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A16278 The fortresse of fayth defended both by the Scripture, and doctors / gathered by the learned German Bodonius ; and translated out of Latine into English by Edward Crane. Bodonius, Stephanus.; Crane, Edward. 1570 (1570) STC 3195; ESTC S1817 30,160 80

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my saluation neither yet commeth my helpe from the hilles or of the hilles But from and of the liuing God that made both Heauen and earth ¶ Augustine in Opere imperfecto vpon Mathi. Capite 32. TEll me O thou foolysh priest is not the Gospell of Christ dayly preached to the people in the Churchches and is it not daily tought then if being tought them it doth not profitte them how can it saue them being hanged about their necks Father whether is the strenght and operation of the Gospell in the figures of letters or in the vnderstanding of the sences if it be in the figures then is it wel hanged about their neckes But if it be in vnderstanding then is it better to put it into thy harte then to hange it about thy necke other meaning to shew themselues more iust do hang the Gospell about the hems and skertes of their garment or at their heyre or lookes O detestable impietie vngodlines which will rather shew godlines in their garments outwardly then in the precious bodye of Christ For he that is not saued by eating and receauing his bodye wil be saued by the holines of the hemes of his garments despairing in the great mercies of his goodues doth put his trust in the coote or gowne of a Temperall or wordly man But what will they saye O dyd not Paule giue his handkercher and gerdell to heale the weake Yes certainly before the knowledge of god was knowne in man it was necessary reason that by the godlines of man Gods power might be knowne But now it is madnes sith that now we knowe the power of God what is it necessary that we should know it by the power of man another doth thus interpretate this place saying By the obseruations of times and dayes delatinge at large their wordes and earnestly teaching that by conuersasion of health and saluation of whom Christ spake in vaine they worshippe me teaching the precepts and doctrine of man for they magnifie the hemmes and seames of their clothes For when they prayse the superfluous obseruations of their owne righteousnes to be pleasing vnto God they do as it weare magnifie the seames of their clothes Exodus 20. THou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen Image nor y likenes of any thing y is in heauen aboue nor in y earth beneth neither in the waters vnder the earth for I am the Lord thy God strong Ielous I am the Lord your God you shall not make to your selues any Idole or grauen Image neither shal you set a stone in your land to worshippe it You shall ouerthrow their Alters and breake downe their pillers cut downe their groues burne their grauen Images with fyer for thou art an holy people v●thy Lord thy God. Cursed be the man that maketh an● carued or molten Image an abhomination vnto the Lord the worke of the hand● of the hole craftes man and putteth in 〈◊〉 secret place in like case these places which are too many to reherse 3. Para. 33. Psalm 105. Psalme 96. Esai 30. Deut. 6. Deut. 32. 1. Reg. 7. Mala. 3. ¶ Iohn Chrisostome vpon Math. Homelie 45. Cap. 23. HOw will you flye the iudgement 〈◊〉 Hell damnation By the building your graues or Sepulcres of the saintes or rather by purging your hartes from rancour and malise wyll God iudge as man iudgeth man iudgeth man by worke but God iudgeth the harte What righteousnes is this to honour the saintes and holy men and to contemne sanctitte and holines The first degree of godlines is first to loue godlines then the godly for the saints were not before sanctitie or holines but holines was before the saints Therfore wel do they honour y righteous or iust that doth tread vnderfoote or spurne at iustice or righteousnes how will you escape will the saintes whose graues and moniments you adthorne and decrée deliuer you the saintes cannot be frendes to them to whom the Lord is enemie for can the familie or houshold be inquiet if the Lord or master be against it Howe will you escape will paraduenture a bare or vnfrutefull name deliuer you because you do seme to be the people of God what doth it profite that harlot if she be called a chast woman and is not so shall it nothing auayle the sinner if he be called or name the seruaunt of God In the end how wil you auoyd or escape the punnishment of Hell fyer which do build Churches and yet do not followe the fayth of the eclesiasticall truth Which read the Scriptures and yet do not beleue them which name the Prophets and Apostelles and Martirs and yet do not imitate the Martirs nor follow their confession Neither haue you hard him that saith not euery one that sayth vnto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kyngdome of Heauen but he that doth the will of my father which is in Heauen For as all that do call on the Lord are not the Lordes so not all that name the Apostelles and Martirs are true worshippers of them but they do truly worshippe and honour them that imitate and follow their workes and fayth I am thy Lorde God and Sauiour worshippe none other God but me Do not turne vnto Idoles neyther make you fayned Gods for I am the Lord your God. Among the Gods there is none lyke vnto the Lord and there are no workes lyke vnto thy workes all nations that thou hast created shall come and worship before the Lorde and shall glorifie thy name because thou art great and doinge great thinges and thou art the onely God and God alone Manoah sayd vnto the Angell of the Lord we will kepe thée still vntil we haue made ready a kydd and haue set it before thée And the Angell of the Lord sayd vnto Manoah though thou make me abyde I will not eate of thy bread and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering thou must offer it vnto the lord c. And I wyll speake my iudgementes with them c. Hast not thou sene what he hath done Cursed be the man that trusteth in man. He that loued vs and wasshed vs from our sinnes Their is but one God and one mediatour c. Though their be many Gods and many Lordes yet to vs is there but one God for the better vnderstanding of the case Read these places at large and you shall find the wordes most playne ¶ Iohn Chrisostomes Homelie of the profect of the Gospell Thom. 6. THe woman of Canaine came and praied vnto Christ for her daughter which then was possessed of a deuel crying after him with a loud and shryll voyce and sayd haue mercy vpon me Lord for my daughter is sore vered of a Dyuell Behold the strange Barberus woman and an outcast from the lawe of the Iewes what was she otherwise then a dogge such a one as was not worthy to
