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A11086	Two treatises of the Lord his holie Supper the one instructing the seruants of God how they should be prepared when they come to the holy Supper of our onely Sauiour Iesus Christ: whereunto is annexed a dialogue conteining the principall points necessarie to be knowne and vnderstood of all them that are to be partakers of the holy Supper: the other setting forth dialoguewise the whole vse of the Supper: whereunto also is adioyned a briefe and learned treatise of the true Sacrifice and true priest. Written in the French tongue by Yues Rouspeau and Iohn de l'Espine ministers of the word of God, and latelie translated into English.	Rouspeau, Yves.; L'Espine, Jean de, ca. 1506-1597. Dialogue de la Cène de N.S. Jesus-Christ. aut; Rouspeau, Yves. Traitté de la préparation à la saincte cene.	1584 (1584)	STC 21354; ESTC S106120	65,641	128

TWO TREATISES OF THE LORD HIS HOLIE SVPPER THE ONE INSTRVCTING THE SERVANTS OF GOD HOW THEY should be prepared when they come to the holy Supper of our onely Sauiour Iesus Christ Whereunto is annexed a Dialogue conteining the principall points necessarie to be knowne and vnderstood of all them that are to be partakers of the holy Supper The other setting forth Dialoguewise the whole vse of the Supper Whereunto also is adioyned a briefe and learned treatise of the true Sacrifice and true Priest Written in the French tongue by Yues Rouspeau and Iohn de l'Espine Ministers of the word of God and latelie translated into English 1. CORINTH 11.28 Let a man examine himselfe and so let him eate of this bread and drinke of this cup. IOHN 6.58 This is the bread which came downe from heauen not as your fathers haue eaten Manna and are dead He that eateth of this bread shall liue for euer PSAL. 51.16 Thou desirest no sacrifice though we would giue it thou delitest not in burnt offering The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit a contrite and broken heart O God thou wilt not despise Imprinted by Thomas Thomas Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1584. YVES ROVSPEAV TO THE CHRISTIAN READER FROM OVR LORD IESVS CHRIST greeting AMong the causes of all publique calamities and of the scourges wherewithall diuerse realmes countries are grieuously chastised S. Paul maketh mention of the notable abuse contempt of the Lord his Supper For this cause saith he manie are weake sicke among you many sleepe for if we would iudge our selues we should not be iudged Wherupon we haue not to meruaile that the Lord God hath so sharply punished this poore realme of France the last yeare 1562. with plague warre and famine seeing it is manifest that the contempt of the Gospel with the abusing and profaning of the holie Supper of the Lord hath brought vpon vs the foresaid miseries afflictions And for this cause both the Pope his adherents may stop their mouthes with the which they are so readie to cast reproch vpon our God and they that make profession of the Gospel in this lan● may keepe like silence seeing the causes haue flowed from both parties indifferently and the fault belongeth as wel to the one as to the other To begin with the Papists we may boldly auouch out of the word of God that their Masse is stuffed full of blasphemies that it abolisheth the holy Supper of our Lord Iesus Christ that the remembrance of his death passion is therein suppressed made o● none effect that in the same there is no communion that wheras Iesus Christ hath giuen a generall charge to all the professors o● his name to take eate and drinke the bread and wine in the Masse there is but one that taketh eateth drinketh for all the rest Further we see how there the creature of God euen a morsell of breade is worshiped in the place of God himselfe the creator how they seeke Christ Iesus vpon the earth whereas the word of God the Creed of the Apostles and the ancient Canons do teach vs to haue our hearts lifted vp on high and to seeke him by Faith aboue in the heauens Lastlie in it we may behold manie other most shamefull and grieuous abuses which for this time I thinke best to couer with silence Now seing that manie do so stoutly and obstinately stand vpon that point that in the defence and quarrell of a thing so vile wicked they haue put to death so manie godlie and honest men so many holie personages and true martyrs of our Lord Iesus Christ I conclude that we haue iustly beene visited of God for their offences As for the Protestants we see they also haue beene marked with the foule spots and blemishes of manie grosse and notable abuses How many of them haue bin found as vnable to render reason of their Faith as verie Papists haue offered like bruit beasts their presence at the holy Supper of the Lord some for learning as ignorant as Asses others for life as beastly as swyne I ouerpasse an infinite number of hypocrites of false brethren of traitours and such as haue fallen from their faith and knowledge who being inwardly vnknowen caried outwardly a shew colour of great vertue and holynes And therfore not without cause hath the wrath of God beene kindled against his people and they