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A13142	A summe or a briefe collection of holy signes, sacrifices, and sacraments instituted of God euen since the beginning of the world, and of the true originall of the sacrifice of the Masse; Sum or a brief collection of holy signes, sacrifices and sacraments.	Ling, Nicholas, fl. 1563.; Brett, John, Sir, attributed name.; Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl of, 1590-1628, attributed name.	1609 (1609)	STC 23434; ESTC S113014	129,473	362

passion of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ put your whole trust commit your selfe vnto him and with his precious body bloud couer your soule and infold and wrap your selfe wholly in it and say vnto him after this maner O my sweet Sauiour for this thy names sake be it vnto me according to this thy name looke vpō me a sinful wretch calling vpon thy holy name and O sauiour bee vnto mee a sauiour for thy names sake For surely there is no man iust in the earth that doeth good and sinneth not neither any that can say I haue made my heart cleane I am cleane from my sinne Thou onely art the holy of all holiest and I am the filth of all sinners but Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me cleane say thou also vnto my soule I wil be thou cleane Who can tell how oft he offendeth O clense thou me from my secret sinnes Thou Lord hast said also in the gospell that the whole neede not the Physition but they that are sick and hast also most gratiously bidden vs to come vnto thee when we feele our selues trauailed and heauie loaden saying in most sweete and comfortable words Come vnto mee all ye that trauaile and are heauie loaden and I will refresh you I come therefore vnto thee because of thy sweet bidding sore trauailed and loaden with the burden of my sinnes which are so heauie vpon me that I am not able to looke vp yea they are more in number then the haires of my head and my heart hath failed me but Lord let it bee thy pleasure to deliuer me make hast O Lord to help me for I am sore charged and cumbred with many euil temptations my heart is also intangled and oppressed with many euil passiōs which come of my flesh of the world and of the diuell and there is none that can help me or deliuer mee nor that can make mee free and safe but only thou my Lord God my onley sauiour to whom I commit me Refresh me which am so trauailed lighten me which am so burdened thou art the most soueraigne physition and my soule is also sore sick in sinne heale mee which come to bee made whole through thee the sicker that my soule is the more desire it hath to be healed and the more neede hath it of thee Turne not thy face away therefore from me neither cast thy seruant away in displeasure leaue me not neither forsake me O God of my saluation for why in healing the deadly sicknes of my soule shall well be shewed and commended the greatnes of thy goodnes that wilt helpe and heale so wretched a creature if thou receiue me into the large bosome of thy mercy the place wil not be the more straitned or lessened by me It is true Lord that I haue sinned and in the whole course of my life haue multiplied many offences and no repentance or punishment of my selfe may suffice to satisfie thy iustice But I humbly beseech thee to forgiue me O Lord forgiue me destroy me not with my transgressions bee not angry with me for euer by reseruing euill for me neither condemne me into the euerlasting damnation of hell darknes and paines prepared for the Diuel and his angels for thou art the God euen the God of them that repent and in me thou wilt shewe all thy goodnes for sure it is that thy mercies are endlesly more then mine offenses and though my transgressions are infinite yet more infinite are thy mercies Therefore if thou shalt enter into iudgement with me thy poore and vnworthy seruant I wil lay before thee the rich righteousnes of thy beloued sonne Iesus Christ my sauiour which hee hath purchased giuen vnto me by his precious death I will lay his righteousnes giuen vnto me betweene my soule and thy iudgement otherwise Lord I may not nay I dare not contend with thee for thine angry threatnings towards sinners are importable but thy mercifull promises are vnmeasurable and vnsearchable for thou art the most high Lord of great compassion long suffering and most mercifull Thou Lord according to thy great goodnes hast promised repentance and forgiuenes to them that sinne against thee and for thine infinit mercies hast appointed repentance vnto sinners that they may bee saued I therefore a most wretched sinner bewaile my manifold sinnes earnestly repent me of my former wickednes and vngodly behauiour towards thee and all my christian brothers sisters gone before me or remaining still in this present worlde for I haue sinned against heauen and against thee and I am no more worthy to be called thy sonne though for mine vnworthines I am not able of my selfe to purchase thy pardon hauing