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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.
¶And because t•e comparison in the .10. cap. between the Lord's board & his cup, and the devil's board and his cup, do declare this matter. I shall recy•e Paul's words saying ye may not drink the cup of the lord, & the cup of the devil both togyther• ye may not be partakers of the Lord's board & the devils board both at once. The devils board and his ⟨image 25⟩•upp• was not his body and blood, but the eating and drinking before their images and Idols as did the heathen in the worship and thanks of their Gods• of which thing thou mayest gather what Paul meant by the Lord's board and his cup. Now let us return to Paul in the .11. cap. They eat this breed and drink of this cup unworthily, that come not unto this board with such faith and love as they professed at their baptism. They eat unworthily that thru•ted them selves in among this congregation having not the love that this sacrament and sign of unite techeth & signifieth. which manner of people Paul in this same ca. rebuketh, & bendeth all his sermon against them: for that thy were contentious, and came together not for the better but for the worse• So that their coming together which should have •ene a token of faith and love, was turned into the occasion and matter of dissension and strife: because every man did e•e (as Paul saith) his own supper and not the Lord's supper: wherein the breed and drink is common as well to the pore as to the rich. but here the rich disdained the pore and would not tarry for them. so that some (as the rich) wen•e their way drunken and full: an• the pore departed hungry & dry, which was a token of no •gal distribution of the breed and drink: and that the rich contemned the pore and so became slanderous and guilty of the body and blood of Christ: that is to wite, of the pore congregation redeemed with Christ's body and bloe. Thus they that came together appearing to have had that love which the supper