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A13780 Here beginneth a song of the Lordes Supper Tilney, Edmund, d. 1610, attributed author.; Tilney, Emery, d. 1606, attributed author. 1550 (1550) STC 24078; ESTC S108085 24,437 64

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nother so encreaseth our faithe lyke the musterde sead aftyr many ioyfull cōfortable promyses in Crist he promiseth to geue vs his own body to be crucifyed and his bloude to be forthe drawne into the forgeuenes of our synnes When our faith therfore apprehēdeth this promise stedfastly then may not syn nor deth fere vs nomore for dethe is swallowed vp into victory the sting of dethe is blonted y ● power strength of syn euen the lawe is enerued one ioynte shakē from a nother all by the victory of Cristes deth resurreccion whiche victorye is geuen to vs by Iesu Crist. To confirme this conflicte and progresse of mā from vnder the lawe vnto grace haue here playne examples of y ● storye of the childern of Israel whiche so long as they sawe Pharao his hoste at their tayles they were afrayed and ded baptyzed in the red sea which was a shadewe and fygure of our baptisme but when thei sawe their goyde Moses before them hearing this cōfortable gospell y t is to weit Be not afrayd be you still The Lorde will fyght for you and so sawe y ● waters smyten with Aarons staffe diuyded before their eyes the staffe of y ● worde of God diuideth from vs the waters of adfliccion they went thorow gladly sewerly with grete glory and triumphe synging on the tother syde when they loking bak sawe their enymyes drowned with the same waters that were their saluacion Many siche passages had they those .xl. yeres so often tempted eftsone conforted agene Siche dayly passages we feel in our selues syn dethe hell assaughting vs to dryue vs vnder grace vnto the whiche we ar come so sone as we heare Crist saying Take herte cōfidence to you for I haue ouercomen syn deth hell The waters of trowble must nedis be deuyded and geue place to as many as aspyre vnto the grace of the gospell What els was fygured by the turning of their eyes from the fyery stinging serpentes vnto the brasone serpēt exalted in the wyldernes There was a grete wrestling all the night betwixt Iacob the aungell whiche fygured our state vnder the .ij. degre of the lawe whom Iacob wold not let go tyll in the morning the aungell had blessed hym and tolde hym his name also changed Iacobs name for Israell whylis we therfore se our synnes in our selues in the lawe whiche worketh wrathe Ro. iiij maketh synne to abownde and encrease Ro. vij we ar Iacobites wresteling in derkenes with an vnknowne messagere working a strange worke to do his owne in making vs Israelites that is trewe faithfull beholding and acknowleging God to be our God forgeuing vs our synnes in Crist This aungell of God yf we perseuer in this derke and perellouse batayle with hym vnder the lawe wyll gladly geue vs y ● victory vnder the bryght morning of the grace of the gospell at last aftir grete longe affliccion cōfort vs with his name tolde vs to be our almighty one alone for all sufficient sauiour As did Ioseph aftyr long trowbling fering molesting his brethrē father to at last with teares wepīg shewed hymself to be their owne brother Ioseph whom god had sent thither before for their grete counfort Let vs therfore fyght cōstantly contende in this mightly batail to excercyse our faithe that we might be enstructe armed with pacience peace of conscience vntyll the morning of Cristis counfort helpe be sprongen ouer vs albeit yet we halt withe Israell one the one foot that is to saye we feele our flesshe alto weak to walke vpright in Cristes precepts our affects strogling yet agenst his spirit This miche be sayd for the feling trying of our selues to be prepared vnto the worthey receyuing of the Lordis souper ¶ The institucion of the souper of the Lorde UUhen Crist sate at his last souper w t his disciples he toke the brede in his handes gaue thankes to his father and broke it gaue to euery one of his disciples thereof saying Take it eat it this is my bodye which is broken for you And lyke wyse of the cuppe saying This cuppe is the newe testament or couenant in my blode Se that ye do