haue receaued double correction seeing that in the strength of their knowledge they haue wittingly abused the knowledge of his holy name Now to the intent that our good God by his Sonne Iesus Christ may cast his eye of pitie and compassion vpon this poore realme that lieth so desolate and forlorne it behooueth the one the other henceforth to learne how they may better performe their dutie of seruice and honor to their God according to his word then they haue done in time passed and chieflie that they be verie circumspect and heedfull not to defile or profane the holie Supper of our Lord in any kind of condition whatsoeuer To this end I haue addressed this small Treatise vnto their reading wherin they shall find that the true preparing vnto the Supper consisteth not in the furniture of the bodie in rich and costlie attire in gorgious and statelie shewes in counterfait colours and in outward professing of the name of God but in purenesse of heart and vprightnesse of conscience that God which is a Spirit may also be worshiped of his in Spirit and truth A TREATISE TEACHING THE SERVANTS OF GOD HOW THEY SHOVLD BE prepared when they come to the holy Supper of our onely Redeemer Iesus Christ The Preface THat we may worthily come to the holy Supper of our Lord Iesus Christ we must examine our selues The examining of our selues and wherein it consisteth as we are aduised and counselled by the Apostle There be fower principall pointes wherein we haue to sound our hearts and consciences at the bottome namely Faith Repentance Thankesgiuing in respect of our God and Charitie toward our neighbours OF FAITH The first Article FIrst it is requisit that we haue Faith that is to say What Faith is a certaine and vndeceiueable assurance stedfast perswasion that God in the name of his Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ whom he deliuered vp to death for our behoofe is a Father to vs of all mercie fauour and compassion The causes of Faith God This Faith commeth not from our selues neither is it built vpon vs or vpon any thing to be found in vs but it commeth from God and is built vpon God the Father His word the Sonne and the holy Ghost and vpon the promises made in the Gospel The holie Ghost which are inwardly ratified in vs by the working of the holy Ghost which crieth in our hearts Abba that is to say Father And this Faith is nourished confirmed and increased in our hearts by the holy Sacraments

of God because it would haue his bodie to be infinite and to be at once in all places F. Why hath not Iesus Christ witnessed saying And lo I am with you alway vntill the end of the world Actes 3.21 againe for where two or three are gathered together in my name there am I in the midst of them C. So it is but these places import the presence of his diuinitie not the presence of his humanity And this I proue by the testimony of Iesus Christ himselfe who saith in the Gospell The poore ye shal haue alwaies with you but me ye shal not haue alwaies also by that which S. Peter witnesseth in the Actes saying in these wordes concerning Christ Whom the heauen must conteine vntill the time that all things be restored F. Then you conclude that Iesus Christ albeit he is among vs by his diuinitie his holy spirite in respect of his humanity can be in no more then in one that one a certaine place and namelie in heauen C. That is my meaning so ment S. Augustine saing Till heauen earth shal be destroyed the Lord shal continually remaine aboue in the heauens The Truth of the Lord also remaineth with vs for it must needs be that the body wherein he rose vp should be in one that a certaine place but his Truth is spread ouer the face of the whole earth F. What is the sum of this true faith which seeketh Iesus Christ not vpon the earth but in the heauens C. Math. 28. Math. 18.20 This is the summe I beleeue in God the father who hath created me I beleeue in Iesus Christ who hath redeemed me from sinne from Satan from hel from death I beleeue in the holie ghost who sanctifieth me F. Why say you so in particular I beleeue and say not in generall we beleeue C. Because Euery man must examine himselfe Habac. 2. Rom. 1. Gal. 3. Heb. 10. and liue by his owne faith not by the faith of other F. And how may this be done C. If we shal applie to euery of vs in particular Iesus Christ himselfe with all his blessings and rich treasures F. What are the rich treasures to be found in Iesus Christ C. There is saluation for them that are lost life for them that are dead truth for them that are lyars wisedome for them that are ignorant righteousnesse for sinners holynesse and sanctification for the vngodly and redemption for captiues them that are in bondage F. Must we not then by faith applie all those things vnto our selues seeing we are all by nature lost dead lyars ignorant sinful defiled vngodly and captiues C. Yes verely For Iesus Christ hath taken vpon him al our neede miserie to make vs partakers of al his blessings rich treasures which in verie deede are distributed vnto vs in his holy Supper F. Now let vs speake of the second part of our dutie towards God which consisteth in Repentance and