beene thy prodigal wastful childe which haue wasted all the substance of my life in sinne am fallen to great wretchednes yet I beseech thee blessed Lord to looke vpon mee with the eies of thy pitie and receiue me in the reioicings of peace and grant me the blessings of forgiuenes and do away the wickednesse that I haue done that I may appeare cleane vnto thee as thou madest me and receiue mee againe into fauour and if thou answere vnto my Soule thou hast deserued damnation Lord I confesse that I haue sinned aboue the number of the sand of the sea and my transgressions are exceeding many I did not thy will neither kept I thy commandements ● am not worthy to behold and see the height of the heauens for the multitude of mine vnrighteousnes but I lay before thee betweene mine euill deserts and thine vnsearchable and terrible iudgement the death and sufferings of my sauiour and redeemer which hath giuen his most precious body to be broken and his blessed bloud to be shed as a iust recompence for all mine offences in whom only thou art pleased through whom thou canst not be offended with me receiue O Lord the merits of his precious death and passion for those merits which I ought to haue had and alas haue not now Lord I say againe I put the most cleare shining and glorious bodie of thy beloued Sonne my Lord and sauiour betweene me thy wrath betweene my sinfull soule and thy feareful and terrible iudgements in the triumphant victorious merits of his most precious death and passion I commend my soule LORD into thine handes for in that that I liue now in the flesh I liue by the faith in the sonne of God who hath loued me giuen himselfe for mee through whom and for whose sake I am assured that thou wilt saue me that am vnworthy according to thy great mercie Therefore will I praise thee for euer all the daies of my life for all the powers of the heauens praise thee thine is the glorie for euer and euer Amen Finis

grace to the beautifying of any the members redoundeth to the comfort benefitting and honesting of the least and lowest of the faithfull in the mysticall body of Christ For what grace or benefit can bee in the head whereof all the members receiue not comfort seing they are made partakers therof To cōclude such is the comfort of the least and lowest of the faithfull in this mysticall body of Christ that no penne nor tongue in this life can serue to expresse it neither any heart able fully to conceiue it the full knowledge and feeling whereof is laid vp for the life to come forasmuch as no hea●t is strong nor large enough to conceiue or beare the ioy thereof in this mortall life Out of which mysticall body being the holie church of God the spouse and bodie of Christ flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones there is no saluation forgiuenes of sinne or soules health to bee found hoped or looked for and in this bodie whereof Christ is the head there is no condemnation to any the faithfull and true beleeuers how greeuous soeuer their sinnes seeme vnto them so that if Satan doe summon any of them to answere for their debts and sinnes in that the wife is no person to be sued but the husband euery of the faithfull may wel bid him enter his action against their husband Christ and he will make him a sufficient answere for being once knit by a true liuely faith vnto this head and body of Christ there shall no sinne so farre preuaile as to haue full dominion ouer them and be able euer to separate them from the loue fauour grace benefits and mercies of God which are in Christ Iesus both for that they haue communion partaking and fellowship of Christ himselfe and of all the benefits of his suffering and passion being made partakers also of all his vertues and graces and through him of all the good vertues and holinesse distributed or to bee distributed by him to all or any member that euer hath beene is or shal be of his said mysticall body the church so that the whole church doth still pray for them by Christs cōmandement Forgiue vs our sinnes lead vs not into temptation deliuer vs from euill yea Christ himselfe being their head their redeemer their Sauiour their onely stay and cause of al this comfort doth pray for them and whatsoeuer is euill in them that hee taketh away and whatsoeuer is good in them that he taketh and distributeth amongst them and through his owne vertue and power purgeth and cleanseth them from all their vncleannes filthines both of body and soule being true mēbers of his said mystical body as all and euery one is indeed and without all doubt hauing neuer so little of true saith which faith is not as a cause but as a certificate or instrument giuen them of God whereby the faithfull themselues may bee certaine of their good husband Christ and therefore when their conscience feeleth it selfe ●●●quieted for feare of Gods iudgemēt against sinne they may in no wise looke vpon the worthines and sufficiencie of their own faith because they neuer belee●e