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A26478	A testimony of antiquity shewing the ancient faith in the Church of England, touching the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord here publickly preached, and also received in the Saxons time, above 600 years agoe.; Sermo de sacrificio in die Pascae. English	Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.; Joscelyn, John, 1529-1603.; Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.	1675 (1675)	Wing A677; ESTC R38168	20,773	42

and after Arch-bishop of York who made Aelfrick Abbot of St. Albons Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburn unto whom Aelfrick writeth the first of the Epistles we here speak of Elfleda a Nun of Romesey and Wulhilda Abbess of Barking lived in the daies of King Edgar And last of all Wulfritha King Edgar's Concubine All these I say with some other more be Canonized for Saints of this Age in which Aelfrick himself lived in great fame and credit Also Leofrick and Wulfsine whom we have shewed to have been the givers of those anon-books wherein be seen Aelfricks Epistles be reverenced for most holy Men and Saints of their Churches And these two lived Bishops in the coming in of the Conqueror Thus do some men now-a-daies not only dissent in doctrine from their own Church but also from that Age of their Church which they have thought most holy and judged a most excellent pattern to be followed Wherefore what may we now think of that great consent whereof the Romanists have long made vaunt to wit Their Doctrine to have continued many hundred years as it were linked together with a continual chain whereof hath been no breach at any time Truly this their so great affirmation hath uttered unto us no truth as good Christian Reader thou mayest well judge by duly weighing of this which hath been spoken and by the reading also of that which here followeth whereunto I now leave thee Trusting that after thou hast well weighed this matter of such manner of the being of Christs Body in the Sacrament as sheweth this Testimony no untruth or dishonour shall need to be attributed to Christ's loving words pronounced at his last Supper among his Apostles no derogation to his most Sacred Institution no diminishing of any comfort to Christian mens souls in the use of his reverend Sacrament but all things to stand right up most agreeably both to the verity of Christs infallible words and to the right nature congruence and efficacies of so holy a Sacrament and finally most comfortable to the conscience of man for his spiritual uniting and incorporation with Christ's blessed Body and Bloud to immortality and for the sure Gage of his Resurrection Amen A SERMON Of the PASCHAL LAMB And of the Sacramental body and bloud of CHRIST our Saviour Written in the old Saxon tongue before the Conquest and appointed in the Reign of the Saxons to be spoken to the people at Easter before they should receive the Communion MEN beloved it hath been often said unto you about our Saviours Resurrection how he on this present day after his suffering mightily rose from death Now will we open unto you through Gods grace of the holy housell which ye should now go unto and instruct your understanding about this mystery both after the old Covenant and also after the new that no doubting may trouble you about this lively food The Almighty God bad Moses his Captain in the land of Aegypt to command the people of Israel for to take for every family a Lamb of one year old the night they departed out of the country to the land of promise and to offer that Lamb to God and after to cut it and to make the sign of the Cross with the Lambs blood upon the side posts and the upper posts of their door and afterward to eat the Lambs flesh rosted and unleavened bread with wild lettice God saith unto Moses Eat of the Lamb nothing raw or sodden in water but rosted with fire Eate the head the feet and the inwards and let nothing of it be left until the morning if any thing thereof remain that shall you burn with fire Eat it in this wise Gird your loins and doe your shoes on your seet have you staves in your hands and eat it in hast This time is the Lords Passover And then was slain on that night in every house throughout Pharoahs raign the first born child and Gods people of Israel were delivered from that suddain death through the Lambs offering and his bloods marking Then said God unto Moses Keep this day in your remembrance and hold it a great feast in your kinreds with a perpetual observation and eat unleavened bread alwaies seven daies at this feast After this deed God led the people of Israel over the red sea with dry foot and drowned therein Pharaoh and all his army together with their possessions and fed afterward the Israelites forty years with heavenly food and gave them water out of the hard rock until they came to the promised land Part of this story we have treated of in another place part we shall now declare to wit that which belongeth to the holy housell Christian men may not now keep that old law bodily but it behoveth them to know what it ghostly signifieth That innocent Lamb which the old Israelites did then kill had signification after ghostly understanding of Christs suffering who unguilty shed his holy blood for our Redemption Hereof sing Gods servants at every