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A17190	A most excellent sermon of the Lordes Supper wherein briefely (and yet plainly yenough [sic]) is liuely set foorth the matter of the Supper of the Lorde Iesus. By Henry Bullinger. Translated out of Frenche, into English by I.T.; Sermon très-excellent, auquel, en brief et toutes fois assez clairement est représenté au vif tout le fait de la Cène du Seigneur Jésus. English.	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Tomkys, John.	1577 (1577)	STC 4066; ESTC S115768	23,480	64

¶ A MOST excellent Sermon of the Lordes Supper wherein briefely and yet plainly yenough is liuely set foorth the matter of the Supper of the Lorde Iesus By Henry Bullinger Translated out of Frenche into English by I. T. Matthew 17.5 This is my beloued sonne in whom I am well pleased heare yee hym Imprinted at London nigh vnto vnto the three Cranes in the Vintree for William Ponsonby ¶ To the reuerend Father in God Thomas Bishop of Couentrie and Lichfielde FInding mee self vnable in all respects reuerend Father to requite the least benefit receiued at your Lordships hands I haue long intended to present your Lordship with some thing whereby you might at the leaste perceyue my grateful mynd in accepting your vndeserued goodnesse often vnto me shewed And finding nothing which might pleasure your Lordship being no lesse skilful in learnyng than godly in life for as Salomon saith He that is ful abhorreth an hony combe I thought I coulde not better please you which are no lesse carefull for the Christian Congregation than is the Father for his children than by taking in hande some such matter wherby I mee selfe might be well occupied the Christian common Wealth edified and God glorified For this cause that the vnlearned not onely of your Diocesse but also of all places els in England which are destitute of painfull Preachers of Gods woord for who knoweth not that the labourers in Gods Vineyarde be verye fewe might be instructed at the leaste by reading in the true profession of Iesus Christ I haue presumed to translate foorth of Frenche a Sermon of the Lordes Supper made by the learned and graue Father mayster Henry Bullinger Neither dyd I perceyue whereby I might more profit all mē than by handelyng the Lordes Supper which yerely and often ought to be receyued of al men nor wherein I might better serue my carnall and transitory countrey than in setting foorth that foode whereby we are fed to out spirituall and euerlasting countrey For if we ought to trauaile painefully for the foode of the body according to the admonition of the Apostle Saint Paul That if any would not worke the same should not eate whiche although we haue in abundance mainteyneth vs not alwayes being by syn made subiect to death howe much more painefull ought we to be for the atchieuing of the foode of the soule Christe Iesus which is the bread of life wherof if we eate by faith we shall not die being by grace made partakers of euerlasting life Wheras there be many which haue learnedly godly handeled this argument I am moued to thinke my labour best bestowed vppon this authour because there is none which I haue read that dooth in so briefe a summe in my simple iudgement more plainly set foorth the doctrine of the Lordes Supper to the comfort of the professours of the Gospel or more sensibly disclose the errours thrust into the Church of God concernyng the same to the griefe of the aduersaries of the truth both the which poyntes he hath so aptly handled that I knowe not in whether he hath vsed more facilitie It may be that some which haue not only trauailed of purpose into Frāce the hithermost coastes whereof I neuer saw there to learne the french tongue but also at home haue diligently studied to attayne the finenes of the Englishe tongue wherein I confesse I was neuer curious might haue translated this Sermon much more finely than by me it is I enuie not their skill neither disdaine I their trauaile I haue done myne indeuour so neare as I could to vse my selfe like a faithful Interpretour in yeelding the sense of the Authour truely and yet in such sort as best might be vnderstood by the vnlearned Reader Touchyng the testimonies of holy Scripture alleged by this authour in this Sermon I haue thought good rather to set them down after the last translation of the Bible set foorth by aucthoritie than to translate them foorth of the French that I might the rather hereby cut of the cauilles of the aduersaries of the truth whith they are woont to make vpon the diuersitie of Translations