so fully and sufficiently as they should and ought to beleeue but onely let them looke on Gods grace eternall mercy and peace in Christ so shal they be at quiet when they looke for their saluation altogether out of thēselues in Gods mercy in Christ Iesus in whose lap if they rest their head then are they happie and shall find quietnes indeed The other part of the cōmunion which the members of Christs mysticall body haue and ought to haue one with another is touching the temporal blessings of this present life who being all laced and knit together by the bond of true charity they doe and are at all times readie to communicate for the mutuall helpe and comfort one of an other all such temporall blessings as God hath bestowed vpon them for the vse and necessitie of their life as to pray one for another to helpe comfort and counsell one another in all things needfull either for soule or body to minister to the necessities one of another in a franke liberall distribution of almes deedes according to such measure as God hath dealt to euery one a power and abilitie to helpe and releeue such as are in need misery or want either by pouertie sicknes imprisonment or banishment by which outward deeds of charitie their faith and loue to God is witnessed and declared as on the contrary by their couetousnes hardnesse of heart and vnmercifulnes to the poore they giue plaine witnesse and testimonie they neither loue nor beleeue in God what florish or boasting soeuer they make to the cōtrary according as Saint Iohn affirmeth in his first epistle and 3. chap. saying My little children let vs not loue in word neither in tongue onely but in deede and in truth whosoeuer hath this worlds goods seeth his brother haue need and shutteth vp his compassion from him how dwelleth the loue of God in him be loued let vs loue one another for loue cōmeth of God and euery one that loueth is borne of God and knoweth God hee that loueth not knoweth not God for God is loue In this appeare●h the loue of God towards vs because God sent his onely begotten son into the world that we might liue through him herein is loue not that we loued God but that he loued vs first and sent his sonne to be a reconciliation for our sinnes beloued if God so loued vs we ought also to loue one another no man hath seene God at any time if wee loue one another God dwelleth in vs and his loue is perfect in vs God is loue and hee that dwelleth in loue dwelleth in God and God in him we loue him because hee loued v● first if any man say he loue God and hate his brother he is a lier for how can hee that loueth not his brother whom hee hath seene loue God whom he hath not seene and this cōmandement haue we of him he that loueth God should loue his brother also By this instruction of the Apostle in this epistle it appeareth that it is a false lying and vaine boasting of any man to say hee loueth and beleeueth in God truly when hee shuteth vp all his compassion from the helpe of mankind which beare the image of God in the person of our Sauiour Christ which was both God and man who presenteth himselfe to vs to bee beloued in them which beare the image of his māhood For no man can truly say he hartely loueth the father but hee must also loue the sonne and although the sonne be naughtie and vnthriftie yet for his fathers sake hee must helpe to better him and euen lament and bee sorry for the sonnes wickednes euen so much the rather seing God hath appointed and by his holy ordinance commaunded that whatsoeuer any true Christian man is or whatsoeuer hee hath hee should

I remember all their wickednes Now their owne inuentions haue beset them about they are in my sight for the wickednes of their inuentions I wil cast them out of mine house I will loue them no more all their Princes are rebels my GOD will cast them away because they did not obey and they shall wander amongst the nations They turne iudgement to woorme-wood Amos against impenitēt sinners cap. 5. and leaue off righteousnes in the earth they haue bated him that rebuked in the gate and they abhorred him that speaketh vprightly therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an euill time for I know your manifold transgressions your mighty sinnes they a●flict the iust they take rewards and they oppresse the poore in the gate Therefore the Lord God of Hostes the Lord saith thus mourning shall be in all the streetes they shall say in all the high waies alas alas and they shall call the husbandmen to lamentation and such as can mourn to mourning Cap. 8. Behold the daies come saith the Lord God that I wil send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the word of the Lord they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north euen to the east shall they runne to and fro to seeke the word of the Lord and shall not finde it Gap 9. Behold the eies of the lord are vpon the sinfull kingdome and I will destroy it cleane out of the earth and I will slay the last of