A16596:211
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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As before therefore I have spoken,1 I would wish that this Sacrament should be esteemed, and called of us Christian men, after Christs words: namely, the bread Christs body, and the wine Christs blood, rather then otherwise. Not that I mean any other presence of Christs body, then a presence of grace, a preserver to Faith, a presence spiritually: and not corporally, really, naturally, and carnally, as the Papists do mean. For in such sort Christs body is only in heaven, on the right hand of God the Father almighty, whether our faith in the use of the Sacrament, ascendeth and receiveth whole Christ accordingly.
As before therefore I haue spoken,1 I would wish that this Sacrament should bee esteemed, and called of vs Christian men, after Christs words: namely, the bread Christs body, and the wine Christs bloud, rather then otherwise. Not that I meane any other presence of Christs body, then a presence of grace, a preseruer to Faith, a presence spiritually: and not corporally, really, naturally, and carnally, as the Papists doe meane. For in such sort Christs body is onely in heauen, on the right hand of God the Father almighty, whether our faith in the vse of the Sacrament, ascendeth and receiueth whole Christ accordingly.
- 1Christs presence in the Supper.
Yea, but one will say, that to call the Sacrament on that sort,1 is to give an occasion of Idolatry to the people, which will take the Sacrament which they see simply for Christs body, as by experience we are well taught: and therefore it were better to call it bread, and so less harm should be, especially in this age.