A41330:364
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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2ly. It is very observable that the Jesuits, Maldon. and a Lapide, and Gerhard the Lutheran, and the Calvinists abroad, are more wary what they write concerning Christ, than are our English Conformists; for they all conclude that Christ kept the Passover according to the Law, not Jewish customs. If Josiah gave such charge, 2 King. 23.21. That the Passover be kept as it was written in the Book of the Covenant; Shall Christ come short of Josiah? Hence the Jesuit a Lapide agrees with Gerhard and Calvin, that Christ eat the Passover standing, but his discumbing was at the other Supper.
3ly. Most of the Learned that I see, as Jun. Tremel. Rivet, Beza, Scaliger, Paraeus, Piscator, Grotius, Ainsworth, Diodati, &c. do all agree, that God appointed the gesture of standing; only for that first Supper in Egypt, as all the other circumstances noted in Exod. 12.11. all setting forth persons in haste, but were never used after, when they came to rest in Canaan. If they did so. I doubt not but it was according to the mind of God; but indeed there is no gesture mentioned ⟨p. 37⟩in the Law that I read of. Nor shall all the Rabbinical men in the world make me believe that Christ would depart from the Institution of God, to conform to any Jewish custom; must we needs cast a blot upon Christ, to justify our own inventions?
3ly. Most of the Learned that I see, as Jun. Tremel. Rivet, Beza, Scaliger, Paraeus, Piscator, Grotius, Ainsworth, Diodati, &c. do all agree, that God appointed the gesture of standing; only for that first Supper in Egypt, as all the other circumstances noted in Exod. 12.11. all setting forth persons in haste, but were never used after, when they came to rest in Canaan. If they did so. I doubt not but it was according to the mind of God; but indeed there is no gesture mentioned