them with the sword he that flieth of them shall not fly away and he that escapeth of them shall not be deliuered though they dig into hell thence shall mine hand take them though they climbe vp to heauen thence will I bring them downe and though they hide themselues in the top of Carmell I wil search and take them out thence and though they be hid frō my sight in the bottom of the Sea there will I command the serpent and hee shall bite them and though they go into captiuity before their enemies thēce will I command the sworde and it shall slay them and I will set mine eies vpon them for euill and not for good For behold the Lord commeth out of his place and will come downe Micheas against impenitent sinners cap. 1. and tread vpon the high places of the earth and the mountaines shall melt vnder him So shall the valleies cleaue as wax before the fire and as the waters that are powred downeward Woe vnto thē that imagine iniquitie Cap. 2. and worke wickednes vpon their beds when the morning is light they practise it because their hand hath power and they couet fields and take them by violence and houses and take them away so they oppresse a man and his house euen man and his heritage the women of my people haue you cast out from their pleasant houses and from their children haue you taken away my glory continually They that prophecied prophecie you not they shall not prophecie vnto thē neither shall they take shame if a man walke in the spirit and would lie falsely saying I will prophecie vnto thee of wine strong drinke he shall euen bee the Prophet of this people Therefore thus saith the Lord behold against this family haue I deuised a plague whereout ye shall not pluck your necks and ye shall not go so proudly for this time is euill Thus saith the Lord cōcerning the Prophets that deceiue my people and bite them with their teeth and cry peace if a man put not in their mouthes they prepare warre against him the heads thereof iudge for rewardes and the Priests therof teach for hire the Prophets thereof prophecie for money yet will they leane vpon the Lord and say is not the LORD amongst vs no euill can can come vpon vs. They hate the good and loue the euill they pluck the skins from them and their flesh from their bones and they eate also the flesh of my people and fley off the skinne from them and they breake their bones and chop them in pieces as for the pot and as the flesh within the caldron Cap. 6. For the rich men thereof are full of cruelty and the inhabitants thereof haue spokn lies and their tongue is deceitfull in their mouthes Shal I iustifie the wicked ballances the bag of deceitfull waights therefore also wil I make thee sicke in in smiting thee and in making thee desolate because of thy sinnes thou shalt eate and not be satisfied and thy casting downe shal be in the middest of thee and thou shalt take hold but shalt not deliuer and that which thou deliuerest will I giue vp vnto the sworde Will the Lord bee pleased with thousands of rammes or with ten thousād riuers of oile shall I giue my first borne for my transgression euen the fruit of my bodie for the sinne of my soule He hath shewed thee O man what is good and what the Lord requireth of thee surely to doe iustly and loue mercie and to humble thy selfe to walke with thy God Are ye the treasures of wickednes in the house of the wicked and the skant measure that is abominable The good man is perished out of the earth Cap. 7. and there is none righteous amongst men they all lie in waite for bloud euerie man hunteth his brother with a net to make good for the euil of their hands the Prince asked and the Iudge iudgeth for rewarde so they wrap it vp The best of them is a bryar and the most righteous of thē is sharper then a thorny hedge the day of thy watchmen and of thy visitation commeth then shal be their confusion Trust you not in a friend neither put your confidence in a Counsailor keepe the dores of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosome for the son reuileth the father the daughter riseth vp against the mother the daughter in law against her mother in lawe a mans enemies are the men of his owne house therefore will I looke vnto the Lord I will waite for God my sauiour my God wil heare me I wil beare the wrath of the Lord for I haue sinned against him vntill he pleade my cause and execute iudgemēt for me then wil he bring me forth to the light and I shall see his righteousnes Who is a God like vnto thee that taketh away iniquitie and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage he retaineth not his wrath for euer because mercie pleaseth him hee wil turne againe and haue compassion vpon vs he wil subdue our iniquities and cast all our sinnes into the bottom of the sea thou wilt performe thy truth to Iacob and mercie to Abraham as thou hast sworne to our fathers in old time The Lord is slow to anger Naham against impenitent sinners cap. 1. but he is great in power wil not surely cleere the

