R. JOHNSON. 183 the element, to make a sacrament." You lacked the word, therefore, it was no sacrament. J. I had the word. B. How had you the word, when you confess that you recited not the institution? J. I had recited the institution before, and that was sufficient. D. Yea, for that bread and wine that was present ; but `when you sent for more bread or wine, you should again have rehearsedthe words of the institution. J. The book appointed no such thing. B. Yes, sir, the book saith, you shall have sufficient bread and wine, and then the prayer of the institution must be recited. Now, as you had not sufficient, you should, therefore, have repeated the institution. J. here is nosuch caveat, nor proviso, appointed in the .book. B. But that is the meaning of the book. J. Men may make what meaning they please; but I refer myself to the book, whether or not it be so appointed. D. You are not forbidden to use the repetition. J. Neither am I commanded. D. I will prove this to be the meaning of the book. For it is said in the prayer, ,4 these creatures ofbread and wine :" so that the book bath respect to the bread and wine there present, and not to any other. Therefore, if there be any more brought, it must be consecrated afresh, by the words of the institution. J. I pray you tell me one thing. Are the words of the institution spoken for the bread, or for the receivers ? D. For both. J. I deny that. For the evangelist declares, that Christ said unto his disciples, to teach them for what end and pun.. pose they should take the bread. D. Then theword is of no force. J. I deny that. The word is necessary to the substance ofthe sacrament. But this is not the question : we both confess this. Herein is the controversy, whether it be ne- cessary for the institution to be repeated, seeing it is but one and the same action, and the same communicants as before, for whom the words are spoken. If it had not been the same slipper, or if the communicants had been changed, it would have been necessary to tehearse the institution. B. You like yourself very well, and you are stubborn
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