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A05045	The ryght and trew vndersta[n]dynge of the Supper of the Lord and the vse therof faythfully gathered out of ye holy Scriptures worthely to be embrased of all Christen people. Perused [and] alowed by dyuerse godly lerned men to the comfort of al ye trewe congregation of Christ.	Lancaster, Thomas, d. 1583.	1550 (1550)	STC 15188; ESTC S108242	28,145	88

Christes body and blood as here after shal be declared i. Cor. xi The Lord Iesus the same night in whych he was betrayed toke breade and whan he had gyuen thankes he brake it and said take ye and eate this is my body which is broken for you Mat. xxvi Mar xiiii Luke xxiii this do ye in the remembraūce of me after the same maner also toke he the cuppe when supper was done saying this cuppe is the new Testament in my blud this do ye as often as ye drinke it in remembraunce of me and they haue dronke al here of These are the worde with which christ hath instituted his holi supper with which wordes the learned of the world haue wonderfullye foughtē and with in few yeres haue shede much innocent blood for it when they counted thē selues wyse they became fooles for the pryncipallest in this they haue not towched Ro. i. namely what people that it belongeth vnto We haue not one title that commaūdes vs that we shuld dispute of it but that we shuld be diligent that we myght be found worthy to be partakers of the declaraciō and benefite that is receaued in it as S. Paul teacheth let euery man examin himselfe and so let him eate of the breade and drynke of the cuppe c. Cor xi Wherfore we are constrayned to saye goodnyght to all hye disputaciō where throw diuisiō commeth desyring the lord alwayes that we myght be found worthy receauers of it according to the lordes commaundement ¶ This holy supper hath our sauiour Iesus christ left behind him vnder Luk. xxii bread and wine saying take and eate this is my body whych is geuē for you this do in the remembraūce of me In whiche holye Supper is declared vnto vs. Fyrst the vnsearchable fauoure and loue of our lorde Iesus Christ which is come in this world not to cōdempne the world but that the worlde throwe hym myght be saued Io. iii. O wonderful loue of god he hath sent no Angel no Patriarke nor prophet Ro. viii he is come him selfe in the simulitude of synfull fleshe Ye he which knew no synne made himselfe to be sinne for vs that we by hys meanes shuld be that righteousnes whyche before god is alowed not that christ is any suche synne that be farre He was that Lambe without spot whiche did do synne ii Cor. v. Exo. xii i. pet ii neyther was there gile foūde in his mouth Esay liii but he was that frewilling offring for synne as Esay as sayeth he was wonded for our offences and smittē for our wickednes he is offred for so it hath pleased him therfore is he called sin that is an offering for synne O almyghtiful god who can kepe in secrete the vnmeasurable grace mercy declared vpon vs Ro. viii miserable synners but must breake out and cōfesse the afore the whole worlde with mouthe and worke lyfe and soule Saynt Paul teacheth that god spared not hys owne sonne Ro. v but gaue him for vs all yea whylle we were yet synners and vngodlye Christe dyed for vs the righteous for the vnrighteouse ye the vndefiled offer lame is brente throwe the glowynge fyer of loue vpon the Iebett of the crosse yea the creatoure of all creatures is broken frome aboue to beneth yea he that is farer then the chyldren of men hath neyther bewty nor fauour he is dispised and abhored of al men yea he is suche a man as full of sorowe Psal lv and as one that hath good experyence of infyrmytes yea he is rekened amonge the transgressors the innocent must beare the hole falte of Adam as the Prophet sayeth I paid them the thynge that I neuer toke All this hath our sauyour declared vnto vs not throw our deseruynge but as Saynte Paule learneth the kyndnes and loue of our sauyoure god to man warde apered not by the dedes of ryghteousnes whiche we wrought but accordyng to his mercy he saued vs Esay l iii. for ther was no grace Psal xl ix nor mercy nor no remyssion of synnes by the father vnto the tyme that our sauiour Iesu Chryst hade taken vpon hym the synnes of the worlde Titus .iii. For as by one mans dysobedyence many became synners so by the obedyente of one shal manye be made ryghteous Nowe for asmuche as when he was in the shape of God Roma v Phelip .ii. made him selft of no reputacyon goen out of hym selfe and wher he was immortall is be come mortall takinge vpon hym the shape of a seruaunte to the intent that he myght serue vs al and was founde in hys apperell as a man very fleshe and