That a Proper Sacrifice cannot be collected out of any of these words of Christs Institution; Is GIVEN, Is BROKEN, Is SHED.
SECT. II.
THe Text is Luc. 22. 20. [Which Is broken, Is given, Is shed] in the Present Tense; and This Is the Cup of the new Testament in my Bloud; wherein, according to the Greeke, there is a varying of the Case: whereupon your Disputers, as if they had cried 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, are commonly more Instant in this Objection than in any other: some of them spending eight full leaves in pressing this Text, by two Arguments, one in respect of the Case, and another in regard of the Time.
Of the Grammar point, concerning the Case.
This is the new Testament in my Bloud:] Now what of this? a It is not said (saith your Cardinall) This is the Blood shed for you, but, This is the Cup shed for you: Therefore is hereby meant The Bloud, which was in the Chalice, because wine could not be said to bee shed for us for remission of sinnes. But how gather you this? Because in the b Greeke (saith M. c Breerly) 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 varieth the Case from the word [Sanguine,] and the Genus from the word [Testamentum,] and agreeth evidently with Calix: which drive Beza unto a strange An∣swer, saying that this is a Soloe cophanes, or Incongruitie of speech. So he; which Objection he learned, peradventure, of the d Rhemists, who are vehement in pressing the same; their Conclusion is: This proveth the Sacrifice of Christ's Blood in the Chalice. In which one Collection they labour upon many ignorances. 1. As if a Soloe co∣phanes Page 5 were a prophanation of Scripture by Incongruitie of speech; which (as one e Protestant hath proved) is used as an Elegancie of speech by the two Princes of Orators, Demosthenes for the Greeke, and Tully for the Latine; and by the two Parents of Poets, among the Greekes Homer, and by Virgil among the La∣tines.
2. As though these our Adversaries were fit men to upbraid Beza with one Soloecophanes, which is but a Seeming Incongruitie, like a Seeming Limping, who themselves confesse f Ingeniously that in their Vulgar Latine Translation (which is decreed by the Councell of Trent to be Authenticall) there are meere Solecismes, and Barbarismes, and other faults, which wee may call, in point of Grammar, down right halting. 3. As if a Truth might not be deli∣vered in a Barbarous speech, or that this could be denied by them, who defend Solecismes, and Barbarismes, which had crept into the Translation of Scriptures, saying that g Ancient Fathers, and Do∣ctors have had such a religious care of former Translations, that they would not change their Babarismes of the Vulgar Latine Text, [as nubent, & nubentur] and the like. 4. As if there were not the like Soloecophanes of Relatives not agreeing with their Antece∣dents in case, whereof you have received from h D. Fulke divers * Examples. 5. As if this Soloecophanes now objected were not justifiable, which is defended by the Myrrour of Grammarians i Ioseph Scaliger by a figure Antiptôsis, and explaned anciently by k Basil a perfect Greeke Father: referring the Participle [Shed] unto the word Blood, and not unto the Chalice; which marreth your Market quite. And that this is an undeniable Truth, will appeare in our Answer to the next Objection of Time; for if by Given, Broken, and Shed is meant the time future, then these words Shed for you, for remission of sinnes, flatly conclude that hereby is not meant any proper Sacrifice of Christs Blood in the Cup, but on the Crosse. Let us proceed therefore to that point.
