M. Harding. The .12. Division.M. Hardinge. The .12. Diuision.

M. Harding. The .12. Division.

M. Hardinge. The .12. Diuision.

Now if either the Priest, or every other Christen man or woman, might at no time receive this blessed Sacrament, but with moe together in one place: then for the enjoying of this great and necessary benefit,¹ we were bound to condition of a place. And so the Church delivered from all bondage by Christ, and set at liberty, should yet for all that be in servitude, and subjection under those out ward things,² which S. Paul calleth, Infirma & egena elementa, weak, and beggarly ceremonies, after the English Bibles translation. Then when S. Paul blaming the Galatians saith, ye observe days, and months, and times, for this bondage he might likewise blame us, and say, ye observe places. But S. Paul would not we should return again unto these which he calleth Elements, for that were •ewis •e. And to the Colossians he saith, we be dead with Christ from the elements of this world. Now if we except those things which be necessarily required to this Sacrament by Christs institution, either declared by written Scriptures, or taught by the holy ghost (23)³ as bread and wine mingled with water for the matter, the due words of consecration for the form▪ and the Priest rightly ordered having intention to do as the Church doth, for the ministry: all these elements and all outward things be subject unto us, and serve ⟨p. 33⟩us being members of Christs Church. In consideration whereof S. Paul saith to the Corinthians, Omnia enim vestra sunt &c. Al things are yours, whether it be Paul, either Apollo, either Cephas: whether it be the world, either life, either death, whether they be present things, or things to come, all are yours, and ye Christs, and Christ is Gods.