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A frutefull treatis of baptyme [sic] and the Lordis Souper of the vse and effect of them, of the worthey and vnworthy receyuers of the souper, necessary to be knowne of all Christen men, which yerely receyue the sacrament.
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Joye, George, d. 1553.
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blonted y e power strength of syn euen the lawe is enerued one ioynte shakeÌ„ from another all by the victory of Cristes deth resurreccion whiche victorye is geuen to vs by Iesu Crist. To confirme this conflicte and progresse of maÌ„ from vnder the lawe vnto grace haue here playne examples of y e storye of the children of Israel whiche so long as they sawe Pharao his hoste at their tayles they were afrayed and ded baptyzed in the red sea which was a shadewe and fygure of our baptisme but when thei sawe their goyde Moses before them hearing this coÌ„fortable gospell y t is to weit Be not afrayd be you still The Lorde will fyght for you and so sawe y e waters smyten with Aarons staffe diuyded before their eyes the staffe of y e worde of God diuideth from vs the waters of adfâ—iccion they went thorow gladly sewerly with grete glory and triumphe synging on the tother syde when they loking bak sawe their enymyes drowned with the same waters that were their saluacion Many siche passages had they those .xl. yeres so often tempted eftsone conforted agene Siche dayly passages we feel in our selues syn dethe hell assaughting vs to dryue vs vnder grace vnto the whiche we ar come so sone as we heare Crist saying Take herte coÌ„fidence to you for I haue ouercomen syn deth hell The waters of trowble must nedis be deuyded and geue place to as many as aspyre vnto the grace of the gospell What els was fygured by the turning of their eyes from the fyery stinging serpentes vnto the brasone serpeÌ„t exalted in the wyldernes There was a grete wrestling all the night betwixt Iacob the aungell whiche fygured our state vnder the. ij degre of the lawe whom Iacob wold not let go tyll in the morning the aungell had blessed hym and tolde hym his name also changed Iacobs name for Israell whylis we therfore se our synnes in our selues in the lawe whiche worketh wrathe Ro. iiij maketh synne to abownde and encrease Ro. vij we ar Iacobites wresteling in derkenes with an vnknowne messagere working astrange worke to do his owne in making vs Israelites that is trewe faithfull beholding and acknowleging God to be our God forgeuing vs our synnes in Crist This aungell of God yf we perseuer in this derke and perellouse batayle with hym vnder the lawe wyll gladly geue vs y e victory vnder the bryght morning of the grace of the gospell at last aftir grete longe affliccion coÌ„fort vs with his name tolde vs to be our almighty one alone for all sufficient sauiour As did Ioseph aftyr long trowbling fering molesting his brethreÌ„ father to at last with teares wepiÌ„g shewed hymself to be their owne brother Ioseph whom god had sent thither before for their grete counfort Let vs therfore fyght coÌ„stantly contende in this mightly batail to excercyse our faithe that we might be enstructe armed with pacience peace of conscience vntyll the morning of Cristis counfort helpe be sprongen ouer vs albeit yet we halt withe Israell one the one foot that is to saye we feele our flesshe alto weak to walke vpright in Cristes precepts our affects strogling yet agenst his spirit This miche be sayd for the feling trying of our selues to be prepared vnto the worthey receyuing of the Lordis souper ¶ The institucion of the souper of the Lorde UUhen Crist sate at his last souper w t his disciples he toke the brede in his handes gaue thankes to his father and broke it gaue to euery one of his disciples thereof saying Take it eat it this is my bodye which is broken for you And lyke wyse of the cuppe saying This cuppe is the newe testament or couenant in my blode Se that ye do this as oft as ye shal do it do it into the remembrance of me Let vs now beholde obserue diligently for our doctryne the accion with all the circunstances of this souper we shall se with y e eye of our faith meruellouse present consolacioÌ„ Wherfore this holy souper ought hyghly with all reuerence to be eaten treated Here we se with our bodely eyes the holy brede brokeÌ„ the holy wyne powerdforth for holy it is nowe