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An ouersight, and deliberacion vpon the holy prophete Ionas: made, and vttered before the kynges maiestie, and his moost honorable councell, by Ihon Hoper in lent last past. Comprehended in seue[n] sermons. Anno. M.D.L.
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Hooper, John, d. 1555.
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say is the accidentes of bread But in the Cup they be constrayned to vse w t vs a signe Thys Cup is the new Testament in my blud for they saye y â— wyne in the Cup and not the Cuppe They know them selues howe foÌ„dly they interpretate these wordes rather maliciously obstinately and falsly then truely we therefore thus take them Thys is my body that is to say the Sacrament of my body broken and geuen for you Either thys is y â— newe testamente that is to saye the sygne of the new testament or the remission of syn obtayned in the bodye of Christe broken and torne for vs. S. August lib. xx contra FaustuÌ„ cap. xxi hath these wordes Huius sacrifiâ—â— caro et sarguis ante aduentuÌ„ Christi per victimas similitudinum promittebatur In passione Christi per ipsam veritatem reddebatur Post asceÌ„sum Christi per sacrameÌ„tum memorie celebratur That is to saye the flesh and blud of thys sacrifice before the coÌ„mynge of Christ was promised bi the sacrifices of similitude In the passion of Christ thei wer geuen in dede after the ascencion of Christe thei be celebrated bi a sacrameÌ„t of memorie And the glose dist ii Tribus gradibus sayth Certum est quod species quam cito dentibus teruntur tam cito in celum rapitur corpus Christi that is to saye It is certayne that as sone as the accidens and qualities of bread be broken with y â— teeth straightway y e body of Christ is taken into heaueÌ„ so y â— theyr own doctours do not belyue y t y e very bodi of Christ is receaued in the sacrameÌ„t If a man shuld theÌ„ aske what fayth and opinioÌ„ shuld y â— christiane haue coÌ„cernyng y e presence or absâ—ce of Christs bodi in y â— sacrameÌ„tâ— Answer The body of Christ shulde be coÌ„sidred .ii. maner of waies fyrst as it was borne of y t blessed virgin beyng in dede oure very natural brother Thâ— as it was offered vpon the crosse for the redeÌ„pcion of the world And thus offered put to hys passioÌ„ vpoÌ„ y â— crosse we coÌ„syder hym in the sacrament for the bread there vsed is called the body of Christ brokeÌ„ y â— wine the bloud sheding But the presence of christes natural body or y â— opinioÌ„ of his preseÌ„ce they so litle profit y t in very dede it doeth rather hurt and harme as Christ sayed The flesh profiteth nothynge Io. vi and agayne it is expedieÌ„t that I go awai We must therfore lyfte vp oure myndes into heauen when we fele oure selues oppressed with the burden of sinne and ther by fayth apprehend and receaue the bodye of Christe slayne and kylled hys precious blud shed for our offeÌ„ces and so by faith apply the vertue efficacie and streÌ„gth of y e merites of Christ to our soules and by that meanes quit oure selues from the daunger damnacioÌ„ and curse of God And thus to be partaker of the worthynes and deseruyngs of Christes passion is to eate the body to drynke y e blud Therfore doth Christ in the .v. of Iohn take eat for beleue beleue for eate so many tymes And S. Augustine sayth vt quid paras deÌ„tem et ventreÌ„ crede et manducasti why preparest thou the teeth and bely beleue and thou hast eateÌ„ And whoso euer eateth after thys sorte the body of Christ and drynke his blud hath euerlasting life Then obiecte they if we maye thus eat the body and blud of Christ without the sacrameÌ„t what auayleth it to haue anye Sacrament Answer AGaynst these temptacions of the deuil the vse of the sacramentes were instituted in the churche The fyrst temptacion of the deuil is he would bear the Christian in hand the promises of Gods mercy to be false Therfore doth God confyrme theÌ„ vnto vs by his sacrameÌ„ts The second teÌ„ptacion when y e deuil perceaueth we belyue the promises â—f god to be true vniuersally yet wold he make vs doubt of them perticularli as thoughe they appertayned not vnto the priuate or singuler conscience afflycted That dout wold God remoue in vs by hys sacramentes and saith they appertaine to the priuate and perticuler conscience afflycted euen as euerye priuate man receaueth the sacraments of the promyses The thyrde temptacion The deuyl laboureth to take from vs the knowledge of the meanes of oure saluacion and howe the promyses of God be made oures by y e free grace of God or by our merytes The Sacramentes therfore whyche beholde and represent onely Christe do teach vs that the meanes of our saluacion is only in Christ. And to put vs out of doubt wherewythall Christe hath meryted for vs the promyses of God and thys grace of our saluacion the sacramente sheweth vs it was wyth and by his death and blud sheddyng and therfore hath he geuen the name of hys bodye and bloude to the sygnes and elementes of the sacramente So the breade is called the bodye broken and the wyne the bloude shedden Admonyshyng the that in the receauing of y e sacrameÌ„t thou shuldest not tarye â–ª nor occupye thy meditacions and contemplacions in the bread wyne but in the merits of the bodye broken and the blud shedde Who so euer marke and vnderstand these thynges eateth Christ if he be ignoraunt here of he is in daunger of eternall damnacion An other obiection THey saye God can do all thynges therefore it is not impossyble for hym to make his body present in the Sacrament We be not so addicte and geuen vnto humane ration that we wyll beleue nothinge more then reason is able to accompte and geue answer for But we beleue many thynges that directly reason saythe we shuld not beliue As the incarnacion of Christ our resurreccion the making of the world thre persons in one godheade and one essence and these thinges we belyue because the expresse word of God commauÌ„deth to beleue it But the traÌ„selementacion and alteracioÌ„ of the breade no place of y â— scripture commaundeth vs to beleue but many places forbyd we shuld beleue it Nether doo the Papists agree among theÌ„ selues what shuld be the wordes of consecracion and yf we had but that auantage of theÌ„ only it were inough to declare theyr transubstanciacion to be no parte of Gods worde It is a folye to obiecte the omnipotencye of God wythout Gods woorde God nor doeth nor can not do more theÌ„ he wyl do and as foolyshly do they makynge mencion of a miraculous presence of Christes body and do declare them selues to be of Antichriste by the same meanes For he shall deceaue the worlde ye the verye electes if it were possyble wyth newe myracles Math. xxii i. ii thes ii The myracle of Christes visible ascencion and other expressed in the scryptures of God are sufficient for the Catholycke churche And the myracle of y e inuisyble and miraculous presence we leaue to them that be deceaued wyth the spirite of erroure For they woulde haue