A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

3. Though you usually exclude the communion from it, wherein you do wisely, that it may have no affinity with the Institution of Christ, yet you do not precisely determine your Sacrifice unto any one act or action in your Mass, but make it comprise the whole with the manner of its celebration, from the first setting forth of the Elements of bread and wine mixed with water, unto the end of the Offertory after their Transubstantiation and religious adoration thereupon, and their offering up unto God the body and blood of Christ under the accidents of bread and wine. The presentation of the bread and wine, you would prove to belong unto your Sacrifice from the example of Melchizedek. Your Transubstantiation is also of the essence of it: for it is required in a Sacrifice says your Bellarmine, that the sensible thing to be offered unto God be changed and plainly destroyed. de Miss. Lib. 1. cap. 2. which you esteem the substance of your bread and wine to be in your Transubstantiation. Your religious adoration of the consecrated ••st belongs also unto it, for ⟨p. 460⟩that in the Canon of the Mass immediately ensues your Transubstantiating Consecration, before the oblation it self, and so must necessarily be a part of your Sacrifice: Your offering up unto God of Jesus Christ, praying him to accept of him at the Priests hands (supra quae propitio & sereno vultu respicere digneris & accepta habere) belongs also unto it. So doth your direction of it to the propitiating of God, and the expiation of the sins of the Quick and the Dead; The Ceremonies also wherewith your Mass is celebrated, as I suppose, most of them belong to your Sacrifice; and those who believe them not to be duties of Piety, are accursed by your Council of Trent. The Priests eating of the Host belongs to the Sacrifice, yea saith Bellarmine, it is pars essentialis Sacrificii, though not tota essentia, an essential part of the Sacrifice, though the whole Essence of it doth not consist therein. I know you are at a great loss and variance among your selves to find out what it is, that is properly your Sacrifice, or wherein the essence of it doth consist. Some of your discrepant opinions are given us by your Azorius Lib. 10. Chap. 19.

3. Though you usually exclude the communion from it, wherein you do wisely, that it may have no affinity with the Institution of Christ, yet you do not precisely determine your Sacrifice unto any one act or action in your Mass, but make it comprize the whole with the manner of its celebration, from the first setting forth of the Elements of bread and wine mixed with water, unto the end of the Offertory after their Transubstantiation and religious adoration thereupon, and their offering up unto God the body and blood of Christ under the accidents of bread and wine. The presentation of the bread and wine, you would prove to belong unto your Sacrifice from the example of Melchisedeck. Your Transubstantiation is also of the essence of it: for it is required in a Sacrifice sayes your Bellarmine, that the sensible thing to be offered unto God be changed and plainly destroyed. de Miss. Lib. 1. cap. 2. which you esteem the substance of your bread and wine to be in your Transubstantiation. Your religious adoration of the consecrated st belongs also unto it, for