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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 say some, the fathers of the old law, were in darkness, in a shadow, & a figure: it was meet they should receive the Sacrament spiritually, or the body of our Lord spiritually: but all otherwise with us, unto whose benefit, yt sacraments of the new Testament work y• thing it self that they signify: so that we receive Christ really, bodily, and with the mouth of our bodies.
But say some, the fathers of the olde lawe, were in darkenes, in a shadow, & a figure: it was meete they should receiue the Sacrament spiritually, or the body of our Lord spiritually: but al otherwise with vs, vnto whose benefite, yt sacraments of the new Testament work y• thing it selfe that they signifie: so that we receiue Christ really, bodily, and with the mouth of our bodies.
S. Paul telleth us, the fathers of the old law did eat the same spiritual meat, that is to say, 1the same Christ, that we eat. So sayeth S. Augustine, Sacramenta illa fuerunt, in signis ⟨image 161⟩diversa: in rebus quae significabantur, paria. These things were Sacraments, in the outward tokens divers, but in the things signified, all one with ours. Likewise sayeth Leo, Mysteria pro temporum ratione variata sunt: quum fides, qua v•uimus nulla fuerit aetate diversa. 2The Sacraments are altered according to the diversity of times: but the faith whereby we live, was ever in all ages one. If they did eat the same meat, if the things, that is, the matter of their Sacraments were all one with ours, if their faith was all one with our faith, what difference is there between their and our eating? As they did eat Christ by faith, and not by the mouth of the body: so we eat Christ by faith, and not by the mouth of our body.