Ellis on Article XXIX: Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lord's Supper
John Ellis, 1700
Commentaries on Article XXIX: Rogers (1607)Ellis (1660)Burnet (1699)Beveridge (d. 1708)Welchman (1713)Practical Exposition (1716)Veneer (1725)Madan (1772)Hey (1796)Tomline (1799)Wilson (1821)Jones (1849)Trollope (1850)Browne (1850)Forbes (1867)Boultbee (1871)Maclear & Williams (1895)Green (1896)Gibson (1896)Jackson (1900)Bicknell (1919) · Article 29: text, context and Study
Article XXIX. Of the Wicked which eat not the Body of Christ in the use of the Lord's Supper
The Wicked, and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth (as Saint Augustine saith) the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ: but rather, to their condemnation, do eat and drink the sign or Sacrament of so great a thing.
Text: Book of Common Prayer (1662)
Cleaned OCR; [...] marks passages cut for illegibility. See the scan. Text: A Defense of the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England, written in Latin by J. Ellis, S.T.D. (Articulorum XXXIX Ecclesiae Anglicanae Defensio, first published 1660), now done into English (London, 1700). Cleaned OCR from the Internet Archive scan of the Early English Books copy; passages too garbled to recover are marked [...]. Public domain.
Obj. 1. The Intireness of a Sacrament does nt depend upon th» Faith of the Receiver, but uy the Authority »f the Institution ; and there fore by the Incredility of the Min, is cannot be coanged or made void. -linsw. The Intireness of a Sacrament, taken in its largest Sente, docs depend upon Both.
Obj. 2. Judas c.14 the Briy of the Lord, and drank his Biood ; And St. Mark witne{Jcthy, that they all drank of the Consecrated Cup, Mark 14. 23. And then St. Luke writes, chat after Supper Christ uttered these words, Behuld tie Hand of h an that betrayerh me, is w:th me on the Table, Luks 22. 21.
Answ,. Some deny that Judas was present
at
68 A Defence of the
ar the Holy Supper, much less that he did partake of it : However it be, it he was pre. {ent, he received only rhe Sign, and the Bread of the Lord, (as other Hypocrites do) and not the thing signified, z. e. rhe Spiritual Bread
and Body of Christ.
Obj. 3. Sr. Paul zeaches us, 1 Cor. 11. 29, That the Unworthy are guilty of the Body and Blood of Christ ; as it they had received them, tho’ irreligiously. |
Answ. The Apostle tells us, .that the Un- godly become guilty of the Body of Christ; not that they do truly receive ir ; bur because they do nor discern, 7z.e. not considering the
Dignity of the Meat, they come to this ‘Lable
withour Reyerence or Fear. ART. XXX. Of Both Kinds.
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