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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

it therfore in vs any dutie of obseruation of suche Ceremonies hauing regard only to the authoritie of Peter God defend No let Peter remaine still as Peter and Martine as Martine that is to say as a man that may fayle and let the spirite of God be encreased by the organs instruments which he shall stirre vp to manifest the truth of his gospel whether he be Paul or Zwinglius or Oecolampadius or any other of lesse authoritie than they And for oure partes such organs instruments of God let vs receiue honour and haue in singular cōmendation without persuasion or beléef that they be innocēt or that they can not erre or that they bée not ignoraunt of some things Let vs beléeue that from day to day our Lorde wyll stirre vp such lyke organs and instruments to aduance hys glorie and to augment the lyghte of his holy Truth if our owne vnthankfulnesse bee not a barre to suche liberalitie begon by our GOD. 15 Besydes brethren I consider the lamentable tyme wherein those holy men dydde liue as béeing employed rather to purge and clense the fylthynesse of Papistrie than to studie or consyder of the introduction of the pure Truthe they were rather vsed in the resistaunce of the furie of Antechriste and his suppostes to flée from one coast to an other to make Apologies and defences to aunswer the falsehodes that were layde vpon them by dyuers and to dispute wyth the monstrous Moonkes of their Purgatorie and Rogations than that they had leysure and quiet libertie to searche by meditation the truth of the christian doctrine manyfested in the diuine word By which occasion it came to passe that their writings were stuffed with so many opprobrious and spiteful woords vnworthy of the true seruaunts of God and perfect pronouncers of the gospel of peace which notwithstanding as we support such infirmities as hauing regard to so wicked a time So now that God hath sent vs so many beames of his light let vs leaue to liue remaine so blind as in times past 16 My meaning deare brethren in al this discourse hath not bin to other purpose than to declare the smal occasion we haue aswel one as another to make gods or to say more truly idols of our doctors by their occasiōs to entertein vs in parcialities dissentiōs debates vpon the matter of our doctrine to the great slaunder of the poore weake cōsciences notable resistance of the propagation of the church wherin if the Corinthians haue bin rebuked bycause they made Partialities to maintein the renoume of S. Paule the chosen vessell of GOD Apostle of Iesus Chryste Doctoure of the Gentiles and to speake in one woorde a man indued with most singular and excellent giftes howe may God laye it ageynst vs who contende quarel make continual warre and as a man wold say deuoure one an other as Dogges and Cats breaking alwayes the bonde of charitie whiche Iesus Christ hath left of suche estimation 17 When the Lord would marke his disciples and childrē of his father he willed them not to followe the confession of Auspurge nor the Catechisme of Martin or of Iohn but he sayth In this men shal The marke of the christians Iohn 13. know you are my disciples if ye loue one other Alas moste blinde and myserable that wée are whilest wée dispute of the true or false interpretation of the words of the Sacrament of vnitie wée breake the very vnitie it selfe in contendyng whether the wicked infidell and vnworthy receyue as well the body of Chryste in the Supper as the children of GOD wée disfurnishe oure selues of the very Christ and make our selues of the number of them that receyue him not at all in serching whether Christ come in flesh in Spirite or in Sacramente we do depriue our selues of the true communion of Christ for he that hateth his brother Chryste dwelleth not in him in siftyng curiously whether the body of Christ bee giuen to vs in the bread vnder the bread or with the bread we cut oure selues off from the true body of Christe and make vs members of Sathan the father of dissentions quarelles contentions and debates 18 And for my opinion vpon the matter of the holie Supper I will saye in few woordes good brethren what I vnderstande leauing to euery one his libertie to folow that which God shall teache him Wée know right well that the meaning of our redeemer Iesus comming into this worlde was to manyfest to men the good will of his heauenly Father towardes them and how his Diuine maiestie had prouided to remedie the faulte transgression and disobedience of the first Doctrin of the holy Supper of Christ Adam by the innocencie moste pure iustice and obedience satisfactorie of the seconde and heauenly Adam And that men mighte be deliuered of the ire and iudgement of God putting themselues vnder the wyngs and couerture of thys Souerayne and eternall Sacrificatour And The summe of the doctrine of Chryst for as muche as the Diuine woorde doth shewe vnto vs the malediction of men and transgression ageynste the wyll of GOD by woordes taken of our corporall nouriture