A14347:52
A discourse or treatise of Peter Martyr Vermilla Floor[n]tine, the public reader of divinity…A discourse or traictise of Petur Martyr Vermilla Flore[n]tine, the publyque reader of diuinitee…
A discourse or treatise of Peter Martyr Vermilla Floor[n]tine, the public reader of divinity in the University of Oxford wherein he openly declared his whole and determinate judgement concerning the sacrament of the Lords supper in the said University.A discourse or traictise of Petur Martyr Vermilla Flore[n]tine, the publyque reader of diuinitee in the Vniuersitee of Oxford wherein he openly declared his whole and determinate iudgemente concernynge the sacrament of the Lordes supper in the sayde Vniuersitee.
London: printed by Robert Stoughton i.e. E. Whitchurch for Nicolas Udall, 1550London: printed by Robert Stoughton i.e. E. Whitchurch for Nycolas Udall, 1550
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First because these fellows ca• not upon any sure foundation establish their carnal eating of Christ.
First b•cause these felowes ca• not vpon any sure foundacion es•ablishe their carnall eatyng of Christe.
And Secondarily for that the old fathers did not only believe in their heart in Christ to come, but did also receive a token and sign of the thing which they believed, that is to wit, Manna or Water. Wherefore the thing did not pass by faith only: and so Austens sentence and saying standeth still in his force, that the meat of the old fathers ⟨image 17⟩was not only spiritual as ours is, but also the self same that we eat, Neither is it of any great force or effect if thou object out of the same Augustine upon the thirty seventh Psalm, in the Prologue, where he putteth difference between the new and old Sacraments: where he seemeth to assign three points of difference. First, that in the one a Saviour is promised, and in the other he is given. And afterward he sayeth that our Sacraments are more easy, fewer in number, more full of majesty, and more blissful. And at last he addeth, that the others were as toys or japes in children's hands: but in our Sacraments to be contained some thing of more utility and substantialness. And these circumstances are to be understanded as touching the first point concerning the promissiō of Christ to come. But not withstanding that they had not yet in very deed received him i• ••eashe: yet nevertheless to the fathers believing in the said promission, he was spiritually given to meat. But our Sacraments are said to give Christ, even because they testify that he is come already, and is no more to be looked for as though he were not come. Now that our Sacraments are fewer in number, it is a thing certain, and also, that they are more easy then the old Sacraments. They also signify and represent a more majesty, because the words that are spoken be more open and plain, then they were in the old Testament. Now as for the happiness of ours is a great deal more, so that we are in a great deal better case with our Sacraments, then the old fathers were with theirs. For we are free from the yoke of the ceremonies: and we live altogether growing to the last hour and end of the