A27028:434
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part…
Schism detected in both extremes, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.Schism detected in both extreams, or, Two sorts of sinful separation the first part detecteth the schismatical principles of a resolver of three cases about church-communion, the second part confuteth the separation pleaded for in a book famed to be written by Mr. Raphson.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1684
Part 2: THE SECOND PART AGAINST SCHISM, &c. The Reasons of Mr. Raphson, and such others, agains…
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It's said by some, That Christ's Example binds us to a Table-gesture: But 1. That may be convenient, and yet not necessary: The bare Example binds us not to it. 2. If it did, that were but like the general Law; Let all be done to edification, and in order; and binds to no one sort of gesture at all: For then when they eat standing, it would bind us to stand; and if they eat kneeling (as Labourers oft do at Harvest-work in the Fields), it would bind us to kneel; if they eat lying, as the Jews did, it would bind us to that: and so this would but tie us to the Custom of the Country. But in feasting with God, we may sometimes do it more lowly than in a common Table gesture, and break no Law. When Mary was, it's like, on her knees, washing Christ's feet with her Tears, if he had offered her Bread or Wine, it's like it had been no Idolatry so to take it.
It's said by some, That Christ's Example binds us to a Table-gesture: But 1. That may be convenient, and yet not necessary: The bare Example binds us not to it. 2. If it did, that were but like the general Law; Let all be done to edification, and in order; and binds to no one sort of gesture at all: For then when they eat standing, it would bind us to stand; and if they eat kneeling (as Labourers oft do at Harvest-work in the Fields), it would bind us to kneel; if they eat lying, as the Jews did, it would bind us to that: and so this would but tie us to the Custom of the Countrey. But in feasting with God, we may sometimes do it more lowly than in a common Tablegesture, and break no Law. When Mary was, it's like, on her knees, washing Christ's feet with her Tears, if he had offered her Bread or Wine, it's like it had been no Idolatry so to take it.
But the grand Objection is, that we worship Bread and Wine; which can be no better than a slander, when the very Liturgy and Doctrine of the Church, not only renounce Transubstantiation, but the very real Presence of Christ's Body, which yet many thousand Protestants believe.