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A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…
A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent sinners, newly prepared by Theodore Basil.A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all penitent synners, newly prepared by Theodore Basille.
printed for Joha, 1542printed for Ioha, 1542
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
PHIL. After y• ye depart from y• table of our Lord 1God, call unto your remembrance what ye have done, & what ye have professed. First remember y• ye have received the very body of our lord Jesus Christ, of all treasures most precious. Secondly remember that by the receiving of that, ye have professed your selves to be the sons of God, the members of Christ, the maintainers of true godliness the studious followers of God's will, the fervent lovers of our christen brothers, & the extreme enemies of Satan & his army, so long as ⟨image 85⟩ever ye live. All these things do ye profess, wham ye sit at the most heavenly table. Look therefore that ye do not dally, nor mock with God, unless worser things chance unto you. Let us depart from that table, saith Chrysostom, as Lyons 2that breath fire, that we may be terry ble to the devil. Therefore that this thing may come to pass, remember that ye are now engrafted in christ, & become members of Christs body. Howe unsyttynge than were it, to fall again from Christ, & to adjoin your selves unto uncleanness? Remember that ye are washed from 3your since & sanctified by Christs blood, & justified by the name of the LORD Jesus. Were it not than very unseemly to pollute and defile your selves again with your old filthiness? Remember that god hath now delivered you out of the land of Egypt from your most cru ⟨image 86⟩ell enemy Pharaoh the devil, & hath brought you into the land of promise. Have not than a pleasure to return into that land of captivity Remember that God hath delivered yon from the filthy & abominable Sodomites. Provide therefore that ye look not back again unto their pernicious manners. Remember that God hath delivered you from the babylonicall captivity, & hath brought you unto the new & celestial Jerusalem, so that now ye are 4