A16596:222
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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Which Faith, though it be of things hoped for, and so of things absent to the corporal senses, yet this absence, is not an absence, indeed, but to reason, and the old man; the nature of Faith, being a possession of things hoped for. Therefore, to grant a presence to Faith, is not to make no presence at all, but to such as know not Faith: And this the Fathers taught, affirming Christ to be present by grace, and therefore, not only a signification; but also an exhibition and giving of the Grace of CHRISTS body; that is, of life, and of the seed of immortality, as Cyprian writeth. We eat Life, and drink Life, faith Saint AUGUSTINE.
Which Faith, though it be of things hoped for, and so of things absent to the corporall senses, yet this absence, is not an absence, indéede, but to reason, and the old man; the nature of Faith, being a possession of things hoped for. Therefore, to grant a presence to Faith, is not to make no presence at all, but to such as know not Faith: And this the Fathers taught, affirming Christ to be present by grace, and therefore, not only a signification; but also an exhibition and giuing of the Grace of CHRISTS body; that is, of life, and of the seede of immortality, as Cyprian writeth. Wae eate Life, and drinke Life, faith Saint AVGVSTINE.
We feel a presence of the Lord by Grace, or in Grace, saith Chrysostom: We receive the celestial food, that cometh from above, saith Athanasius. We receive the property of the natural conjunction,1 and knitting together, saith Hillarius. We receive the nature of the flesh the blessing that giveth life in bread and Wine, saith Cyrillus. 2And else where he saith, that with the bread and Wine, we eat the virtue of Christs proper flesh, life, grace, and the property of the body of the only begotten son of God; which thing he himself expoundeth to be life.3