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Seven godly and learned sermons preachedSeuen godly and learned sermons preached
Seven godly and learned sermons preached by the Reverend Father in God John Ivel, late bishop of Salisbury. Never before imprintedSeuen godly and learned sermons preached by the Reuerend Father in God Iohn Iuel, late bishop of Salisburie. Neuer before imprinted
London : Impensis G. Bishop, 1607
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.
The Prophets (said Jeremiah) teach falsely, and the Priests follow them, & my people hath pleasure therein. And lo, even this same which the Prophet Jeremiah said, the Priests and Prophets did in his time, we our selves have seen done in our days, and now we are ashamed thereof: but what profit had we then by it? We had the Sacrament of Christs body, but we knew not why Christ instituted the same, we knew not why Christ left us that Sacrament; we did all things contrary to Christs institution. Christ ordained a Communion, but we had a private Mass: Christ ordained, that the whole people should receive in both kinds, but we ministered it under one kind alone: Christ, when he instituted this Sacrament, spake in the common tongue that all might understand him: but we contrary to Christ, contrary to the Apostles, contrary to the primitive Church, consecrated the same in an unknown tongue, that no man might ⟨image 47⟩understand us. And hereof are we now ashamed, but what profit had we then thereby? We have known this to be taught, that the bread in the Sacrament was turned into the very body and blood of Christ our Saviour: this we all know, and do yet remember. But Christ, when he said, the Sacrament should be turned, meant not that the bread should be turned into his body, but that we which receive the same should be turned, that we, I say, should be turned, & made one body with him. This was the meaning, this I say, was the meaning of our Saviour Christ. And therefore S. Paul, 1Panis quem frangimus, participatio corporis & sanguinis Christi est, the bread which we break is the participation of the body and blood of Christ. For we many are one bread, & one body in as much as we all are partakers of one bread. 2Christ himself said, I will drink no more of the liquor of the vine: Christ, I say, after the consecration, said he would not drink any more of the liquor of the Vine: The blood of Christ is not Wine, it is not the liquor of ⟨image 48⟩the vine. Saint Augustine, in Sermone ad Infantes, saith plainly, Quod videtis in mensa panis est: that which you see on the table, is bread. Theodoretus also, Non mutatur substantia panis, the substance & nature of the bread is not changed, saith he.