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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.
S. Ambrose saith, Before consecration, it is called another kind: after consecration, the 1body of Christ is signified. And again, In eating and drinking (that is, in receiving the holy communion) we signify the body & blood 2of Christ, that was offered for us. So also Gelasius saith, Imago & similitudo corporis & sanguinis, in actione mysteriorum celebratur. The image and similitude of his body & blood is showed in the action of the mysteries. It would be overlong to lay forth unto you what ⟨image 151⟩other reverend old Fathers have written to like effect, and have expounded those words of Christ by such terms as you have heard, of sign, figure, token, image, and likeness. I trust no man be offended: these speeches are not mine own, but the speeches of most ancient Fathers, and have been spoken or written, and continued in the Church, these 1200, 1300. and well near 1400. years, and never condemned in them as false, though many of late times have sought otherwise to understand the words of Christ. The gloss upon the Canons joineth herein with the Fathers: Dicitur corpus Christi, sed impropriè: ut sit sensus. uocatur corpus Christi 3&c. It is called the body of Christ, but unproperly: the meaning thereof may be this, it is called Christs body, that is to say, it signifieth Christs body.
S. Ambrose saith, Before consecration, it is called another kind: after consecration, the 1body of Christ is signified. And again, In eating and drinking (that is, in receiuing the holy communion) we signifie the bodie & blood 2of Christ, that was offered for vs. So also Gelasius saith, Imago & similitudo corporis & sanguinis, in actione mysteriorum celebratur. The image and similitude of his body & blood is shewed in the action of the mysteries. It woulde be ouerlong to lay forth vnto you what ⟨image 151⟩