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A17053	The life of religion: or Short and sure directions teaching how to 1 beleeue aright. 2 Liue aright, & 3 pray aright. In the forme of exposition on 1 the Creed. 2 The ten Commandements. 3 The Lords Praier. Put into this kind of method, that it might the better 1. Informe the vnderstanding. 2. Affect the soule, and 3. Helpe the memory. Hereunto is added also a short treatise on the Lords Supper: with praiers to be vsed before, at, and after the communion. By R.B. minister of Gods Word.	Bruch, Richard, minister of Gods word.	1615 (1615)	STC 3927; ESTC S114246	69,848	288

Lords table let vs come to that which we are to doe at the Lords table so let him eate of that bread and drinke of that cup when a man hath examined and prepared it is not left at his discretion whether he will communicate or no but he must first examine and then eate for whereas the sacraments are badges by which we Christians are knowne from vnbeleeuers and idolaters in the vse of them wee must needes communicate vnlesse we will shew our selues ashamed of the profession of our faith This sacrament is a seale to confirme our faith therefore as we desire to haue an assurance of Gods promises sealed vp vnto vs let vs come vnto this table By this we are vnited vnto Christ therefore as we desire to be one with Christ so let vs communicate The Lords supper is a linke of vnity that knitteth vs one vnto another therefore as we desire loue and brotherly kindnesse so let vs frequent this table What though Augustine say Crede manducasti Beleeue and thou hast eaten yet let no man thinke that is sufficient to beleeue and not to eate for although there is no holesome eating without faith yet at the Lords table we are holpen furthered and confirmed in our faith by our outward sences When we heare it said this is my body c. faith you know is by hearing we are stirred vp to lay strong hold on the promises of God when we heare this word doe this in remembrance of me We are assured that this is Christs commandement when we see the bread broken the wine powred out we are giuen to consider of his passion that was broken for our sinnes and thinke of his blood that washeth vs from all sinne when the Minister offers vnto vs and we receiue the sacrament we thinke of that thing which God offers vnto vs and we receiue by the hand of faith Great therefore is the vse and necessity of this Sacrament and let no man slacke his comming vnto it that is inuited there are that are content to come and heare but refuse this table what doe they thinke themselues vnworthy of it who can be worthy or doe they contemne God is his ordinance Let them looke to it there is a iudgement for such men those that refuse to come saith Christ shall not tast of my banquet As God herein hath tendered our infirmities so let vs tenderly respect the good of our owne soules not withs●●●●●●g our selues withsome nor neglecting with others but let vs eate What we must eate Let a man eate of this bread c. 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Let a man or let euery man examine eate and drinke saith Paul not so saith the Church of Rome Let the Laity not examine but be confest let them eate if they will all but they shall not drink all we haue kept say the priests the chalice for our selues and they shall bee content with it vnder one kinde I will not say it is the licorishnesse of wine in men giuen to the appetite or a desire of innouating and changing this institution or their high presumption that their Church cannot erre though they decree against Christ that makes them thus sacrilegiously to abrogate the ordinance of Christ This I know hee that gaue himselfe for all said to his drinke of this all But the Church of Rome will giue Christ the checke not all saith she but some of all my shauelings my deare sons for the rest though Christ command it though Paul preach it yet shall they but haue it vnder one kinde Sic volo sic iubeo See the impious boldnesse of men whose consciences are seared with an hot iron and out of this iudge of the rest Quid non audebunt what will they not dare to doe I could but that I will not long with-hold my reader speake heere to the reproofe of the same men for keeping the host in a boxe when they are bid to eate the bread but I desire not to insist long on that which is to be eaten onely heere I cannot passe ouer that question which hath exagitated the Church so many yeeres namely what is that which is eaten for what for transubstantiation on the one side what for consubstantiation on the other side the Church is so diuided that it ●nowes not readily what to beleeue and hold concerning this Sacrament But because these are the things which are euery where spoken off and spoken against I will moue no longer question of it but indeuour out of these words other scriptures reasons and fathers briefely to shew that we must vnderstand in the Lords supper no Capernaiticall creophagie or carnall eating but that which is spirituall and by faith This will appeare vnto vs if wee consider well this place in which the Apostle saith eate that bread if it be bread when it is to bee eaten then it is not the very flesh of Christ presently after the words of consecration and againe the same Apostle Panem quem frangimus The bread which we breake And is it bread when it is broken then it is not the body of Christ presently after the consecration and if wee will beleeue Christ Iohn 6.35 he will tell vs that to come to him and to beleeue is to eate and drinke him the bread and water of life his flesh is meate indeede and his blood is drinke indeede ver 55. but it is the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing verse 63. see heere how our Sauiour would haue vs to vnderstand a spirituall eating Reasons Besides these and such like places of Scripture how many absurdities in reason will follow vpon this doctrine How absurd a thing is it that a mortall man who is not able to make one haire of his head white or blacke should bee thought able to create his Creator how absurd a thing to thinke that the reprobate rats mise and other vermin should eate the flesh of Christ it must needs thereupon follow that they haue eternall life in them What an absurd thing is it to thinke that accidents can be without their subiects A body without his dimensions the same body at one and the same time in innumerable places these and many such absurdities in reason follow on this doctrine Now heare the Fathers Fathers Num 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mysterium nostrum pronuncias irreligiosè ad cràssas cogitationes vrges fidelium mentes humanis cogitationibus attentas ea tractare quia sola pura et exquisita fide accipiuntur Cirill ad Eutropium What doest thou call our mystery an eating of mans flesh and doest thou irreligiously vrge the mindes of the faithfull to grosse thoughts and doest thou attempt to handle those things with humane thoughts which are receiued by pure and exquisite faith alone Christus assumpto pane qui cor hominis confortat veritatem corporis sui repraesentauit saith Ierome Christ hauing taken the bread which comforteth the heart of man hath represented