coÌ„secrated into so holy an vse but with y e eye of our faith we se presently Cristis body broken his bloude forth powerd into the remissioÌ„ of our synnes Agene we see with our exterior eyes y e brede wyne geuen to vs but with the eye of our faith we se as presently his body crucifyed his blode shede geuen vs Now is his body thus broken and his blode thus shed all togither ours for euer Now is Crist thus once suffering rysen sitting on the right hand of his father all ours w t is perpetuall prayer For what thing is more frely ours then that whiche is geuen vs with his owne mouthe delyuered vs with his owne handis into our haÌ„dis mouthes yea but wherefore is he thus geuen vs verely to eate and to drinke hym That at we eate drinke bodely is receyued into our bodyes conuerted into our substance made all one flesshe blode with ours we all one with it And her must we ascende into that spirituall eating drinking by faith whereof Crist spoke Io. vi saying My wordis ar spirit and lyfe the flesshe profiteth not It is the spirit y t geueth this lyfe wherof y e iuste lyueth It is the soule that eateth lyueth by this bread not our bodyes of the which eting saith Io. Who so eteth my flesshe drinketh my blode he dwelleth in me I in hym Nowe therefore our soules thus eating hym by faith haue Crist present he is in vs by grace gouerning vs with his holy goste And he y t gaue vs hymself it cannot be other wyse but with hym is geueÌ„ vs also all y t is his ether done or suffred of hym in his bodye Then ar we sewer by our faith in this worde Dedit dicens accipite he gaue it vs saying take it that he is ours w t all his He was borne therfore for vs of his mother y t we shuld be borne agene by baptim of the holy goste He was borne for vs the sonne of man y t we thorow hym might be the sonnes of God he was tempted for vs and bore awaye the victory y t his victory might be ours he fulfilled the lawe was the most rightwyse that his rightwysenes might be ours his wysedom kouereth our folisshnes his holynes correcketh our vnbeleif his innoceÌ„tye swaloweth vp our wykednes his redempcion setteth vs in a spirituall libertye he was made weake to make vs strong mortal to make vs immortal He descended into the erth that we shuld asceÌ„de into heuen his deth is
A frutefull treatis of Baptyme and the Lordis Souper of the vse and effect of them of the worthey and vnworthy receyuers of the Souper necessary to be knowne of all Christen men which yerely receyue the Sacrament FOr because that man consisteth of two parts bodye and soule of y e which one is sensible heuey flesshly and y e tothâ—r intellectuall subtyle and spirituall therefore hath 〈…〉 vnto vs his holye Sacraments as Baptyme his Souper in two sensible symbols or signes y t is to weit in water bread and wyne with wordes to be consecrated outewardely to moue and to stere vp our senses as our eyes and eares taste and feeling that y e thinges signifyed by y e elemeÌ„ts as by y e wasshing or doping into the water and by y e brede brokeÌ„ and wyne forthpowered and geuen to vs and that the thingis promised by the wordes myght y e more presently and deeplyer be coÌ„uayed into our hertes and mynds For as the Philosopher saith There may nothing be convayed into our vnderstaÌ„ding but it be first apprehended of some of our senses Thus therfor yet worketh God w t our weakenes lest any thing shuld waÌ„t one his parte and fayle vs which might â—â—â—pe thimbecilite and dwolnes of our flesshe So graciouse is he to condescende vnto our weaknes to make vs perfit in mynde He did miracles some tyme by bare wordes and eftsone by a sensyble instrument as when he layd claye tempered with his owne spetle vpon y e blysomes eyes to geue hym his syght Io. ix And all to feed our exteriour senses that they mought haue to holde them by hygher to clyme into our vnderstanding and faith Thus therfore doth his goodnes by theis exteriour Sacraments or elements of water brede and wyne serue our senses to moue monisshe and to counforte vs inwardly So sayd he vnto the peple of Israel by Moses For this cause haue I commauÌ„ded you this ceremonye meaning the eating of y e passh lombe that I wolde put my power and beneficence whereby I delyuered you and brought you out of bondage into your handis laye them present before your eyes that w t your handis ye might grope and feel them and with your eyes se them lest at any tyme ye