A69535:116
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
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.
Then shall the Minister first receive the Communion in both kinds, 1&c. and after deliver it to the people in their hands kneeling; and when he delivereth the bread, he shall say, The body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life, and take, and eat this in remembrance, &c.
- 1Rub.
We desire that at the distribution of the Bread & Wine to the Communicants we may use the words of our Saviour as near as 1may be, and that the Minister be not required to deliver the bread & wine into every particular Communicants hand, and to repeat the words to each one in the singular number, but that it may suffice to speak them to divers jointly, according to our Saviours example. We also desire that kneeling at the Sacrament (it not being the gesture which the Apostles used, though Christ was personally present amongst them, nor that which was used in the purest and primitive times of the Church) may be left free, as it was 1 & 2 Ea. 6. As touching Kneeling, &c. they may be used or left, as every mans devotion serveth, without blame.
We desire that at the distribution of the Bread & Wine to the Communicants we may use the words of our Saviour as near as 1may be, and that the Minister be not required to deliver the bread & wine into every particular Communicants hand, and to repeat the words to eachone in the singular number, but that it may suffice to speak them to divers joyntly, according to our Saviours example. We also desire that kneeling at the Sacrament (it not being the gesture which the Apostles used, though Christ was personally present amongst them, nor that which was used in the purest and primitive times of the Church) may be left free, as it was 1 & 2 Ea. 6. As touching Kneeling, &c. they may be used or left, as every mans devotion serveth, without blame.