saying that as man hath eaten the frute of a tree defended hym by his Creatoure and that by meane of the same eatyng he hath made hymselfe enimie of the Lorde In lyke maner Iesus Christe oure Redéemer declareth to vs by similitude of eating and drinkyng the Reconciliation towardes GOD that his obedience hath brought vs as if he woulde cléerely say that Man hauing eaten of a forbidden Fruite hathe purchased malediction where as in eatyng nowe of a fruite giuen him by the hande of GOD bée hath woonne benediction The fruite and Trée of life whiche wee oughte to eate is euen very hée whiche Chryst is the Frute of the Tree of life bryngeth vs suche happie newes who wyth hys vertue and power iudicible is so tyed and ioyned wyth vs by the meane of Faithe and bonde of his holy Spirite that he entertaineth our soules in spirituall and heauenly lyfe euen as the bread and wyne nourisheth our bodies in corporall lyfe 20 Vsyng this similitude the Lorde sayeth in the sixth of Saint Iohn that he hym selfe is the breade of lyfe and gyuing lyfe which is descended from Heauen and that who eateth of this breade shall liue eternally That is to say hee shall escape the Cursse gotten by eatyng of the Fruite defended Hée sayeth also that hys flesh is the true meate and hys bloud the true drinke And hée that eateth his fleshe and drynketh his bloud dwelleth in Chryste and Chryste in hym who is oure seconde and Heauenly The trew vnderstanding of the words of Chryst Iohn 6. Adam within whose bodie it is necessarie wée bée incorporated or that hée incorporate hym selfe in vs to the ende that wée maye be able to appeare before GOD couered with the mantell of his moste innocente fleshe full of all Iustice 21 And bycause our

interpretation of these words the vine and that are you handlyng the branches coulde we say for all that that Iesus Chryst would comunicate his substance into a grape and that the Apostles should be transnatured into braunches sure who were of such opinion discouered sufficiently his ignorance and infirmitie 27 Notwithstanding you others my brethren make your principall piller vppon suche manner of speakings and all to make the poore ignorant people beleue that Chryste hath made promise to giue himselfe with the bread bycause that hauing taken bread and breaking it he said this is my body which woordes simply vnderstanded are as much as to say my body which is broken offered deliuered and sacrifised for you is bread or like too this bread whiche you breake eate and digest for the nouriture of your body In like sort I being the heuenly bread shal be broken for you to the end you may haue spiritual eternal life therfore do celebrate this that is to say this breaking and receite of bread in remembrance of me 28 To make cōclusion of this matter I vnderstand that our redéemer Iesus is Comparison betwene the first and second Adam the frute of lyfe who hauing put himself on the trée of the Crosse hath defaced the sinne and transgression whiche the frute of the trée defended brought to vs And euen as Adam hauyng eaten of suche a frute did make hymself enimie of God in contrary manner when wée participate with Iesus Christ crucified we are receiued into the good fauour and loue of oure Heauenly Father and that by the onely bountie merite and intercession of the self hée who on the trée of the crosse did constitute hymselfe the frute of lyfe for vs beyng assured that the participation of that precious Frute is not done either by water wine bread or any other creature whatsoeuer but by the woorke and operation indicible of the holy spirit who hauing called the chosen and predestinate of God doeth teache them their Meane to receiue Chryst Election Vocation Penance sinnes and abhominable transgressions by meane of the presentation of the holie Lawe hée sheweth vnto them theyr damnation sentence of eternall death the whiche they féele so in their heartes that by experience they may well assure them selues that the ire and wrathe of God hath bin so manifested to them that they haue swallowed pangs of death and The true preparation to knowe Chryst is to know the necessitie wee haue of hym séene before their eyes the throate of hell confounde and deuoure them there they fynd the frute of the trée of knowledge of good and euill they sorrowe and wéepe with a penaunce most bitter the miserable bankets or repasts whiche they haue taken of such a meate and fruite not only in the person of their father Adam but also with their proper mouth 29 After that by such means the holy spirit hath abased the arrogācie of man his pride and presumption and shewed him by experiēce the diffinitiue sentence arest irreuocable of the eternal ageinst sinners he beginneth to comfort and giue him good hope shewing him as a far off The faithefull feele the presence of Christ in their hart the Trée of lyfe and the viuifying fruite hanging vpon it the whiche by little and little degrée and degrée fayth and fayth and vertue and vertue makes him eate swallow and digest the heauenly bread Iesus Chryst yea with such