The defense of the aunsvvere to the Admonition against the replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift Doctor of Diuinitie. In the beginning are added these. 4. tables. 1 Of dangerous doctrines in the replie. 2 Of falsifications and vntruthes. 3 Of matters handled at large. 4 A table generall.

Admonition.

The fifth. Then they ministred with common & (a) 1.1 vsual bread: now with water cakes brou∣ght in by Pope Alexander, being in forme, fashion, and substance like their god of the altar.

Ansvvere to the Admonition. Pag. 97. Sect. 2. & Pag. 98. Sect. 1. 2.

The place you alleage, Act. 2. (which is this) And they continued* 1.2 dayly with one accord in the temple, & breaking bread at home, did eate their meate together vvith gladnesse, and singlenesse of heart, maketh as much for your purpose, as it maketh for the Papistes halfe Communion: for they alleadge it to proue that the Supper may be ministred with bread only: But learned interpreters, & especially M. Caluine, denye this place to be mente of the ministration of the supper: how soeuer it is vnderstanded, it doth not necessarily proue, that the Sacrament was then ministred in common and vsuall breade, for there is no mention made of the kinde of breade.

Yf any thynke better of one kynde of breade than of an o∣ther, in the ministration of the Sacramente, it is theyr erroure, and derogateth nothyng from the order of administration.

M. Caluin in his Institutions cap. 19. sect. 72. touchyng this ma ter writeth on this sorte: Caeterùm in manum accipiant fideles necne: inter se diui∣dant,

an singuli quod sibi datum fuerit edant: calicem in diaconi manu reponant, an proximo tra∣dant:* 1.3 panis sit fermentatus, an azymus: vinum rubrum, an album, nihil refert: haec indifferentia sunt: & in ecclesiae libertate posita. But vvhether the faythfull take it in their handes or no: vvhether they deuide it among them selues, or euerye one eate that vvhiche is giuen vnto them: vvhether they gyue the cuppe to the Deacon, or deliuer it to hym that is nexte: vvhether the breade be leauened or vnle∣uened: the vvyne redde or vvhyte, it makes no matter. These be indifferente thyngs, and put in the libertie of the Churche.

Alexander lyued Anno. III. and was a good and godlie Bishop: it* 1.4 is reported in some writers that he appoynted vnleauened breade to be vsed in the Euchariste, bycause that Chryste hymselfe vsed the same accordyng to the lawe written Exod. 12. Deuteron. 16. But that he broughte in wafer cakes, or appoynted any certayne forme of breade, you can not proue, neyther dothe any credible authour wryte it.

Notes

• (a) 1.1

  Act. 2. 46. Act. 20. 7.
• * 1.2

  Of bread vsed in the cōmu∣mon.
• * 1.3

  Caluins opi∣nion of y^e kind breade.
• * 1.4

  Alexanders institution.