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A13192 Godly meditations vpon the most holy sacrament of the Lordes Supper With manie thinges apperteininge to the highe reuerenee [sic] of soe greate a mysterie. In the end. De Eucharistiæ controuersia, admonitio breuis. Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629. 1601 (1601) STC 23491; ESTC S117947 70,901 378

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perceiueth not y e things which are of God 1. Cor. 2.4 Let the Christian man haue all the goods of this mortall life if that bee wanting him which is contayned in the holy Sacrament lie hath nothing yea rather he may truly bee called miserable 5. Lastly the bread before it cōmeth to his perfection it suffereth many things for the graine of corne which is the matter thereof is first sowen is couered in the earth thē is cut bound as a malefactor imprisoned in the barne is threshed out winowed groūded in the Mill is boulted scorched with fire so that it may very well agee with this Sacrament wherein the elementes are not whole but broken powred out wherein also the passion of Christ our Lorde his suffering so great thinges for vs is represented before he become this diuine foode of our soules 4 The Pas●all Lamb was a figure of this Sacrament Exod. 12.3 of which this was the ceremony It must be a Lambe without blemish of a yeare old it must be eaten at Ierusalem rosted and in haste with wild Lettice and sweet bread those who shold eate thereof must haue their shooes on their feete by which ceremony God signified to the Iewes that they were strangers Saint Chrysostome in his 83. Homely vpon Mathew applyeth in this manner that ceremonie vnto vs If saith hee the Iewes about to go onely through Palestina were fed with a Lambe after so curious an order with what vigilancie ought we to be fed in this Sacrament with the true immaculate Lambe which haue our iourney to heauen do eate thereof in his church heat with charitie going forward to our land of rest in 15. of Leuit. God saith you shall eate of the old fruit vntill the new come so did his people of the old passeouer the same day they were deliuered from Egypt had wee deliueraunce from a worser seruitude of the Pascall lamb a bone must not bee broken those parts of this lambe are the faithful as if it were from God sacrificate filium sacrifice my Sonne Sinite hos abine let these go Iohn 18. 5 A Figure of this was Manna giuen to the people of Israel in the desert Exo. 10.15 Saint Paul saith that the redde Sea was a figure of Baptisme and Manna of this holy Sacrament which Manna had these properties First although some gathered much and others lesse yet there was one sufficient measure for all so in this Sacrament of the Lordes Supper there is no lesse vertue in the lest part thereof then in the whole 2 Manna might be gathered any day except the Saboth and when the sunne arose it vanished So this venerable Sacrament serueth vs vntill the euerlasting Saboth of the life to come and when the Son of glorie shall appeare it shall then cease 3 Manna did giue taste of all kind according vnto the will of the eater This Manna hath sweetnesse vnto the faith of the faithfull receyuers so and so disposed 4 Many of the Iewes were grieuously punished for that they contemned Manna saying our soule loathed this light meate Numb 21.5 So S Paul sheweth 1. Cor 1● 30. That in his time many were weake and sick among thē for that this most diuine Sacrament was dispised and many vnworthily communicated 6 The sixt Figure was the Arke for like as the Arke saith Th. Aquinas was made of Shitim wood Exod. 25.10 that is to say of shining and pure cedar so was this of the most pure bodie of the Sonne of God Againe the Arke was guilded within without which may resemble the wisdom loue of Christ. Ther were 3. things in the ark of speciall note The golden pot the rod of Aaron and the two tables of the law The golden pot contayning Manna may betoken the soule of Christ contayning the fulnesse of the dietie The rod of Aaron his priestly power the two tables that he was the eternal lawmaker But the holy scripture maketh mention of two things principally concerning the Arke which do maruellously appeare in this Sacrament The one that by the befite of the Arke the people were not onely preserued but much pestered The other that God grieuously punished those who vnworthily entreated this A●ke or gaue not worthie reuerence vnto the same we reade Samuel 1. 4. when the people of Israel in one warre against the Philistines had lost foure thousand men they procured that the Arke was brought into their tents hoping that by the presence thereof to obtaine the victorie But the contrary happened for the Arke of God was taken by the enemie and 30000. men perished of the host of Israel for their peruerse life and small pietie The Philistines also which vnworthily handled the Ark setting it with their idolatrie so sharply were they punished but chiefly the men of Ashdod as that the holy scripture saith 1. Sam. 5. The hand of God was greeuous vpon them 7 A figure of this Sacrament was the meale of Helizeus 1. King 4. when the prophet commaunded that certaine hearbes should bee sodde for the children of the prophets they tasting them found that they were so bitter that they cryed to Helizeus O man of God death is in the pot Wherefore the holy prophet cast meale into the pot wherewith he tooke away the bitternes So Christ by meale or bread of the Sacrament taketh away the bitternesse of our afflictions causeth that they bring vs life and not death 8 A figure of this most holy institution was that great Passeouer which K. Hezechiah kept 2. Chron. 30.17 whē he prayed for the people that God would be mercifull vnto him that prepared his hart to seeke the Lord God of his Fathers though hee were not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary when he spake comfortably vnto the Leuits the whole multitude kept the feast with great ioy Our Hezechiah hath not onely praied for the purifying of his people but hath sanctified them spoken comfortably kept a ioyfull passeouer such as neuer was in Israel Names of excellencie attributed vnto the holy Sacrament and gathered out of the writings of ancient Fathers O Great Sacrament O Inestimable Sacrament O Diuine Sacrament O Most noble Sacrament O Pure Misterie O Venerable Misterie O Eternall Misterie O Laudable Misterie O misterie of Pietie O misterie of Peace O Holy of holies O Blessing O Hidden Manna A short Meditation vppon these names of excellencie WHat couldest thou do most merciful Lord for vs and our good that thou hast not done Thou hast taken our fraile nature vpon thee and giuen vs thy diuine thou hast freely offered vnto vs the riches of thy mercie the treasures of thy grace the abundance of thy loue by this great inestimable and most diuine Sacrament by this blessed pure and venerable misterie the mistery of peace and pietie the holy of holies the hidden Manna whereby it is euident with what flames of loue thou didst burne whose delight is to shew mercy And because the