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The supper of the Lord where unto, that thou mayst be the better prepared…The souper of the Lorde wher vnto, that thou mayst be the better prepared…
The supper of the Lord where unto, that thou mayst be the better prepared and suerlyer instructed: have here first the declaration of the later part of the .6. ca. of S. Joha[n], beginning at the letter C. the fourth line before the cross, at these words: merely were. [et]c wherein incidentally M. Morris letter against Johan Frith is confuted.The souper of the Lorde wher vnto, that thou mayst be the better prepared and suerlyer enstructed: haue here firste the declaracion of the later parte of the .6. ca. of S. Joha[n], beginninge at the letter C. the fowerth lyne before the crosse, at these wordis: merely were. [et]c wheryn incidently M. Moris letter agenst Johan Frythe is confuted.
Nornburg: printed by Niclas twonson i.e. N. Hill?, 1533
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.
to say This is my body, and this is my blood: is as much to say as, This signifieth my noddy, this signifieth my bloode• which supper is here celebrated to put us in remembrance of Christ's death, and ⟨image 20⟩to excite us to thanks giving.
to saye This is my bodye, and this is my bloode: is as miche to saye as, This signifyeth my nody, thys sygnifyethe my bloode• whiche souper is here celebrated to put vs in rememberance of Cristes dethe, and ⟨image 20⟩to excyte vs to thankis geuinge.
¶Nether let it not offend thee, • christian reader, That Est is taken for significat:1 that is to say, This is that, is as much to say, as this signifieth that. For this is a common manner of speech in many places of scripture, and also in our mother tongue: as when we see many pictures or images, which ye know well are but signs to represent the bodies whom they be made like: yet we say of the image of our lady. This is our lady. & of. s. Catherine, this is saint Catherine. and yet do they but represent and signify us our lady or saint Catherine. And as it is written Genesis. 40. ca. The three branches are three days. The .3. baskets are .3. dayest which was not else but they signified three days. Also in the 28. ca. Jacob said This stone which I have set up an end, shall be God's house, which stone yet was never gods house, nor never shall be: but only did signify God's house to be builded in that same place• Again, Pharaoh dreamed to have seen .7. fair fat oxen, & eft sone .7. pore lean oxen. which Joseph expounding said: The .7. fat oxen are .7. plenteous years: and the .7. lean are 7. dear years, in which phrase or manner of speech every man saith that the oxen were no years: but they signified such years. Marvel not therfore thoughe Est like wise in thys sentence: Hoc est corpus meū. be taken for significat, as much to say, as this signifieth my body. And yet for because the scriptures conferred together expound them self as saith S. Austen. And Peter. 2. pe 1. That we have before a firm and sure prophetical speech unto which