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…

Now his words be manifest, and most plain: This (saith he) is my body: therefore, accordingly should we esteem, take, and receive it. If he had spoken nothing, or if he had spoken doubtfully, then might we have been in some doubt. But in that he speaketh so plainly, saying: This is my body: Who can, may, or dare be so bold as to doubt of it? He is the trueth and cannot lye; he is omnipotent and can do all things: therefore it ⟨p. 108⟩is his body. This I believe, this I confess, and pray you all heartily to beware of these and such like words, that it is but a sign or figure of his body: Except ye will discern betwixt signs which signify only, and signs which also do represent, confirm, and seal up (or as a man may say) give with their signification. As for an example: An Ivy bush, is a sign of Wine to be sold: the budding of Aaron's Rod, did signify Aaron's Priesthood, allowed of the Lord: the reservation of Moses Rod, did signify the rebellion of the children of Israel: the stones taken out of Jordan, Gideons fleece of wool, &c. Such as these, be signs significative, and show no gift. But in the other signs, which some call exhibitive, is there not only a signification of the thing, but also a declaration of a gift is, in a certain manner, a giving also: As Baptism not only signifieth the cleansing of the conscience from sin, by the merits of CHRISTS blood, but also is a very cleansing from sin. And therefore ⟨p. 109⟩it was said to Paul, that he should arise and wash away his sins, and not that he should arise and take only a sign of washing away his sins. In the Lords Supper, the bread is called a partaking of the Lords body, and not only a bare sign of the Lords body. This I speak not, as though the elements of these Sacraments (were Transubstantiate) which I have already impugned either, as though Christs body were in bread or wine, or that they were tied to the elements otherwise then Sacramentally, and spiritually, either that the bread and wine may not, and must not be called Sacramental, and external signs: but that they might be discerned from significative and bare signs only, and he taken for signs exhibitive; and representive. By this means a Christian conscience will call and esteem the bread of the Lord, as the body of Christ.

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