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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.
Sect. 9. 20. Come. Kneel.
Sect. 9. 20. Com. Kneel.
[It is most requisite that the Minister deliver the Bread and Wine into every particular Communicant's band, and repeat the words in the singular number; for so much as it is the propriety of Sacraments to make particular obsignation to each Believer, and it is our visible profession, that by the Grace of God, Christ tasted death for every man.
Reply. 1.
Did not Christ know the propriety of Sacraments better than we, and yet he delivered it in the plural number to all at once, with a [take ye, eat ye, drink ye [all of it]; we had rather study to be obedient to our Master, than to be wiser than he. 2. As God maketh the general Offer, which giveth to no man a personal interest, till his own acceptance first appropriate it; so it is fit, that the Minister that is Gods Agent, imitate him, when his example, and the reason of it so concern to engage us to it; Clemens Alexandr. Stromat. lib. 1. Prope. In it giveth a reason (as we understand him) for the contrary; that man being a free Agent, must be the chooser or refuser for himself,—[Greek or Hebrew]. Quemadmodum eucharistiam cum quidam, ut mos est diviserint, permittunt unicuique ex populo ejus partem sumere: and after rendereth this reason, [Greek or Hebrew] ad accuratè enim perfecteque eligendum ac fugiendum, optima est conscientia.