A01760:1060
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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Their third answer is, that Christs sitting at the last Supper, is no more exemplary and imitable, then the upper chamber, or the night season, or the sex and number of communicants, &c. Sect. VIII
Their third answere is, that Christs sitting at the last Supper, is no more examplary and imitable, then the upper chamber, or the night season, or the sexe and number of communicants, &c. Sect. VIII
Ans. As for the sex and number of communicants, sDr. Fulke rightly observeth, that it is not certain from Scripture, that ⟨p. 31⟩twelve men only and no women did communicate (as tB. Lindsey would have us certainly to believe) But put the case it were certain, uyet for this and all those other circumstances, which are not exemplary; there were special reasons either in the urgency of the legal necessity, or in the exigency of present and accidental occasions, which do not concern us: whereas the gesture of sitting, was freely and purposely chosen, and so intended to be exemplary, especially since there was no such reason moving Christ to use this gesture of sitting, as doth not concern us.
Ans. As for the sexe and number of communicants, sDr. Fulke rightly observeth, that it is not certaine from Scripture, that ⟨p. 31⟩twelve men onely and no women did communicate (as t