theron crucified he was Buried and the third daye he rose againe assendinge into Heauen thether hath he lifte vp his body From whence he shall returne to iudge both the quicke dead and at this present there he is sitting one the right hand of God the Father then how is the bread his body and the wyne his bloud Bretherne therfore these are named Sacraments because in them there is one thing sene and another thing vnderstode therby that which you sée hath a corporall bodyly shape figure but that which is vnderstand hath a spirituall fruite and commoditie therfore if thou wilt vnderstand the Body of Christ harke what the Apostle sayth to the faithfull you are the Body of Christ and the members therfore if you are the Body of Christ and members therof then your mistery and Sacrament is set on the table of the Lorde and yet you take it for the Lordes Sacrament and you answere Amen to that which you are and by your answere therto you do subscribe therfore thou hearest the Body of Christ and in answering Amen thou art a member ther of if thy Amē be ture why thē is this done in the figure we take away nothinge of our owne then heare what the Apostle sayth againe for when he spake of this Sacrament he sayd We beinge many are made one Body and one bread vnderstand and reioyce godlines trueth charitie and vnitie in these beinge one bread we many are one Body consider that the bread is not made of one corne but of many when you were euill intreted then you were as it were ground when you are baptised you are as it were kneded put together When you haue receaued the sanctifiing of the holy Ghost you are as it were baked Therfore be that that you sée and receaue and take that that you are This the Apostle sayd astouchinge the bread euen so bretherne consider of the wyne wherof it is made wyne for many Berries and Grapes growe in one cluster but the Ieuise and liquor therof doth runne into one vnitie and substaunce so our Lord Iesus Christ hath sealed vs And hath made vs being a misterie of peace t'apertayne vnto him and the Sacrament of our vnion he hath consecrated in his moste blessed table Whosoeuer receaueth the Sacrament of vnitie and keapeth not the bond of peace receaueth it not to his profitte but as a ●itnesse against himselfe ¶ Augustine vpon Iohn tract 26. Cap. 6. HE that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud remayneth in me and I in him this is to eate that foode and to drynke that drinke to remayne and abyde in Christ and to haue Christ abiding in him And by this we sée that he that abydeth not in Christ and in whom Chryst abideth not without dout doth not spiritually eate Christ neither drinketh his bloud although carnally and visible with his teath he do receaue the Sacrament of the body and most precious bloud of Christ Christ entred not into the holy place made with handes which were examples of true thinges but he assended into heauen that now he might apeare in the fight of God for vs not that he shoulde oftentimes offer vp himselfe c. Thou wast afflicted with penury and scarsenes and god gaue thée Manna for meat with both thou fathers knew not that he might shewe vnto thée that not only by bread man liueth but by euery worde that commeth out of the Lordes mouth ¶ Augustine quinquam Psalme 89. WHen the Lord spake of his Bodye He sayd vnlesse a man eate my flesh he cannot haue lyfe euerlasting and farther sayth The wordes that I spake vnto you are spirite lyfe therfore vnderstand spiritually what I haue sayd vnto you You shall not eate this body which you sée neither shall you drinke that bloud that they will shed which shal crucifie me but I haue commended vnto you the Sacrament which being vnderstand spiritually shall gue you lyfe ¶ Libro sententiarum Augustine HE eateth the Bread of lyfe and drynketh of the cuppe of eternitie that abydeth in Christ for he that is disceuered from Christ neither doth eate Christs flesh nor drinke his bloud although dayly he receaueth the Sacrament to the iudgement of his great presumption ¶ Origen in Leuiti Homelie 7. VNderstand that they are figures that are written in the holy scripture and therfore as spirituall and not as carnall vnderstand and examine that that is sayd therin for it carnally you do vnderstand them they do hurte you and not nurrishe you There is both in the olde Testament a letter that kylleth as also in the new Testament if hit be not vnderstande spiritually for if thou dost followe the letter where as it is sayd vnlesse you eate my flesh and drinke my bloud This Letter kylleth you wilt thou that I shewe in the scriptures another Letter that kylleth he sayth he That hath not a sworde let him sell his coate and buye a sword behold this Letter is of the Gospell and yet it kylleth But according to the meaning and sprite you vnderstand it it killeth not but ther is therin contayned a quickninge spirite and therfore whatsoeuer is written either in the lawe or in the Gospel spiritually vnderstand as spirituall for he that is spirituall iudgeth all things is himselfe iudged of no man. ¶ In the same place Homeli 9. ANd thou that art come to the true Bishoppe that hath apeased Gods wrath to thée wardes by his owne bloud And hath reconsiled thée to the Father sticke not onely to the bloud of the fleshe But rather learne the bloud of the worde and heare what he sayth himselfe for this is my bloud that shal be shed for you in remission of sinnes ¶ Bernard vpon Qui habitat Verse 3. Sermond 3. VNlesse you eate the fleshe of the Sonne of man and drinke his bloud c. And they sayd this commaundment is hard and they al went backward But what is to eate his flesh to drinke his bloud but to communicate with his Passions and to follow that conuersation which he lead in the flesh which the Sacrament offered one the Alter doth signifie where we do receaue the Lords Body that as we sée the fourme of Bread enter into our bodies we knowe therby what conuersation he had one the earth that he doth enter into vs to dwell by fayth in our hartes For when righteousnes entreth into vs he entreth that of God is made our righteousnes c. ¶ Augustine of the Lorder wordes according to Luc. Sermond 8. GIue vs this daye our dayly Bread. When I spake of the Sacrament I tolde you that before the words of Christ that that is offered is called Bread but after Christes wordes be spoken then is it not called bread but the bodye where as he sayth our bread he sayth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is to saye supersubstantially is it not the Bread that entreth