shuld forget my benefyts not hauing my lawe euer in mouthe and mynde But yf we were once as we shalbe al togither spirituall immortall gloriouse et cetera clogged nomore w t this carnall burden of our corruptible foryetfull flesshe then nedeth it not vs any more to be thus fed with siche sensible elements symbols rytes or Sacraments ¶ A Sacrament instituted of God what it is A Sacrament therefore is an outwarde sensible signe whereby God declareth and testifyeth vnto the worthey receyuers thereof his good mynde beneuolence and fauour vnto vs whereby also he sustayneth and helpeth y e weaknes of our faith Or a Sacrament is a testimonye of his graciouse goodnes declared vnto vs by that sensible signe Or els Sacraments are not els but visible exemples of the fauour of God of his beneuoleÌ„ce good mynde towerd vs instituted of God and of noman adsewered certayne testimonyes and holy rememberances of his promises which vnder terrene erthy sygnes represent and as it were before our eyes layeforth celestiall gyftis call awaye our mynde eueÌ„ frome the terrene sygnes elemeÌ„ts vnto heauenly thoughtes SacrameÌ„ts also there ar but two of Christis ordinaÌ„ce institucion Baptyme y e Lordis souper euen the verye badges cognyzances of y e ChristeÌ„ societe fraternite Ryght well therfore did Austen wryte in his .c. xvlij pistle vnto Ianuarium That as God the father did conseigne gather vnto hym the Iewes by the badges lyueryes of circuncision eating of the passouer lombe So did Christ as it were with the newe lyueryes and cognyzances of Baptyme and the Souper gather and retayne into his seruyce the societe chirche of the newe peple euen the Christianes And the vse or action or dewe ministracioÌ„ of these sacrameÌ„ts do excercyse our faith and maketh vs the more adsewered of his good will towerd vs as dothe y e seall added to the obligacioÌ„ adsewer vs more certaynely of the mans boÌ„de promise to be performed God promised Abraham to be his God also y e God of his sead GenÌ„ xvij vpoÌ„ this coÌ„dicioÌ„ y t he his shuld walke innoceÌ„tly before hym which is wholly to depeÌ„de by faith hope vpoÌ„ his plesures Which promise had bene ynoughe had AbrahaÌ„ his sead ben all spirituall not forgethfull nor doutfull thereof in their teÌ„ptacioÌ„s hauing euer in mynde bothe to haue beleued the promyse of God so fauourablye made without any deseruing before so to haue ben euer in will to performe his parte that is to weit to walke innocently before God But because the weakenes of our faith namely in so stronge temptacioÌ„s the oblyuiouse fraylte of our flesshe requireth as god well knoweth some sensible signe or sacrameÌ„t more preseÌ„tly to certifye confirme vs to be put euer in mynde of his so ientle a promise lo therfore a none he addeth y e sacrameÌ„t of circuÌ„cisioÌ„ vnto AbrahaÌ„ as a seall added to god his promise obligatory nowe wryteÌ„ in Abrahams his seadis flesshe Pau. thus testifying saying And Abraham receyued the signe of circuncision euen y e seall obligatory whereby God bownde hym self to iustifye hym and all his sead for their feithes saak ¶ A declaracioÌ„ by the waye of comparison of y e olde sacrameÌ„ts with the newe NOwe as vnder the grace of the Gospell Baptyme succeded in the stede of circuncision eueÌ„ so doth the lordis souper folowe in the place of the olde passouer as the more mylde ientle and sweter sacrameÌ„ts then were the olde blodye circuncision passe lombe which were neuer celebrated but bloude was shed bothe in the of kutting of the foreskyn of the chyldes preuey member and also in the slaying of the passh lombe with whose blode the doors and wyndows wer strykeÌ„ and crossed Also as by Baptyme we be iniciated we professe and be coÌ„seigned vnto the worship of one God into the faith of one the same Christen religion eueÌ„ so by the same faithe and loue expressed at the lordis souper we declare our selues to perseuer in our profession now incorporated into Christ as the very members of y t mystik bodye whereof Christ is onely the head By the circuncision and the passouer eting God marked and sealled to hym the Iewes By baptyme the souper Christ gathereth sealleth to hym the gentyles and Iewes to as many as wyl beleue ¶ A declaracion of Baptyme by the waye of a diuision THer ar two maner of Baptismes the vtwarde locion or wasshing with the water and wordis of institucion And the inwarde wasshing of the soule with the