Mass Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis That is in our speech Thou Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world have mercy upon us Those Israelites were delivered from that suddain death and from Pharaohs bondage by the Lambs offering which signified Christs suffering through which we be delivered from everlasting death and from the Devils cruel raign if we rightly believe in the true Redeemer of the whole world Christ the Saviour That Lamb was offered in the evening and our Saviour suffered in the sixt age of this world This age of this corruptible world is reckoned unto the evening They marked with the Lambs blood upon the doors and the upper posts Tau that is the sign of the Cross and were so defended from the Angel that killed the Aegyptians first born child And we ought to mark our foreheads and our bodies with the token of Christs rood that we may be also delivered from destruction when we shall be marked both on forehead and also in heart with the blood of our Lords suffering Those Israelites eat the Lambs flesh at their Easter time when they were delivered and we receive ghostly Christs body and drink his blood when we receive with true belief that holy housell That time they kept with them at Easter seven daies with great worship when they were delivered from Pharaoh and went from that land So also Christian men keep Christs resurrection at the time of Easter these seven daies because through his suffering and rising we be delivered and be made clean by going to this holy housell as Christ faith in his Gospel Verily verily I say unto you ye have no life in you except ye eat my flesh and drink my bloud He that cateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me and I in him and hath that everlasting life and I shall raise him up at the last day I am the lively bread that came down

life before that the last day of the universal resurrection do appear If we cannot search out throughly all the mysterie of Christs Incarnation then ought we to betake the rest unto the might of the Holy Ghost with true humilitie and not to search rashly of that deep secretness above the measure of our understanding They did eat the Lambs flesh with their loynes girt In the loines is the lust of the bodie And he which will receive that housel shall cover that concupiscence and take with chastitie that holy receipt They were also shod What be shoes but of the hides of dead beasts We be truly shod if we follow in our steps and deeds the life of men departed which please God with keeping of hiscommandements They had Staves in their hands when they eat This stafe signifieth a carefulness and a diligent overseing And all they that best know and can should take care of other men and stay them up with their help It was injoyned to the eaters that they should eat the Lamb in haste For God abhoreth slouthfulness in his servants And those he loveth that seek the joy of everlasting life with quickness and hast of mind It is written Prolong not to turn unto God least the time pass away through thy slow tarrying The eaters might not break the Lambs bones No more might the Souldiers that did hang Christ break his holy legs as they did of the two Theeves that hanged on either side of him And the Lord r●se from death sound without all corruption and at the last judgment they shall see him whom they did most cruelly wound on the Cross This time is called in the Hebrew tongue Pasca and in Latine Transitus and in Enghish a Passover because that on this day the people of Israel passed from the land of Aegypt over the Red sea from bondage to the Land of promise So also did our Lord at this time depart as saith John the Evangelist from this world to his heavenly Father-Even so we ought to follow our head and to go from the devil to Christ from this unstable world to his stable kingdom Howbeit we should first in this present life depart from vice to holy virtue from evil manners to good manners if we will after this corruptible life go to that eternal life and after our resurrection to Christ. He brings us to his everliving Father who gave him to death for our sins To him be honour and praise of well-doing world without end Amen This Sermon is found in diverss Books of Sermons written in the old English or Saxon tongue whereof two books be now in the hands of the most Reverend Father the the Arch-bishop of Canterbury Here followeth the words of Aelfricke Abbot of St. Albons and also of Malmsbery taken out of his Epistle written to Wulfsine Bishop of Scyrburn It is found in a book of the old Saxon tongue wherein be XLIII Chapters of Canons and Ecclesiastical Constitutions and also Liber Poenitentialis that is a Penitential book or Shrift book divided into Four other books the Epistle is set for the 30. Chapter of the Fourth book Intituled in the Saxon tongue be preost sinothe that is a Synod concerning Priests and this Epistle is also in a Canon book of the Church of Exeter SOme Priests keep the housel that is hallowed on Easter day all the year for sick men But they do greatly amiss because it waxeth hoary And these will not understand how grievous pennance the Penitential book teacheth by this if the housel become hoary and rotten or if it be lost or be eaten of Mise or of beasts by negligence Men shall reserve more carefully that holy housel and not reserve it too long