receiue the same inuisible grace by the elements as the sacrament of circumcision and the passeouer in time of the lawe did declare giue testifie and assure vnto al● the children of Abraham the beleeuing Iewes the mercifull promise of God that God was is and would be their God their redeemer and deliuerer from sinne and Satans power for euer of which their captiuity vnder sinne and Satan their thraldome in Egypt from whence they were diliuered was a figure The Sacrament also of Baptisme the Lords Supper do declare giue testifie seale vp and assure through the vnspeakeable working of the holy Ghost vnto all the true beleeuers in Christ their full and perfect deliuerance from sinne and Satans power their participation and fruition of perfect holinesse in Iesus Christ and in the end the reward of euerlasting life purchased giuen bestowed by his meanes and for his sake who paied the price of their redemption of all which the true beleeuers are made partakers in the instance of receiuing the outward elements in Baptisme the Lords Supper through the working of the holy Ghost in them and vnfained stedfast true faith It belongeth not therfore to any sacrament or to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper by the doctrine of Gods word that the elements should bee changed into the very and naturall substance of that whereof it is a sacrament either by transubstantiation or consubstantiatiō for that were to fetch Christ againe frō aboue and giue him a reall naturall or supernaturall corporall presence here vpon earth and so to make him be in all places at once contrary to the true nature of his true humane body and contrary to the doctrine of holy scripture which teacheth not any presence of Christ on earth againe in his humane flesh vntil the time appointed before remembred but plainely sheweth the contrary declaring further that as many as come to this sacrament and communion of the precious body and bloud of Christ with a true and liuely faith fruitfull in true repentance and in a vertuous and godly life the holy Ghost worketh in them a lifting vp of their hearts and mindes into heauen where Christ si●teth at the right hand of God and there through the operation of the same Spirit in the instance of receiuing the sacramēt they receiue apprehend and feede vpon in a true vnfained and liuely faith the true reall and naturall body of Iesus Christ the sonne of God whereby their bodies and soules are preserued nourished and strengthened to the attainment of euerlasting life by his changing purging all their corruptions and vncleannes and by his distributing and vniting vnto euery of them the true properties and excellent graces of his naturall holy body as his wisedome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption all which is as truely made theirs by and through his gracious imputation as if they and euery of them had in their owne proper nature attained vnto and fulfilled the same of which excellent graces the fruit and reward shal follow of glorification and life eternall Of all which benefites this sacrament and the sacrament of Baptisme are appointed vnto the faithfull to be as tables and glasses The vse of the Sacramen● wherein they may plainely see and behold all the great mercies of God towards wretched and miserable sinners plainly drawen and figured that whereas the word doth as a liuely trumpet sound out his gracious goodnesse to the eares of the faithfull these sacraments do serue as instrumēts and conduits to conuey it to the eies taste feeling and comfort of all the senses so that when their bodies are made partakers of the sacrament and outward elements their soules in the same instāt through the mightie working of the holy Ghost are fed by the inst●u●●nt of true and liuely faith with the most holy reall natural body bloud of Christ through the liuely power also of which holy spirit they are moued stirred vp to giue continuall praise honour and thankes for these his bountifull mercies rich treasures bestowed vpon them For in this sacrament and communion of the body and bloud of Christ there is shewed declared and giuen vnto all and euery of the faithfull the death and sufferings of Christ the participation they haue with him and all the benefites which they receiue by his passion whereof they are put in minde in this sacrament by foure Similitudes First by breaking and receiuing of the bread Secondly by powring soorth and drinking of the wine Thirdly by the nourishment which their bodies receiue by these elements by the vnity of many cornes whereof the substance of the bread and the vnity of many grapes whereof the substance of the wine is made Fourthly by the conuersion that these elements haue into the substance of the receiuers By the breaking and receiuing of the bread and by the powring foorth and drinking of the wine the faithfull are put in minde of the death passion and sufferings of Christ whose body was broken both