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A06863 A booke of notes and common places, with their expositions, collected and gathered out of the workes of diuers singular writers, and brought alphabetically into order. A worke both profitable and also necessarie, to those that desire the true vnderstanding & meaning of holy Scripture By Iohn Marbeck Merbecke, John, ca. 1510-ca. 1585. 1581 (1581) STC 17299; ESTC S112020 964,085 1,258

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saith S. Austen that the manners of euill men hinder not the sacraments of God that either they vtterly be not or be lesse holy but they hinder the euill men themselues so y● they haue the sacraments to witnesse of their damnation not to helpe of their saluation And all processe spoken there by S. Austen is spoken chiefely of Baptime against the Donatists which said y● Baptime was naught if either the Minister or receiuer were naught Against whom S. Austen concludeth that the sacraments themselues be holy and be all one whether the Minister or receiuer bée good or bad Cranmer fol. 63. What the olde fathers doe teach of the sacrament Ireneus S. Agustine and other auncient Doctors yea and the Canon law doth teach there must be both the outward Element which in Baptime is water and in the Lords supper bread and wine and the outward grace as the two principalls thereof Take away the bread and wine and then it is no sacrament How the sacrament is our body Because Christ hath suffered for vs he hath betaken vnto vs in this sacrament his body and bloud which he hath made also euen our selues for we also are made his body by his mercie we are euen the same thing that we receiue And after hée saith Now in the name of Christ ye are come as a man wold say to the Chalice of the Lord there are ye vpon the Table and there are ye in the Chalice ¶ Héere ye may sée that the Sacrament is our body and yet it is not our naturall body but in a mysterie I. Frith If you wil vnderstand the body of Christ heare the Apostle which saith Ye are the body of Christ members 1. Cor. 12. 27. Therefore if ye be the body of Christ members your misterie is put vpon the Lords Table ye receiue the mysterie of the Lord vnto that you are you aunswere Amen and in aunswering subscribe vnto it ¶ Héere we may sée the Sacrament is also our body and yet is not our naturall body but onely our body in a mysterie that is to say a figure signe memorial or representation of our body For as the bread is made of many graines or cornes so we though we be many are bread one body for this propertie and similitude it is called our body beareth the name of the very thing which it doth represent and signifie I. Frith As the sacrament of the Altar is our body euen so it is Christs First vnderstand ye that in y● wine which is called Christs bloud is admixed water which doth signifie the people y● are redéemed with his bloud so that y● head which is Christ is not without his body which is the faithful people nor the body without the head Now if the wine when it is consecrate be turned bodely into Christs bloud then it is also necessary that the water which is admixed be bodely turned into the bloud of the faithfull people for wheras is one consecration must folow one operation whereas is like reson ther must follow like mysterie But whatsouer is signified by the water as concerning the faithfull people is taken spiritually therefore whatsoeuer is spoken of the bloud in the wine must also néedes be taken spiritually This is Bartrams reason vpon a. 700. yeares since How in the sacrament there can be no accident without his substance In the sacrament of the Altar saith I. Puruay after y● consecration ther is not neither can be any accident with y● substance but ther verely remaineth the same substance the very visible incorruptible bread likewise the very same wine y● which before y● consecratiō wer set vpon the Altar to be consecrate by y● Priest likewise as whē a Pagā or Infidel is baptised he is spiritually cōuerted into a mēber of Christ yet remaineth y● very same mā which he before was in proper nature substāce B. of M. 649. Of a new article inuented in the sacrament Innocentius the third Pope was the head of Antichrist who after the letting loose of Satan inuented a new Article of our faith a certaine fained veritie touching the sacrament of t●e Altar that is to say that the Sacrament of the Altar is an ●●cident without a substance But Christ his Apostles do teach manifestly y● the sacrament of the Altar is bread the body of Christ together after y● manner y● he spake And in y● he calleth it bread he wold haue the people to vnderstand as they ought with reason that it is very and substanciall bread no false nor fained bread In the b. of Mar. fol. 649. Of the sacramentall chaunge Of the sacramentall chaunge S. Bede which was about 900. yeres agoe saith thus The creature of the bread wine by the ineffable sanctification of the spirit is turned into the sacrament of Christs flesh and bloud In sacraments saith