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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.
But what shall be the construction of these words, This is my body? whose interpretation or judgement of them shall stand? The learned men which have been of late years, & which yet live, are suspected. Let us hear the elder ancient fathers, whom, there is no cause, that any should suspect: they were not Sacramentaries, nor Zwinglians nor Lutherans: they were not divided into any of these sects.
But what shall be the construction of these wordes, This is my body? whose interpretation or iudgement of them shal stand? The learned men which haue been of late yeres, & which yet liue, are suspected. Let vs heare the elder anciēt fathers, whom, there is no cause, that any should suspect: they were not Sacramentaries, nor Zuinglians nor Lutheranes: they were not deuided into any of these sectes.
Tertullian an ancient father, who lived more 1then 1300. years since, expoundeth them thus. Acceptum panem, & distributum discipulis, corpus suum illum fecit, dicendo, hoc est corpus meū: id est, figura corporis mei. Figura autem non esset, nisi veritatis esset corpus. Caeterū vacua res, quae est phantasma, figuram capere non potest. Christ taking the bread, & distributing it to his disciples, made it his body, saying, This is my body: that is to say, this is a figure of my body. ⟨image 151⟩But a figure it could not be, unless there were a body of a truth, & in deed. For a void thing, as is a fantasy, can receive no figure. Chrysostom saith, Si mortuus Christus non est, 2cuius Symbolū ac signum hoc sacramentum est? If Christ died not, whose sign and whose token is this Sacrament? Again, The very body of Christ it self is not in the holy vessels, 3but the mystery or Sacrament thereof is there contained.