A16596:189
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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So that it is plain to them that will see, that to take the substance of bread away, is clean against the nature and property of a Sacrament.
So that it is plaine to them that wil sée, that to take the substance of bread away, is cleane against the nature and propertie of a Sacrament.
I will speak nothing how that this their doctrine of Transubstantiation, beside the manifold absurdities it hath in it, (which to rehearse I omit) it utterly overthroweth the use of the Sacrament, and is clean contrary to the end wherefore it was instituted, & so is no longer a Sacrament, but an Idol; and is the cause of much Idolatry, converting the peoples harts, from an heavenly conversation to an earthly; and turning the Communion, into private action, and a matter of gazing and piping, of adoring & worshipping the work of mens hands, for the living God which dwelleth not in Temples made with mens hands, much less lieth he in Pyxes and Chests; whose true worship is in spirit and verity, which God grant us all to render unto him continually. Amen
I will speake nothing how that this their doctrine of Transubstantiation, beside the manifold absurdities it hath in it, (which to rehearse I omit) it vtterly ouerthroweth the vse of the Sacrament, and is cleane cōtrary to the end wherefore it was instituted, & so is no longer a Sacrament, but an Idol; and is the cause of much Idolatry, conuerting the peoples harts, from an heauenly conuersatiō to an earthly; and turning the Communion, into priuate action, and a matter of gazing and piping, of adoring & worshipping the worke of mens hands, for the liuing God which dwelleth not in Tempels made with mens hands, much lesse lyeth he in Pixes and Chests; whose true worshippe is in spirit and verity, which God grant vs all to render vnto him continually. Amen