S. Augustine we must consider not what they be of themselues but what they doe signifie S. Ambrose saith What sawest thou in thy Baptime water no doubt but not onely water Againe he saith Before the blessing of the heauenly words it is called another kinde but after the consecration the body of Christ is signified Of the sacramentall word Let the word saith S. Austen be added to the element and there shall be made a Sacrament For whence commeth this so great strength to the water to touch the body wash the soule but by the word making it not because it is spoken but because it is beléeued For in the very word it selfe the sound which passeth is one thing the power which abideth is another This is the word of faith which we preach saith the Apostle whervpon in the Actes of the Apostles it is said By faith cleansing their hearts c. Cal. in his Inst. 4. b. chap. 14. sect 4. How in the sacrament remaineth bread wine That which you sée saith S. Austen in the altar is the bread the cup which also your eyes doe shew you but faith the weth you further the bread is the body of Christ the cup his bloud ¶ Heere he declareth two thing● y● in the sacrament remaineth bread wine which we may discerne with our eyes that the bread and wine be called the body and bloud of Christ. He that called his naturall body saith Theodoretus wheate and bread and also called himselfe a Uine the selfe same called bread and wine his body and bloud and yet chaunged not their nature And in his Dialogue he saith more plainely for saith he as the bread and wine after the consecration lost not theyr proper nature but kept their former substaunce forme figure which th●y had before euen so the body of Christ after his Ascention was chaunged into the godly substaunce Of the sacramentall eating ¶ Looke Eating What is to be wondred at in the sacraments The wonder is not how God worketh in the outward visible sacrament but his meruailous worke is in the worthy receiuers of the sacraments The wonderful worke of God is not in the water which
onely washeth the body but God by his omnipotent power worketh wonderfully in the receiuers therof scouring washing and making them cleane inwardly as it were new men and celestiall creatures This haue all olde Authors wondred at this wonder passeth the capacitie of all mens wits how damnation is turned into saluation and of the sonne of the Diuell condemned into hell is made the sonne of God an inheritour of heauen This wonderfull worke of God all men may meruaile and wonder at but no creature is able sufficiently to comprehend it And as this is wondred at in the sacrament of Baptime how he that was subiect to death receiueth lyfe by Christ and his holy spirite so is this wondred at in the sacrament of Christs holy Table how the same lyfe is continued and endured for euer by continual feeding of Christs flesh and his bloud And these wonderfull workes of God toward vs we be taught by Gods ho●y word and his sacraments of bread wine water and yet be not these wonderfull workes of God in the Sacraments but in vs. Cranmer fol. 74. How the sacrament may be poysoned Pope Victor the third was poysoned in the Sacrament The Emperour Henry the seuenth was poysoned by a Dominike Frier named Barnardmus de monte policiano in receiuing the sacrament and yet may it be none other substance but the body and bloud of our Sauiour Christ God and man where if he had bene man they had poysoned him first but if he hadde bene God he would first haue espyed their poyson because hée cannot be deceiued And because he cannot deceiue he would not haue poysoned the Emperour who mistrusted nothing A. G. How the Sacrament was cast into the fire and burnt This wicked Pope Heldibrand sought by all meanes how he might destroy Henry the Emperour and on a time demaunded of the Sacrament of Christs body as the Heathen vse to doe of their Idolls what successe he should haue against him And because the sacrament spake not gaue him no aunswere he threw it into the fire maugrie all the Eardinalls that were about him said to the sacrament most blasphemously Could the Idoll gods of y● Heathen giue thē answere of their successe and canst not thou tell me How there is but two sacraments ¶ Looke Two When the sacrament was forbidden to be ministred in both kinds The sacrament was forbidden to be giuen in both y● formes vnto lay men in the generall Councell at Constaunce which was in the yere of our Lord. 1415. The words of the Councell Although Christ after supper ordeined this worshipfull Sacrament and gaue it vnder both the formes of bread and wine to his Disciples yet that notwithstanding the authoritie of the holy Canous and the laudable and approued custome of the Church hath ord●ined that the lay men should not receiue it Sacraments of the Elders compared to ours Chrisostome bringeth a very apt similitude in his Homely which he made vpon these words of Paule Our Fathers were baptised into Moses And in his vii Homely vpon the Epistle to the Hebrues Paint●rs saith he when they intend to 