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Of the sacrament of the auter
God of all his meruailes made vs a gode mynd,When he wold in forme of brede dwell with mankind.
Thurgh the vertue of Cristes wordes of the sacrament
That the prest reherces at his messe with gode entent,
Brede into Cristes flesch and wyne into his blode
Sudanly is turned for mannes gastly fode.
Nother brede ne wyne is after sacryng in the messe
Bot verray Goddes flesch and blode in thair liknes.
Ther is of brede and wyne sauour, colour, and figure,
Lastand thurgh Goddes wil agayn cours of nature,
But vnder this liknes is non other substance
Bot Goddes body and his blode with thair purtenance.
In Crist God and man, saul and body, flesch and blode
Are so fast knyt togeder with kynde and loue gode
That whar that is any party of Cristes awen body
Ther will God be, and tha[t] all verraily.
Therfor vndir liknes both of wyn and brede
Is verray both God and man that for vs was dede.
This is Goddes dede and passes mannes wit,
He has mekel mede that trewly trowes hit.
In this liknes gyues hit vs God, that is so gode,
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Brede and wyne in the stomak taken to mete
Turnes into flesch and blode thurgh kyndly hete.
Whi may noȝt God then, that al thing made of noȝt,
And, as haly writ sais, many wonder wroȝt,
Turne sone into flesch and blode both brede and wyne,
For to be to cristen man gastly medicine?
If thou receyue his flesch and blode worthily,
Thou sal be as quik lym of his body,
And if thou kepe the so out of dedly synne,
As a cosyn of his thou sal heuen wynne.
The pask-lambe in the ald lawe that al men suld ete
And man that God send fro heuen til his folk mete
And blod that was euer offrid for clensyng of synne
Was taken of his sacrament, that our help is ynne.
All the tokens of this sacrament that we ay can fynd
In the old lawe trugh trouth of this comes til our mynd,
And all the maruailes that God [wroȝt], ar he man ware
And [boren] of that clene mayden and modir that him bare.
If man wil with al his myȝt loue this sacrament
And vse hit out of dedly synne ay with gode entent,
Nother tunge may wel telle ne hert may wel think
The noble and gastly profit of this mete and drink.
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