Welchman on Article XXX: Of both kinds

1 but his Death, in which the Blood was separated from his Body. See 1 Cor. xi. 25. As often as ye eat this Bread, and drink this Cup, ye do shew the Lord’s Death till he come. And Luke xxii. 19, 20. And he took Bread, and gave it unto them, saying, This is my Body which is given for you : This do in Remembrance of Me. Likewise also the Cup after Supper, saying, This Cup is the New Testament in my

all Blood, which is sbed for you. Christ himself hath also

| guarded against this Piece of Sacrilege, by commanding, that Al should drink of the Cup, Matth. xxvi. 27. And in Mark xiv. 23. it is said, that, All drank of it; which is no where exprelly said of eating the Bread. See also 1 Cor. xi. 26, 27, 28. in all which Verses the Corinthians in general are expresly required to drink of that Cup.

See also Tustin Martyr. * Afterwards Bread, and a Cup Abel. I. of Water, and Wine and Water, are brought to Him e. 85. « who presides over the Brethren; and He having taken them, offers up Praise and Glory to the Father of all Things, in the Name of his Son, and of the Holy Ghost ; and adds a particular Thanksgiving to God, For having « vouchfafcd us these Gifts through his Hands, When he has finished the Prayers, and the ‘I’bankfgiving, all the «© People present give their joyful Affent to them, saying, „Amen. The chief Minister having thus given Thanks,

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NorTzs on the XXXIX Articles and all the People having thus given their Assent, they whom we call Deacons, distribute to every one present the Bread, the Wine, and the Water, which have been thus sanctified by giving of Thanks, that fo they may all partake thereof.” See also Ignatius. Take care to use one Eucharist, For there is but one Flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one Cup for the Union of his Blood.“ And St. Cyprian. ** The Baptism of saving Water is but once received, and is not to be repeated; but the Cup of the Lord is always thirfted atter and drank in the Church.—vince we make mention of his Passion in all our Sacrifices, (for the Passion of our Lord is the Sacri- fice which we offer) we ought to do nothing but what He did. For the Scripture faith, A often as ye eat this Bread, aad drink this Cup, ye do fhew the Lord’s Death till he come. For to thew forth the Justification and the Testament of our Lord, and not to do the same that our Lord hath done; what else is this, but to cast his Say- ings behind us, to despise the Lord’s Discipline, and to commit, not earthly, bur spiritual Thefts and Adulteries ? Since he who steals from the Truth of the Gospel such Words as our Lord hath spoken, and such Facts as he hath done, corrupts and adulterates the Divine Precepts.“

—And again. © tiow do we teach and encourage those,

who are to fight Christ’s Battles, to spend their Blogd in the Confession of his Name, if when they are goige to engage, we deny them the Blood of Christ? Or how do we make them fit for the Cup of Martyrdom, if we do

Notes

• s nat to be denied, &c. ] If one Part of this Sacrament be more necessary tnan the other, the Cup seems to be so; since it represents the Blood o Christ, to which Remission of Sins, and our Redemption, are oftener ascribed in Scrip- ture, than to his Body, Now the Ramanisis do but trifle, when they say, that the Blood is with the Body; since in the Eucharist we commemorate, not the Life of our Lord,