first what is Repentance C. It is a disliking of that is euill and a loue of that is good F. To the end we may haue our sins in disliking hatred is it not necessary that we know them C. It is necessarie F. How come we to haue knowledge of the euill that dwelleth in vs C. Iohan 3. First we know by our original birth For that which is borne of the flesh is flesh Secondly because we transgresse the law of God the rule of al perfection and righteousnes And thirdly by the ordinary afflictions calamities that God sendeth vpon vs for our sinnes and iniquities F. May we not also behold in the Sacraments a mirrour of our sinnes and offences C. We may For if we were no sinners we shold not stand in need of that forgiuenes of thē which is signified in Baptisme And againe except we were dead it should be in vaine that we come to the Supper to seek life saluation in Iesus Christ F. When we know our sinnes are we there to rest and not to proceede further namely to make confession of the same C. Psal 31. 51. Luke 18. We must also confesse our sinnes after the example of Dauid and of the Publican if we will obtaine righteousnesse before God F. Why should it be necessarie for vs to know and to confesse our sinnes before God C. To the end we may obteine forgiuenes and a ful and absolute remission according as God is iust and faithfull to performe his promises F. Why doth God forgiue vs our sinnes C. Math. 5. 18. To three especial and principal ends purposes First that we should be reconciled to our enemies secondly to the end we should freelie forgiue them thirdly to the end we should absteine from sinne and liue after righteousnesse F. Is there ought in the Supper which putteth vs in mind to flie from sinne and to abhor it C. There is for euen the verie breaking of the bread in the Supper doth teach vs that our sinnes haue broken and brused the sonne of God with the sorrowes of death F. What is hereupon to be gathered C. That we ought to condemne our sinnes and to haue them in abhomination as the causes of the death of the sonne of God F. Is it sufficient to absteine from euil without further proceeding in doing of good C. No forsooth Math. 3. 7 for Euery tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen downe and cast into the fire And therefore is the euill and foolish seruant cast into vtter darknes Math. 25. not because he had vnthriftilie spent his masters talent but because by his diligence and painefulnesse he had done no good therewithall ne had raised any commodity therby vnto his master F. Then be like it is requisite that euery one according to the talent which he hath receiued of God should glorifie him in that vocation wherein he is placed and appointed C. Surely so it is if we desire to enter with the good seruant into the ioy of his master F. To the end we may do the thing that is good ought we not to seeke the knowledge thereof C. We ought and namely by these meanes by the law of God and generally by all the parts of the holy scripture which teacheth vs plainelie what those good workes are which God requireth vs to performe F. Whether doth the Supper or any part thereof exhort vs to a godly life or no C. It doth for whereas we are vnited to Iesus Christ made flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone also whereas we are made partakers of his holynesse and righteousnesse we are taught that we should be holy as he is holy F. What else C. Whereas we meete and assemble together in his holy Church which is the communion of sancts wheras by the working of the holy ghost we call vpon one father who is most holy lastlie whereas we heare his holy and heauenly word and also haue part

twelfth is that if Iesus Christ were bodilie eaten there were no necessitie to prooue to examin our Faith or our conscience when we would prepare our selues to the eating of his supper but onelie our teeth to wit whither they were sharpe and able enough to chew it and the stomach to see whither it were apt to digest it as we do in all other corporall meats The thirteenth is that we eate the flesh and drinke the blood of Iesus Christ euen in the selfe same maner as the Apostles haue done long before vs. But they did not eate the same corporallie for so men might haue seene the Apostles eating his bodie with their bodilie eies euen as wel as they did see his body before them when he ministred the same vnto them Now we must inferre that no more do we eate his flesh corporallie If anie will saie that God by a miracle prouideth that this eating be not discerned with bodilie eies to the end it should not be abhorred I answeare that in this case the onelie conceipte and inward imagination were sufficient as we reade of S. Peter who in a vision abhorred the eating of those creatures Act. 10. that were in the law forbidden to be eaten The fourteenth is that it is plainelie forbidden in Genesis Gen. 6. To eate flesh with the life thereof that is with the blood thereof Whereupon it may be inferred that Iesus Christ who is not come to abolish the law but to fulfill the law hath not enioyned vs a thing so strictlie forbidden euen more abhominable then murther And