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A16278	The fortresse of fayth defended both by the Scripture, and doctors / gathered by the learned German Bodonius ; and translated out of Latine into English by Edward Crane.	Bodonius, Stephanus.; Crane, Edward.	1570 (1570)	STC 3195; ESTC S1817	30,160	80

haue dayly do arise and for the better confirming of their credite I haue set before their words such textes of the holy scriptures as they do most ground vpon and in these fewe questions you may easely and wel perceaue what false and erronious opinions haue bene raysed of the rest therfore God graunt vs so to waye and diligently consider hereof that we may truely knowe his blessed will and plesure as also frame our liues and workes therafter to his glory to the helpe of our poore brothers necessitie Amen ¶ Your graces most humble seruaunt E. Crane ¶ THE EPISTLE TO the Reader SIth that gentell Reader in this our age we do plainely see many Bookes and innumerable sorte therof to be setforth which do not onely cleane ouerthrowe the mind of the Reader But also do allure and drawe thee in into schismes and most pestiferous sectes Therfore I did think● it would be a more fitte worke to renewe the olde moniments and workes of our Fathers which by occasion of tyme and rashnes of writers haue bene peruerted then to setforth any new matter And such workes ought most chefely to haue credite geuen to them which haue there original of our excelent roote and stocke and which doth flowe out of a good stone and runne out of a most excellent fountaine or welspringe as are those which be drawne out of the Buttries of the old Catholike Doctors which vnder the choyse of wordes haue powred out the deuine spirite in such sorte that all the worlde maye easely vnderstand and chuse an immortall lyfe as also knowe what is good and what is euill and as sone as like vnto diligent and paynefull Bees you haue drawne out the swete hony more precious then Rosemarie out of the swete flowers of our holy Fathers and hath layed them vppe in the hyue of your minde there is no doubte but that you shall haue floddes of water of lyfe sesoninge and with force watering the poore thirstie Church of our Sauiour Christ farthermore euery purpose or Arte hath his princes of whom it is led by as of capitaines which doth most sone and with great expidition bring our purpose to that effect which otherwise our wittes would hardly comepasse as I knowe him which is setforth or fygured to me by the shape of an other which goeth or passeth by so in our lyfe we shall sone addicte our selues to followe other mens examples as it is sayd of old liuely examples sticketh in the mind wherof as Heronimus doth witnes the Romanes did follow as leaders capitaynes the Camillians the Fabricians and the Scipians The Philosophers hath apoynted maisters of there Arte. Pythagoras Socrates Plato and Aristotle The Poets do followe Homere Virgill Menander and Terens The historians Thucidides Salust Herodatus and Liuius The Orators Licias Graccus Demosthenes and Tullie The Painters or caruers Appelles Dedalus Iason But we which labour for and seeke the moste excellent giftes of the mind and the knowledge of Christian doctrine haue so many and so great examples of our most worthy forfathers that we lacke nothing pertayning to thaugmenting or establishing of a Christian lyfe Sith that therbe an innumerable number of interpretors or Prophets of the word of God and Canonicall scriptures I thought good out of so great a number to chuse certayne which both by sinceritie and purenes of doctrine by integritie of manners by vehimens of teachinge By sharpnes of wtte doth both much affect and delight as also make vs wel instructed prepared and Armed not that the doctores themselues would haue vs farther to credite or beleue them then they do agree with the holy Scriptures as Augustine doth witnes in many places but chefely in his booke of Retractiones wh●● he sayth I nether can nor ought to denye But as there were in my forfathers so there are in my so many and huge workes many things which by iust iudgement and without any temeritie may well be erected but they haue made Arroes and dartes agaynst these Antechristes in the Church For neuer since the dayes of the Apostles vnto this our tyme vpon whom the endes of the worlde are come the Church of Christ hath bene free from those enemies althought continually the truth remaineth inuincible yet falshood doth neuer leaue of taduaunce her selfe agaist it if in this world