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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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Who considering this thing, shall not be touched to repent? Who in the receiving of this Sacrament, thinking that Christ saith to him: Take, eat, this is my body, which is broken for thee: This is my blood which is shed for thy sins, can but tremble at the grievousness of his sins, for the which such a price was paid? If there were no plague at all else, to admonish man of sin, how grievous a thing it is in Gods sight, surely that one were enough. But alas, how are our hearts bewitched, through ⟨p. 126⟩Satan's subtleties, and the custom of sin, that we make sin a thing of nothing? God open our eyes in time, and give us repentance, which we see this Sacrament doth, as it were, enforce us unto, in the reverence and true use of the same.
Who considering this thing, shall not be touched to repent? Who in the receiuing of this Sacrament, thinking that Christ saith to him: Take, eate, this is my body, which is broken for thee: This is my blood which is shedde for thy sinnes, can but tremble at the grieuousnesse of his sinnes, for the which such a price was payd? If there were no plague at all else, to admonish man of sinne, how grieuous a thing it is in Gods sight, surely that one were enough. But alas, how are our hearts bewitched, through ⟨p. 126⟩Sathans subtilties, and the custome of sinne, that we make sinne a thing of nothing? God open our eyes in time, and giue vs repentance, which wee sée this Sacrament doth, as it were, enforce vs vnto, in the reuerence and true vse of the same.
Again, in hearing that this which we take and eat, is Christs body broken for our sins, and his blood shed for our iniquities, we are occasioned to call to mind the infinite greatness of GODS mercy and truth, and of Christs love towards us. For what a mercy is this, that God would for man, being lost through his wilful sins, be content; yea, desirous to give his own only Son, The Image of his substance, the brightness of his glory, being in his own bosom, to be made man for us, that we men by him, might be; as it were, made Gods? What a mercy is this, that God the Father should so tender us, that he would make this his Son, being equal with him in divinity, a mortal man for us, that we might