before on the Crosse his bloud drawne forth shed not for any cause of his owne but for remission of their sins which is giuen and they receiue by his passion for by the nourishment which the bodies of the faithfull haue of these elements they are put in minde that as these elements do in the vsing and receiuing of them nourish their bodies and comfort sustaine their naturall flesh bloud being the outward man so the body and bloud of Christ apprehended and receiued through the working of the holy ghost by the instrumēt of the true and liuely faith of the receiuers who through the operation of the same spirit do by their faith apprehend and feede vpon the true reall and naturall body of Iesus Christ the sonne of God which feedeth nourisheth their bodies and soules vnto life euerlasting by his distributing vnto euery of them according to his gracious imputation the true reall and naturall properties of his vndefiled body and bloud as his wisedome righteousnes sanctification and redemption his holinesse innocencie his perfect and full satisfaction of the lawe of God his incorruption both in will and nature his suffering and satisfaction of the wrath and iustice of God due vnto vs miserable sinners his victorie against sinne death the diuell and hell his glorification and eternall happinesse of all which euery of the faithfull are and shall be as verily made partakers by receiuing this heauenly foode the bread of life the body and bloud of Christ as if they in their owne persons had wrought suffered fulfilled whatsoeuer Christ suffered for them and were in full possession of the reward whereof Christ is in possession and hath prepared and purchased it also for them the certainty and assurednesse whereof is approued vnto euery of their hearts and soules by the stedfast sure and vndoubted promises of the word of God deliuered by Christs owne mouth in the 6. of Iohn Iohn 6. I am

my conscience of all mine offences restoring mee againe to that grace that I through sinne haue lost and that thou forgiue me al things past re●eiuing me mercifull Lord into the blessed kiss●ngs of peace and of forgiuenes for what may I doe but meekly con●esse and bewaile my manifold sinnes continually crauing mercie of thee for the same forgiue mee merciful Lord now I beseech thee for al my sinnes disp●ease me● much and by the helpe of thy grace I will neuer cōmit them againe but sorrow for them and be readie to do penance and satisfaction before thy congregation Church to the vttermost of my power and abilitie for all the iniuries that I haue done to the offence of thy Church or to the hinderance and hurt of any my Christian brethren or sisters by any the offences I haue committed Forgiue me Lord forgiue me my sinnes and for thy holy name saue my soule that thou hast redeemed with thy precious bloud I commit my selfe wholly to thy mercie I resigne mee into thy hands doe with me after thy goodnes and not after my wicked deseruings I offer also vnto thee al the good works which through thy grace haue beene wrought or done by me which because they are few and very imperfect through my frailtie and great wretchednes I beseech thee to amend them and sanctifie them and make them liking and acceptable vnto thee alway make them better better bring me though I be a slow vnprofitable seruāt to a blessed happy end I offer also vnto thee my prayer peaceable offering for all them that haue hindred me greeued me and wrought me sorrow and also for all them whom I haue at any time made heauy troubled grieued or iniured in thought word or deed wittingly or ignorantly that thou forgiue vs altogether our sinnes offences against thee and of each of vs against other and that thou Lord take from our hearts all enuie suspicion wrath variance pride indignation and contention and whatsoeuer may let charity or diminish fraternall loue that each of vs should haue to other Haue mercy Lord haue mercy on all them that aske thee mercy and giue vs grace that wee may receiue thy precious bodie and bloud which thou really and truly offerest vnto all and giuest vnto all thy children the true beleeuers in this blessed Sacrament that through the liuely power of this thy holy body receiued by vs in a true stedfast and vnfained faith by and through the operation of the holy Ghost wee and all thy whole Church may receiue remission of sin and obtaine euerlasting life And after this meditation let him vow and promise purpose also with himselfe through the grace of God and by the working of the holy Ghost euer after more diligently to serue God for seeing a man is busie to serue an earthly Lord with all his dilignece much more should wee be diligent to serue our Lord God and to lift vp our hearts vnto him and to consider the g●eatnes of God and the wretchednes of our selues how great and how worthy God is how little how vnworthie our selues are consider also the great loue of God that would take to himselfe that is so worthy the fraile weake