The Grand Sacrilege of the Church of Rome, Debates 1
SCRIPTVRES. The first Combate: Whether the Scriptures make for, or against the halfe Communion?
The Antagonists.
Thom. Harding, and Gerardus Lorichius.
Ioan. Maldonate, Iesuit. and Widford.
Stanislaus Hosius, and Laur. Iustinianus.
Ioan. Cochlaeus, and Ioan. Lorinus, Iesuita.
Ioan. Gerson, and Ruardus Tapperus.
*Art. 2. diuis. 5.Harding the Assaylant.
THE wordes of Christ, Drinke yee all of this, pertaine to the Apostles, and their successors. For to them onelyonly hee gaue commandement to do that which hee did, saying, Doe this in remembrance of me. By which words hee ordained them Priests of the new Testament. Wherefore this commandement belongeth not at all to the Lay people, neither can it be iustly gathered by this place, that they are bound of necessity to receiue the Sacrament vnderunder both kinds.
Lorichius the Defendant.
THey bee false Catholikes, who say, that Christ said onelyonly to his Apostles, Drinke yee all of this. For the words of the Canon be these, Take, and eate yee all of this. Here I beseech them to tell me, whether they wil hauehave these words also, onelyonly to appertaine to the Apostles, then must the Laiety abstaine from the other kind of bread also: which thing to say is heresie: wherefore it followeth, that each of the words are spoken to the whole Church. Gerard. Loric. de missa. part. 7. in praef.
xIn Luc. 24. vers. 30. 31.Maldonate Assaylant.
I doubt not, and I maruell, that any other doubt, but that this place where Christ tooke bread, blest it, and brake it, and gaue it to the two Disciples, of whom hee was knowne in the breaking of bread, must bee vnderstood of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. I am induced hereunto by the whole forme of the action, which I know not what Christian can deny to bee the action of the Eucharist. Wee reade of the breaking of the bread, blessing it, distributing it, and a miracle insuing vponupon it, and shall wee not beleeue it to bee the Eucharist?
Widford Defendant.
I say, that it appeareth not in the Text, nor in the Glosse, Luk. 24. nor by the ancient Fathers, that the bread which Christ brake, and gaue to his Disciples, was consecrated bread, that it was sacramētall bread, or turned into his body; with whō Carthusiā accords. It came to passe, saith he, that as Christ sate downe, he took bread, and blessed it, yet hee turned it not into his body, as in his last Supper; but as the manner is, hee blest the meate he eate; thereby teaching vsus to say Grace before meales. Wid. cont. Wicklif. & Carthus. in Luk. 24. Vid. Iustinian. supr. c. 12.
yGers. defens. decret. con. Constant.Gerson the Assaylant.
Christ our Lord in the sixth of Iohn, speaking of the fruit of the Lords Supper, teacheth one kind to be sufficient to saluation; saying, he that eateth this bread, shall liue for euer. And if any man eate of this bread, he shall liue for euer.
Tapperus the Defendant.
Ruardus Tapp. In this Chapter, Iohn 6. Christ speaketh not of the sacramental eating and drinking of his body and blood. Tap. in expli. art. Louaniens. art. 15. Idem habet Gabriel Biel. lec. 84. super Canone Missae. Cusanus epist. 7. ad Bohemos. Caiet. in 3. part. quest. 80. Ions. c. 59. concordiae. Wald. & alij.
Hosius the Assaylant.
Iames in the Church of Ierusalem deliuered and kept the Communion in one kind. For in the second of the Acts, in the description of the exercises of the Church of Ierusalem, there is rehearsed breaking of bread, and no mention at all made of wine.
Iustinianus the Defendant.
Iustin. on the first to the Corinthians, vers. 10. The Apostle by breaking of bread, vn derstandeth not the ordinary breaking of bread, such as that was, whereof S. Luke maketh mention, Acts the second; whereby the necessity of the hungry was prouided for.
Cochlaeus the Assaylant.
Acts 27. Saint Paul taking bread, gaue thanks to God in the sight of all, and when hee had broken it, he began to eate. Here is an example of the Communion in one kind, for there is no mention made of wine.
Lorinus the Defendant.
S. Chrysostome, Oecumenius, Beda, & others, expounders of this place, by bread vnderstand vsuall and common bread. And I am also of the same mind. For I cannot beleeue, that this mysterie, being the greatest of all other, was celebrated in the sight of profane persons. Lor. in Act. 27.