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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68750	A treatise of the Lords supper in two sermons.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 22705; ESTC S113471	39,426	100

from this Text for at that time Christ had no glorified bodie When this Sacrament was instituted and Christ said This is my bodie his bodie was not glorified because the Sacrament was instituted before his death and his bodie was glorified after his resurrection Therefore if they receiue the same bodie which the Apostles receiued as they say they do they caÌ„not receiue a glorified body because then Christ had not a glorified bodie to communicate vnto them Thus the rocks and sands are of both sides them they receiue a bodie neither mortall nor immortall if Christ hath any such bodie iudge you Here they stand like a foole which cannot tell one his tale Nebucadnezar dreamed a dreame and knew not what it meant Beside I aske them to whome Christ spake when he said This is my bodie Marke saith he spake to them that is to his Disciples well then if these wordes This is my bodie were not spoken to the signes but to the persons not to the bread and wine but to the receiuers as the words which follow Do this in remembrance of me if these wordes were not spoken to the bread and wine then it is plaine that they doe not change the nature of the bread and wine If the nature of them be not altered then the substance remaineth and then we receiue no other substance with them because two substances cannot be in one place What then is there nothing in the Sacrament but bread and wine like a hungrey nunscion Nay we say not that the Sacrament is nothing but a bare signe or that you receiue no more than you see for Christ saith that it is his bodie and Paul saith that it is the Communion of Christs bodie and bloud Therefore there is more in Sacramentall bread than in common breade though the nature be not changed yet the vse is changed it doth not onely nourish the body as it did before but it bringeth a bread with it which nourisheth the soule for as sure as we receiue bread so sure we receiue Christ not only the benefites of Christ but Christ although not in a Popish maner yet we are so ioyned vnto him as though we were but one body As the spouse doth not marry with the lands goods but with the man himselfe being partaker of him is made partaker of them so the faithfull do not onely marry with Christes benefites but with Christ him selfe being partakers of him they are made partakers of his benefites for Christ may not be diuided from his benefites no more than the Sunne from his light It is said the Father gaue vs his sonne and so the Sonne giueth vs him selfe As the bread is a signe of his bodie so the giuing of the bread is a signe of the giuing of his body Thus he lyeth before vs like a Pellican which letteth her yong ones sucke her bloud so that we may say the Lord inuited vs to Supper and he himselfe was our meate But if you aske how this is I must answere it is a mysterie but if I could tell it it were no mysterie Yet as it is said when three men walked in the middest of the fornace One like the Sonne of God walked amongest them So when the faithfull receiue the Bread and Wine one like the Sonne of God seemeth to come vnto them which fils them with peace and ioy and grace that they maruell what it was which they receiued besides bread and wine For example thou makest a bargaine with thy neighbour for house or land and receiuest in earnest a peece of gold that which thou receiuest is but a peece of gold but now it is a signe of thy bargaine if thou keep not touch with him happelie it will claspe thee for all that thou art worth so that which thou receiuest is bread but this bread is a signe of another matter which passeth bread Againe thou hast an Obligation in thy hand I aske thee what hast thou there and thou saiest I haue here an hundreth pounds why say I there is nothing but paper ynke and waxe oh but by this saiest thou I will recouer an hundreth pounds that is as good So beloued this is as good that vnder these signes you receiue the vertue of Christs body bloud by faith as if you did eate his bodie and drinke his bloud indeede which is horrible to thinke that any should deuour their god thinking thereby to worship him neuer any Heretike nor Idolater conceiued so grosly of their God before the Papist We reade of a people which did eate men but neuer of any people which did eate their God Al the Apostles say that it was needfull that Christ should take our flesh but no Apostle saith that it is needfull that we should take Christs flesh for all the blessings of Christ are apprehended by faith and nothing is fit to appreheÌ„d him whom we see not but faith and therfore one of their own pillars said Beleeue thou hast eaten Faith doth more in Religion than the mouth or else we might say with the woman Blessed are the brests which gaue thee sucke and so none should be blessed but Mary but Mary was not blessed because Christ was in her bodie but because Christ was in her heart and least this should seeme incredible vnto you because Mary is called blessed among women When Christ heard the womaÌ„ say Blessed are the brests which gaue thee sucke he replied vnto her Blessed are they which heare the word of God and keepe it these are my brethren and sisters and mother sayth Christ as though the rest were no kin to him in heauen though they were kin in earth Thus if Christ were in thy body thou shouldest say as this woman Blessed is the bodie which hath thee in it nay would Christ say Blessed is the heart which hath me in it If Mary were no whit better for hauing Christ in her armes nor for hauing him in her bodie how much better art thou for hauing him in thy bellie where thou canst not see him Must the Sunne needes come to vs or else cannot his heâ—â—â— and light profite vs nay it doth vs more good because it is so farre off so this Sunne is gone from vs that he might giue more light vnto vs which made him say It is good for you that I go froÌ„ you therfore away with this carnall eating of spiritual things Many daughters haue done vertuously but thou saith Salomon surpassest theÌ„ all So many hereticks haue spokeÌ„ absurdly but this surpasseth theÌ„ all that Christ must be applied like Phisicke as though his bloud could not profit vs vnles we did drinke it and swallow it as a potion Is this the Papistes vnion with Christ Is this the manner whereby we are made one flesh with Christ to eate his flesh Nay when he tooke our flesh vnto him and was made man

