Animadversions on a treatise entitled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion,…Animadversions on a treatise intituled Fiat lux, or, A guide in differences of religion,…

As the necessity of it is denied, so also, that there is any precept for it; what think you then of [Greek or Hebrew]; drink you all of it; that is, this Cup: They think this to be a Precept to be observed towards all those who come to this Supper. What Christ did, that he commanded his Apostles to do; he gives the Cup to all that were present at his Supper, and commands them all to dri•• of it; Why, I pray, are they not to do so? Why is not this part of his command as Obligatory to them, as any others? Alas, They were the Priests that were present, all Lay people were excluded; not ⟨p. 378⟩one was excluded from the Cup that was there at any part of the Ordinance. What, if they were all Priests, that were there, as no one of them was, Was the Supper administered to them as Priests, or as Disciples? or is there any colour or pretence, to say, that one kind was given to them as Priests, another as Disciples; Dic aliquem, dic, Quintilian, colorem. Was not the whole Church of Christ represented by them? Is not the command equal to all? Nay, as if on purpose to obviate this Sacrilegious figment, Is not this word (Drink you all of this), added emphatically, above what is spoken of the other kind? Many strange things there are, which these Gentlemen would have us believe about this Sacrament; but none of them of a more incredible nature then this, that when Christ says to all his Communicants, Drink you all of this, and commands them to do the same that he did, his meaning was, that we should say, Drink you none of this. They had need, not of a Spatula linguae, to let such things as those down our Throats, but a Bed-staff to cram them down, or they will choke us in the swallowing; ⟨p. 379⟩and, I am sure, will not well digest, when received. He must have an Iron-Stomach, that can concoct such crude morsels.

As the necessity of it is denyed, so also, that there is any precept for it; what think you then of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; drink you all of it; that is, this Cup: They think this to be a Precept to be observed towards all those who come to this Supper. What Christ did, that he commanded his Apostles to do; he gives the Cup to all that were present at his Supper, and commands them all to dri•• of it; Why, I pray, are they not to do so? Why is not this part of his command as Obligatory to them, as any others? Alass, They were the Priests that were present, all Lay people were excluded; not