A treatise of the Lords supper in two sermons

THE Word and the Sacraments are the two breasts wherewith our mother doth nurse us.¹ 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, & a seal of our adoption: ⟨p. 2⟩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,² touching the hem of Christs garment, drew virtue from Christ himself because she believed: So Christ would that we touching these signs, should draw virtue from himself, that is, all the graces which these signs represent.³ Therefore as the Levites under 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 & fullest declaration of this Sacrament in all the scripture.

THE Word and the Sacraments are the two breasts wherewith our mother doth nurse vs.¹ Seeing euerie one receiueth, and few vnderstand what they receiue; I thought it the necessariest doctrine to preach of the Sacramēt; which is a witnes of Gods promises, a remembrāce of Christs death, & a seale of our adoptiō: ⟨p. 2⟩therfore Christ hath not instituted this Sacrament for a fashion in his Church to touch, and feele, and see, as we gaze vpon pictures in the windowes; but as the woman which had the bloudie issue,² touching the hemme of Christes garmēt, drew vertue from Christ himselfe because she beleeued: So Christ would that we touching these signes, should draw vertue from himself, that is, all the graces which these signes represent.