bloud and in all thynges lyke vnto his brethren Luke .ii. Iohan .i. Hebre. ii Phelip .ii. sauynge synne he humbled hym selfe and became obedyent vnto his father vnto death euen the deathe of the Crosse throwe whiche death it pleased the father that in hym shulde all fulnes dwell and by hym to reconcile all thinges to him selfe and to set at peace by him throw the bloude of his Crosse both thinges in heauen and thynges in earth and is become an offerynge and sacryfyce of swete sauour to god his dearly beloued father Colo i. This is frutefully declared vnto vs in this holy Supper namely throw that breade that fleshe that he hathe geuen for vs Ephe. vi Mar. xiiii and throwe the Cuppe that bloud whiche he shede for manye for the remyssyon of synnes and shall be vnto vs a remembraunce tyll he come Nowe bycause that it is a comē vse that a token of remembraunce hath the name of the thing that is remēbred by it Luke .xxii. Therfore hathe Chryste called the breade hys bodye and the wyne his bloude not that he is in substance in breade and wyne i. Cor. ii Exod. xii but that we shulde remember hym there by Lykewyse as the Easter Lambe was called the passynge by and yet was it not in it selfe the very passīg by but a token of remembraunce of the passinge by Seynge nowe that the Earster lambe hath the name of the thyng that the Israelites remembred by it and wherby they myght euerlastingly kepe in remembraunce the benefytes of god therfore it is conuenyent that Chryst called the breade hys bodye and the vyne hys bloude because that we shulde remember therby his death and passiō yea the onely sacrifyce of his bodye whiche he hathe suffered to be broken and his bloude to be shede for vs not ●hat the materyall bodye of Chryst is in the bread nor his bloud in the vyne Yet neuertheles is the supper of our Lorde a partakynge spiritually of the bodye and bloude of Chryste i. Colo x. as Sainte Paule saieth is not the cuppe of thankes gyuing wherwyth we gyue thankes a pertakinge of the bloud of Chryst and the breade that we breake is it not the partaking of the bodye of christ and to the intente that this

vs with foote and hand Touth and Nayl ye we haue shote him awai from vs with our hornes and wyll not that Iesus Chryste shuld reygne ouer vs. Who shall haue compassion in the day of vengeaunce vpon our disobedynt hard necked miserable dampned soules I say vnto you in Christe Iesu beleue it and you wyl rone where ye wyl seake what meane that ye wyl ye shall fynde no nother in all the hole scryptures whyther ye be sycke or hole strong or wayke that shal profect you afore the Lorde saue onlye that that I haue declared vnto you that is Chryste Iesus or els ware al the holy scriptures false and starke lyes Rede I praye you Esay the Prophete I am Esay xliii euen I am the onli god and Lorde and besydes me there is no Sauyour I am he onlye that for my owne selues sake do awaye thy offences and forget thy sinnes Esay liii he onlye hathe taken on hym out infirmytyes and borne our paynes ye the lord hath heped togither vpō hym the iniquiti of vs all Psal lxix he payd the thing that he neuer had The Angell sayd to Ioseph call his name Iesus for he shall saue hys people from there synnes Math. i This is my bloud the which is of the new Testament Mat. xxvi that is shed for manye for the remyssion of sīnes Behold the lābe of god which taketh away the sinnes of the world for he made him to be synne for ii Cor. v Io. i. vs whyche knew no synne that we by hys meanes shulde be that ryghteousnes whych before god is alowed he hath borne our synnes in his body on the tre i. Peter ii i. Io. i Apoca. i. Heb. iii. i. Io. ii the blood of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from al synne He hath sayth saint Iohn loued vs and wasshed vs from our sinnes in his owne blood which blood of the mediatour of the new Testament speketh better then the blod of Abel If any man synne we haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ the ryghteous and he it is that obteyneth grace for our synnes Not for our synnes only but also for the synnes of the hole worlde My dearly belowed brethren yf there were any other aduocate or mediatour thē this Chryst i. Timo. ii how shamefull had all the holye scryptures lyed and howe pitefully had Sainte Paule deceaued vs wher he sayeth ther is one god one mediatoure betwne good and man euen the man Chryst Iesus which gaue hym selfe a raunsom for all men Yf it be so that throwe sekenes any other meanes wherin thou dost trust to haue remyssiō of sinnes by let it be so lordly so holy so bewtiful as it wyl ▪ saue onely that mediatour whiche is geuen vs of god that is Christ Iesu so