A26853:583
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
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Sect. 9. To every Communicant kneeling.
Ans. [It is most requisite that the Minister deliver the bread and wine into every particular Communicants hand, and repeat the words in the singular number; for so much as it is the propriety of Sacraments, to make particular ob•ignation to each Believer, and it is our visible Profession, that by the Grace of God, Christ tasted death for every man.]
Ans. [It is most requisite that the Minister deliver the bread and wine into every particular Communicants hand, and ropeat the words in the singular number; for so much as it is the propriety of Sacraments, to make particular ob•ignation to each Believer, and it is our visible Profession, that by the Grace of God, Christ tasted death for everyman.]
Reply 1. Did not Christ know the propriety of Sacraments better than we? and yet he delivered it in the plural number to all at once, with a [Take ye, eat ye, drink ye all of it] We had rather study to be obedient to our Master, than to be wiser than He. 2. As God maketh the general offer, which giveth to no man a personal in•erest, till his own acceptance first appropriate it; So it is fit that the Minister, that is God's Agent, imitate Him, when his Example, and the Reason of it, so concur to engage us to it; Clemens, Alexandr. Stromat. lib. 1. Prope. giveth a Reason (as we understand him) for the contrary, That Man being a free Agent, must be the Chooser, or Refuser, for himself: [Greek or Hebrew]. Quemadmodum Eucharistiam cum quidem, ut mos est, diviserint, permittunt unicuique ex populo ejus partim sumere: and after rendereth this reason, [Greek or Hebrew]: ad accurate enim perfecteque eligendum ac fugiendum optima est Conscientia.