A60427:134
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in…Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in…
Transubstantiation examined and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preached in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.Transusbstantiation examin'd and confuted in two sermons on the Lord's Supper / preach'd in the reign of Queen Elizabeth by H. Smith, sometime preacher at St. Clement Danes.
London: printed by J. Wallis, 1688
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.
Adam did not think that Death had been in an Apple, so you 1would not think that Death should be in Bread: but as a Coal hath fire in it, beside the Coal it self, which fire doth either warm, or burn; so this Meat hath another Meat in it, beside that which is seen, which doth either save or destroy: therefore he which cometh to this Spiritual Meat, must examine whether he have a spiritual mouth, as well as a carnal mouth, or else he shall receive no more than he seeth, and that which he seeth not shall destroy him.
Adam did not think that Death had been in an Apple, so you 1would not think that Death should be in Bread: but as a Coal hath fire in it, beside the Coal it self, which fire doth either warm, or burn; so this Meat hath another Meat in it, beside that which is seen, which doth either save or destroy: therefore he which commeth to this Spiritual Meat, must examine whether he have a spiritual mouth, as well as a carnal mouth, or else he shall receive no more than he seeth, and that which he seeth not shall destroy him.
No man (saith Christ) putteth new Wine into old vessels, lest the vessels break, and the wine leak. This wine is new wine, 1therefore put it into new vessels, holy vessels, sanctified vessels, or else it will leak forth and break the vessel, and thou shalt have no more taste of it, than while the relish of Bread is in thy mouth. When Christ cometh to our house, shall we not look whether our Chamber be trimmed, as the chamber was trimmed against his coming to the Passover? But how shall we trim it?
No man (saith Christ) putteth new Wine into old vessels, lest the vessels break, and the wine leak. This wine is new wine,