A16596:176
A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving…A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing…
A double summons the one, to unfeigned repentance. The other, to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Delivered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, John Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.A double summons the one, to vnfained repentance. The other, to the worthie receiuing of the Lords Supper. Deliuered in two notable sermons: made, by that worthy martyr of Christ, Iohn Bradford: who suffered in Smith-field An[n]o. Domini. 1555.
London: printed by George Purslowe, 1617
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1That in the Supper of the Lord, or in the Sacrament of Christs body (which the Papists call the Sacrament of the Altar) as though that were Christs Sacrament, which ⟨p. 91⟩thing they can never prove: for it being perverted, and used to a contrary end, as of sacrificing propitiatorily, for the sins of the quick and of the dead; of idolatry, by adoring or worshipping it by godly honour, &c. is no more Christs Sacrament, but an horrible profanation of it; and therefore, as Christ called Gods Temple, which was called an house of prayer; for the abusing and profaning of it by the Priests, a den of Thieves: so this which the Papists call the Sacrament of the Altar, full truly may we call an abominable Idol: And therefore, I would all men should know, that the Sacrament of the Altar, as the Papists now do abuse it, omitting certain substantial points of the Lords institution, and putting in the stead thereof, their own dregs and dreams, is not the Sacrament of Christs body nor the Lords Supper: whereof when we speak reverently, as our duty is, we would not that men should think we speak it of the popish Mass: (that I say) in the Supper ⟨p. 92⟩of the Lord, or in the Sacrament of Christs body, there remaineth the substance of Bread and Wine, as our senses and reasons do teach, these many things also do teach the same.
1That in the Supper of the Lord, or in the Sacrament of Christs body (which the Papists call the Sacrament of the Altar) as though that were Christs Sacrament, which ⟨p. 91⟩thing they can neuer proue: for it being peruerted, and vsed to a contrary end, as of sacrificing propitiatorily, for the sinnes of the quicke and of the dead; of idolatrie, by adoring or worshipping it by godly honour, &c. is no more Christs Sacrament, but an horrible prophanation of it; and therefore, as Christ called Gods Temple, which was called an house of prayer; for the abusing and prophaning of it by the Priests, a den of Theeues: so this which the Papists cal the Sacrament of the Altar, full truely may we call an abominable Idoll: And therefore, I would all men should know, that the Sacrament of the Altar, as the Papists now do abuse it, omitting certaine substantiall points of the Lords institution, and putting in the stead thereof, their owne dregges and dreames, is not the Sacrament of Christs body nor the Lords Supper: whereof when we speake reuerently, as our duty is, wee would not that men should thinke we speake it of the popish Masse: (that I say) in the Supper