but hallow other of new for sick men alwaies within a week or a fortnight that it be not so much as hoary For so holy is the housel which to day is hallowed as that which on Easter day was hallowed That housel is Christs body not bodily but ghostly Not the body which he suffered in but the body of which he spake when he blessed bread and wine to housel a night before his suffering and said by the blessed bread This is my body and again by the holy wine This is my blood which is shed for many in forgivness of sins Vnderstand now that the Lord who could turn that bread before his suffering to his body and that wine to his blood ghostly that the self same Lord blesseth daily through the Priests hands bread and wine to his ghostly body and to his ghostly blood Here thou seest good Reader how Aelfrick upon finding fault with an abuse of his time which was that Priests on Easter day filled their housel box and so kept the bread a a whole year for sick men took an occasion to speak against the bodily presence of Christ in the Sacrament So also in another Epistle sent to Wulfstane Arch-bishop of York he reprehending again this overlong reserving of the housel addeth also words more at large against the same bodily presence His words be these SOme Priests fill their box for housel on Easter day and so reserve it a whole year for sick men as though that housel were more holy then any other But they do unadvisedly because it waxeth black or altogether rotten by keeping it so long space And thus is he become guilty as the book witnesseth to us If any do keep the housel too long or loose it or Mise or other beasts do eat it see what the Penetential book sayeth by this So holy is altogether that housel which is hallowed to day as that which is hallowed on Easter day Wherefore I beseech you to keep that holy body of Christ with more advisement for sick men from Sonday to Sonday in a very clean box or at most not to keep it above a fortnight and then eat it laying other in the place We have an example hereof in Moses books as God himself hath commanded in Moses law How the Priests should set on every Saterday twelve loaves all new baked upon the Tabernacle the which were called Panes praepositionis and those should stand there on Gods Tabernacle till the next Saterday and then did the Priests themselves eat them and set other in the place Some Priests will not eat the housel which they do hallow But we will now declare unto you how the book speaketh by them Presbyter missam celebrans non audens sumere sacrificium accusante conscientia sua Anathema est The Priest that doth say Mass and dare not eat the housel his conscience accusing him is accursed It is less danger to receive the housel then to hallow it He that doth twice hallow one Host to housel is like unto those Hereticks who do Christen twice one child Christ himself blessed housel hefore his suffering He blessed the bread and brake thus speaking to his Apostles Eat this bread it is my body And again he blessed one Chalice

to Saint Peters Church in Exeter by Leofrick the first and most famous Bishop of that Church as in his own Record and Grant of all such Lands Books and other Things he gave unto the Church expressed in the Saxon Tongue but in English thus Here is shewed in this Book or Charter what Leofrike Bishop hath given unto St. Peter's Minster at Exeter where his Bishops Seat is that is That he hath got in again through God's help whatsoever was taken out c. First shewing what Lands of such as was taken from the Church be recovered again partly by his earnest complaint and suit made for the same partly by his giving of rewards Next making also report what Lands with other Treasure of his own he gave of new to the place He cometh at last to the rehearsal of his Books whereof the last here named is a Canon book in Latine and a Shrift-book in English is the Book we speak of and hath in it the Latine and Saxon Epistles of Aelfrick Thus as this Book of Exeter Church hath this good evidence by which it is shewed that Leofrike was the giver thereof even so the Book of Canons of Worcester Church written all in Saxon hath in it most certain testimony that the Writer thereof was the publick Scribe of the Church whose name was Wulfgeat For thus is it recorded therein even with the same hand of the Scribe wherein all the Book is written In English thus Wulfgeat the Scribe of Worcester Church did write me Pray I beseech you for his transgressions the Creator of the world And God grant that he be alwaies happy that writ me The other Book of Canons of Worcester Library which I have said is for the more part in Latine and is intituled Admonitio spiritualis doctrinae is written in so old an hand as is that of Exeter Church and seemes to be possessed of Wulfstane who was Bishop of Worcester in the daies of William the Conqueror And that he should be the possessor of this ●ook I do thus affirm when in his daies Lanfrank made first this Law of Priests in the Councel he held at Winchester in the year of our Lord 1076. Decretum est ut nullus Canonicus llxorem habeat Sacerdotum vero in Castellis vel in vicis habitantium habentes llxores non cogantur ut dimittant non habentes interdicantur ut habeant Et deinceps caveant Episcopi ut Sacerdotes vel Diaco●●● non praesumant ordinare nisi prius profite●●tur ut 〈◊〉 non habeant That