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B00431	The divine portrait. Or, A true and liuely representation of the blessed sacrament of the Lords Supper: with our due preparation how to receive the same worthily. / Delivered in a sermon, at the Reformed Church of Paris (on Easter day last:) by Monsieur Iohn Mestrezat ... ; Englished by John Reynolds.	Mestrezat, Jean, 1592-1657.	1631 (1631)	STC 17845; ESTC S94173	40,057	246

transgressions of men was hidden and over-clouded from them by the vaile of Ceremonies Whereas heere O ye faithfull Christians Iesus Christ calles you to the publicke Meditation and Contemplation of his death and of the pardon and remission of your sinnes to refresh and fill your soules with peace and felicity And for which cause and reason hee saith in Saint Iohn Ioh. 6.35 Whosoever comes vnto mee shall not bee hungry and those who trust in mee shall not bee dry or thirsty And therefore Iesus Christ taking bread said Take eat and then hee added thereunto This is my Body So that which hee came from taking of and which he held to wit Bread he said it was his body A thing which hee then spake most easily and clearely For as there was not the smalest Child among the Iewes but vnderstood when the Father of his family said Take eat this is the Bread of misery which our Fore-fathers did eat in Egypt that this Bread was so named and called by the Father of the family because it was a Commemoration of the bread of affliction which their Fore-fathers had eaten in Egypt according as it is said in Deutr. Deut. 16.3 Vnder the Law seven dayes thou shalt eat vnleavened Bread which is Bread of affliction because thou didst hastily depart and fly away from Egypt So there was none so ignorant or simple but vnderstood well That Christ said the bread was his body because hee was the Cōmemoration therof and as the vnleavened bread had beene yearly or dayned for a Memoriall or Comemoration of the miseries which the Israelites had suffered in Egypt That Iesus Christ established Bread to remaine till the end of the world the signe and Commemoration of his Body offered on the Crosse which againe was cleare and evident because they named the Lambe which they did eat Pasque an Hebrew word which signifieth Passeover and which every one well vnderstood in that Language Where wilt thou said the Apostles to Iesus Christ Mat. 26.17 that wee prepare for thee the Passeover The Lambe which they eat was so called because it was instituted in Memory and Cōmemoration of the Passing over of the destroying Angell from above and beyond the Israelites houses And in this same sense they easily vnderstood that the Bread was called the body of Iesus Christ because it was purposely instituted to bee the Remembrance or Commemoration of his body offred on the Crosse for the sinnes of the world Now although this were sufficiently cleare and palpable of it selfe yet obserue heer the singular bounty goodnesse and wisedome of Iesus Christ to repell and prevent the errour which hee foresaw In that he conioyned and added thereunto as Saint Luke and Saint Paul affirme it in expresse tearmes Doe this in remembrance of me Is there not heer then iust cause to admire and wonder that after all this That Bread should bee vnderstood by transubstantiation to be the body of Iesus Christ and farre different and otherwise then by Remembrance or Commemoration From whence it necessarily results and followes That in the Church of Rome a morsell of Bread is adored for the body and person of Iesus Christ The Sacrament and Remembrance having beene confounded with that whereof it is the Sacrament and commemoration So then Christ Iesus said This is my Body This is my blood and yet not simply so but according as Saint Luke tels vs Luc. 22.19 Which is given for vs and as Saint Paul affirmes Which is broken for you So then Christ representing vs his body vnderstands thereby that hee hath beene delivered vp for vs to the Crosse that is to say that hee hath beene broken and sacrificed And likewise for the Cup he said This is my Blood which is shed for you speaking in tearmes of the time present and not only for regard of what hee knew should befall him the very next day in respect of the truth thereof But also because hee gave and rendred in a present figure that which should bee done on the Crosse the fraction of Bread being a true and lively representation of the fraction of his body as a canon of the Church of Rome acknowledgeth it in these words De consecr Dist 2. Canon Hoc est quod The immomolation of the flesh of Christ which is done by the Priests hands is tearmed the Passion Death and crucifiing of Iesus Christ but not by the truth of the thing but by the signification of the mystery thereof From whence doth clearly result and stream foorth vnto vs two especiall things The one that in the same manner that the breaking or fraction of bread in the Lords Supper is the breaking of Christs body So in the same manner the Bread is the body of Christ but the breaking of bread in the Lords Supper is the fraction and crucifying of Christs body not by the truth or realitie of the thing but by the signification of the mysterie And so likewise the bread is the body of Iesus Christ yet not by the truth or realitie of the thing but by the signification of the mysterie The other branch or point which results hereof is That this holy Supper is the sacrifice of Iesus Christ not by the truth of the thing but by the signification of the mysterie and that it is not a sacrifice but a remembrance and commemoration of a Sacrifice As indeed Christ offered vp no oblation to God but brake the bread and gave it to his Disciples From whence beloved in the Lord you plainely see that to esteeme and hold the Lords Supper to bee a reall sacrifice wherein Iesus Christ hath offered himselfe vp a propitiatory Sacrifice for the sinnes of the living and the dead Is a humane Inuention opposite and contrary to the Institution of Iesus Christ and to the vse of this Sacrament which was ordained to shew foorth and proclaime his death and passion And likewise it is contrary to the onely oblation of the crosse the Apostle Saint Paul affirming to the Hebrewes Heb. 10.10 That we are sanctified by the oblation once made of the body of Iesus Christ and therefore that there is no more oblation for sinne II Point or generall Head Thus much for the sense of Christs words And now faithfull Christians to whom God hath revealed and made knowen the truth and puritie of these high and sacred mysteries come and meditate on these words of the Sonne of God all which Heaven hath of most admirable sweet and delitious And you godly soules who iustly hunger and thirst for this grace and mercy of the Lord come you to feed and refresh your selues with the fat of the house of God and to quench your thirst in the River of his delights But first wee here require two things of you that is to say some Meditations and then some Functions of the heart proceeding from these meditations and both which on these words This is my Body which is broken for you This

