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A faithful and most godly treatise concerning the most sacred Sacrament of the blessed…A faythfull and moost godlye treatyse concernyng the most sacred Sacrament of the blessed…
A faithful and most godly treatise concerning the most sacred Sacrament of the blessed body and blood of our saviour Christ, co[m]piled by John Calvin, a man of no less learning and literature then godly study, and example of living. And translated into Latin by Lacius a man of like excellency. And now last of all, translated into English by a faithful brother, no less desirous to profit the weak brothers then to exercise the talent of the Lord to his honour and glory. In declaration whereof, he hath set before this little book an epistle to the reader much more effectuous then in the first edition. Whereunto the order that the church and congregation of Christ in Denmark doth use at the receiving of baptism, the Supper of the Lord, and wedlock: is added. Myles CoverdaleA faythfull and moost godlye treatyse concernyng the most sacred Sacrament of the blessed body and bloude of our sauioure Chryst, co[m]piled by Iohn Caluyne, a man of no lesse lernyng and lytterature then godly studye, and example of liuyng. And translated into Latin by Lacius a man of lyke excellencie. And nowe last of all, translated into Englyshe by a faythfull brother, no lesse desirous to profyt the weake brotheres then to exercise the talent of the Lorde to his honoure and glorye. In declaration whereof, he hath set before this lytle booke an epistle to the reader much more effectuous then in the fyrst edicion. Whereunto the order that the churche and congregation of Christ in Denmarke doth vse at the receyuying of baptisme, the Supper of ye Lorde, and wedlocke: is added. Myles Couerdale
London: printed by John Day for William Seres?, 1548
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Heaven is my seat (saith he) and the earth is my foot stole, and yet will they truss him so short that they will bring him into a little pyx wherein a man can not turn his fist.
Heauen is my feate (sayth he) and the earth is my fote stole, and yet wyll they trusse hym so shorte that they wyll brynge hym into alytle pire wherin a man can not tourne his fyste.
He filleth all places, and is contained in no place, and yet will they at their pleasure place him in the chalice, he was never visible to the mortal eye, and yet will they make him appear at every knaves request that will do as other men do, I mean pay their ordinary shoot, and so doing he shall not only see ⟨image 4⟩him but also eat him up every morsel I would the men would diligently peruse the words of saint Augustine in their legend on Corpus Christi daye, which are these taken out of the. xxvi. treatise upon Johan.1 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood tarrieth in me and I in him. To eat that meat therefore, and to drink that drink, is to tarry in Christ and to have Christ tarrying in us. And by this he that tarrieth not in Christ and in whom Christ tarrieth not: no doubt he doth not spiritually eat his flesh, nor drink his blood, all though he do carnally, and visibly crush with his teeth the sacrament of y• body and blood of Christ but he doth rather eat and drink, to his damnation, the sacrament of so noble a thing. Here is your transubstantiation utterly denied. For saint Augustine putteth a plain difference between the sacrament and the, thing it self. Again the same Augustine, in the same place addeth these words. The sacrament of this thing, that is of the unity of the body and blood of Christ is in some places prepared every day, in some other places but certain days as on the sunday, and is taken of the table of the Lord, to some persons, to life, to some other to destruction but the thing it self, in to all persons,