〈…〉 a King first draw out the proportion vpon a table with shadows and darke colours but yet in such sort that a man may by that deliniation although it be some what obscure easely perceiue that the Image of a King is there painted and harsemen Chariots such other like things which things are not yet straight way known of all men But afterward when the Painter hath layed on fresh colours and hath finished the worke those things which before by those first lines appered scarce begon and rude are now manifestly and opresly perceiued Such saith he were the sacraments of the Elders if they be compared with ours By these words it is manifest that Chrisostome was of y● op●nion that one and the selfe same thing is represented in our sacraments and in the sacraments of Elders although in theirs more obscurely and in ours more manifestly Pet. Mar. vpon the Rom. fol. 82. SACRIFICE What a Sacrifice is A Sacrifice is a voluntary action wherein we worship God and offer vnto him somewhat wherby we testifie his chiefe dignitie and dominion and our seruitude and submission towardes him Pet. Mart. vpon the Roman●s fol. 411. Againe A sacrifice saith he is a voluntary and a religious action instituted of God to offer vnto him our things vnto his glory and that thereby we may with a straighter ●and be coupled vnto him in holy societie To this definition of sacrifices must be added a perticipation Certaine sacrifices are propiciatorie and other of thankes giuing By the first kinde God is made mercifull vnto vs by the power and iust merite thereof but of this sort we haue but onely one forasmuch as onely by the death of Christ the eternall Father is neconciled vnto vs and by the merites of this one onely Oblation the sinnes of the elect are forgiuen but in the other kinde of sacrifice wée giue thankes vnto God we celebrate his name to our power wée obey his will Pet Mar. vpon Iudic. fol 63. Of two manner of sacrifices The sacrifice of reconciliation or redemption is to delyuer sinners from the wrath of God which doeth onely pertaine to our Sauiour Iesus Christ whereof all the Leuiticall sacrifices were but shadowes signes The Sacrifice of praise or thanks giuing is all the workes of the faithful wherewith they praise and laud God and labour to be ioined with him c. S. Austen himselfe doth expound it August lib. 10. de ciuita Dei cap. 6. I. Veron One kinde of sacrifice there is which is called a propiciatory or mercifull sacrifice that is to say such a sacrifice as pacifieth Gods wrath and indignation and obtaineth mercie and forgiuenesse for all our sinnes and is the raunsome of our redemption from euerlasting damnation And although in y● olde Testament there were certaine sacrifices called by that name yet in very deede there is but one such sacrifice whereby our sinnes be pardoned and Gods mercie and fauour obtained which is the death of the Sonne of God our Lorde Iesus Christ nor neuer was any other sacrifice propiciatory at anye time nor neuer shall be This is the honour glory of this our high Priest wherein he admitteth neither partner nor successour For by his one obsation he satisfied his father for all mens sinnes and recon●iled mankinde vnto his grace and fauour And whosoeuer depriue him of this honour and goe about to take it to themselues they be very Antichrists and most arrogant 〈…〉 phemers against God and against his Sonne Iesus Christ whome hee hath sent Another sacrifice there is which doeth not reconcile v● vnto God but is made of them
our Baptime is a certaine most frée ensealement and Sacrament of our attonement with God and that this attonement is made by the bloud death and resurrection of Christ and to put vs in minde of the mortifieng of the flesh of the quickening of the spirit and continuall repentaunce of the glorifieng that shall be héereafter by Christ. It must also put vs in minde that the benefite of regeneration is the gift and worke of the whole Trinitie in whose name we are baptised to the intent we should sticke therevnto and worship it all our life long Hemmyng How baptime purifieth and cleanseth Baptime hath also his word and promise which the Priest ought to teach the people and christen them in the English tongue and not to plaie the Popengaie with Credo saie yee Volo saie ye Baptismum saie ye for there ought to be no mumming in such matter The Priest before he baptiseth asketh saieng Beleeuest thou in God the Father Almightie and in his sonne Iesus Christ and in the Holie Ghost and that the Congregation of Christ is holie and they saie yea Then the Priest vpon this faith baptiseth the childe in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the holy Ghost for the forgiuenes of sinnes as Peter saith Act. 2. The washing without the word helpeth not but through the word it purifieth and cleanseth vs. As thou readest Ephe. 5. 