A01760:1032
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our own arguments [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the answers and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Morton ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our ovvne argumemts [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the ansvveres and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Mortoune ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.
Leiden: printed by W. Christiaens, 1637
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Ans. It is first of all to be noted, that the Apostles were sitting, at that instant when Christ took the Bread: for it is said, that he took Bread, whiles they did eat, that is (as hMaldonat rightly expoundeth it) Antequam surgerent, antequam mensae & ciborum reliquiae removerentun: and so we use to say, that men are dining or supping, so long as they sit at Table, and the meat is not removed from before them. To Christs ministering of the Eucharistical Supper together with the preceding Supper, Christians had respect when they celebrated the Lords Supper together with the Love-Feasts. Probabile est eos ad Christi exemplum respexisse, qui Eucharistiam inter caenandum instituit (saith iPareus.) But of this we need say no more, for the B. himself hath here acknowledged no less, then that they were sitting at that time when Christ took the Bread. Only he saith, that there were five acts which intervened before the administration of the Sacrament to the Disciples (whereof the taking of the Bread was the first) and that in this while the gesture of sitting might have been changed: which is as much as to say; when •e took the Bread they were sitting, but they might have changed this gesture, either in the time of taking the bread, or in the time of thanksgiving, or in the time of breaking the Bread, or whiles he said, Take ⟨p. 24⟩ye, eat ye, or lastly, in the time of pronouncing those words; This is my body. (for this is the Word whereby (in the Bishops judgment) the Element was made the Sacrament, as we shall see afterward.)
Ans. It is first of all to bee noted, that the Apostles were sitting, at that instant when Christ tooke the Bread: for it is said, that hee tooke Bread, whiles they did eat, that is (as hMaldonat rightly expoundeth it) Antequam surgerent, antequam mensae & ciborum reliquiae removerentun: and so wee use to say, that men are dyning or supping, so long as they sit at Table, and the meat is not removed from before them. To Christs ministring of the Eucharisticall Supper together with the preceeding Supper, Christians had respect when they celebrated the Lords Supper together with the Love-Feasts. Probabile est eos ad Christi exemplum respexisse, qui Eucharistiam inter caenandum instituit (saith