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Howe we ought to prepare our selves to receive worthily at the time Easter, the most blessed Sacrament of the […]

Howe we ought to prepare oure selues to receyue worthely at the tyme Easter, the moost blessed Sacrament of the 〈…〉

PHILEMON. That you may pre pare your selves condignly & worthily to receive the most blessed Sacrament of the ⟨image 77⟩Altar, it shall be necessary that ye observe certain things. First y• ye labour with all main to erect & lift up your selves from your old sinful living, where with in times past, ye have been miserably detained, before the approach unto this celestial table. For if it were not law full for the uncircumcised in the flesh to eat of the figurative Paschal Lamb how much more than is it unlawful for the uncircumcised in the hart, y• is, for the sinful & unclean person to taste of the true Paschal Lamb, which was offered & slain for our sake? Purge out the old leaven, ¹saith S. Paul, ye ye may be new dowe, like as ye are sweet bread. For christ is offered a Paschal lamb for us. Here he showeth, ye if we will worthily celebrate our Easter, we must put away our old & sinful living. But before all things in this expurgation of vice, ye must ⟨image 77⟩earnestly labour, that ye come not to receive the body of our LORD with a malicious, hateful & uncharitable heart. For this is a Sacrament of peace, of unite, of concord, & of unfeigned love. Therefore there ought to be mutual reconciliation on all parts, before any come unto this celestial feast, as saint John Chrysostom saith, let no Hypocrite