmes with a reasonable soule liuing and his ghostlie bodie whiche we call the housell is gathered of many cornes without bloude and bone without lymme without soule and therfore nothing is to be vnderstand therein bodelye but all is ghostlye to be vnderstande VVhat soeuer is in that housell whiche geueth substaunce of lyfe y t is of the ghostlye might and inuisible doing Therfore is y t holy housel called a misterye because there is one thīg in it seen an other thīg vnderstāded That which is ther sene hath bodely shape and y t we do there vnderstand hath ghostlye might Certaynely Christes bodye which suffred death and rose from death neuer dyeth henceforth but is eternall vnpassible That housell is temporall not eternall Corruptible and dealed into sondrye partes Chewed betwene teeth and sent into the bellye howbeit neuerthelesse after ghostlye myght it is all in euery part Manye receaue that holye body and yet notwithstanding it is so all in euerye parte after ghostly mistery Though some chewe lesse deale yet is there no more myghte notwithstanding in the more parte then in the lesse because it is all in all men after the inuisible myght Thys misterye is a pledge and a figure Christes bodye is truth it selfe Thys pledge we doe keepe mistically vntill that we be come to the truth it selfe and then is this pledge ended Truelye it is so as we before haue said Christes bodye and hys bloude not bodilye but ghostlye And ye shoulde not searche how it is done but hold it in your beliefe that it is so done VVe read in an other booke called vita patrum that two Monkes desired of God some demonstration toucbing the holy housell and after as they stoode to heare masse they sawe a childe lying on the alter where the priest sayd masse and Gods Aungell stoode with a sworde and abode looking vntill y e priest brake y e housell Then the angell deuided y t childe vpon the dyshe and shedde his bloud into y e chalice But whē they did go to y e housell thē was it turned to bread wine they dyd eate it geuing god thankes for y t shewing Also S. Gregory desired of Christ y t he would shew to a certain womā doubting about his mysterye some greate affyrmation She went to housell w t doubting minde and Gregorye forthwith obteined of God that to them both was shewed y t part of the housell which y e woman should receaue as if there lay in a dish a ioynte of a finger al be bloded and so y e womans doubting was thē forthwith healed But now heare the apostles wordes about this misterye Paule y e apostle speaketh of y e old Israelites thus writing in his epistle to faithfull mē All our forefathers were baptised in the cloud and in the sea and all they ate the same ghostlye meate and dranke the same ghostly drinke They dranke truely of the stone y t followed them and that stone was Christ Neither was that stone then from whiche the water ranne bodelye Christ but it signifyed Christ that calleth thus to al beleauing faithful mē whosoeuer thirsteth let him come to me drinke And from his bowelles floweth lyuely water This he sayd of the holy ghost whom he receaueth which beleaueth on hym The apostle Paule sayth that the Israelites did eat the same ghostly meate and drinke the same ghostly drinke bycause y t heauenly meate y t fedde thē xl yeares and that water which from the stone did flowe had signification of Christes bodye and his bloude that nowe be offered daylye in Godes churche It was the same which we now offer not bodely but ghostly VVe sayd vnto you ere while y t Christ halowed