Expos. 4. Besides that bread and wine are most usual, fit, and necessary nourishments, Psal. 104. 15. they do of all other best serve to express the body and blood of Christ, Jo. 6. 33. Leavened or unleavened bread are of free use, Act. 20. 7. Matth. 26. 17. 26. but it is expedient, that it be bread that hath substance in it. The use of the wafer cake is justly blamed as superstitious by our Church. And because the Sacrament is a spiritual feast, therefore the finest bread, and pure wine, is of most laudable use. Out of niggardliness to mix water with wine, savoureth of an ill mind, Malac. 1. 7. 8. Christ being not only the true, but the sufficient nourishment of the soul, intending ⟨p. 153⟩to give us a full meal, appointed both bread and wine, and that severally to be used in the Lords Supper, 1. Cor. 11. 23, 24. So that it is sacrilege to deliver this Sacrament in one kind only, and presumption not to administer them severally, seeing Christ intended to set forth his violent death, wherein his body and blood were separated.
Expos. 4. Besides that bread and wine are most vsuall, fit, and necessarie nourishments, Psal. 104. 15. they doe of all other best serue to expresse the bodie and blood of Christ, Io. 6. 33. Leauened or vnleauened bread are of free vse, Act. 20. 7. Matth. 26. 17. 26. but it is expedient, that it bee bread that hath substance in it. The vse of the wafer cake is iustly blamed as superstitious by our Church. And because the Sacrament is a spiritual feast, therefore the finest bread, and pure wine, is of most laudable vse. Out of niggardlines to mixe water with wine, sauoureth of an ill minde, Malac. 1. 7. 8. Christ beeing not onely the true, but the sufficient nourishment of the soule, intending ⟨p. 153⟩to giue vs a ful meale, appointed both bread and wine, and that seuerally to be vsed in the Lords Supper, 1. Cor. 11. 23, 24. So that it is sacriledge to deliuer this Sacrament in one kind onely, and presumption not to administer them seuerally, seeing Christ intended to set forth his violent death, wherein his bodie and blood were separated.
