M. Hardinge. The .1. Diuision.
Of the Priestes receiuinge the Sacramente him selfe alone, ynoughe hath beene saide before.
This terme, Al, here smatchethe of spite. For if any deuoute person require to be partaker with the Prieste, beinge woorthely disposed, and examined, he is not tourned of, but with al gentlenes ad∣mitted. And in this case, the Priest is not to be charged with receiuinge al alone. Albeit, re∣specte had to the thinge receiued, howe many soeuer receiue, it is al, of al, and al of euery one receiued. Concerninge the breakinge of the Sacramente, and the diuidinge of it in three partes, First,* 1.1 it is Broken by the Prieste, that we maye knowe our Lorde In fractione Panis, In the brea∣kinge of the Breade, as the two Disciples acknowledged him, to whom Iesus appeared in the day of his Resurrection,* 1.2 as they were goynge to Emaus. And also that thereby the Passion of Christe maye be represented to our remembrance, at whiche his Pretiouse Bodie was for our sinnes broken, rente, and torne on the Crosse. And this maner was vsed at the Sacrifice in the Apostles time, as it is wit∣nessed by Dionysius S. Paules Scholar. Opertum Panem Pontifex aperit, (183)* 1.3 in frusta concidens &c. The Bishoppe (saithe he) openeth the couered Breade, diuidinge it in peeces &c.