please to take vp and embrace this saying of the blessed Apostle Heb. 12.14 Follow peace with all men and also holynesse without which no man shall see God and againe to the same purpose Ephe. 4.15 Let vs fellow the truth in loue and in all things grow vp in him who is the Head to wit Iesus Christ To call our religion in questiō is to doubt therof and to halt betweene two opinions in matters of saith is with the Luke-warme Laodicean to be of neither I know wee are commanded by the Apostle To make our election sure and taught by the Prophet Hosh 4.14 That the people who doe not vnderstand shall fall I likewise know that curiositie in matters of Faith and Religion is dangerous and that for being too curious in prying into the sacred secrets of God it is a fatall Rocke whereon some excellent iudgements have suffered Shipwracke wilfully and a world of weake wits ignorantly That Gods vnrevealed mysteries and purposes are as secret as sacred and as occult and abstruse as they are divine and that wee are positively told and taught by the Prophet Isa 40.28 That there is no searching out of Gods vnderstanding VVherefore as I envy no man for his religion so I prayse and blesse my Redeemer I am not so wretchedly instructed in piety as to deny mine to the world much lesse to dare to desemble it to God It shall suffice mee that I had rather beleeue the truth then quarell with it and farre sooner and with more alacritie and promptitude to embrace and follow it then to contend or contest against it As therefore wee cannot beleeue in God before wee first know him So wee cannot perfectly know this Sacrament of his blessed Supper except we first beleeve in it and in the pure truth and naked vertue and integritie thereof I am not therefore of the vnion or communion of those vncatholique Romanists who are carnall and not spirituall eaters of this blessed Sacrament and who tye their implicite faith onely to the bare letter not to the true sense and to the sight not to the figure or commemoration which this heavenly mysterie infoldeth and containes VVho can dispense with their consciences yea with their soules rather to eat their God then to obey him and daily to teare his blessed body in peeces with them teach as they doe hourly with their sinnes and who rely on their own poore wretched merits rather then on Christs rich promises or on the inestimable treasor of his blessed death and passion premised and prefigured vnto vs in the bread and wine of his sacred Supper But for my part I really and confidently beleeue that Christs owne words Take eat and drinke this in remembrance of me doth make this Sacrament of his holy Supper to bee a mysticall not a corporall a spirituall and not a carnall sacrifice But to leave Controversie and contention to those who love them in and about this divine doctrine of this Sacrament of the Lords Supper and to come to that which more neerly and narrowly concearnes our edification to Christ and sanctification by Christ I ioyfully affirme and averre That it hath bene a great part and degree of my earthly selicity to have heard many excellent Sermons and seene and read many comfortable Tracts vpon this sacred Supper of the Lord aswell on this side as beyond the seas and preached and written aswell by the Samts of God abroad as by our owne English Saints and Seruants of the Lord here at hom●… who have most painful●… and industriously travell●… heerein with much tru●… glory to God with infini●… prayse and honour to the●… selues and with a world o● consolation and happines●… to their Christian Auditor● and Readers have piously chalked them out the tru● and safe way to Heaven and most divinely pointed and shewed them the righteous path-way and glorious narrow way to God And now by Gods providence and mercy meeting very lately with a Sermon of that heavenly nature preached on Easter day last to the famous and flourishing assembly of the Protestants in the reformned Church of Paris at Charenton vpon these words of our Lord and Saviour in the blessed Sacrament of his last Supper This is my body By the learned and reverend Seruant of the Lord Monsieur Iohn Mestrezat the first Pastor and minister of that great and godly congregation and the worthy Successor of that famous divine Monsr P. Du. Moulins the great light of his time and Ornament of his Church I say I no sooner seriously perused and religiously considered it but finding it to bee pend in an elegant excellent phrase and digested and cast into a most spirituall order a●… method at last after ● short parlie with my soul●… and a little reluctation wi●… my resolutions God n●… only suggested but cōma●ded me to teach it to spea● English and especially fo● these two reasons and considerations I. That the translatio● thereof infinitly tended t● Gods honour and glory a● being a perfect and a promising way to draw many soules to God aswell by their seeing and knowing of it as by practising and putting into execution that sacred discipline and doctrine which it containes II For that the Author and Preacher of it is so worthy a Minister of Gods word as Saint Paul wished and counselled his beloved titus to bee to wit Titus 2.7 That his life is a Patterne and example of good workes and of vncorrupt doctrine gravitie and integritie for to my knowledge as also to all others who know him or his endowments and abilities he is so learned and of so meeke and Saint-like a conuersation that it is a disputable question whether his doctrine doe more crowne and grace his life or his life his doctrine And that thorefore it might well stand with Gods pleasure as it doth referre and conduce to his honour that the reading heereof might refresh and profit some Christians heere in England as well as the preaching thereof hath done many in France As also that as at my residence in Paris I have taken singular delight and comfort to have often heard him preach so consequently that others might doe the like here by visibly reading or tacitly seeing and hearing him preach in this his Sermon or Divine Pourtrait which so lively yea so truly at life representeth the Sacrament of the Lords blessed Supper vnto vs I being as confident of this truth as of this presumption That as in most of his Sermons hee excelleth and surpasseth others so in this that hee hath infinitly both surpassed and exceld himselfe And although Christian Reader I have formerly in this my Preface expressed and signified to thee that this little yet most excellent Sermon of his doth most sweetly shew thee the sure the righteous way to heaven and to God and with a happines peraduenture beyond expectation hath most fully performed and most diuinely acted thee that part whereunto I will referre and commend