A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…

But to let that pass / I beseech thee (good Reader) mark / what a ministering of the supper this is which Justin maketh mention of / & note with what conscience M. Doctor handleth this cause. Justin saith that after the scriptures are red and preached of / and prayers made / bread and wine & water was brought forth / and that the minister made prayers and thanks giving in the hearing of the people (which is that which the Evangelists call the blessing / and hath been of later times called the consecration) and after that the people were partakers of them / that then this being done / the deacons did carry of that which was left / unto those which were not present (for that corruption of sending the communion unto the houses was then in the church / against which I have before spoken) now if to carry to a private house the bread and wine which was blessed or set a part by prayers / & by obeying the institution of Christ by the minister / be to minister the sacrament of the supper / then Serapions boy / of whom mention is made by Eusebius / ministered the sacrament. For Serapion being sick as I have before showed / and sending his boy to the minister for the sacrament / received the same at the hands of his boy / for that the minister being sick / could not come him self: so by M. Doctors reason / Serapions boy ministered ¹the sacrament. And a man would not think that one that hath been the Queens Majesties public professor of divinity in Cambridge / should not know to distinguish & put a difference between ministering the sacrament / & helping to distribute the bread and the cup of the sacrament. And if M. Doctor could not learn this in books / yet he might have either seen it / or at least heard tell of it in all the reformed churches almost / where the Deacons do assist the minister in helping of him to distribute the cup / and in some places also the bread / for the quicker and speedier dispatch of the people / being so many in number / that if they should all receive the bread and the cup at the ministers hand / they should not make an end in eight hours / which by that assistance may be finished in two / which is tha• that M. Calvin saith. For he saith the Deacons did reach the cup / & maketh no ⟨p. 163⟩mention of the bread.

But to let that passe / I beseech thee (good Reader) marke / what a mynistring of the supper thys is which Iustin maketh mention of / & note with what conscience M. Doctor handeleth this cause. Iustin saith that after the scriptures are red and preached of / and prayers made / bread and wine & water was brought forth / and that the mynister made prayers and thankes geuing in the hearing of the people (which is that which the Euangelistes call the blessing / and hath bene of later tymes called the consecration) and after that the people were partakers of them / that then thys being done / the deacons dyd cary of that which was left / vnto those which were not present (for that corruption of sending the communion vnto the houses was then in the churche / agaynst which I haue before spoken) now if to cary to a priuate house the breade and wyne which was blessed or set a part by prayers / & by obeying the institution of Christ by the mynister / be to mynister the sacrament of the supper / then Serapions boye / of whome mention is made by Eusebius / mynistred the sacrament. For Serapion being sicke as I haue before shewed / and sending hys boye to the mynister for the sacrament / receiued the same at the handes of hys boye / for that the mynister being sicke / could not come hym selfe: so by M. Doctors reason / Serapions boye mynistred