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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12589	A godly and shorte treatise of the sacraments. vvritten by Robert Some..	Some, Robert, 1542-1609.	1582 (1582)	STC 22906; ESTC S1136	31,309	100

the flesh so that whole Christ both God man suffered according to the vnity of persō but suffered not according to the propretie of nature that is to say of his godhead According to this I haue set downe Acts. chap. 20. ver 28. 1. Cor. chap. 2. ver 8. are Saint Paules words in the Actes and to the Corinthians to be vnderstanded The councell of Constantinople did decree that the blessed Virgine shoulde bee called the mother of GOD. We doe allowe that decree of the councell and yet we neither doe nor may thinke that the virgine Mary did heare Christies Godhead in hir wombe but the meaning is that he whiche was horne of the blessed virgine was not onely man but for the coniunction of the word to the fleshe God and man 13. The bread and wine in the Lords Supper must not bee reserued for any superstitious vse It was not lawfull to keepe any part of the Paschall lambe Exod. cha 12 verse 10. Exod cap. 16. verse 19.20 It was not lawfull to reserue of the Manna That which was reserued was full of wormes and did stinke Our Sauiour Christ at the institution administration of the holy Supper Mat. chap. 26. verse 26. commaunded his disciples to take and eate not to take and reserue it Cyprian writes that the Sacrament was receiued Decoena Domini but not shut vp and reserued I confesse that the Sacrament in olde time was reserued De lapsis lib. 6. chap. 44. Cyprian writeth that a certaine woman had it in her chiest Eusebius saith out of Dionifius that a priest had it in his chamber where hee deliuered it to Serapions boy to carried to Serapion which was then at the poynt of death But this relerning of the Sacrament was a strange abuse and therefore afterwarde was iustly abolished The reseruing and hanging vp of the Sacrament as the Papistes call it in a Pixe vnder a Canopie hath no light in Gods booke to shewe it by and before the time of Innocentins the fourth it was neyther an article of our fayth nor any lawe of the Church that Christians shoulde worship the breade wine in the Sacrament much lesse giue diuine honour to a wafer cake after that the action of the Sacrament is ended if that the Popish Sacrament of the Altar might be accompted a sacrament 14 Howe Gods chyldren must behaue themselues at and after the receiuing of the holy Supper In the time of the administration of the holy Supper wee must vse our eares and eyes very reuerently our eares in attending to Gods trueth and the holy institution of the Supper our eyes in beholding the holy misteries set vpon the Lordes table When the Sacrament is reached vnto vs wee are weightely to consider that as the bread and wine is broken and powred out in the holy supper for our vse so Christs bodye and blood which was giuen and shed on the crosse for perfiting the precious woorke of our redemption is giuen vnto vs to be the food of our soules and for this inestimable benefite wee must confesse our selues to be greatly and deeply bouns to our mercifull Sauiour by his grace giue vp our selues wholie to his prayse and seruice After that our soules are fedd at the Lordes table and that wee are graft into Christ as into a flourishing vine and ioyned to the faithfull as to goodly branches of this vine wee must liue Christianly not a day or two but al our life time first in beating downe our pride vanitie secondly in doing good to our brethren Lastly in keeping the vnitie of the spirit in the bond of peare These graces if we doearnestly pray for to almightie God hee will giue them vnto vs in mercie for his greater glorie our singular comfort through Iesus Christ Amen FINIS Imprinted at London at the three Cranes in the Vinttee by Thomas Dawson for George Byshoppe 1582.

