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…

It followeth, Do this in remembrance of me. That is, these signs ¹shall be a remembrance of my death: when you break the bread you shall remember the wounding of my body; and when you drink the wine, you shall remember the shedding of my blood. If we must do this in remembrance of Christs body, which was broken like the bread, it is an argument that his body is not there, because remembrance is not of things present, but of things absent, we remember not, but we see that which is before us. This might put the Papists in remembrance that Christ is not sacrificed now, when we do but remember his sacrifice: this is not Christs sacrifice, but a remembrance of his sacrifice; he was sacrificed before, and now he is applied, least ⟨image 93⟩his sacrifice should be in vain. This was done once really, when he offered himself upon the Cross, therefore that offering was called a sacrifice, because he was ²sacrificed indeed; but this offering is called a Sacrament, because it is but a sign of his sacrifice. If Christ in this Sacrament were offered indeed, then it should be called a sacrifice as his once offering was; but because it is but a remembrance of his sacrifice, therefore it is called a Sacrament. This is not a sacrifice of Christ, but a sacrifice of our selves. Least we should take it to be a sacrifice of Christ, Christ himself calleth it a remembrance of his sacrifice, Do this in my remembrance. Here is our work as Christ hath done, so must we do, so we minister, and so you receive: we can give you ⟨image 94⟩nothing but that which we have received from him, as Paul saith. Therefore if Christ did not give his mortal body which stood before them, and could not profit them, nor his glorified body, which was not glorified then, and when it was glorified ascended up unto heaven, & there abideth, how can these juggling Priests make their God again which made them? They can no more turn wine into blood, and bread into flesh, than they can command a Gnat to become a Camel: for it is a greater work to make GOD, than to make the world. Therefore as Christ saith, When they tell you, here ³is Christ, and there is Christ, believe them not: So, when they tell you that Christ is in heaven, and that Christ is in earth, in this place and that place, believe them not: for