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chapters of. S. Paul in tlie [fol. 23\] fyrst pystle vnto
the Corrinthtans 1 spretually and not corporally for as mosche 2
as Christ is gostly fodc in the herte which cannot ho gnawen
with teth lyke wother materiall meate. So. Ye, but these
wordes are mervelouse playne, this is my body, and agayne
this is my bloudde. Fa. The lordes wordes are light, and
lighten the vnderstondynge of the simple, directinge theym
all wayes to belefe and love. wher vnto all prophecy shulde
ij. pet.j. agre and be proporcionable, that is to saye all
interpretacion of scripture. For yf we only shulde leane vnto
ma. xxiij. the bare wordes therof, it were nether lawfull for
Luce x. me to call my father, father, nor yet to grete eny
mat. x. manne in the waye, not to weare shewes on my fete
and soche wother many moo. We must therfore leane vnto
ij. cor. iij. the livynge sprete, and not vnto the ded letter, and
marke wele in oure mynde that what soever the lorde otlier
spake or did, was all for our spretuall comforte, which thynge
only dependeth of hym. This well pondered, we canne never
gretly swarve from the trueth. as longe as we declare these so
playne wordes, with soche wother lyke maner of sentences,
pertayninge to one meanynge of the sprete. Wherfore lett vs
evermore with an evident and playne sen- [fol. 23 b .] tence,
expowne and declare another which is dercker and herder.
as longe as they pretende but one thynge or meanynge. and
so vnderstonde all thynges after the mynde and meaninge of
the. Speaker of theym. So. What frute then receavest thou by
these wordes? Fa. It bryngeth to my remembraunce the
mercifullnes of god my father, graunted and geven vnto me,
through the sacrifyce made of Christis boddy and bloudde on
the crosse, for oure redempcion once for ever. which thynge
the oftener that I call to remembraunce the more fervently it
is by these wordes, renewed, quickened, and strengthed, in my
herte. Insomoche that I suerly beleve and knowe that Christ
with all that he canne do, is myne. Not that he therfore shulde
be breade, or eis hidden other vnter brede or wyne. but
because I doute not, that he once hath soffered death for
me. whose maner was ever wonnt to declar spretuall thynges by
1 Corinthians.
2 rauch.
