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A most excellent sermon of the Lords SupperA most excellent sermon of the Lordes Supper
A most excellent sermon of the Lords Supper wherein briefly (and yet plainly enough [sic]) is lively set forth the matter of the Supper of the Lord Jesus. By Henry Bullinger. Translated out of French, into English by I.T.A most excellent sermon of the Lordes Supper wherein briefely (and yet plainly yenough [sic]) is liuely set foorth the matter of the Supper of the Lorde Iesus. By Henry Bullinger. Translated out of Frenche, into English by I.T.
London: printed by Thomas Dawson and Thomas Gardyner for William Ponsonby, 1577
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Now is it meet to interpret the words as well of the bread as of the wine, with like observation. S. Matthew & S. Mark call the cup plainly Blood, 1This (cup) is my blood. Is the cup then delivered unto us that we should drink it? No, say they, but the wine which is in the cup, the wine is the blood. I understand you well: but I answer, that there is a figure, in that you say, that by the cup, we must understand the wine which is in the cup. But if you urge us in these words,2 this is my body, to rest wholly in the literal sense, what should let us to press you also in the words of the cup, with the like literal sense? But if you object unto us the absurdity in these words, we will object to you the like absurdity in those ⟨image 25⟩words also. Saint Paul and Saint Luke say,3 This cup is the new Testament in my blood. What then? I demand of you, whether the cup shall be the Testament? Who knoweth not, that the Testament or covenant is the forgiveness of sins? For the prophetical and Apostolical Scripture doth so witness it also. How than? Shall the cup be rather within the blood, than the blood in the cup? Who is he I pray you, if he be not blind, but he seeth here the figure. For the wine in the cup is the Sacrament of the true blood of Christ, shed for the remission of sins, the which cometh unto us by the testament.
Now is it meete to interpret the woords as wel of the bread as of the wine, with like obseruatiō. S. Matthew & S. Marke cal the cup playnly Bloud, 1This (cuppe) is my bloud. Is the cuppe then deliuered vnto vs that we should drinke it? No, say they, but the wine which is in the cuppe, the wyne is the bloud. I vnderstand you wel: but I answeare, that there is a figure, in that you say, that by the cuppe, we must vnderstand the wyne which is in the cup. But if you vrge vs in these woordes,2 this is my body, to rest wholly in the literall sense, what should let vs to presse you also in the woordes of the cuppe, with the lyke literall sense? But if you obiect vnto vs the absurditie in these woordes, we will obiect to you the lyke absurditie in those