H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which now at length being 70. years…H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which novve at length being 70. yeares…

There be two kinds of men, which, like as they come to the hearing of the word, so may they come to receive the supper of the Lord: the ungodly, and the godly. Again, of the ungodly, some are wholly and simply wicked: as Atheists, Godless men, also Jews and Turks, and all such as know nothing, and ⟨p. 318⟩believe nothing of all those things, which they hear by the preaching of the gospel, or see to be done by the administration of the Sacraments: nay they rather laugh at and contemn all such matters. These if they come to the Lords table: they neither eat nor drink any thing else, but bread and wine, and that also, not as they are sacraments, (for they know not of what things they are sacraments) but only as they are of their own nature, namely, bread & wine. For even so also at the preaching of the gospel, they receive nothing but bare words and the sound of the words. Another sort are indeed and before God wicked, though they are not so in respect, I mean, in profession, or in sight of men: such as are the hypocrites in the church: who are not endued with the true and lively faith, which is proper to the elect: but have only a temporal and an hypocritical belief. These, coming to the supper, do indeed eat and drink no more then the former: that is, bread & wine. The reason is, because they have no true faith, by which alone, Christs body is truly eaten. For all this the difference between these and the other is not little.

There be two kindes of men, which, like as they come to the hearing of the word, so may they come to receiue the supper of the Lord: the vngodly, and the godly. Againe, of the vngodly, some are wholly and simplie wic•ed: as Atheists, Godlesse men, also Iewes and Turkes, and all such as knowe nothing, and ⟨p. 318⟩beleeue nothing of all those thinges, which they heare by the preaching of the gospell, or see to bee done by the administration of the Sacraments: nay they rather laugh at and cō temne all such matters. These if they come to the Lords table: they neither eate nor drinke anie thing else, but bread and wine, and that also, not as they are sacramēts, (for they know not of what thinges they are sacraments) but onely as they are of their owne nature, namelie, bread & wine. For euen so also at the preaching of the gospell, they receiue nothing but bare words and the sound of the words. Another sort are indeed and before God wicked, though they are not so in respect, I meane, in profession, or in sight of men: such as are the hypocrites in the church: who are not indued with the true and liuelie faith, which is proper to the elect: but haue onely a temporall and an hypocriticall beleefe. These, comming to the supper, doe indeed eate and drinke no more then the former: that is, bread & wine. The reason is, because they haue no true faith, by which alone, Christs body is truely eaten. For all this the difference betweene these and the other is not little.