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A19362	An epistle or godlie admonition, of a learned minister of the Gospel of our sauiour Christ sent to the pastoures of the Flemish Church in Antwerp, (who name themselues of the Confession of Auspurge,) exhorting them to concord with the other ministers of the Gospell. Translated out of French by Geffray Fenton. Here may the christian reader lerne to know what is the true participatio[n] of the body of Christ, & what is the lauful vse of the holy Supper.	Corro, Antonio del, 1527-1591.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.	1569 (1569)	STC 5787; ESTC S108710	46,646	132

nature is most dul and farre from the true vnderstanding of these mysteries oure Redéemer Iesus Cause of the celebration institution of the Supper is not only content to propounde vnto vs the coniunction which wée ought to haue with him by these similitudes and comparisons of eating and drinking but also hath soughte to shewe vs by some visible Ceremonie the very same thing that hée hath taught vs by worde to the end that not only our eares myght receyue the instruction of his preaching but also oure eyes féede of some visible representation of that which we ought to be in Chryste and Chryste in vs that is to say that wée be members of him nourished with hys proper vertue and that hée hymselfe is our foode 22 Too this ende I beleue that oure soueraine doctour Iesus Chryste after he had supped with his Disciples and celebrated the ceremonie of the Pascal lamb according to the law to shew vnto the people and all the Churche to come a liuely representation of the coniunction whiche hée tooke with his membres by meane of the sacrifice of his death resurrection and glorification He tooke bread and hauing giuen thanks to God his father he brake it and distributed it to his Disciples saying Take eate this is my bodie whiche is deliuered for you And after hée tooke the cuppe and sayd This is the cuppe of the new Testament take and drink you all and doo this in memorie of mée that is as much as if he shoulde say to the end you vnderstand what I am on youre behalfe what remedie I bryng vnto you Interpretation of the wordes of Christe in the Supper what cōiunction it is necessarie you haue with me and I with you knowe ye that I am bread broken offered and sacrifised for the satisfaction of your sinnes whiche bread as I am my selfe so it is néedefull that it be in you and giue you heauenly nouriture euen as the materiall breade giues you corporall reléef And touching the Cup vnderstande you that the same doth shew you the newe Testament and confederation which I practise with you the which testament shal be ratified with my bloud and doo this in memory of me that is to say when you shall breake the breade as I do haue remembraunce that you certifie and assure youre selues that you bée myne and I am youres yea youres in suche sorte as the breade is youres whiche you breake eate and digeste and the Wyne whiche giueth you nouriture 23 Nowe brethren I beséeche you in the name of our redemer Iesus consider without affection if the interpretation of this holy Ceremonie and of these woords be true or not If it bée true to what purpose do we searche so many questions so many subtilties so many vbiquities with other lyke inuentions to entertain the world in blyndenesse To what purpose do we trouble the people with visible ceremonies with persuasiō that by that meane they may receiue Iesus Christe We leaue behind vs alas as it were altogither buried the doctrin of penance Iustification regeneration Sanctification mortification of the old Adam charitie The spirit of god is not linked to outward ceremonies of one to an other things moste important and necessarie and in the meane while we employ and bestow our selues and time in the interpretation of certein ceremonies without the which god is of power to shewe vs that whiche they doe teach vs. We know also that many holy men be deceased very deuoutly hauing receyued Chryst without receyuing the externall signes visible elements of the supper And to what ende would it serue The receuing of the sacraments serue nothing to such as will not receiue Chryst me to eate all the bread which is in Almayne giuen by the hands of the ministers with the words of the supper of Christ if I haue not experienced my renuyng if I haue not tasted my regeneration if I be not certified that God hath reconciled me with him receyued me to his mercy that by suche féeling or taste I do not assure my selfe to haue receyued Iesus Christ 24 This is the doctrine this say I is the preaching which we ought to preach and repreache repeate and remember alwayes to the people restore to the myndes of the ignorant and propounde to those that come to learne of vs not by the subtilties of the right hande of God vbiquities and suche like imaginations This is a thing very miserable in oure tyme that those which speake of the communication of Iesus Christe be suche as least proue such a cōmunication in themselues a thing to bée séene by their writings for they speake of Iesus Chryste either shut within an armorie or enclosed in past within bread vnder the bread or with the breade or from vs by .xiiij. or xv thousand iorneys as though the true Temple of Iesus Chryste is any other thing than the hearte of a faithfull man and he that sercheth it without shal both lose his paines and remayne frustrate of his hope 25 Let vs speake my brethren of Iesus Chryste and his communication as people prouing and féeling in our selues what it is to be nourished in oure consciences and soules with the presence vertue of the same otherwise to what vse will serue vs our subtill interpretatiōs particular declarations whiche wée bryng foorth In the ende the worlde is not so blynde but they can and will vnderstand and fynde that we are rather ledde by a spirit of stomack than of the true zeale of Gods glorie in the ende euery one will sée that those preachers searche no other thing than to mainteyne them selues in the friendship of the world 26 But nowe to returne to the confirmation of the vnderstandyng that wée The vnderstādyng of the wordes of the holy Supper haue giuen to this place of the holy Supper let vs consyder that if in all things that Christe our Lorde hath propounded to manyfest the necessitie that wee haue to be in him and he in vs wée shold serche a presence corporall and fleshly it should bée as who say neuer to come to ende for in the olde Testament Christe hath bin propoūded to vs in diuers creatures as a lamb Manna Water Stone Table meate bread feasts other things as may bée séene by suche as reade the holy Scripture Hée him selfe in his preachings doth cal him a way a doore bread of children a vyne with other like thinges Note the absurditie of the false interpretation of the wordes of the Supper Now if in place where Christ sayd I am the doore who entreth not by mée shall not be saued he had sayd this I am he shewyng with his finger a doore shal we say for al that that Chryst hath transformed or transubstanciate him self into the matter of a doore if our redéemer in place where he sayd I am the vine and you are the brāches had sayd this am I shewing Note the

