A16596:219
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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1What (saith one?) to call the Sacrament Christs body, and to make none other presence then by grace, or spiritually to faith, which is of things hoped for, and of things which to the bodily senses do not appear, is to make no presence at all, or to make him none otherwise present, then he is in his word when it is preached: and therefore what need we to receive the Sacrament, in as much as by this doctrine, a man may receive him daily in the field, as well, and as much as in the Church, in the celebration and use of the Sacrament?
1What (saith one?) to call the Sacrament Christs body, and to make none other presence then by grace, or spiritually to faith, which is of things hoped for, and of things which to the bodily senses do not appeare, is to make no presence at all, or to make him none otherwise present, then he is in his word when it is preached: and therefore what néede we to receiue the Sacrament, in as much as by this doctrine, a man may receiue him dayly in the fielde, as well, and as much as in the Church, in the celebration and vse of the Sacrament?
- 1Another objection of Christs presence in the Sacrament,Another obiection of Christs presence in the Sacrament,
So this objection, I first answer: that indeed, neither the Scripture, nor Christian Faith, will give us leave to make any carnal, real, natural, corporal, or any such gross presence of Christs natural body in the Sacrament.
So this obiection, I first answere: that indeede, neither the Scripture, nor Christian Faith, wil giue vs leaue to make any carnall, reall, naturall, corporall, or any such grosse presence of Christs naturall body in the Sacrament.