is It is decreed that no Canon have a Wife But of Prie●●s such as have Wives dwelling in Castles and Villages let them not be compelled to put away their Wives but such Priests as have no Wives forbid them to have And let bishops take heed that they presume not to ordain Priests or Deacons unless they do first profess to have no Wives Now albeit this and many other Councels held from time to time by the space more then of an hundred years after this did little avail but that the Priests did both marry and still kept their Wives because as writeth Gerardus Arch-bishop of York to Anselm Cum ad ordines aliquos invito dura cervice re●●tuntur re in ordinando castitatem profiteantur When I call any to Orders they resist with a stiff neck that they do not in taking Order profess Chastity Or as is reported in the Saxon story of Peterborow Church speaking of the Councels of Anselm of John of Cremona and of William Arch-bishop of Canterbury All these Decrees availed nothing they all kept their Wives still by the Kings leave as they did before Yet it came to pass upon this Decree of Lanfrank that the form of words wherein the Priests should vow Chastity was now first put into some Bishops Pontifical Ego frater N. promitto Deo omnibusque Sanctis ejus castitatem corporis mei secundum Canonum decreta secundum ordinem mihi imponendum servare domino praesule N. praesente And as the words were thus put into some Pontifical in a general speaking as the manner is so in the beginning of this Book we here speak of wherein be Aelfrick's Epistles are the self-same words of profession written in the same old hand as is the rest of the Book and addeth also there the special name of Wulfstane Bishop who was present at this Councel of Lanfrank and unto whom it did first appertain to exact of Priests in the Diocess of Worcester this profession The words be these Ego frater N. promitto Deo omnibusque Sanctis ejus castitatem corporis mei secundum Canonum decreta secundum ordinem mihi imponendum domino praesule Wulfstano praesente I brother N. do promise to God and all his Saints chastity of my body according to the Decrees of Canons and according to the order to be put upon me before Wulfstane Bishop By this I do affirm that this Book did belong to Wulfstane Bishop of Worcester and so by him was afterward given to the Library of that Church where it now remaineth Wherefore of this now declared First touching the Sermon spoken of in the begining whereof as of many other contained in two Books Aelfrick was but the Translator and therefore were Books of Sermons before his time N●●● touching the publick receiving of the Epistles of Aelfrick wherein I say is denied the Bodily Presence and also by the infarcing afterward of these Epistles by Bishops into their Books of Canons in stead of Exhortations to be used unto their Clergy it is not hard to know not only so much what Aelfrick's judgment was in this controversie but also that more is what was the common received Doctrine herein of the Church of England as well when Aelfrick himself lived as before his time and also after his time even from him to the Conquest But what was the condition and state of the Church when Aelfrick himself lived In deed to confess the truth it was in divers points of Religion full of blindness and ignorance full of childish servitude to Ceremonies as it was long before and after and too much given to the love of Monkery which now at this time unmeasurably took root and grew excessively But yet to speak what the Adversaries of the Truth have judged of this time it is most certain that there is no Age of the Church of England which they have more reverenced and thought more holy than this For of what Age have they Canonized unto us more Saints and to their liking more notable First Odo Arch-bishop of Canterbury who died in the beginning of King Edgar's Reign Then King Edgar himself by whom Aelfrick was made Abbot of Malmsbury Then Edward called the Martyr King Edgar's Bastard-Son Then Editha King Edgar's Bastard-Daughter Also Dunstane Arch-bishop of Canterbury of whom Aelfrick was greatly esteemed Aethelwold Bishop of Winchester under whom Aelfrick had his first bringing up Oswald Bishop of Worcester

and drink the same ghostly drink because that heavenly meat that fed them forty years and that water which from the Stone did flow had signification of christs body and his blood that now be offered daily in Gods church It was the same which we now offer not bodily but ghostly We said unto you ere while that christ hallowed bread and wine to housel before his suffering and said This is my body and my blood Yet he had not then suffered but so notwithstanding he turned through invisible might that bread to his own body and that wine to his blood as he before did in the wilderness before that he was born to men when he turned that heavenly meat to his flesh and the flowing water from that Stone to his own blood Very many eat of that heavenly meat in the wilderness and drank that ghostly drink and were never the less dead as christ said And christ ment not that death which none can escape but that everlasting death which some of that folk deserved for their unbelief Moses and Aaron and many other of that people which pleased God eat that heavenly bread and they dyed not that everlasting death though they dyed the common