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The twelfth. They ministred the Sacraments playnely, we pompeously, with singing, py∣ping, surplesse, and cope wearing.
The thirtenth. They simply as they (h 1.1) receyued it from the Lorde: We, sinfully mixed with mans inuentions and deuises.
This is a very slender reason to proue that the sacrament of the Supper is not sincerely ministred, bicause there is singing, pyping, surplesse and Cope: when you shewe your reasons agaynst that pompe, whiche is nowe vsed in the celebration of that Sacrament, you shall heare what I haue to saye in defense of the same. I thinke that there is nothing vsed in the administration thereof, that dothe in any respecte contaminate it, or make it impure. As for pyping, it is not prescribed to be vsed at the Communion by any rule, that I knowe. Synging I am sure you doe not disallowe, beeing vsed* 1.2 in all reformed Churches, and an arte allowed in Scriptures, and vsed in praysing of God by Dauid. Of Surplesse and Cope I haue spoken before, & wyl speake more hereafter as occasionis ministred.
There is no suche inuentions or deuises of man mixed wyth the Supper of the Lorde as can make it sinfull, beeing all perteyning to edifying, and to good & decent order, and nothing there appoyn∣ted to be done contrarie or not agreable to the Scriptures. Caluine* 1.3 him selfe sayth in his Institutions, Lib. 4. Cap. 10. That those thynges vvhiche be partes of decencie, commended vnto vs by the Apostle, though* 1.4 they be prescribed by man, yet are they Gods traditions, and not mans, as kneeling at solemne prayer, and suche like. The Supper it selfe in all poynts of any moment is ministred nowe in this Churche of Eng∣lande, euen as Christ deliuered it, as the Apostles vsed, and as the Primitiue Churche continued the same.
These be all the reasons you vse to proue that the Sacrament of the Supper is not rightly and sincerely ministred, wherof some be impious, some ridiculous, and all of them vnworthy any con∣futation.
〈1 line〉〈1 line〉. Co. 11, 23
Singing vsed in al reformed Churches.
Caluine.
Decent or∣ders be Gods traditions.