forsakes thou the death of our lord whiche he hath suffered for the and thou denyest the most holyest and precious bloude that he hathe shede fore the. For all they that are not contente with this onely mediatour but seketh after other he curseth godes worde he rentes in peces the gospell of Iesus chryst and vtterly denyeth that Chryst is the ryght Messias lord and Mayster and sauyour of the worlde and that he is come from the father My derely beloued in Christ Iesu al thei that seke ani other straūge meanes wythout goddes worde ouer suche lamenteth the Lord Iere. ii by the mouth of the prophet Ieremye my people haue done two euilles they haue forsakē me the well of the vater of syfe and digged them pittes that can holde no water This hathe alwayes bene the the ende of all false learnyng to forsake Chryst Iesus whose ryghteousnes profeteth alonly before the Lord to the entent that we wold lyfte vp our owne ymaginacion and ryghteousnes to pray do reuerence vnto it as vnto a newe Chryst My dearly beloued here haue I breffly set you forth the right learning of the supper of our Lorde Iesus Chryst how it shulde be mynistred in the congregacyō of God accordinge to the Lordes word here haue ye a confutacion of suttel persuasyons argumentes of the mēbers of Antichryst wherwyth they mayntayne ther meletyde otherwise called theyr dyner for whiche cause muche ryghteous innocent bloude is shede wythout pitye or mercy in many places of the worlde and all by the meanes of these spirytuall couniurers of Egypte Exod. ix Exod. ix The Prestes of the mountaines seruauntes of Ball and the prophetes Iezebell the destroyers of the vyneyearde of the Lorde ii Reg. xix the defylers of the holy earth Sodome blind watchers dome dogges the treaders downe of the ryght pasture and the troublers of the clere water Iere. xii and .xiii. Esa v. vi Eze. xxxiiii Math. vii Mat. xxiii Iohn x. false prophetes grippīg wolues Actes .xx. The destrouers of wedowes fatherles theues and murtherers enemyes of the crosse of Chryste whose ende is danmacion whose god is there belly and glorye to there shame whiche are worldly mynded Philip. iii They are false maysters and fathers of sectes hauing cursed children welles with out watter ii Pet. ii dry cloudes wandrynge Starres Trees without frut at gatheringe tyme wythered twyse dede and plucked vp by the totes They are the raginge waues of the Sea fomynge out there owne shame to whome is reserued the myst of Darkenes for euer Iude. i i. Io. ii the ryght and true Antichristes Apoca. ix these are the abominable locustes whiche are come out of the botomeles pitte to hurt al them that haue not the marke of God in therefore hedes Somma those are they that are cursed and damned euerlastingly from the presence of god Luke vi excepte they repent and amende not that I Iudge theym that be farre from me for I know there standes wrytten iudge not les thou be iudged condeme not les thou be condēned but they are iudged by the euerlasting worde of the Lord the whyche can neyther lye nor be disseaued like as our Sauiour Iesus Christ sayeth Io. xii i Cor. v. vi I iudge you not but it is the worde that I haue spoken that iudgeth you Yf thou do the workes that Paule speaketh of thou shall not inheret the kyngdome of God If thou do thē not so thou art not iudged of anye man but of Goddes worde Nowe my deare beloued lay these .ii. one agaynst another Gods learnynge and mannes learnynge the truth and the lye Chryst and Antichriste wey it mesure it tell it wyth the Lordes word and I trust in the Lorde that ye shall fynd nothynge that I haue here declared but the ryght true worde and wyll of oure sauiour Iesus christ My dearly beloued be thankeful vnto the almyghty maiestie of god throw our Lorde Iesus christ that it hath pleased him to let shyne vnto vs the lyght of the holy Gospell which hath be keped from vs so many hundreth yere in the darke night of infidelitie ¶ Therfore take it now vp as Ierymye sayeth while it shyneth and tarye not lest it be conuerted and chaunged into a dedlye darkenes rede it right it is godes word amend your lyuing serue your neyghbour with al diligence feare God and be obedient vnto his holy word so shal thou remayne in euerlasting lyfe Amen ⸫ Thomas Lancaster i. Cor. ii For another foundacion can no man laye than it that is laye whiche is Iesus Chryst Praysed be the Lorde God Mark viii Whosoeuer is ashamed of me and of my wordes in this aduouterous and synfull generaciō of him also shal the sonne of mā be a shamed whē he cometh in the glory of his father wyth the holy Aungelles Ma. xxiiii He that endureth to the ende the same shal be saued ¶ Imprynded at Londone by Iohan Turke