there might be the end of lying the Church of Christ should be in quiet But this most detestable euill and sinne doth neuer rest to knocke at the harte of man and with such argumentes as one woulde not thinke to disquiet the Catholike fayth therfore it is necessary for the folowers of the troth wisely to forsee these captious Arguments and being vncouered and brought to light with the mallet of veritie and truth to beate them downe yea and euen to the death and bloudsheding for verities sake to fight against them and chefely because the holy Scriptures doth admonish and saye Be not dismayed or asrayd to speake the word for thy soule and for the troth euen to death for Paule doth desire the Romanes to marke them which cause diuision and geue occasions of euill contrary to the doctrine which they had learned and to auoyde them for they that are such serue not the Lord Iesus Christ but their owne bellies and with sweete preaching and flattering wordes disceaue the hartes of the innocents it may be that the Apostle did admonish the Romaines that they shold not be wauering in faith and in the word that they should shonne and put away Heritikes and seducers of soules But it is commaunded vnto vs that we should preach the word and should stand to it at all times and seasons we should correcte we shoulde perswade we should chide and chasten them withall patience and doctrine for the time shall come and now it is when they shall not away with true and wholsome doctrine but shall get them masters according to their owne desires which haue itchchinge eares and which turne their hearing and sence from veritie and truth vnto fables Therfore the Apostle doth exhorte vs to watch to labour and to do the workes of true gospellers let that terrible sentence of S. Chrisostome neuer be out of our eares saying he is not onely a Treatour to veritie that doth openly setforth a lye in stead of troth but he also that doth not freely without feare speake the troth Augustine saith the like in his Epistle to Casulan who soeuer for feare of any power doth hide the truth such a one doth prouoke the wrath of god vpon him because he doth more feare man then god But gentle Readers I do besech and perswade you that do wisely and simply loue the wordes of troth that you do not contemne this treasure that you haue now in your handes but both to loue it and set it forwarde for this one little Booke doth declare that which being contayned in many volumes would be hard tattaine vnto and this shall lead

theron crucified he was Buried and the third daye he rose againe assendinge into Heauen thether hath he lifte vp his body From whence he shall returne to iudge both the quicke dead and at this present there he is sitting one the right hand of God the Father then how is the bread his body and the wyne his bloud Bretherne therfore these are named Sacraments because in them there is one thing sene and another thing vnderstode therby that which you sée hath a corporall bodyly shape figure but that which is vnderstand hath a spirituall fruite and commoditie therfore if thou wilt vnderstand the Body of Christ harke what the Apostle sayth to the faithfull you are the Body of Christ and the members therfore if you are the Body of Christ and members therof then your mistery and Sacrament is set on the table of the Lorde and yet you take it for the Lordes Sacrament and you answere Amen to that which you are and by your answere therto you do subscribe therfore thou hearest the Body of Christ and in answering Amen thou art a member ther of if thy Amē be ture why thē is this done in the figure we take away nothinge of our owne then heare what the Apostle sayth againe for when he spake of this Sacrament he sayd We beinge many are made one Body and one bread vnderstand and reioyce godlines trueth charitie and vnitie in these beinge one bread we many are one Body consider that the bread is not made of one corne but of many when you were euill intreted then you were as it were ground when you are baptised you are as it were kneded put together When you haue receaued the sanctifiing of the holy Ghost you are as it were baked Therfore be that that you sée and receaue and take that that you are This the Apostle sayd astouchinge the bread euen so bretherne consider of the wyne wherof it is made wyne for many Berries and Grapes growe in one cluster but the Ieuise and liquor therof doth runne into one vnitie and substaunce so our Lord Iesus Christ hath sealed vs And hath made vs being a misterie