A01760:433
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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for therein we receive spiritually the body and blood of Christ, and that as truly and really as in the Sacrament. Whereupon the nArchbishop of Armagh showeth, that the spiritual & inward feeding upon the body and blood of Christ, is to be found out of the Sacrament, and that diverse of the Fathers do apply the sixth of John, to the hearing of the Word also; as Clemens Alexandrinus, Origen, Eusebius Caesariensis, & others. oBasilius Magnus likewise teacheth plainly, that we eat the flesh of Christ in his Word and Doctrine. This I am sure no man dare deny. The B• then must mean by this mystery, the Sacramental receiving of the body and blood of Christ. Now, the Sacramental receiving of the body and blood of Christ, is the receiving of the Sacramental Signs of his body and blood. And as the pArchbishop of Armagh also observeth, the substance which is outwardly delivered in the Sacrament, is not really the body and blood of Christ. Again qhe saith, that the Bread and Wine are not really the body and blood of Christ, but Figuratively and Sacramentally: thus he opposeth the Sacramental presence of the body and blood of Christ, not only to bodily, but also to Real presence: and by just Analogy Sacramental receiving of the body and blood of Christ, is not only to be opposed to a receiving of his body and blood, into the hands and mouths of our bodies, but likewise to the real receiving of the same spiritually into our ⟨p. 62⟩souls. It remaineth therefore, that kneeling in due regard of the Sacramental receiving of the body and blood of Christ, must be expounded to be kneeling in reverence of the Sacramental Signs of Christs body and blood. And so Perth's Canon, and the Bishops Commentary upon it, fall in with the rest of those Formalists cited before, avouching and defending kneeling for reverence to the Sacrament.
for therein we receive spiritually the body and blood of Christ, and that as truly and really as in the Sacrament. Whereupon the