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A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged…A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged…
A preparative to marriage The sum whereof was spoken at a contract, and enlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of usury. By Henry Smith.A preparatiue to mariage The summe whereof was spoken at a contract, and inlarged after. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the Lords Supper, and another of vsurie. By Henrie Smith.
London: printed by Thomas Orwin for Thomas Man, 1591
A Treatise of the Lords Supper; in two Sermons. › The first Sermon.
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 Word & the Sacraments are the two breasts wherewith our mother doth nurse us. Seeing every one receiveth, and few understand what they ⟨image 67⟩receive; I thought it the necessariest doctrine to preach of the Sacrament; which is a witness of Gods promises, a remembrance of Christs death, and a seal of our adoption: therefore Christ hath not instituted this Sacrament for a fashion in his Church to touch, and feel, and see, as we gaze upon pictures in the windows, but as the woman which had the bloody 1issue, touching the hem of Christs garment, drew virtue from Christ himself because she believed: So Christ would that we touching these signs, should draw virtue from himself, that is, all the graces which these signs represent. Therefore as the Levites 2under the Law, were bound to prepare their brethren before they came to the Passover; so Preachers of the Gospel should prepare ⟨image 67⟩their brethren before they come to the Supper of the Lord. For which purpose I have chosen this place to the Corinthians, which is the clearest and fullest declaration of this Sacrament in all the Scripture.
THE Word & the Sacraments are the two breasts wherwith our mother dooth nurse vs. Seeing euerie one receiueth, and fewe vnderstand what they ⟨image 67⟩receiue; I thought it the necessariest doctrine to preach of the Sacrament; which is a witnesse of Gods promises, a remembrance of Christs death, and a seale of our adoption: therefore Christ hath not instituted this Sacrament for a fashion in his Church to touch, and feele, and see, as we gaze vpon pictures in the windowes, but as the woman which had the bloodie 1issue, touching the hemme of Christs garment, drewe vertue from Christ himselfe because she beleeued: So Christ would that wee touching these signes, should drawe vertue from himselfe, that is, al the graces which these signes represent. Therefore as the Leuits