A60427:9
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.
THE Word and the Sacraments are the two Breasts 1wherewith our Mother doth nurse us. Seeing every one receiveth, and few understand what they receive, I thought it the necessariest Doctrine to Preach of the Sacrament; which is a witness of Gods promises, a remembrance of Christs death, and a seal of our adoption: therefore Christ hath not instituted this Sacrament for a fashion in his Church, to touch, and feel, and see, as we gaze upon pictures in the Windows, but as the Woman which had the bloody issue, touching the hem of Christs garment, drew virtue from 2himself, because she believed: so Christ would that we touching ⟨p. 2⟩these signs should draw virtue from himself, that is, all the graces which these signs represent. Therefore as the Levites, 3under the Law, were bound to prepare their brethren before they came to the Passover; So preachers of the Gospel should prepare their brethren before they come to the Supper of the Lord. For which purpose I have chosen this place to the Corinthians, which is the clearest and fullest declaration of this Sacrament in all the Scripture.
THE Word and the Sacraments are the two Breasts 1wherewith our Mother doth nurse us. Seeing every one receiveth, and few understand what they receive, I thought it the necessariest Doctrine to Preach of the Sacrament; which is a witness of Gods promises, a remembrance of Christs death, and a seal of our adoption: therefore Christ hath not instituted this Sacrament for a fashion in his Church, to touch, and feel, and see, as wee gaze upon pictures in the Windows, but as the Woman which had the bloody issue, touching the hem of Christs garment, drew vertue from 2himself, because she believed: so Christ would that we touching ⟨p. 2⟩these signs should draw vertue from himself, that is, all the graces which these signs represent. Therefore as the Levites,