A16596:243
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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Do every of you surely think, when you hear these words, Take eat, this is my body, broken for your sins: Drink, this is my blood, shed for your sins: That God, the eternal Father, embracing you, Christ calleth & clippeth you must lovingly, making himself ⟨p. 130⟩one with you, and you one with him, and one with another amongst your selves.
Do euery of you surely think, when you heare these words, Take eate, this is my body, broken for your sinnes: Drinke, this is my bloud, shed for your sins: That God, ye eternal Father, embracing you, Christ calleth & clippeth you must louingly, making himselfe ⟨p. 130⟩one with you, and you one with him, and one with another amongst your selues.
You ought no less to be certain now that God loveth you, pardoneth your sins, and that Christ is all yours, then if you did hear and Angel out of heaven speaking so unto you. And therefore rejoice and be glad, and make this Supper Eutharichiam, a thanksgiving as the Fathers named it. Be no less certain, that Christ and you now are all one, then you are certain, the bread and wine is one with your nature and substance, after you have eaten and drunk it. Howbeit, in this it differeth, that you by faith are, as it were, changed into Christ, and not Christ into you, as the bread is: for by faith he dwelleth in us, and we in him. God give us faith in the use of this Sacrament, to receive Christ as he giveth us hands to receive the element, symbol, and visible Sacrament. God grant us not to prepare our feeth and belly (as Saint Augustine saith) but rather of his ⟨p. 131⟩mercy, he prepare and give us true and lively faith, to use this and all other his ordinances to his glory and our comforts. He sweep the houses of our hearts, and make them clean, that they may be worthy Temples and lodgings for the Lord. Amen.