death They saw that the heavenly meat was visible and corruptible and they ghostly understood by that visible thing and ghostly received it The Saviour saith He that eated my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life And he bad them not eat that body wherewith he was enclosed nor that blood to drink which he shed for use but he ment with those words that holy housel which ghostly is his body and his blood and he that tasteth it with believing heart hath that eternal life In the old law faithful men offered unto God diverss Sacrifices that had signification of Christs body which for our sins he himself to his heavenly Father hath since offered to sacrifice Certainly this housel which we do now hallow at Gods Altar is remembrance of Christs body which he offered for us and of his blood which he shed for us So he himself commanded Do this in my remembrance Once suffered Christ by himself but yet nevertheless his suffering is daily renewed at the Mass through mysterie of the holy housel Therefore that holy Mass is profitable both to the living and to the dead as it hath been often declared We ought also to consider diligently how that this holy housel is bath Christs body and the body of all faithful men after ghostly mysterie as the wise Augustine saith of it If ye will understand of Christs bodie hear the Apostle Paul thus speaking Ye truly be Christs body and his members Now is your mysterie set on Gods Table and ye receive your mysterie which mysterie ye your selves be Be that which ye see on the Altar and receive that which ye your selves be Again the Apostle Paul saith by it We many be one bread and one body Vnderstand now and rejoyce Many be one bread and one body in Christ He is our head and we be his limbs And the bread is not of one corn but of many Nor the wine of one grape but of many So also we all should have one unity in our Lord as it is written of the faithful Army how that they were in so great an unitie as though all of them were one soul and one heart Christ hallowed on his Table the mysterie of our peace and of our unitie he which receiveth that mysterie of unitie and keepeth not the bond of true peace he receiveth no mysterie for himself but a witness against himself It is very good for Christian men that they go often to housel if thy bring with them to the Altar unguiltiness and innocencie of heart To an evil man it turneth to no good but to destruction if he receive unworthily that holy housel Holy books command that water be mingled to that wine which shall be for housel because the water signifieth the people and the wine Christs blood And therefore shall neither the one without the other be offered at the holy Mass that Christ may be with us and we with Christ the head with the limbs and the limbs with the head We would before have intreated of the Lamb which the old Israelites offered at their Easter time but that we desired first to declare unto you of this mysterie and after how we should receive it That signifying Lamb was offered at the Easter And the Apostle Paul saith in the Epistle of this present day that Christ is our Easter who was offered for us and on this day rose from death The Israelites did eat the Lambs flesh as God commanded with unleavened bread and wild Lettice so we should receive that holy housel of Christs body and bloud without the leaven of sin and iniquitie As leaven turneth the creatures from their nature so doth sin also change the nature of man from innocencie to uncleanness The Apostle hath taught how we should feast not in the leaven of evilness but in the sweet dough of puritie and truth The hearb which they should eat with the unleavened bread is called Lettice and is bitter in tast So we should with bitterness of unfained repentance purifie our mind if we will eat Christs bodie Those israelites were not wont to eat raw flesh although God forbad them to eat it raw and sodden in water but rosted with fire He shall receive the bodie of God raw that shall think without reason that Christ was only man like unto us and was not God And he that will after mans wisdom search of the mysterie of Christs Incarnation doth like unto him that doth seethe Lambs-flesh in water because that water in this same place signifieth mans understanding but we should understand that all the mysterie of Christs Humanitie was ordered by the power of the Holy Ghost And then eat we his body rosted with fire because the Holy Ghost came in fiery likeness to the Apostles in diverse Tongues The Israelites should eat the Lambs head and the feet and the purtenance and nothing thereof must be left over night If any thing thereof were left they did burn that in the fire and they break not the bones After ghostly understanding we do then eat the Lambs head when we take hold of Christs Divinitie in our Belief Again when we take hold of his Humanitie with Love then eat we the Lambs feet because that Christ is the beginning and end God before all world and Man in the end of this world whit be the Lambs Purtenance but Christs secret precepts and these we eat when we receive with greediness the word of Life There must nothing of the Lamb be left unto the morning because that all Gods sayings are to be searched with great carefulness so that all his precepts may be known in understanding and deed in the night of this present