26. Now Christ cleanseth the Congregation in the Fountaine of water through the Word The Word is the promise that God hath made Now as Preachers in preaching the word of God saueth the hearers that beléeue so doth the washing in that it preacheth and representeth vnto vs the promise that God hath made vnto vs in Christ. The washing preach vnto vs that we are cleansed with Christs bloudshedding which was an offering and a satisfaction for the sinne of all that repent and beléeue consenting and submitting themselues vnto the will of God The plunging into the water signifieth that we die are buried with Christ as cōcerning the olde life of sinne which is Adam And the pulling out againe signifieth that we rise againe with Christ in a new life full of the holie Ghost which shall rule vs and guide vs and worke the will of God in vs as thou s●est Rom. 6. 4. Tindale fol. 143. To be baptised in Christ what it is To be baptised in Christ is nothing els then according to his commaundement and institution to be imitated And by this forme of speaking is signified that we doe passe into Christ to the end we maie be more straightlie ioined together with him in faith hope and charitie For euen as Souldiers doe sweare to the name of obedience of their Captaine and are so bound vnto him that afterward it is not lawfull for them to be conuersant in the Campe of their enimies which thing if they doe shoulde be death vnto them So we in Baptime are bound vnto Christ and doe sweare that we will neuer afterward fall away vnto the Diuell c. Pet. Mar. fol. 143. To be baptised in Moses what it is Whereas in the Epistle to the Corinthians it is said that the Fathers are baptised in Moses the sence of that place is that the Israelites passed ouer the Sea trusting to those promises which were set foorth of God by Moses Pet. Mar. ¶ Moses being their guide or minister or as some read they were baptised vnto Moses Lawe other by Moses Geneua To be baptised by the holie Ghost what it is To be baptised by the holie Ghost is to receiue the visible graces and giftes of the holie Ghost or to be endued with the graces of the holie Ghost The Bible note Geneua To be baptised ouer the dead what it signifieth Baptised ouer the dead ¶ Some men saie that in token of the generall resurrection certeine Christian men were baptised ouer dead mens graues signifieng that the same dead men should rise at the last daie Tindale ¶ That is as dead and because they were but newly come to Christ would be baptised before they died Except these things be true of Christs kingdome and his subiection what shall become of them whom the Church dailie baptiseth for to destroie death in them which is the ende of Baptime and so they to rise againe Geneua ¶ Among the Corinthians if anie had deceased afore hée could be baptised some did take in hande to bée baptised for them thinking that the same should be auaileable vnto the dead against the resurrection Tertulian Theophilactus Ambrose Though Saint Paule did not allow this superstition yet thereby did he take an occasion to confute them which among the Corinthians denied the rising againe of the dead I. Cheeke What Iohns Baptime signifieth Indeed I baptise you with water to amendment of life ¶ The outward signe putteth vs in minde of this that wée must ●haunge our liues and become better assuring vs as by a seale that we are ingraffed into Christ whereby our olde man dieth and the new man riseth vp Beza Of dipping in Baptime As touching the dipping downe of the childe that is to be baptised I thinke saith Musculus it is not so necessarie but that the Church is at libertie to baptise either by dipping in or els by sprinkling We maie sée in Augustine that this libertie was ●ept in the Churches He that is 〈…〉 baptised saith he doth confesse his● aith before the Priest and doth aunswere as he is asked 〈…〉 And after his aunswering he is either sprinkled with water or dipped into it And Cipriane doth vphold the vse of sprinkling in Baptime but yet so that he saith it is at mens libertie Masculus fol. 29● Of the Sacrament of Baptime The Sacrament of Baptime saith the Master of the Sentences doth consist in two things that is to saie in the Word and in the Element so that although that the other things bée awaie which were instituted for the better beautifieng of the Sacrament in case that the Word be there and the Element For both in this and in other Sacraments also there are accustomed to be done some things to the beautie comelinesse and some things which belong to the substance and cause of the Sacrament The Word and the Element be of the substaunce of the Sacrament the rest is applied to the solemnitie of it Thus saith he Of which saith Musculus I like well that he doth acknowledge that the wholenesse and substaunce of Baptime doth consist in two things that is to wit the Word and the Element And that the Sacrament is true and holie if it haue these two things though the rest be awaie But wheras he doth referre the rest vnto beautie comelinesse and solemnitie what followeth thereof els but that Iohn and the Apostles did baptise neither beautifullie nor comelie nor Colemnlie for as much as they vsed none of these things Musculus fol. 291. How Baptime is