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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.
¶When Christ was ascended into heaven: and had sent his Apostles the spirit of truth, to lead them into all truth pertaining unto our salvation even in to him that said: I am the truth of which truth he instructed them after his resurrection. Luk. 24. and they had preached the same truth now in Jerusalem Act. 2. at which preaching there were that received their words & where baptized, about the, z. M. his apostles remembering how their master Christ at his last supper did institute & leave them this holy sacrament of his body ⟨p. 30⟩& blood to be celebrated & done in his remembrance among such as had received his gospel, were baptized, had professed his faith, and would persevere in his religion, did now in this first congregation celebrate the Lord's supper breaking the breed & eating it as Christ did •eche them, which supper, Luke & Paul called afterward the breaking of the breed. As Acto, 2. saying. That they which gladly had now received Peters act, & were baptized: were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles, and in the communion, & in the breaking of the breed, and in prayer, which sacrament was now a token of the perseverance in their christian religion now professed. Off this breaking of breed, Luke writing of Paul coming• upon Troadem, saith Act. 20• also, that there upon a sabbath day, when the disciples were come together unto the breaking of the breed: Paul made a sermon during to midnight &c. And that this was no common nor profane use but an heavenly sacrament and a reverent rite and usage, the circumstances of the action declare, both in Luke and Paul, showing it to be the very institution that Christ ordained at his supper, Paul thus reciting this breaking of the breed: saying. The breed which we break, is it not the fellowship of the body of Christ? that is to say doth it not signify us to be the body of Christ that is his congregation and his people, as doth the words following declare? Paul adding the cause saying For we being many are all together signified by the one loaf to be one body: for that we be partakers of the same breed. Also before, he