A01760:1068
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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The fifth Position drawn from the very same ground, is, that it Sect. III is not indifferent for a Minister in the act of distribution, to speak in the singular number, Take thou, eat thou, drink thou: because he should follow the example of Christ, who in the distribution spake in the plural number, Take ye, eat ye, drink ye. And he who followeth not Christs example herein, by his speaking in the singular to one, he maketh that to be a private action betwixt himself and the communicant, which Christ made public and common by his speaking to all at one time.
The fifth Position drawen from the very same ground, is, that it Sect. III is not indifferent for a Minister in the act of distribution, to speake in the singular number, Take thou, eat thou, drinke thou: because he should follow the example of Christ, who in the distribution spake in the plurall number, Take ye, eate ye, drinke ye. And he who followeth not Christs example herein, by his speaking in the singular to one, he maketh that to be a private action betwixt himselfe and the communicant, which Christ made publike and common by his speaking to all at one time.
How idly bB. Lindsey answereth to these things, it can not but appear to every one who considereth, that we do not challenge Sect. IV them for not breaking the Bread at all, for not pronouncing at all these words, This is my body, or for never pronouncing at all, those speeches in the plural, take ye, eat ye, drink ye; but for not breaking the Bread in the very act of distribution: for not pronouncing demonstratively those words, This is my body, in the very act of distribution: for not speaking in the plural number, Take ye. &c. In the very act of distribution, as Christ did, having no other reasons to move him, then such as concern us. Why then did not the B. say something to the point, which we press him with? or shall we excuse him, because he had nothing to say to it?
How idly b