this as oft as ye shal do it do it into the remembrance of me Let vs now beholde obserue diligently for our doctryne the accion with all the circunstances of this souper we shall s●●with y ● eye of our faith meruellouse present consolaciō ▪ Wherfore this holy souper ought hyghly with all reuerence to be eaten treated Here we se with our bodely eyes the holy brede brokē the holy wyne powerdforth for holy it is nowe cōsecrated into so holy an vse but with y ● eye of our faith we se presently Cristis body broken this bloude forth● powerd into the remissiō of our synnes Agene we see with our exterior eyes y ● brede wyne geuen to vs but with the eye of our faith we se as presently his body crucifyed his blode shede geuen vs Now is his body thus broken and his blode thus shed all togither ours foreuer Now is Crist thus once suffering rysen sitting on the right hand of his father all ours w t is perpetuall prayer For what thing is more frely ours then that whiche is geuen vs with his owne mouthe delyuered vs with his owne handis into our hādis mouthes yea but wherefore is he thus geuen vs verely to eate and to drinke hym That at we eate drinke bodely is receyued into our bodyes conuerted into our substance made all one flesshe blode with ours we all one with it And her must we ascende into that spirituall eating drinking by faith whereof Crist spoke Io. vi saying My wordis ar spirit and lyfe the flesshe profiteth not It is the spirit y t geueth this lyfe wherof y e iuste lyueth It is the soule that eateth lyueth by this bread not our bodyes of the which eting saith Io. Who so eteth my flesshe drinketh my blode he dwelleth in me I in hym Nowe therefore our soules thus eating hym by faith haue Crist present he is in vs by grace gouerning vs with his holy goste And he y t gaue vs hymself it cannot be other wyse but with hym is geuē vs also all y t is his ether done or suffred of hym in his bodye Then ar we sewer by our faith in this worde Dedit dicens accipite he gaue it vs saying take it that he is ours w t all his He was borne therfore for vs of his mother y t we shuld be borne agene by baptim of the holy goste He was borne for vs the sonne of man y t we thorow hym might be the sonnes of God he was tempted for vs and bore awaye the victory
eting God marked and sealled to hym the Iewes By baptyme the souper Christ gathereth sealleth to hym the gentyles and Iewes to as many as wyl beleue ¶ A declaracion of Baptyme by the waye of a diuision UHer ar two maner of Baptismes the vtwarde locion or wasshing with the water and wordis of institucion And the inwarde wasshing of the soule with the spirituall water called the holy gost Of the first baptyme it is wryten Matth. the last Go your wayes teche all maner nacions baptyzinge them into the name of the father of the sone and holy gost Of the seconde and inwarde bapty which stondeth vpon faith in beleuing the wordis of promyse It is wryten Mar. the last Whoso beleue and be baptyzed shalbe saued Of this inwarde spirituall bapt called the regeneracion frome aboue of the spirit or second birthe by faithe It is wrytē Io. iij. Uerely verely I say vnto you except a man be borne frome aboue that is to saye of y ● water there called y ● holy gost for so expowneth Ihon hymself in the .iiij. .vij. and Isaye .xliiij he may not come into the kyngdome of God This birthe declareth Io. also in the .i. cap. of his gospell and in .i. Io. v. saying Euery man that beleueth Iesus to be Christ is borne of God The first baptyme may be withoute the seconde as in them y ● be cristened be not chosen as was Symon Magns Act. viij Iudas And the seconde without the first as in the elect that dye before they be baptized with water so that it be not neglected nor cōtempned of them Nether the first auayleth without the secōde The first bapt with water representeth signifyeth the secōde as it is sayd before The sacraments ar sensible signes to cōuaye the spirituall thingis signifyed by them into our hertis soulis As did the circūcision of the flesshe bring in the circuncision of the spirit into the herte Which saith Paule profiteth not yf y u kepest not the couenāt smytē in the lawe Gen̄ xvij seled w t the seal of circūcision Ro. ij When we be baptyzed into