of peace t'apertayne vnto him and the Sacrament of our vnion he hath consecrated in his moste blessed table Whosoeuer receaueth the Sacrament of vnitie and keapeth not the bond of peace receaueth it not to his profitte but as a ●itnesse against himselfe ¶ Augustine vpon Iohn tract 26. Cap. 6. HE that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud remayneth in me and I in him this is to eate that foode and to drynke that drinke to remayne and abyde in Christ and to haue Christ abiding in him And by this we sée that he that abydeth not in Christ and in whom Chryst abideth not without dout doth not spiritually eate Christ neither drinketh his bloud although carnally and visible with his teath he do receaue the Sacrament of the body and most precious bloud of Christ Christ entred not into the holy place made with handes which were examples of true thinges but he assended into heauen that now he might apeare in the fight of God for vs not that he shoulde oftentimes offer vp himselfe c. Thou wast afflicted with penury and scarsenes and god gaue thée Manna for meat with both thou fathers knew not that he might shewe vnto thée that not only by bread man liueth but by euery worde that commeth out of the Lordes mouth ¶ Augustine quinquam Psalme 89. WHen the Lord spake of his Bodye He sayd vnlesse a man eate my flesh he cannot haue lyfe euerlasting and farther sayth The wordes that I spake vnto you are spirite lyfe therfore vnderstand spiritually what I haue sayd vnto you You shall not eate this body which you sée neither shall you drinke that bloud that they will shed which shal crucifie me but I haue commended vnto you the Sacrament which being vnderstand spiritually shall gue you lyfe ¶ Libro sententiarum Augustine HE eateth the Bread of lyfe and drynketh of the cuppe of eternitie that abydeth in Christ for he that is disceuered from Christ neither doth eate Christs flesh nor drinke his bloud although dayly he receaueth the Sacrament to the iudgement of his great presumption ¶ Origen in Leuiti Homelie 7. VNderstand that they are figures that are written in the holy scripture and therfore as spirituall and not as carnall vnderstand and examine that that is sayd therin for it carnally you do vnderstand them they do hurte you and not nurrishe you There is both in the olde Testament a letter that kylleth as also in the new Testament if hit be not vnderstande spiritually for if thou dost followe the letter where as it is sayd vnlesse you eate my flesh and drinke my bloud This Letter kylleth you wilt thou that I shewe in the scriptures another Letter that kylleth he sayth he That hath not a sworde let him sell his coate and buye a sword behold this Letter is of the Gospell and yet it kylleth But according to the meaning and sprite you vnderstand it it killeth not but ther is therin contayned a quickninge spirite and therfore whatsoeuer is written either in the lawe or in the Gospel spiritually vnderstand as spirituall for he that is spirituall iudgeth all things is himselfe iudged of no man. ¶ In the same place Homeli 9. ANd thou that art come to the true Bishoppe that hath apeased Gods wrath to thée wardes by his owne bloud And hath reconsiled thée to the Father sticke not onely to the bloud of the fleshe But rather learne the bloud of the worde and heare what he sayth himselfe for this is my bloud that shal be shed for you in remission of sinnes ¶ Bernard vpon Qui habitat Verse 3. Sermond 3. VNlesse you eate the fleshe of the Sonne of man and drinke his bloud c. And they sayd this commaundment is hard and they al went backward But what is to eate his flesh to drinke his bloud but to communicate with his Passions and to follow that conuersation which he lead in the flesh which the Sacrament offered one the Alter doth signifie where we do receaue the Lords Body that as we sée the fourme of Bread enter into our bodies we knowe therby what conuersation he had one the earth that he doth enter into vs to dwell by fayth in our hartes For when righteousnes entreth into vs he entreth that of God is made our righteousnes c. ¶ Augustine of the Lorder wordes according to Luc. Sermond 8. GIue vs this daye our dayly Bread. When I spake of the Sacrament I tolde you that before the words of Christ that that is offered is called Bread but after Christes wordes be spoken then is it not called bread but the bodye where as he sayth our bread he sayth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to saye supersubstantially is it not the Bread that entreth