vnto him Pigions turtle Doues If their abilitie serued not for these they offred a little meale The outwarde signes in the Sacraments are very meane and base things if wee looke on them with the eyes of our fleshe but they are most precious and singuler Iewelles if wee looke on them with the eyes of our fayth and do esteeme them according to the Lordes institution 10 The Sacramentes are not naked and bare signes In Baptisme the efficacie of Gods spirite is present to washe and regenerate those which appertayne vnto God The Lordes Supper is a spirituall banquet 1. Cor. chap. 10. ver 3.4.16 wherein Gods children are truely and in deede fedde with the body and blood of Christ The apostle calleth the Sacrament spirituall meate and spirituall drinke and a litle after in the same chapter hee calleth the cuppe of blessing which we blesse the communion of the blood of Christe and the bread which we break the communion of the body of Christ The Sacraments are not bare signes because we haue the Lords institution they are seales of righteousnes and tokens of grace they are sure warrantes of Gods promises whereby God bindeth himselfe vnto vs and wee likewise stande bounde to his Maiestie so that God is our God and we are his people 11 The Sacramentes must haue the worde of God annexed to them For the worde of institution is the life of the Sacrament The Sacraments are seales of Gods word Rom. chap. 4. verse 11. Therefore where the word of intution is not there is no place left to the Sacraments There is no vse of that seale and in deede it deserues not the name of a seale whiche is put to an vnwritten either paper or parchment Take away the word of institution and what is the water of Baptisme but water Aug. Tract 80. in Iohan. The woorde of institution is added to the element it becomes a Sacrament 12 Gods Churche hath neede of Sacraments so long as it is in the worlde The fayth of Gods children is true that is to say not counterfaite but their faith is not perfit in this life The Sacraments are pillers of our faith Saint Paul hath these wordes as often as ye shall eate this bread and drink this cup 1. Cor cha 11 verse 26. ye shewe the Lordes death till he come whereby it is manifest that vntill Christes seconde comming wee haue both neede and vse of the Sacraments whereof wee shall haue neither vse nor neede in the life to come 13 The Sacramentes are higly to be esteemed The Sacramentes are pillers of our fayth they are glasses wherein we may beholde the riches of Gods grace which he reacheth vnto vs they are the Lordes couenauntes therefore they contayne promises whereby our consciences are lifted vp to the hope of eternall life Gods childrē receiue great benefit by baptisme Galath chap. 3. ver 27. 1. Cor. chap. 10. ver 16. for all that are baptized into Christ haue put on Christ by the Lords supper bicause the bread which we breake is the cōmunion of the bodie of Christ and the cup of blessing is the communion of the bloud of Christ If the Sacramentes are highly to be esteemed what shall we thinke of Pope Iohn the 23. for baptizing and beeing godfather to the great bell of Laterane in Rome of the popish sort for giuing out that we haue nothing but bare bread bare wyne in the holy communion The Sacramentes are highly to bee accounted of and honoured as holy mysteries but they must not bee honoured with diuine honour 14 The contempt of the Sacraments is very daungerous The contempt of Circumcisiō which was one of Gods sacraments was greeuously punished Gen. chap. 17 ver 14. Exod. chap. 4. ver 25. The Angell woulde haue killed Moses because his sonne was not circumcised Negligence in keeping the passeouer Nomb. chap. 9. ver 13. was greeuously punished It is a common a very soūd speech that not the want but the contēpt of haptisme bringeth condemnation The Messalian heretikes did condēne both externall signes Sacraments Obiection The Israelites were not circūcised in the wildernes by the space of 40. yeeres Iosue chap. 5. ver 7. Answere God commaunded the Israelites to goe on continually in their iourney If they had beene circumcised they had not bin able by reason of the sorenes of their bodies Iosue chap. 5. ver 8. to do as God commanded them so that Gods latter commaundement was a dispensation to thē for the omitting and deferring of circumcision Obiection The Apostles would not presse the Gentiles to be circumcised Acts. chap. 15 ver 24.28 Answere Circumcision after Christes ascensiō was not a necessary Sacrament but a thing indifferent that is to say which might for a time eyther be vsed or omitted If it had been a necessary sacramēt in the Primitiue Church Titus should haue beene circumcised Gala. chap. 2. ver 3. as Timothie was Besides circumcision after Christes ascension might not be thrust vppon the Gentiles Acts. chap. 16. ver 3. because Moses must giue place to Christ Iesus 15 The Sacraments during the time of the action of Baptisme and of the Lordes Supper are Sacramentes but after the action is ended they are no Sacramentes The elements in the sacrament during the time of the action which they serue for are true signes and pledges of the things signified by thē for in baptisme Christes bloud is propounded to vs as a lauer with which bloud we being washed are more and more graft into Christ buried together with Christ In the Lords supper Christes body and bloud is giuen to vs 1. Cor. chap. 10. ver 16. and that by distinct and seueral signes I meane the bread the wine as our true meate and true drinke vnto life euerlasting When the action of baptisme the Lords supper is ended the water in the font is no Sacrament but simple and common water and the bread and wine in the Lordes supper are not the Sacrament of Christes body bloud but commō bread and commō wine Therefore their fault is great which after the action of the Sacrament is ended eyther reserue any part of the elementes for Sacramentes or doe thinke that a mowse dogge or such like tasting or eating of the bread after the Lords supper is ended doe receiue the Sacrament whereas it is a certaine truth that if eyther mowse or dogge shoulde eate of the bread in the Lordes Supper during the time of the holy action they neyther doe receiue nor can be saide to receiue the Sacrament at any hande For seeing the Sacraments are seales of Gods promises touching eternall life it is certayne that no such seale is or can be giuen vnto or receiued by thē to whom Gods promise of eternal life in no wise doth appertayne 16 What good we receiue by the Sacramentes We are put in mynde by the Sacraments of Christes