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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and euer Amen Secondly this giuing of thankes must not onely sound out of the mouth but it must also proceed from the heart For seeing that God is a Spirite he requireth of vs such a kinde of seruice as is fitlie answerable to his nature that is to say he will be worshiped and serued of vs in Spirit and truth And therefore when we shall be occasioned to praise God for the benefite of redemption we must haue our hearts erected that there may be a sweete agreement and mutuall accord betweene our affections within and our tongue without as we see that Dauid exhorted himselfe to this manner of seruing and praising God My soule saith he Psal 103.1 praise thou the Lord and all that is within me praise his holie name My soule praise thou the Lord and forget not all his benefites And the holie Virgin singeth the same notes My soule doth magnifie the Lord and my spirite reioyceth in God my Sauiour Then we may hereby vnderstand that all hypocrites and dissemblers and all those that sing praise God in an vnknowen language are heere reprooued for their seruice For without vnderstanding there can neither be affection nor wil nor consequently Faith without the which what duetie so euer we performe to God beare it neuer so faire a colour in appearance to the eyes of men is sinne abhominable in the eyes of God Then let vs take heede that we be not taken halting in this point lest we be condemned with the people of the Iewes which worshiped and serued God in vaine Esay 29.13 because They came neere vnto him onely with their tongue and honored him with their lippes but their hearts were farre from him Thirdly this duety is at al times to be performed that is to saie as wel in time of aduersitie as in time of prosperitie Psal 34.1 To which purpose the Prophet Dauid protesteth that He will alwaie giue thankes vnto the Lord and that his praise shall be in his mouth continually 1 Thes 5.18 And S. Paul admonisheth the Thessalonians To giue thankes in all things with this addition For this is the wil of god in Christ Iesus This precept is greatly contrary to our tymemen to al such as court the Gospel in time of prosperitie are then right glad and easilie entreated to praise the Lord whom afterward in time of aduersitie they cursse and dishonour The cause of this mischiefe is for that they came not to be of the Church for any true end and good purpose as namely to exalt the glorie of God to procure their saluation with the saluation of their brethren but rather to become great and mightie in possessions honorable places to satisfie their owne priuate and particular humors Whereupon it cōmeth to passe that so soone as the deuill lifteth vp his hornes against the church of God and that persecution is at hand immediatlie they melt away in affliction as wax before the fire they are offended they are dried vp parched in the sunne of the crosse they are sorie for all the good which they haue doone and repent they haue bene caried with so hastie a swinge to confesse the name of the lord Iesus Christ in the assemblie of the faithfull they would they had neuer knowne either God or his word or his church or his ministers because they sett more by a messe of potage as Esau did Gen. 25.38 then by the birthright and blessing of the heauenlie Father But let this kind of people knowe that it shal no more profite them then it auailed Cain Esau Saul and Iudas to haue made a good beginning and as it were to haue lifted vp their sheild and target lustilie at the first in the Lords quarrell For seeing the sentence is generall Whosoeuer perseuereth and continueth to the end he shall be saued it followeth on the contrarie that all such as hold not out constantlie in the confession of the sonne of God and such as shal be let and hindred by their worldlie goods and possessions by offices of honour by the loue of the world by the ease of their bodies from confessing and acknowledging as it were in one and the same a continual vaine the worthie benefite of their redemption I saie it foloweth that such shall perish euerlastinglie Lastlie it is to be noted that we maie not onely acknowledge Gods benefites when we are alone but also when we are assembled in publike places euen in the face and presence of the whole congregation And therefore saith Dauid Psal 116.12 What shal I render vnto the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take the cup of saluation and call vpon the name of the Lord. I will paie my vowes vnto the Lord euen now in the presence of all his people Also in another place I haue declared thy righteousnes in the great congregation Psal 40.9 loe I will not refraine my lips O Lord thou knowest I haue not hid thy righteousnes within mine hart but I haue declared thy truth and thy saluation I haue not concealed thy mercie and thy truth from the great congregation This is a thing to be deeply imprinted in the hearts of al such as are yet but weak and of al those that are ashamed to confesse and to praise our Lord Iesus Christ in open publique meetings For seeing that God doth openly aduouch vs for his people giueth himself freely to vs to our children in the person of his welbeloued Son our Lord Iesus Christ we can do no lesse then aduouch him publiquely for our God and Sauiour in the person of the same his deare sonne our Lord Iesus Christ OF CHARITIE The fourth Article FAith Repentance Thanksgiuing to God can haue no place in our hearts and consciences and it is to no purpose that we are called Christians or that we brag vaunt of the practise of the commandements conteined in the first Table cōcerning the seruice of God aboue mentioned except we shew the effects fruits thereof in keeping the commandements of the second Table which touch our charitable affection towards our neighbour without the which we cannot come worthily to the holie Supper To this end and purpose Iesus Christ in that Sermon of the Supper which he made to his Apostles that verie night when he was betraied deliuered vp to death for vs diligently put them in remembrance of this lesson By this shal all men knowe saith he that you are my Disciples if yee haue loue one to another Also Iohn 13.35 Iohn 15.12 This is my commaundement that yee loue one another as I haue loued you To the same ende also tendeth that action of our Sauiour when he washed his Apostles feete the same night after which washing hee saide vnto them Know ye what I haue done to you ye call me master and Lord and ye say well for so am I. If I then Iohn 3.12 your Lord and