estate of mankind not for any cause of his own but for the great loue hee bare vnto vs consider also his vnspeakable and rich mercy towards miserable and wretched sinners who not onely offered himselfe to death for vs on the crosse but also giueth himselfe to vs in the Sacrament to be our spirituall meate ann drinke and to bee fully with vs and in vs. Wherfore let euerie Christian man if hee haue time before the receiuing of the blessed Sacrament say thus in his heart Lord I know well that al workes and deserts of men be they neuer so holy are not worthy to receiue thee how mu●h more am I vnworthy that each day sinne and as a man vncorrigible dwell still therein O Lord why do I such de●pite vnto thee for to cast thee my precious Lord into the foule pit of my conscience for surely there is no dung more stincking then my soule is O Lord what shall I doe shall I lay thee in that foule place surely Lord I durst not but in hope of thy mercies but I beleeue and am assured that thy mercies are endlesly more then all my sinne and therefore in full trust of thy goodnes I offer my selfe to receiue thee as a sicke man receiueth a medicine thou art the most soueraine salue and I am sore sicke therefore I take thee to bee made whole through thee and the sicker that my soule is the more desire I haue to be healed and the more need I haue of thee for why in healing of my deadly sicknes shall well bee shewed and commended the greatnesse of thy goodnesse that wilt helpe and heale so wretched a creature and bring mee to the possession of euerlasting life through the merits of thy precious death and passion And thus must wee that are sicke in sinne receiue this healthfull medicine of the holy Sacrament the body and bloud of Christ and when we feele through it any comfort to our soules let vs ascribe that comfort not to our selues but to the goodnes of God which so comforteth and refresheth our soules by feeding vs with his own flesh and bloud of his own great mercy grace let vs thus thinke with our selues loe thus doth our Lord vnto vs to shew vs our wretchednes and miseries wherein we lie intāgled vnles we be loosed by him and to ouercome our wickednes with the plentie of his goodnes for he maketh vs that are dead in sinne to feele life and being rotten and stincking wormes to tast heauenly sweetnes O Lord God sith thou art so mercifull to vs that now liue in sinne as to feed vs with the heauenly bread of thy owne flesh and bloud in this holy sacrament by which foode through the working of the holy Ghost wee are nourished and cherished in body and soule vnto life euerlasting let our hearts from henceforth in this most cherefully reioyce that our God our spouse and our loue is made vnto vs our spirituall meate and drinke to strengthen our bodies and soules that wee may grow vp to life euerlasting the bilsse of Saints the ioy of Angels the sonne of the highest father maketh himselfe our spirituall nourishing the light of the world the sonne of righteousnes the wisedome of God is made the foode of our soule the redeemer of man the brightnes of heauen the matter of all mirth and the Lord of ioy vouchsafeth for to feed vs with himselfe what kindnes what courtesie what tokē of loue might bee more Wherefore since wee haue him let vs not from henceforth suffer our hearts to delight in any creature for it were a great vnkindnes and vile wretchednes of vs after the receiuing of so worthy a meate so precious and sweete as it

wicked the Lord hath his way in the whirlewinde and in the storme and the clouds are the dust of his feete The Lord is good and as a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth thē that trust in him God is iealous and the Lord reuengeth the Lord reuengeth euen the Lord of anger the Lord will take vengeance on his aduersaries and he reserueth wrath for his enemies who can stand before his wrath or who can abide in the fiercenes of his wrath his wrath is powred out like fire and the rocks are broken by him O Lord how long shall I cry and thou wilt not heare Habaeuck against impenitent sinners Cap. 1. euen cry out vnto thee for violence thou wilt not help why dost thou shew me iniquitie and cause me to behold sorrowe for spoyling and violence are before me and there are that raise vp strife and contention therfore the lawe is dissolued iudgement doth neuer go forth for the wicked doth compasse about the righteous therefore wrong iudgement proceedeth Then shall they take courage and transgresse and doe wickedly imputing this their power vnto their god Thou art of pure eies and canst not see euill thou canst not behold wickednes wherefore dost thou looke vpon the transgressors and holdest thy tongue when the wicked deuoureth the man that is more righteous then he O Lord thou hast ordeined them for iudgemēt and O God thou hast established them for correction Art not thou of old O Lord my God my holy one I shall not die but I wil reioice in the Lord I wil ioy in the God of