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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.
We say, they are changed, that they have a dignity and preeminence which they had not before, that they are not now common bread, or common wine, but the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ: a holy mystery: a covenant between Christ and us: a testimony unto our conscience, that Christ is the Lamb of God: a perfect seal, & sufficient warrant of Gods promises, whereby God bindeth himself to us, and we stand likewise bounden unto God, so as God is our God, and we are his people.
We say, they are changed, that they haue a dignitie and preeminence which they had not before, that they are not now common breade, or common wine, but the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ: a holy mysterie: a couenant betweene Christ and vs: a testimonie vnto our conscience, that Christ is the Lambe of God: a perfite seale, & sufficient warrant of Gods promises, whereby God bindeth himselfe to vs, and we stand likewise bounden vnto God, so as God is our God, and we are his people.
In Baptism, the nature & substance of water doth remain still: and yet is not it bare water. It is changed, & made the sacrament of our regeneration. It is water consecrated, & made holy by the blood of Christ. They which are washed therein, are not washed with water, but in the blood of the unspotted Lamb. One thing is seen, and an other understand. We see the water, but we understand the blood of Christ. Even so we see the bread and wine, but with the eyes of our understanding we look beyond these creatures, we reach our spiritual senses into heaven, and behold the ransom and prise of our salvation. We do behold in the Sacrament, not what it is, but what it doeth signify. When we receive it with due reverence and faith, we say as said Gregorius Nyssenus, Ego aliam escam agnosco, quae &c. I know 1another kind of meat, bearing the likeness ⟨image 157⟩& resemblance of our bodily meat, the pleasure and sweetness whereof passeth only into the soul. It goeth not into the mouth or belly, but only into the soul, and it feedeth the mind inwardly, as the other outwardly feedeth the body.