Ellis on Article XXVIII: Of the Lord's Supper

Obj. 2. The same thing which was exhibi- ted by Christ to his Disciples to be eaten and drank, was given and sed for us for the Remi/- sim ef our Sins: But it was not Bread, but the Bady of Christ which was given : It Was Not Wine, but the Blood of Christ wvich was shed ; and thizrefore the true Body and tie tru? Blood of

þ Christ was exhibited, which cou!d not be without

aSuituntial Change of the Bread into his Bc- d;, and of the Wine into his Blood.

Answ. Ir is called the rrue Body and true Blood of Christ ; bur only secondarily and re- preleured as such. So we say of Ce/ar’s Picture: Tox 1s Cxlar that overcame Pompey. |

Obj. 3. The Words of the Institution are t be understood in their proper Sense, because they are the Words of a Will or Testament, and CYst uttered them, when he was about to die, to his il= literate Disciples. 4

Answ., The Words of a Will may be clear, though figurative, Every Trope is not ob- , scare ; it is sometimes the Lighr and Beaury of 5peech. We meet with this Figure also, Luk 22, 20. where the Cup is calicd the New T/?.;iment. And then the Ignorance of the D.(- Cipies ought nor to hinder a common way of speaking in all Sacraments ; because lomething they must fignifte ro us.

Oby, 4. Crist is Omnipotent ; ant therefore his Body may be offered in the Eucharist under the Spectes of Bread ond Vine.

Ansp, We must nor argue from whar may be ro what is. We are not inquiring whar Christ can do, bur what he will do: Christ can do all rhings which do not imply a Con- wad Ctioa; but it is a Contradiction to 1ay,

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66 A Defence of the that ene and rhe same Body should be both in Heaven and in the Sacrament ar the {ame time,

Obj. 5. The Ancients kept and laid up the Sacramental Elements.

Answ, We do not inquire what the Ancients did, bur what Chriit and his Apostles did : The Ancients, perhaps, kepr up the Sacrament for the Communion of fick Men, that were absenr, and not for Adorarion.

Odj. 6. The Body and Blood of Christ are corporeally in the Sacrament ; orterwise the thing figured, viz. The Supper. would not be better than the Figures themselves, viz. the Paschal Lamb, the Mann.i, and the Blood whereon the Old Testa- ment was e(tablisked ; ll wbich were bodily ex- hibited.

Answ. The Paschal Lamb and the Manna, were chiefly the Figures of Christ (who is the thing signified in rhe Supper) and not of the Supper it self.

Obj. The Eucharist is to be religiously carried about in publick Processions, because the Ark of the Covenant, which was the Type of this, was so carryed about, 2 Sam. 6. 3.

Answ. There was a Command or Perinil-} sion for the carrying about cr transicrr.ng, of | the Ark ; which allo was hocoured. with a Ci-!

vil. bur nor adored w:ch a Divine Worth p. There is nothing there ike the Pompous and Idolarrous Elevation of the Holt. ; 0Jj. 8. FI: have the Testimony of some Fa thers for the Elevation of the Host. Anss, It is not materi] what some Fathers, and especially the more Mudern have done ; bur we are to mind what our Lord did and

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Thirty Nine Articles. 67 Obj. 9. The Body and Blood of Christ are to he adored; Now the Eucharist censists of the Body and Blond of Christ, and for that reason it is tobe H rshiped. F: An/w. The Body and Blood of Christ are withour doubr ro be wortkiped, provided they were joined in the Encharist with the

Godhead ; Burthar is begging the Question.

ART. XXIX. Of the Wicked, which