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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11083	A treatise of the preparation to the holy supper of our onely saueour and redeemer, Iesus Christe Necessarie for all them that vvil vworthely approche to the Lordes holy table. Also a dialogue containing the principall points, which they that wil recieue the Supper ought to knowe and vnderstand. By Yues Rouspeau minister of the vvord of God. Ttanslated [sic] out of French into English by R.B.; Traitté de la preparation à la saincte cene. English.	Rouspeau, Yves.; R. B., fl. 1570.	1570 (1570)	STC 21351.5; ESTC S106673	28,200	65

also how excessiuely he caused the Israelites to woork without any hope of wages how he wold not suffer them by any meanes to sacrifice to the Lord nor to go foorth of the land of Egipt Which thing continued not for one yéer or two but for the space of foure hundred thirty yéeres Heer may we liuely beholde a draught of our misery We were all lost and destroyed in Adam We were holden captiues in the helly Egipt vnder the tiranny of a spirituall Pharaoh which is the Deuil This tirant was strong and mightie he suffred vs not to serue our god He made vs to labour incessantly in slauish and vnfrutefull woorks of sin to the establishment of his owne kingdome He flew not onely our men Children but he led vs all indiferently to vtter ruin and destrustion And this tiranny bad not onely cōtinued for a certain time but had béen eternall and for euer parmanent if the mercy and power of our God had not plucked vs out of it by the ministery of the true Moyses which is our Lord Iesus Christe who is the true Lamb whiche the heauenly Father hath deliuered to death to deliuer vs from it and purchase vs eternal life As it is said that God so looued the world that he hath giuē his only begotten sonne that who soeuer beléeueth in him should not perish but haue euerlasting life Now then seeing this good God hath doon in vs so great a pleasure as to frée vs from the tiranny of the Deuil of sinne of death of hel séeing the his looue was so great that he deliuered his onely Sonne to the cruel and ignominious death of the crosse for vs which were the seruants and bond slaues of Sathan his welbelooued for vs whiche were his enemies the iust and the Lamb without spot for vs which were sinners and corrupt the onely heir of Paradise for vs which were worthely heires of hel ought we not tobe rauished with admiration of this great and vnspeakable looue of God towards vs and our tungs tobe for euer displayed to publish with loud voice the praise of the benefit of our redēption It is very resonable and therfore we sée that Iesus Christe admonisheth vs of our duty in this behalf speaking of the selebration of the holy Supper Doo this in remembrance of me And S. Paule expresseth what remembrāce this is whē he aduertiseth vs that as often as we shall eat this bread drink this cup we shew the Lords death til he come Seeing then the God requireth of vs a true acknowledging of his benefits whiche we receiue at his hands boūtifulnes by the menes of our Lord Iesus Christ let vs take héed that we be not spotted with the fault of in gratitude especially if we will not incur the wrathfull displeasure of God and acknowledge him for Iudge whome we would not acknowledge for a gentle and merciful father as S. Paule also to this purpose thretneth the ingrate and forgetful when he saith whosoeuer shall eate this bread and drinck the cup of the Lord vnworthely eateth and drinketh his owne damnation And rightfully is the vengeance of God displayed against them which wickedly suppresse the glory of God in that that concerneth their owne saluation For if so be that a murderer redy to be hanged for his wicked déeds casting away reiecting his Princes gratious pardon not vouchsauing to thank him for it deserueth worthely the gallous or if a Childe deserue the rod for not giuing once I thank you to his father when he hath receiued at his hands great and singuler benefits much more we whiche for our sinful and wicked déeds deserue tobe hanged in hel if we contemne the grace of God our souerain prince and make no count of this euerlasting benefits which our heuenly father presenteth vs withall in Iesus Christe who is offered to vs in the Supper by good right reason we are worthy to perish for our vnkindenes and vnthankfulnes But héer must we diligently mark the points that folowe First this acknowledging must be made to one only God by his only sonne Iesus Christ For euen as God by his onely sonne hath created vs redéemed vs frō euerlasting death so wil he that to him alone by him alone in whome he is wel pleased we render thanks for all his benefits As we sée how S. Paule setteth this foorth vnto vs in many places and precisely in the Epistle to the Ephesians where he saith Blessed be God euen the father of our Lord Iesus Christe whiche hath blessed vs with all his spirituall blessing in Heaueuly things in Christe as he hath chosen vs in him before the foundation of the world but they which call vpon Saints and put their trust in them or in their merits they also whiche make them patrons and aduocates to God warde and like wise they whiche trust in their owne strength in their owne frée will or good woorks rob God of his glory and can not giue him true thanks for the benefit of redemption For we cannot giue to any creature the least iot that may be in the matter of our saluation but wee commit sacriledge against God the creator And therfore renouncing our selues and euery liuing creature let vs say with the Apostle vnto the King euerlasting immortall inuisible vnto God only wise be honor and glory for euer and euer Amen Secondly thanks must be giuen not with the mouth only but with the hart also For séeing that God is a spirit he riquireth a seruice of vs that is agréeable to his nature that is to say he wil be serued of vs in spirit and trueth And therfore when that praising of God for the benefit of redemption cōmeth in question we must haue our harts lift vp on hye and there must be a consent and mutuall agréement betwéen our inwarde affections and our tungs as we sée how Dauid exhorteth himself to the same when he saith My soule praise thou the Lord all the is within me praise his holy nāe My soule I say praise thou the Lord forget not all his benefits And the blessed Virgin singeth the self same in her song saying My soule magnifieth the Lord and my spirit reioyceth in God my Saueour now all hipocrits and wicked persons also they that sing praise in an vnknowen tung are héer reprooued For where there is no vnderstanding ther is no affection nor wil and consequently no Faith without which what soeuer we doo be it neuer so faire and glorious before men it is but sinne and abhomination before god Let vs take héed therfore the in this be half we wander not and go astray lest we be condemned with the Ievvish people whiche honored and serued God in vain in so muche as they came néer vnto him onely with their mouthes and honoured him with their lips but not with their harts Thirdly it must be doon at all

