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A christen sentence and true judgement of the most honourable sacrament of Christs body…A christen sentence and true iudgement of the moste honorable sacrament of Christes body…
A christen sentence and true judgement of the most honourable sacrament of Christs body [and] blood declared both by the authority of the holy scriptures and the ancient doctors. Very necessary to be read in this time of all the faithful.A christen sentence and true iudgement of the moste honorable sacrament of Christes body [and] bloude declared both by the auctorite of the holy scriptures and the auncient doctores. Very necessary to be redde in this tyme of all the faythfull.
London : Imprinted by me Richard Wyer, 1548?London : Imprynted by me Rycharde Wyer, 1548?
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The fourth Chapter noteth another manner of speech & proveth our exposition by a proper similitude of the bridegroom & bride.
The fourth Chapter noteth another maner of speache & proueth our exposytion by a proper simylytude of the brydgrome & bryde.
This is the pure understanding of Christs words, which many authorities cause us to receive, and also that it is the common phrase of the scripture no man can deny, which is but meanly exercised in it. We read that Jacob ⟨image 9⟩builded an alter, & called it God, the god of Israel, we read also that Jacob wrestled with an angel & called the place Pem•ll .i. The face of God, we read that the pasch lamb was called the passing by of the Lord with infinite other of such Phrases. Howe be it I think no man so innocent that he would con tend and affirm that the very alter was the god of Israel, or the place where he wrestled to be the very face of God, or the natural lamb to be the passing by of the Lord, but such names are given that as soon as we hear them we might know what was meant by them. As by example he called alter the god of Israel, that even the very name it self should testify that it was made to put us in remembrance of the very God of Israel. Likewise ⟨image 9⟩the place where he wrestled was called the face of God, that the very name it self might put us in remembrance that there Jacob had wrestled with God, & had seen him face to face. Also the lamb was called passover or the passing by of the lord, that the very name it self might put us in remembrance that the lord passing by had slain all the first begotten in Egept. And even so to our purpose the bread is called the body, that the very name it self, might put us in remembrance that his very body was broken for us And is as verily ours through faith as the bread is ours by eating of it. And therefore added he also these words This do in remembrance of me, which thing expoundeth all together if we had wit.