experience féeling that no meat in the world of how great nouriture soeuer it be is so sensible in the bodie as the frute of life Iesus Chryst is in the soules of the faythfull with such manifestation by good woorkes outwardly that others may see knowe with what meate they be fed 30 For when we eate of euery other The life of a christiā sheweth that he hath Christ in him meate the body of him that eateth proueth only the presence of the meate But in suche as eate Chryst the true frute of the trée of life is discerned suche an example in their persons such ioy and pacience in afflictions such care to mortifie the old Adam such a renūciation of the things of the world with affection to the lyfe eternall that their neighbours and freendes acompanying them may sée that they eat other meate than the deuourers of ceremonies do 31 When they haue truely essentially and really participated of the bodie and bloud of Chryste by faith as is sayd of Iesus Chryste all entier true God and true man they assure them selues of suche a coniunction with him that they haue no néede to goe to searche hym eyther in the armorie of Préests or betwene the hands of men too receiue him either with the bread or with the water as being fully assured that Iesus Christ dwelleth in them and that they be flesh of his flesh and bones of his bones 32 And yet for all this they forbeare not to aproch to the holy table of the Lord to celebrate the holy Supper with theyr brethren and chyldren of the same heauenly father Neither go they thither to receiue Chryste of newe in bread or in wyne by grace or merite but their first cause of going thither is to certifie to al the church that they are of the number of those that receiue Iesus Christ for their only redéemer sauior for their eternal sacrificator their chief king lord souerain prophet doctor to teach them in al truth 33 Secondly they take the holy supper as a gage assurāce of the good wil of the heuenly father towards thē the same being so constant firme that it wil neuer change For euen as God hath promised by othe that the sacrificator shal be eternal euen so shall be the sacrificature and sacrifice for expiation of our sinnes 34 Thirdly they receiue in the Supper the seale of ratification cōfirmation of grace with recōciliation prononoūced by the preaching of the gospell to the end that by such mean faith might be augmented in them seing that God is not only cōtented to giue them y● word of reconciliation to assign his promises with the bloud of his proper sonne but hath also signed and sealed his Gospell of reconciliation with seales declaring in a wonderfull maner the very things conteined in the letters patentes and promis of the gospel happy newes 35 Fourthly the faithful see in the holy Supper as in a table and liuely portrait the communion and participation which they haue inwardly in their hartes with Iesus Christ knowing also that al the noriture spiritual vigor which they see in thē comes of the presence of hym whom they consider and beholde figured represented in the holy and sacred Ceremonie of the Supper by meane of which consideration they render thanks to the Lorde Sacrifice of thanks giuing in the holy Supper for the fayth hope mortification constancie whiche they féele to be communicated to them by the power and benignitie of

aunswer me that the tyrannie of the papists is so abhominable that there is no hart possessed with any Religion whose pacience may endure so intollerable a yoke The tyrānie of the Papists vppon the spiritualtie and temporaltie into the church of God séeing they ar not contented to bury the benefites of Iesus Chryst to rob and vsurpe his dignitie to make themselues merchants of his blud and redemptiō to beguile and seduce the poore people and their consciēces sending soules to hell in place to draw them out of purgatorie and lastly as a full of their tyrānie haue subdued and put vnder their féete the Monarchs Emperours Kings Princes and Magistrates of the earth forcing them to an humilitie vpon their féete they haue vsurped Seigniories and principalities by violence and effusion of mans bloud to the ende to make themselues Princes and great Lordes and their children neuews and allies hauing attyred themselues gorgiously with stolne feathers like to Esops crow and where afore they were so simple that they had scarcely wherewith to fill their bellies nowe some of them are become Princes some Dukes Earles Marquisses others triumph at their pleasure deuouring the goodes of straungers all which is tollerable with them bycause that the Pope their father hath put them in possession of suche wealth iniustly vsurped And if any one kindeled with the grace of our Lorde be priuie to suche abuses and goeth aboute too discouer them too the people incontinent the Popes their Parentes and Allies with open mouth do call suche Preachers Heretikes Apostates bannished Strangers and people vnworthye of reléefe in a Common state and will enter foorthwith into deuise and trauaile and that with all diligence to commit them eyther to the