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Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls crossCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse
Certain sermons preached before the Queens Majesty, and at Pauls cross, by the reverend father John Jewel late Bishop of Salisbury. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made upon that matter, in his cathedral church at SalisburyCertaine sermons preached before the Queenes Maiestie, and at Paules crosse, by the reuerend father Iohn Ievvel late Bishop of Salisburie. Whereunto is added a short treatise of the sacraments, gathered out of other his sermons, made vpon that matter, in his cathedrall church at Salisburie
London: printed by Christopher Barker, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This was an Allegory, that is to say, a secret and mystical kind of utterance. For, by this Manna, and by this Rock, the people was led to understand and think on that bread and that water that should come from heaven. Saint Paul saith, the Rock was Christ: his side was cloven, his blood issued out, it is a water springing 1up into everlasting life, we drink of it, and live for ever.
This was an Allegorie, that is to say, a secret and mysticall kinde of vtterance. For, by this Manna, and by this Rocke, the people was ledde to vnderstand and thinke on that bread and that water that should come from heauen. Saint Paul saith, the Rocke was Christ: his side was clouen, his blood issued out, it is a water springing 1vp into euerlasting life, we drink of it, and liue for euer.
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So likewise that Manna was the body of Christ, the people did eat of it, and lived by it. Christ had not yet taken upon him a natural ⟨image 7⟩body, yet they did eat his body: he had not yet shed his blood, yet they drank his blood. Saint Paul saith, all did eat the same 1spiritual meat, that is, the body of Christ: and all did drink of the same spiritual drink: that is, the blood of Christ, and that as verily and as truly as we do now, and who so ever then did so eat Christ, lived for ever, not because the rock was turned into his flesh, or the water into his blood: it was an Allegory, as all other Sacraments be: the people hereby was taught to consider of other things.