meat and drinck all of the self same spirituall drink in that also that we all pretend as Brethren to one self same inheritance whiche is the kingdome of He auen ought not this inflame vs with true and hot looue Finally the making of the bread and wine of the Supper dooth teach vs asso what vnitie and concord we ought to haue one with an other for as we sée that the bread is made of many cornes and yet not withstanding afterwards is but one selfe same lump of Bread as we see also that the Wine is made of many clusters of grapes and yet after it is made is but one onely wine in like sort must the Christians whiche are many in them selues be ioyned togither thorow looue into one body which is the Church wherof Iesus Christe ought tobe the onely hed and leader But we must note that this looue wherunto we are exhorted by so many reasons of the Supper cānot be where there is enuy brauling cōtencions rancour debate diuision and therfore before we com to the Supper whiche is a witnesse of our agréement aswel with Christ as with his congregation if we haue had any strife and cōtention with our brethern we must loouingly reconsile our selues vnto them If any man haue offended vs wée must frankly and fréely forgiue our brethrē yea our enemies as we would that that good God should pardon vs and as wée sée how Iesus Christ our Lord hath left vs an example of this looue when he prayed to God his father for his enemies whiche put him to death as we rede also that S. Stephen did the same Again we must also mark that this looue ought tobe practised in all estates Kings must looue their subiects they must be Nurces of the church of God loouers of cōmon peace they must vse their people with all moderation and clemency So likewise must the people honor the king they must pay him their tribute faithfully they must be obedient to all his Lieutenants and Officers The Pastour must looue his flock he must watch take paines and pray incessantly for it So like wise must the shéep looue their pastour the Fathers their children the Children their fathers and Mothers the Wife the husband and the Husband the wife the Maisters their seruants the Seruants their maisters and euery one in his calling must indeuer to exercise looue in the vocation whervnto God hath called him For other wise it wil be impossible for vs to doo our duties faithfully aswel toward god as toward men if the rule of looue doo not guide and gouern vs in all our dooings Article 5. Necessary obseruations for them that wil come to the Lords table IN the articles aforesaid consisteth the true examining of our selues notwithstanding we must take good héed to these points and notes which folow First we haue to note that we must not rast our heds and bend our braines to examine curiously an other mannes life as many doo whiche stretch out and scanne so narowly the blemishes of their Brethren that they forget their owne It is to be wished and we must procure it asmuch as lyeth in vs that the Church of God may be maintained in puritie without shew of offence But for so muche as in this worlde Corne shall alwaies be mixed with chaffe wéeds with whete good fish with bad Iudas with true Apostles foolish Virgins with wise yet none of vs must be offended therfore and moreouer let euery man indeuour to finde that perfection in him self which he desireth to bring into an other Secondly we must not think that faith repentance giuiuing of thanks looue and other vertues which God requireth of vs can be perfet héer in this world for there wil be alwaies in vs what regēerate and new borne so euer we be some remnants of sinne of incredulitie of lacke of repentance of vnthankfulnesse and of selflooue which is directly contrary and opposite to the true looue of our neighboure As long as we liue the flesh wil fight against the Spirite the Deuill and the Worlde wil make war against vs as the life of the Patriarches Prophets and Apostles doo sufficiently witnesse vnto vs so that euen to the last breath of our life we shall haue néed to craue of our God that he would forgiue vs our sinnes through his sōne Iesus Christe Notwitstanding so far it is that the imperfections which are in vs should cause vs to drawe back from God and from this holy banquet that rather so that we are displeased with our selues for thē they ought to cause vs to come the sooner to the intent that as poore famished creatures we might more gréedily and with greater desire receiue Iesus Christe which is the true shepherd of our soules Thirdly although it be not required to the worthy cōming to the Supper to haue a perfit faith perfit repentance perfit giuing of thanks perfit looue yet must they be notwithstanding true and procéed from the hart and from the Spirit Our faith must not be fained our repentaunce must not be counterfait and painted as that of Hipocrites the thanks whiche we giue to God must not come onely from the mouth neither must we loue our brethren in word only and not in déed but let the whole profession of our faith and christen life abooue all things be far frō ostententation hipocrisie so the we take more paines to be good Christians in déed and before God then to be so counted and taken before men ¶ Against them that vvillingly and of set purpose abstain from the holy Supper of the lord Article 6. AS there are many which doo amis in presenting them selues vnworthyly to the communion so there are many which doo amisse on the contrary side in that they wil by no meanes come nor present them selues to this holy banquet For feare of communicating as they say vnworthyly and so consequently tobe culpable of the body and blood of Iesus Christe But let them that so abstain of set purpose frō the Lords holy table knowe that it is no lesse fault vp on an vnthankfulnesse and cōtempt to abstain from the holy and sacred meats whiche God presenteth to vs at the Supper then to receiue it vnworthely as we see that a Patient which beeing very sick maketh no account of the receipt and dyet whiche the Phisition hath prescribed is no lesse faulty then he which abuseth or vseth it not competently as the Phisition hath appointed Therefore let not this sort of people flatter them selues as though by this meanes they could be excused bothe before God and men séeing that it is a most certain trueth that so haynous an ingratitude is in no wise tobe admitted or worthy excuse For first of all such men doo willingly contemn the commaundemēt of Iesus Christ which saith to all his doo this take ye eat ye Secondly they contemne the blessed remembrance of