I saw a Prelate sit down to his breakfast, and as he did eat, he Sect. II took some cups, and having called for moe, he said he thanked God that he was never given to his belly: and with that, he made a promise to one in the company, which he brake within two days after. Would any man question whether or not the Prelate was sitting, when he made this promise, forasmuch as between his sitting down to meat, and the making of the promise, there intervened his taking of some cups, his calling for moe, and his pronouncing of those words, I thank God that I was never given to my belly. Yet might one far more easily imagine a change of the Prelates gesture, then any such change of the Apostles gesture, in that holy action whereof we speak. Because the text setteth down such a continued, entire, unbroken, and uninterrupted action, therefore lCalvin gathereth out of the Text, that the Apostles did both take, and eat he Sacramental Bread•. whiles they were sitting. Non legimus saith he, prostratos adorasse, sed ut erant discumbentes accepisse & manducasse. Christus saith mMartyr, Eucharistiam Apostolis una secum sedentibus aut discumbentibus distribuit. nG. I. Vossius puts it out of doubt, that Christ was still sitting, at the giving of the Bread to the Apostles. And that the Apostles were still sitting, when they received the Bread oHospinian thinks it no less certain. They made no doubt of the certainty hereof, who composed that old verse which we find in pAquinas,
Rex sedet in caena, turla cinctus duodena:
See tenet in manibus: se cibat ipse cibus.
Papists also put it out of controversy: for nBellarmine acknowledgeth. that the Apostles could not externally adore Christ by prostrating ⟨p. 25⟩themselves in the last Supper quando recumbere cum eo illis necesse erat. Where we see, he could guess nothing of the change of their gesture. Intelligendum est saith rC. Jansenius, Dominum in novissima hac caena, discubuisse & sedisse ante & post comestum agnum. sD. Stella sticketh not to say, distribuit Salvator mundi panem discumbentibus.
I saw a Prelate sit doune to his breakefast, and as he did eate, he Sect. II tooke some cups, and having called for moe, he said he thanked God that he was never given to his belly: and with that, he made a promise to one in the company, which he brake within two dayes after. Wold any man question whether or not the Prelate was sitting, when he made this promise, forasmuch as betweene his sittintg doune to meate, and the making of the promise, there interveened his taking of some cups, his calling for moe, and his pronouncing of those words, I thāke God that I was never given to my belly. Yet might one farre more easily imagine a change of the Prelats gesture, then any such change of the Apostles gesture, in that holy action wheref we speake. Because the text setteth doune such a continued, entire, unbroken, and •ninterrupted action, therefore lCalvine gathereth out of the Text, that the Apostles did both take, and eate he Sacramentale Bread•. whiles they were sitting. Non legimus saith he, prostratos adorasse, sed ut erant discumbentes accepisse & manducasse. Christus saith mMartyr, Eucharistiam Apostolis una secum sedentibus aut discumbentibus distribuit. nG. I. Vossius puts it out of doubt, that Christ was still sitting, at the giving of the Bread to the Apostles. And that the Apostles were still sitting, when they recived the Bread oHospinian thinkes it no lesse certaine. They made no doubt of the certainty hereof, who composed that old verse which we find in pAquinas,
Rex sedet in caena, turla cinctus duodena:
Se tenet in manibus: se cibat ipse cibus.
Papists also put it out of controversy: for nBellarmine aknowledgeth. that the Apostles could not externally adore Christ by prostrating ⟨p. 25⟩themselves in the last Supper quando recumbere cum eo illis necesse erat. Where we see, hee could guesse nothing of the change of their gesture. Intelligendum est saith rC. Iansenius, Dominum in novissima hac caena, discubuisse & sedisse ante & post comestum agnum.
- lInstit. lib. 4. cap. 17. § 35.
- mapud Didcclav. p. 794.
- ndisp. 3. de symb. canae dom. thes 4.
- oubi supravbi supra
- p3. q. 81. art. 1.
- nde sacr. Euchar. lib. 4. cap. 30.
- rconcord. Evang. cap. 129.
- sIn Luk. 22. 19.
