A01760:470
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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But let us hear, how the B. proveth that we should be praying & praising, in the act of receiving the Sacrament. Whatsoever spiritual Sect. 23 benefit ysaith he, we should receive with a spiritual hunger & thirst, and with a spiritual appetite and desire after the grace and virtue that is therein to salvation: The same we should receive with prayer, which is nothing else, but such an appetite and desire. But the body and blood of Christ is such a benefit, &c.
But let us heare, how the B. proveth that we should be praying & praising, in the act of receiving the Sacrament. Whatsoever spirituall Sect. 23 benefit ysaith he, we should receive with a spirituall hunger & thirst, and with a spirituall appetite and desire after the grace and vertue that is therein to salvation: The same we should receive with prayer, which is nothing else, but such an appetite and desire. But the body and bloud of Christ is such a benefit, &c.
- yUbi supra, p. 112Vbi supra, p. 112
Answ. 1. Why did he not prove his proposition? Thought he his bare assertion should suffice? Gods Word is a spiritual benefit, which we should receive with spiritual hunger and thirst, yet the B. will not say, that we should be praying all the while we are hearing and receiving it, for then could not our minds be attentive. His proposition therefore is false. For though prayer should go before the receiving of such a spiritual benefit as the Word or the Sacrament, yet we should not pray in the act of receiving. For how can the heart attend by serious consideration, what we hear in the Word, or what is signified and given to us in the Sacrament, if in the actions of hearing the Word, and receiving the Sacrament, it should be elevated out of the world by prayer?