my saluation The Lord is my strength he will make my feete like Hindes feete and he wil make me to walke vppon mine high places The Lord is in his holy Temple let all the earth keepe silence before him The great day of the Lord is neare Zephaniah against impenitent sinners Cap. 1. it is neare and hasteth greatly euen the voice of the day of the Lord the strong man shall cry there bitterly that day is a day of wrath a day of trouble heauines a day of destruction and desolation a day of obscurity and darknes a day of clouds and blacknesse a day of the trumpet and alarum against the strong cities against the high towers in the same day also wil I visit all those that daunce vppon the threshold so proudly which fill their masters houses by cruelty and deceipt and I will bring distresse vpon men that they shal walke like blinde men because they haue sinned against the lord and their bloud shall be powred out as dust and their flesh as dung neither their siluer nor their gold shal be able to deliuer them in the day of the lords wrath but the whole land shal be deuoured by the fire of his iealousy for he shal make euen a speedy riddance of all thē that dwell in the land Gather your selues euē gather you O nation not worthy to be loued before the decree come forth ye be as chaffe that passeth in a day and before the fierce wrath of the Lord come vpon you and before the day of the Lords anger come vpon you seeke you the lord all the meeke of the earth which haue wrought his iudgement seeke righteousnes seeke holines if so be that ye may be hid in the day of the lords wrath I said surely thou wilt fear me thou wilt receiue instruction so their dwelling should not be destroied howsoeuer I visited them but they rose earely and corrupted all their workes she heard not the voice shee receiued not correction shee trusted not in the lord she drew not neere vnto her God her Princes within her are as roaring lyons her Iudges are as wolues in the euening which leaue not the bones till the morrow her Prophets are light and wicked persons her Priests haue polluted the sanctuary they haue wrested the lawe The iust lord is in the middest therof he wil do none iniquitie euerie morning doth he bring his iudgement to light he faileth not but the wicked will not learne to be ashamed therfore waite vpon me saith the lord vntill the day that I rise vp to the pray for I am determined to gather the nations and that I will assemble the kingdomes to powre vpon them mine indignation euen all my fierce wrath for all the earth shall bee deuoured with the fire of my iealousie Sure then will I turne to the people a pure language that they may call vpon the name of the lord to serue him with one consent In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy workes wherein thou hast transgressed against me For then will I take away out of the middest of thee them that reioice of thy pride and thou shalt no more bee proud of my holy mountaine thē will I leaue in the middest of thee an humble and a poore people and they shall trust in the name of the lord the remnāt of Israel shall doe none iniquitie nor speake lies neither shall a deceitfull tongue be found in their mouth for they shal be feed lie downe none shall make them afraid Ha●●ai against impen tent sinners cap. 1. Now therefore saith the Lord of hostes consider your owne waies in your hearts ye haue sowen much and bring in little you eate but you haue not enough you drinke but you are not filled you claoth you but you are not warme and hee that earneth wages putteth the wages into a brokē bagge you looked for much and loe it came to little when you brought it home I did blow vpon it and I called for a drought vpon the land and vpon the mountaines and vpon the corne and vpon the wine and vpon the oyle vpon all that the ground bringeth forth both vpon men and vpon cattle and vpō all the labour of the hands I smote you with blasting with mildew and with haile in all the labours of your handes yet you turned not to mee saith the Lord. Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes Zacharie against impenitent sinners Cap. 7.8 saying these are the things that yee shall doe speake euery man the truth vnto his neighbour execute true iudgment and shew mercy and compassion euery man to his brother and oppresse not the widow nor the fatherles the stranger nor the poore and let none of you imagine euill against his brother in your heart and loue no false othe for all these things are the things that I hate saith the Lord but they refused to hearken and puled away the shoulder and stopped their eares that they should not heare yea they made their hearts as an adamant stone lest they should heare the law and the wordes of the Lord of hostes sent in his spirit by the ministrie of the former Prophets therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hostes I haue loued you saith the Lord yet you say wherein hast thou loued vs Malac. against impenitent