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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. › A Treatise of the Lords Supper.
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 preparative before we receive, is to Examine. As John was the forerunner of Christ, so examination ⟨image 118⟩is the forerunner of the Sacrament, like the harbinger, 1which rideth before to prepare the room. For, if Job commanded his sons to sanctify 2themselves before they did come to his sacrifice, how should we sanctify our selves before we come to Christs Sacrament, wherein we are commanded to do as the Lord himself did which instituted it? It is said, that the Chamber wherein Christ did institute this Sacrament, was trimmed; 3the Chamber wherein the Apostles received this Sacrament was trimmed: If Judas Chamber, his inner chamber had been trimmed so too, he had received this Sacrament with as much comfort as the other disciples did: but because his heart was not trimmed, therefore he was the first which ⟨image 118⟩was condemned for the unworthy receiving of this Sacrament. Adam did not think that death 4had bin in an Apple, so you would not think that death should be in bread: but as a coal hath fire in it beside the coal it self, which fire doth either warm or burn; so this meat hath another meat in it beside that which is seen, which doth ever save or destroy: therefore he which cometh to this spiritual meat, must examine whether he have a spiritual mouth, as well as a carnal mouth, or else he shall receive no more than he seeth, and that which he seeth not shall destroy him. No man (saith Christ) putteth new wine into old vessels, least the vessels break 5and the wine leak. This Wine is new Wine, therefore put it into new vessels, holy vessels, sanctified ⟨image 119⟩vessels, or else it will leak forth and break the vessel, and thou shalt have no more taste of it, than while the relish of bread is in thy mouth. When Christ cometh to our house, shall we not look whether our Chamber be trimmed, as the Chamber was trimmed against his coming to the Passover? But how shall we trim it?