And that the diligent Readers if it shal please them to conferre the Testimonies with the Text may the more easily find forth the same I haue quoted in the Margent both chapter and verse whence they are taken Thus haue I yeelded vnto your Lordship the causes of my bold enterprise with the order of the handeling of the same which if it may please God to blesse with the increase of the Readers knowledge I haue my desire God long preserue your Lordship to the comforte of his Church Your Lordshyppes to commaund I. T. ¶ A Sermon of the Supper of our Lorde Iesus Christe the Sonne of God. THe Apostles the Euangelistes Paul also the vessel of election and Apostle of the Gentiles haue diligently and perfectly described the holy and mysticall Supper of our Lorde and Redeemer Iesus Christ in these wordes When the Euen was come the same night in which Iesus was betrayed he sate downe with the twelue And as they dyd eate Iesus when he had taken bread and geuen thankes brake it and gaue it to his Disciples saying Take yee eate yee This is my body which is broken for you This doo in the remembrance of me Likewise also when he had supped he tooke the Cuppe and when he had geuen thankes he gaue it to them saying Drinke ye all of it and they all dranke of it Then he saide to them This is my bloud of the new Testament Saint Luke and Saint Paul haue This Cuppe is the newe Testament in my bloud which is shedde for you and for many for the remission of sinnes As often as you shall doo this doo it in remembrance of me For as often as yee eate this beead and drinke this Cuppe yee doo shewe the Lordes death tyll he come In the holy and mysticall Supper of our Lorde Iesus Christ we must not onely consider the woordes of the Institution presently recited but also we muste here ioyne the things going before with those whiche come after as such whereby the whole mysterie is more clearely and amply set foorth And first we must consider the doctrine which the Lord taught his Disciples in the Supper Secondly what he did and how he instituted this Supper that is to say howe the Lord celebrated it and ordeyned it to be celebrated by the Church vnto the ende of the world Finally of what sort the disciples were in this supper and how they behaued them selues therein that we may learne hereby howe we ought to behaue our selues in celebrating this most holy banquet and also that by the declaration of all these poynts we may vnderstand truely what the mysticall Supper of the Lord is that is to say speaking in the first place of the summe of the matter although it be inwrapped in shadowes and figures and proposing the

that which is signified by this bread least peraduenture any should lyghtly esteeme this bread and make as litle accompte thereof as of vsuall and common bread therefore sayth he This is my body which is geuen for you Which kinde of speech is altogeather like vnto that of the pascall Supper that is to say Of this manner shall ye eate it with your loynes girded and your shoes on your feete and your staffe in your hand and ye shall eate it in hast For it is the Lordes Passouer Euen so dooth the Lord speake in this place in lyke sort Take ye eate ye this is my body Howbeit this speech is sacramentall and misticall wherefore it ought to be expounded simbollycally and according to the meaning For the breade is a sacramēt signe or pledge of the body of Christ And truely the auncient Doctours of the Churche haue so expounded these wordes of our lord And in deede we doo not deuise any newe matter in saying that the bread signifieth the body of Christe For we haue els where shewed at large that the auncient Interpreters of the Scripture as wel Greekes as Latines haue vsed this exposition Also we haue geuen you to vnderstande by many euident reasons that these words of our Lord This is my body This is my bloud ought not to be taken accordyng to the grosse literall sense but to be expounded mystically or sacramentally For the bread remayneth in his substance and is not chaunged into the substance of the body of Christ In like maner the naturall body of Iesus Christ the which being geuen once for vs and raysed from death is ascended into heauen is not hyd nor inclosed vnder the kinde or forme of bread For the Angels of God speakyng of this body beare witnesse thereof and say This same Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen shall so come euen as you haue seene hym goe into heauen In like maner S. Peter saith The heauē must receiue Iesus Christ vntyl the tyme that all things be restored c. S. Paul