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WHen our Sauiour instituted the holy Sacrament, he broke the bread, and dealt the peeces, and comman∣ded that others should doe the like. The Protestants doe ac∣cuse the Latins for doing the contrary: for their Priests doe breake the host, but deale not about the peeces, which is the principall end of breaking. The greater part of Christian people vse the Communion, and aboue all the rest, those of A∣frica:
which was the reason that Marnix said, that they had the Lords supper, but not the Masse. Neuerthelesse the Latines doe call the Masse the Ethiopique celebration. As touching the name, it is neither Masse nor Supper; for they call it Codash, and the bread is called by the Abyssins Corbon. If question be about the thing it selfe, it seemeth that euery thing ought to be considered according to his prin∣cipall end, and the principall end of the Codash, of the Co∣phites and Abyssins, is the Communion: the which Com∣munion is not at all in the Latine Masse, but the same Masse hauing another speciall principall end, to wit the Sacrifice: it followeth that the Codash or celebration of the Cor∣bon is the Supper, according to the saying of Marnix, and not the Masse, as Father Coton the Iesuitep 1.1 imagineth.
As for the Crosse, waxe Candles, Censings, and Processi∣ons which are in vse in the foresaid celebration, they change not the essence of the Sacrament, but rather it continueth en∣tire, for all that splendor of ceremonies: A man may ga∣ther by that which hath beene spoken, that the voice of Christians is well nigh diuided into two parts. The Arme∣nians, Indians, Affricans, and the Protestants of the West do not celebrate without a Communion: But the Latines and Grecians doe. I put the Grecians in this ranke, because that although their Liturgie holdes more of the Sacrament then of the simple Sacrifice: yet they doe approue or tollerate the Liturgies without a communion; Neuerthelesse they say, that it is not their intention: but that it is the fault of the peo∣ple, who present not themselues, although that they were summoned thereunto. And they forbeare not to celebrate the Liturgie, for seeing that action hath diuers ends, they thinke that although they cannot obtaine the principall, yet
they ought not to omit the other, vnles (peraduenture) some man will say, that the Liturgie is a Sacrament to the Priest, and serueth the people simply as a Sacrifice. But because that particular Liturgies were not ordained by any vniuersall Councell, which the one halfe of Christians, or rather more, haue not, and the Greeke Church hath onely by tolleration, and that seldome, it may be said; that,
The Liturgie ought not to be celebrated without a Communion, which is the principall end thereof.
De Sacr.