A TREATISE OF THE LORDS Supper in two Sermons Imprinted at London by R. Field for Thomas Man dwelling in Paternoster row at the signe of the Talbot 1591. To the Reader IN the first sermon the aduersarie is confuted In the second sermon the Communicants are prepared In both are many obseruations and the words of the text expounded Now labor for thy selfe as I haue labored for thee I would haue thee profit somewhat more by this booke because it hath weakened me more then all the rest Farwell A Treatise of the Lords Supper in two Sermons The first Sermon 1. Cor. 11. 23. 24. The Lord Iesus in the night that he was betrayed tooke bread And when he had giuen thanks he brake it and said Take eate this is my bodie which is broken for you this dayes in remembrance of me THE Word and the Sacraments are the two breasts wherewith our mother doth nurse vs. Seeing euerie one receiueth and few vnderstand what they receiue I thought it the necessariest doctrine to preach of the SacrameÌ„t which is a witnes of Gods promises a remembraÌ„ce of Christs death a seale of our adoptioÌ„ therfore Christ hath not instituted this Sacrament for a fashion in his Church to touch and feele and see as we gaze vpon pictures in the windowes but as the woman which had the bloudie issue touching the hemme of Christes garmeÌ„t drew vertue from Christ himselfe because she beleeued So Christ would that we touching these signes should draw vertue from himself that is all the graces which these signes represent Therefore as the Leuits vnder the Law were bound to prepare their brethren before they came to the Passeouer so preachers of the Gospel should prepare their brethreÌ„ before they come to the Supper of the Lord. For which purpose I haue chosen this place to the Corinthians which is the clearest fullest declaration of this Sacrament in all the scripture The Lord Iesus in the night c The summe of all these words is the institution and vse of the Lords Supper First Paul sheweth the author of it The Lord Iesus then the time when it was instituted in the night that he was betrayed then the manner how he did institute it he tooke bread and when he had giuen thankes he brake it and gaue vnto his Disciples c. then the end why he did institute it for a remembrance of his death Touching the author he which is signified by it was the author of it The Lord Iesus hath bid vs to supper I am not worthy saith Iohn to loose his shoe so we are not worthy to waite at his trencher and yet he wil haue vs sit at his table To him belongeth the power to ordaine Sacraments in his Church because he fulfilled the Sacraments of the Law When Christ came the Passeouer ceased because he is our Passeouer that is the Lamb by whose bloud we are saued When Christ came Circumcision ceased because he is our Circumcision that is the purifier and clenser of our sinnes Now these two sacraments are fulfilled he hath appointed two other Sacraments for them in steed of the paschall Lambe which the Iewes did eate he hath giuen vs another Lamb to eate which Iohn calleth the Lambe of God that is himselfe vpon whom all do feede whosoeuer do receiue this Sacrament with an assured faith that Christ died to possesse them of life The breaking of the bread doth signifie the wounding of his bodie the powring of the wine doth signifie the shedding of his blood The eating of the bread and drinking of the wine doth signifie that his flesh and bloud doe nourish in vs life eternal as the bread and wine do nourish the life present In steed of Circumcision which began at AbrahaÌ„ he hath ordained Baptisme which began at Iohn a more liuely representation of the true circumcision of the hart because it representeth vnto vs the bloud of Christ which washeth our soules as the water in Baptisme washeth our bodies Touching the time In the night saith Paul therefore this Sacrament is called The Lords Supper because it was instituted at night when they vsed to sup But what night euen that night saith Paul when he was betrayed that night which he should haue cursed as Iob did the day of his birth if he had suffred against his will that night when hee should haue thought to destroy men as men conspired to destroy him that night saith Paul this Sacrament of grace and peace and life began Euen that night when we betrayed him Manie nights did he spend in watching and praying for vs is there a night now for vs to kill betray him That was a darke night when men went about to put out the sonne which brought them light Who can but wonder to see how Christ they for whom Christ came were occupied at one time when they deuised mischief against him sought all meanes to destroy him then he consulted how to saue them and instituted the same night this blessed Sacrament to conuay all his graces and blessings vnto them Euen that night when they betrayed him The reason why this actioÌ„ was deferred vntill night is because that was the time appointed by the Law to eate the Passeouer which was like a predecessor of this Sacrament The reason why he deferred vntill his last night was because the Passeouer could not be ended before the fulnesse of time and the true Paschal Lambe were come to be slaine in stead of the other Therefore how fitlie did Christ ende the Passeouer which was a signe of his suffering so presently before his suffering And beside how sweetly did he confirme his disciples faith when as they should see that the next day performed before their eyes which ouernight both in the Passeouer and in the Sacrament was so liuely resembled vnto them If any from this do gather that we ought to eate the Lords supper at night as Christ did he must vnderstand that we haue not the same cause to do so which Christ had because of the Passeouer And therefore the Church which hath discretion of times and places hath altered both the time and the place vsing the temples in stead of the chamber and the morning in stead of the euening for indifferent things are ruled by order decencie Touching the maner He tooke bread and when he had giuen thankes he brake it and gaue it vnto them He would not eate it nor breake it before he had giueÌ„ thankes to God What neede he which was God giue thankes to God but to shew vs what we should doe when we eate our selues In all things giue thankes saith Paul whereby we declare that all things come from God but the wicked beleeue easier that God doth take than that he doth giue and therefore they neuer pray heartily vnto him for any thing nor

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