those that commit them swallowing as oure Sauiour Chryst sayth the Camels and after passing by the cloutes the litle gnats which meaneth that we pronounce condemnation ageinst such who pierce not the subtilties of oure interpretations in Chrystes Supper making small reckening of the crimes and dissolutiōs which are committed dayly afore oure eyes I pray you what may meane so many sorts of cōmunications of Christ the one physicall Yllyricus in the text of his admonition maketh 4. sorts of communications of Chryst and an other mystical an other spirituall and an other sacramentall togyther also with those whyche you put in your confession the one common both to the good to the euil when they say this is my body and the other when they say Do this in remembraunce of me Those with such like cōmunications of Christe wée neuer learned in the woorde of God but of the contrary wée knowe for truth that there is but one mean to receiue Iesus Chryste and haue communication with him that is to say liuely faith and that accompanied with repentaunce and Meane to receiue Chryst by only faith penance of our sinnes passed newnesse of life to come I would to God we were wel taught and exercised in this manner of communicatiō of Chryst for touching the rest what assuraunce may wée take of the doctrine of youre article whiche is not drayned out of the word of God but rather of the interpretations of men I praye you shewe mée where it is that Chryste affirmeth that his bodye and bloud be truely and really in the bread vnder the bread or within the breade of the Supper and that he giueth hymselfe to bée eaten exteriorly with the breade and wine the same being not doone not onely by Fayth or spiritually but that he is eaten as well of the vnworthy as those that be worthy 50 Me thinks deare brethren that seing you wil be estéemed so diligent in the obseruatiō of the words of the scripture as preferring nothing which is not drawen out of the same it is necessary you know that in al your article there is not one word of the words of Christ but we What cōiunction betwene Christ and Behall knowe that both he himselfe and his apostle teacheth vs the contrary saying that the vnbeléeuing and vnwoorthy can not 2. Cor. 6. possesse Christe nor be membres of him seing they haue not a mouth of fayth to receiue him 51 Besides I sée that your very confession doth not accorde at all with that of Auspurge wherof you make so greate a buckler no lesse to maynteyne you in the good opynion of the worlde than to bryng your selues in vnder the protection of princes and potentates who at the beginning vsed very wisely and christianlye the presentation of this Confession For the woordes of the Authour bée these Article 10. De Coena Domina docent quòd cum pane vino verè exhibeantur corpus et sanguis Christi vescentibus in coena domini that is to say Touching the Supper of the Lorde they teache that with the bread and wine be exhibited the body and bloud of Chryste to those that eate the Supper of the Lorde 52 In these woordes the Confession of Auspurge make no mention to receyue the body of Christe really and exteriorly as you say in youres neither make they mention at all that the worthie and vnworthie do receiue it 53 But herevnto you say that we haue not the true and incorrupte confession of Auspurge but that you haue certein Copies and exemplaries thereof best corrected whiche you follow in your doctrine is it possible brethren you shoulde be so negligent in the correction of your confession wherof you make so great value I am not of opiniō that the princes Protestāts wold suffer to be printed in their townes articles of their confession contaminated and imperfect truly you trouble greatly the world for if those which folow not your confession be condemned by your sentence and you onely haue the true copie of this confession wée muste thē necessarily come to you as to a spring or fountain of truth and helth some may say as in derision of those things that wée must come on pilgrimage to searche your registers and bookeshops as in tymes past they went to Ierusale Rome or S. Iames Oh good God what mockerie what presumption of people But to preuent you of cause of complainte ageynst vs and that your incōsideration be more manyfestly discouered we will recite the article of your incorrupt cōfession which as you say to be reserued with you so you shall fynde it beareth not a worde of that which you haue vttered 54 Youre wordes be these Sequimur igitur in hac controuersia sententiam decimi articuli Augustanae confessionis porrò articulus See the confession H. 2. ille decimus ita habet in incorrupta confessione quam sequimur De coena Domini docent quod corpus sanguis Christi verè adsint distribuantur vescentibus in Coena domini improbant secus docentes That is to say Wée followe in this question and debate the aduise and sentence of the tenth Article of the Confession of Auspurge which tenth article is writen in this sorte in the confession whiche we followe whiche is not corrupted It is taught touching the supper of the Lorde that the body and bloud of Chryst be truly present and bée distributed to suche as eate in the Supper of the Lorde neyther are they approued whiche teache other wayes 55 Nowe brethren I pray you shew mée where it is that you finde here your realities and vbiquities or that the vnworthy do eate the body of Chryst with other sorts of doctrines whiche you haue preferred and wold authorise them with the confession of Auspurge whyche notwithstanding wée wyll not receiue as a rule of our Christianitie and muche lesse the Confession of any other man that is vppon earth 56 We wil be christians and so be called we wil follow the confession of faith whiche oure GOD the father and Iesus Chryste his Sonne haue lefte vntoo vs that is too saye the dyuyne woorde in the olde and new Testament as the summe of oure Religion Wée receiue the simbols of fayth receiued of olde time in the Churche we haue not bin baptized in the names of Martine Zwinglius or Caluyn but in the name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghoste by whiche meanes wée deteste and abhorre all those names and surnames of Partialities that is to saye Martinistes Zwinglians and Caluinists with other like knowing very well that GOD is greately displeased with suche separations and partialities in the doctrine of religion And I wish with al my hart that the doctours whiche haue taught here before and suche as at this day doe preache the Gospell were of more modestie and wisdom and purely consecrated to search the glorie of the Lorde and not theyr owne proper prayse then should the people