the name of the father sone holy gost It is promysed by Crist That whoso beleueth is baptyzed he shalbe saued Here is a promyse of our saluacion not for because we be baptized with water for then shulde we be saued by the creature of water and not by Crist but because we beleue the promyse of God promysing saluacion in Cristis bloude whiche beleif bringeth vs into the seconde birthe to be borne a new of the spirit Io. ii● and .i. Io. v. Nowe whoso therowe the beleif in this promyse is borne a newe he hathe yet a nother to encrease his faithe from promyse to promyse and from faithe to faithe Rom. i. ca. that as the promyses come so groweth our faithe as the mustarde sead as in Galat. iij. cap. who so euer ye be that ar baptized of the spirit ye haue done Christ vpon you To do Christ vpon vs is to be made lyke or of one mynde with hym to be incorporated or graffed into hym Ro. vi for it folowth Galat. iij. all ye ar one in Iesu Christ which doyng on Christ vpon vs was well fygured into the grete confort of Adam and Eue vs all Gene. iij. when God to kouer their shameful nakednes made them shepes pylches cotes of shepes skynnes to endewer and defende them agenst all stormey tempestes adding vnto them saying Lo Adam is made as one of vs to knowe good and euill Here they sawe by faith the seconde persone Christ God man that innocent lombe as Isay. prophecyed lii● and Io. bapt poynted hym with his singer Io. i. to come and to be slayne for their synnes that they and we might be kouered and clothed w t his rightwysones holynes innocencye wysedome .i. Cor. i. Syn did sette God and vs at discorde The mediatour or reconcyler y t agreeth God and man is Christ Iesus i. Timo. ij By faith we ar graffed into Christ. The hyghest felicite lyfe most blessed is to be ioyned for euer vnto God the moste hyghe goodnes Christ is comē into y ● flesshe to ioyne all faithfull vnto the most hyghe god wherfore he is come to geue vs this most ioyouse felicite The some of the hole gospell lawe prophetis consisteth in this That God the father hath restored his faithfull vnto lyfe by his sone Christ in whō he hath ioyned and knyt vs vnto hym that with hym for his sake only we might be partakers of all thing y t good is In this some stondeth forth all our saluacion before our eyes in euery fygure ceremonye sacrament and in euery parte of the scripture but yet diuerse wayes nowe here in playne and aperte wordis and there eftsone wrapped and kouered vnder figures and sweet similitudes In playne wordis as in Io. his first ca. of his .i. epistle and of his gospell saying and that worde was made mā and dwelt in vs also that our felowship might be with the father and with his sone Iesu Crist. i. Io. i. That thei might be one also as ar we saith Crist to his father Io. xvij that is to saye that thei mought all be of one felowship with vs partakers of our comon glorye Oh holy father saith Crist now I praye y ● not onely for theis my apostels but also for all them that ar to beleue in me thorow their preching that they mought all be of one faithe spirit of one cōsent into our glorye as ye rede Ro xb That y ● worlde might beleue y t thou hast sent me that I haue geuē them the glorye which y u hast geuē me that they might be of one felowship consent partakers of the same glorye that we haue Io. xvij Here ye se howe the gospell tēdeth into a vnite knot whereby we ar ioyned togither with God the father Crist by his spirit Of the whiche vnite Baptisme and the Lordis souper ar the sacraments In figures also is y ● same thing spokē in many places which fyguratyue speches as thei haue some obscurite so haue they a certayne grace ar mich pleasaunt in them selues Is when Io. expresseth this vnite societe of man w t God Crist vnder the names of father sonnes calling vs the sonnes of God goten by faithe in our seconde baptisme of the sead of the worde thorow the spirit as in Io. i. as many as haue receyued hym he gaue them power to be made the sonnes of God c. in the first pistle of Io. v. .iij. Also this vniō coniunccion of vs w t God is fygured in y ● he calleth hymself the wynestok vs the braunches Io. xv Also by y ● mariages in the gospell calling hymself the brydegrome vs the spowse yea by y ● eating of his