., Imagillations touching the .breaking of bread: which is joyned to that l.I r•. . i fe!lorvjhip as the chiefefl: badge ofrhatfe//orvfl.,ip. For, by it is gathered b'!4 !.b"' .• 111"thn . I' > • ~ J" . . . . touc mg . c thecommu~11on ; as may be gath.ered by conference Wtch A8s 10. 7. a:~d hm}.lhgaf · as the Syrtaiz Text tranflateth tt. Forchat, as by the other Satrament tn lmA •. the Vdfe immediately going before, they are received into the body ofi:M G 'urch; fo, by this, they arcmade tO drinke oftheJPirit (1(ori 13-13~) and fo, perfected in the highefl: Myfiery ofthis Sotietie. . · . · .. Concerning which, as the Church of r.R._ome bath her lmat,indtioni ! Fidl, in that /be many times celebrateth this myllery fine fra8igne; with~ out any breakil!g.at all; Whereas (as heeretofore bath beene lbewed out of 1 Cor. to. t8.) it is of the nature of an Etlcharift or Peace-offering: which w as never offered but it was eaten, that both there mig!1t oe a re~ jmfentatioll of the memory of that facrifice, and together an applicatio1t to each per[on by partaking it. And fecondly, in that lbe hath indeed no breaking ofbreadat all. For, it beingbroken (ever) after it is confecrd~ tcd, there is (with them) no bread remaining to break.e : artd the bodie of CH R1sT is now impaflible, and cannot be broken ; fo that they are faine to fay theybreake Accldmts, and indeed they well know not what~ Contrary .to Saint Luke here, who calleth it ftaEiionern pariis ; and to Saint 1 Paul (t Cor.to. t6.) who faithPanis quem frangirmu. Asthefeare their imaginations : fo we want not ours. For, many amongus,ph~nfie onely a Sacrament in this action, and looke llrange at thementiorl ofa Sacrifice: whereas,we not onely ufe it, as a hourijhmmtJPiritnaO(as,thaq it is too) but as a meanealfo;to renew a cownantwithGo 'D, by.vertue ofthat Sacrifice, as thePfalmi.ft fpeaked1, Pfal. 50. 5; So our SAviouR. CHRIsT in the inftitution, telleth us, Luke 21. to. and the Apoftle,HebJ 13. to. And the old writers ule m> ldfe, the wordSacrifice, thanSacra. ment; A(tarJ thanTable;offer, thaneate; but both indifferently, to fheW' there is both. And againe too,thattoa many with us, it is indeed fo fra8io panisJ . as it is that onely and nothing befide : Whereas,the bread,which wee break.e' u the partaking of(!Jrirts true bodie ('and not, ofaSigne, figure or remem. branceofit) tCor. to.t6. FortheChurchhathever beleevedatruefru: ition oftf,etrue body of Chrift, in that Sacrament. Further (as heretofore bath beene inade plairre) it isanlmagindtion; td think,that this breaking ofbreadcan be fevered from the other, )!er. 46: w hich is E s AI As breRking of bread to the 1zeedy. Whereby, as in the for- Efa)'J8~7; mer, CHR 1s T <::ommunicatethHimfelfe with us; fo we in this latter, communicate our felves with our poore brethren, that fo,there may be a p~rf~ct communion. For both in the Sacrifice, which was the figure of1t, tt was a matter of Commandement, 'Dettt.r6.to. infomuch; as the poorefl: were not exempt from GoD's offerings : And our SA v 1 ouR. , . CHlUsTs practice was,at this·feafl: .to aommand fomewhat to begiven to Lukez1· IF .,._ - · ' · ,_ ·· tiJe
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