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Grant it were not ill as it is of all great isles the worst, yet who would for sakathing certain and most religious, for a thing uncertain, and superstitious invention of man. Use the sacrament with the same ceremonies, and no more then be expressed in the new testament as Christ did, and it shall pass all the Masses that are orb to be said in the world. The external use thereof where as faith is, may succour an inward and secret desperation of A troubled conscience, so that the mind be not destitute of knowledge. Those that to much fear and ⟨image 52⟩tremble at God's severe and rigorous judgment. Knowing that sin meriteth eternal death, the pore conscience thus afflicted by the means of the devil, and horror of sin, taketh not as great hope in the mercy• of god, as fear of his justice: is borne in hand that mercy nothing availeth, but by justice to be eternally damned. Against such imaginations, and perilous temptations availeth greatly the ceremony and use of Christs supper. For as man is by his senses drawn to accomplish •hact of all inward and secret conceived mischief and sin, where as the senses find external matter and sensible occasion to satisfy the will that willeth nothing but sin, so where as à god opinion is conceived of god in the hart, the judgment of man persuaded aright that god is à merciful god and will pardon every sin though it be never so heinous in Christ, the will that with great difficulty consenteth unto this assured promise of god in Christ, is the more constrained to obey the knowledge of faith, because the mind is not only inspired by divine operation of God's spirit that his sins be for given, but also by the object represented unto the external senses to say the doing and celebrating of this holy supper where as the very woeful, and cruel tragedy, of Christs death, is set before the senses with breaking of the bread, and drinking of the cup, declareth that verily all hope of salvation, were paste remediless, were it not for the pains, travels, death and bludshedding of Christ where withal he satisfied the ire of god, brake the prison of eternal death and set man at liberty, and lest this thing once don by Christ should fall into ⟨image 52⟩oblivion and out of Remembrance, most diligently he himself show id the manner and •orme how he would his church might best be kept in mind of this inestimable benefit,