the reason alleaged by S. Augustine to shew that al the places wherin Iesus Christ doth exhort his disciples to eate his flesh and to drinke his blood are vsed by waie of figured and shadowed speaches I wil turne the place of S. Augustine in his booke of Christian doctrine to the end that the readers maie vnderstand his iudgement in this matter If there be anie sentence or anie manner of speach in the Scripture saith he that seemeth to commaund anie outrage or wickednesse or contrarily to forbid any bountifull and liberall action the same is spoken by waie of a figure But this sentence following Ioh. 9. Except you eate the flesh of the sonne of man and drinke his blood ye haue no life in you seemeth to commaund an horrible and detestable case wherefore it followeth that this is a figure by the which he commaundeth vs to be partakers and to haue communion in the death and passion of the Lord and for the profit and comfort of our consciences to enclose this point within the most secret corners of our memorie that his humanitie was crucified and wounded for our cause This is S. Augustine his iudgement which I haue turned word for word The fifteenth is that we cannot receiue the corporal eating of the flesh of Iesus Christ but we must admit alow his bodie to be infinite which thing entirely derogateth from the truth of his nature and by the same meanes vtterly ouerthroweth the chiefest grounds most principall foundations of our Faith For except we beleeue him to haue bin man and the sonne of man in al things our sinnes and imperfections onely reserued like vnto vs whereupon shall we build our assurance and persuasion that he hath redeemed and ransomed our nature and that he is our high priest which hath compassion vpon all our infirmities Further it maie be alleadged that we cannot deuise to speake any thing more fauourable and auaileable for the herises of Marcion and Apollinaris the one of whom maintained that the body of Iesus Christ was a fantastique bodie and the other said that it was an heauenlie bodie as the foresaid corporall eating of the flesh of Iesus Christ is heauenlie The sixteenth is that if we eate the flesh of Iesus Christ bodilie the substance of our bodies must of necessitie be augmented therebie and nourished euen as it is by other corporall meates that we receaue a thing wholie and altogether contrarie to experience for the bodies of the faithfull notwithstanding the eating onely of his flesh drinking of his blood must of necessitie perish and wither awaie except they be nourished and preserued by some other food or else by some other meane The seuenteenth is that as we doe not eate corporall meates spirituallie euen so we can not eate according to this proportion things spirituall carnallie The eighteenth is That if we eate the flesh of Iesus Christ corporallie so little a bodie as his was being so broken in peices and parted should not suffice so manie as by eating were made partakers thereof Wherefore we may safely inferre vpon all these reasons that the meane whereby we are ioyned to Iesus Christ is spirituall and that by Faith wrought in vs by the power of the Spirite we do eate his flesh and drinke his blood that is to say that we are vnited and ingrafted in his bodie and more and more lincked and allied vnto him And so saith Sainct Augustine verie plainelie writing vpon the 26. Psalme Behold saith that holie father our pledge and our assurance that we by Faith Hope and Charitie are for euer ioyned to our head in heauē as he by diuinitie bountie vnion is with vs vpon the earth euen vnto the worlds end And vpon the 30. Psa Whole Christ is the head with the bodie the heade is the sauiour of the bodie the head I say which is already ascended vp into heauen and the body is the church which yet doth labour and is sore troubled heere vpon the earth Now if the bodie had not bin ioyned and bounde to the head with a chaine of Charitie that of the head bodie there might be made but one he would neuer haue spoken from heauen in this manner rebuking that persecutour Saul Saul Saul why persecutest thou me Act. 22. Minist Then this ioyning is not after the manner of things natural or conteined and circunscribed and enclosed in any place as the ioyning together of two stones in one place with lime and sand or of two peeces of wood the one to the other with glew but it is a diuine and mysticall ioyning as you haue sufficientlie declared and what maner of faith we ought to bring with vs when we come to celebrate the Supper Now if it please you I would haue you to proceede to shew me in like manner what manner of Charitie is required Euseb We maie carrie no hatred ne anie euill affection in our heart against our neighbour but forget and pardon one another all such iniuries and offences as being remembred might breake or otherwise offende that mutuall friendship which ought to compasse in and enclose the whole bodie of the Church And yet thus much is not sufficient but we must moreouer reknowledge our selues to bee brethren and the sonnes of one father and members not only of one bodie but also of another haue but one heart one soule and