sayth also Iesus Christ after he hath offered one sacrifice for sinnes is set down for euer on the right hand of God from hencefoorth tarying tyll his foes be made his footestoole Wherfore we reade that S. Augustine writing to Dardanus said rightly and accordyng to the Scriptures Christ as he is God is all wholy present in euerye place but accordyng to the measure propertie of a true bodye he hath his place in some one place of heauen He hath giuen immortalitie to his body in the glorification therof After this forme he is not to be thought to be diffused and spread abrode euery where Wherfore we must take good heede that we doo not so affirme the Diuinitie of the man Christe that wee take awaye the truth of his body For one person is God and man and one Christe Iesus is both two being euery where in that he is God but being in heauen in that he is Man. Yea and this Authour hath left in his bookes these things and many other like both Catholique and according to the true sense of the Scripture agreeable to this matter Moreouer the Catholique veritie suffereth vs not to faine that Christ hath two bodyes But if thou take the woordes of the Lorde after the Letter This is my body without doubt the blessed body of the Lorde being set at the Table with his Disciples gaue vnto them also I knowe not what other body for he could not geue hym self with his own hāds vnto his Disciples Therefore with his true body and with his handes he deliuered vnto his Disciples the Sacrament of his onely bodye Hereuppon it foloweth that the faythfull acknowledging the Sacrament and misterie receiue with their mouth the sacramental bread of his body but with the mouth of the spirit they eate the very body of the Lord. He is eaten in suche sort as he may be eaten that is to say spiritually by fayth as the Lord hym selfe expoundeth this misterie vnto vs at large in S. Iohn the sixt chapter Neyther haue the purest Doctours of the auncient Church taught any otherwise Yea and this place may wel be applyed to the woordes of the Supper of the lord For seeyng our Lord hath but one true bodye the which he gaue vp to death for vs that in these two places he speaketh of this selfe same body it seemeth vnto me that this place of Saint Matthewe ought to be expounded by that of S. Iohn seeing that S. Augustine also in his third booke of the agreement of the Euangelistes supposeth that S. Iohn speaketh not of the Institution of the Supper of the Lord because in another place he had set foorth this matter at large Al the auncient Doctours of the Church speaking of the Supper allege the woords of the Gospel of S. Iohn and apply them to the supper of the Lord. To be short me thinketh that there cannot be found a better interpretour or expounder of the Lordes woord then the Lord himselfe who for so much as he saith in the .vi. Chapter of Saint Iohn that his flesh being eaten to wit corporally as the Capernaites tooke it profiteth nothing It is most certayne that hee would not geue in the .xxvi. of Saint Matthewe that which profiteth nothing and that he hath not ordayned here that which he reiecteth and reprooueth there Therefore the Lord Iesus Christ sitting in his true body at the ryght hand of the Father in heauen maketh vs partakers of lyfe which he purchased for vs by giuing his body for vs and by shedding his bloud and we receyue the same lyfe of Christ by true fayth that is to wit all the heauenly giftes of Christ that Christ may lyue in vs and we in him And there is none other meane to receyue Christ but by fayth Euen as bodily foode cannot be taken to conserue the bodyly lyfe but by the mouth of the body so spiritual foode cannot otherwyse be receyued of vs to bring vs to the spirituall and eternall lyfe but by the mouth of the soule that is to say by fayth Hereby all men may see that we doo not acknowledge in any respect the naked and prophane eating of bread as some doo wrongfully charge vs For we doo acknowledge and confesse Christ to be the meate and the drinke of lyfe the which conceyue spiritually by fayth as it hath been foreshewed not being able to eate him present with the corporall mouth carnally and corporally We doo acknowledge that the faythfull are partakers of Christ truly and that they doo receyue him And yet doo not the faythfull so restrayne or tye this partaking eyther to certayne tyme or element as though they did not confesse that it myght be obtayned without the Symboll or Sacrament In both the two Sacramentes there is one reason of the communion of Christ and in both the two those things which