fyre and fagotts or otherwise to extirpe them quite from the earth bycause they feare that the preachers of truth discoueryng their pot of roses as the prouerbe sayth and that the worlde vnderstanding their tirannies euery one will withdraw and take away his fether rightely belonging to him and so in the end the Crow will eftsoones become a crow and the simple and poore man returne to his first estate 86 Herevnto I aunswere and saye good brethren that you haue greate reason and I woulde in GOD the stones had mouthes to manyfest suche abuses But yet ther is necessary to our side a sober obseruation of modestie in the words we vse to speake for my part I dout not at all that the diligence of the Popes Cardinals The cause why the Papists and their allies make warre ageinst the Gospel with their parents and Allies is not rather to maynteyne their vsurped estates than the glorie and zeale of God for if they had any religion they would shew it in their life and cōuersation But alas all the worlde séeth that the greatest zealors and defendors of the Papists shew almost no feare of god the Popes themselues deride with open throate our Sauior Chryst according to the example of one that died not long since who hauing left behynde him many lordships to his children and nephews vsurped by tyrannie sayd in sort of railing or madde scoffing that this fable of Iesus Chryst had greately profited many houses who of shifting roysters and disordred people were become possessoures of large reuenues Marke this blasphemie consider what religion this holy S. Peter and vicar of Christ hadde in his heart who notwithstanding vsed his tymes and occasions so conueniētly as he forgat nothing that concerned his profite But my hope is in God that he wil distroy that Babylon and the tyrant Nemroth that defendeth hir his parents and Allies who to preserue their vsurpations raise war ageinst the children of GOD and murder them 87 Expectyng deare brethren this horrible iudgement and most assured punishment that will fal vpon them let vs vse pacience in the wrong they offer vs If they call vs heretikes bicause we wil not folow the faith of theyr Popes but imbrace that which Chryst hath taught vs. Let vs estéeme oure selues happie if they cal vs apostates bicause we be come foorth or rather the Lorde hath wonderfully deliuered vs from the Idolatries and superstitions of the Papistes Let vs accompt our selues neuerthelesse happie for my part I protest afore the Lord that it is to mée a title and surname of glorie and dignitie to be called Apostate of the Pope and the Antechryst of Rome If they call vs banished from oure countrey let vs rather reioyce than discomfort knowing that God hath not banyshed vs from his grace neyther is it Christe that hath throwne vs out of his spirituall kingdome but it is the inquisitours who wold eyther haue banished or burned vs per effigiem in performing their rage vppon the strawe and papers bicause they could not execute it vpon the flesh and bones of the membres of Iesus Christ Let vs giue thāks to God in that such banishments and persecutions procéede not to vs as being guiltie eyther of theft murder or treason to oure Prince and Magistrate nor atteynted of any other offence worthy of punishment but bicause we search the health of our soules in the simple and pure worde of God 88 If they call vs straungers let vs The children of God are neuer out of their owne countrey remembre that the heauenly Father which hath aduowed vs for his children is lorde of heauen and of earth And into what part so euer we shall go we be in the coūtrey of our father we be his propre inheritaunce as the Prophete sayeth in the Psalm 37. That the rightuous shal dwel in the earth and be lawfull possessors of the same Lette vs comforte oure selues in this that neyther oure running oute of the countrey nor oure absence from the lande of oure birth hath bin moued by any vsurpation of the possessions or goodes of other but onely to giue place to persecutions Suche fléeing awaye is not shamefull but rather honourable séeing wée are companyons of our head and redéemer Iesus Christe who from his childhood was a stranger in the countreys of the Egyptians shewing the persecutions of Herode 89 If oure persecuters do curse vs let vs blisse them if they search or séeke oure death let vs pray for their lyfe And whē ther shal come question to discouer their abuses tyrannies and extortions let vs vse it with sobrietie modestie and grauitie that it may appere euē to themselues that we are not led by any malice ageynst their persones but of a spirituall zeale to the glorie of God the aduauncement of the kingdom of Chryst chiefe of the church and to the health of the soules of the poore and simple people beguyled and seduced euen vntill now by the preachers of dreames and fables who vnder the colour of Iesus Chryste haue martired his church and being in deed very rauening Wolues doe name themselues pastors and shepeherdes of the troupe of God Lastely lette vs endeuer to liue in peace one with an other whether they