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THE seventh is almost coincident with the former. So it pleaseth him to di∣vide and rank our reasons. Kneeling is not a fit gesture for a guest invited to a ban∣ket; It obseureth the fellowship, whereun∣to he is advanced. He perverteth our rea∣son very perversly, against his own consci∣ence, as if wee smelled of Arrianisme; and meant that wee are equals with Christ. A simple reader may smell in this stinking flower of his, grosse popery, and in some
poynts grosser then in a common Papist. Doth every one invited to a Princes table, think himselfe equall with his prince. Hee gathereth as perversly, as if we thought, h••t wee should not bow our knees to God the ••acher, o•• his sonne Iesus Christ: when as we say, that in the very act off a••••ing, wee are acting the persons of guests, not o•• sup∣plicants: and therefore in the outward re∣semblance of the feast, a competent gesture should be used. In time of p••ayer we act he persons of supplicants, and then a fit gesture in such an act is used. His own instance re∣••••••eth himselfe▪ for the 24. Elders, who are sayd to ••all down before him that sitteth on the throne, were seen at the first by Iohn, sit∣ting about the throne, clothed with white raiments, and crownes of god; Apoc. 4. He sayth that Christ did not institute this sup∣per to resemble to us that glory which shall be revealed. Musculus, whom he often ci∣teth, but never for the main povnt, sayth, h And in our supper there is a type of the supper•••• ••••m••, and of the table of the Lord, whereof Luk 22. I app••ynt you a kingdom, as my father hath ap∣poynted me: that ye may eat and drink at my ta∣ble, in my kingdom, and sit on thrones. Iohann•••• Alasco i often maketh it figurative of that Supper of glory. The Bishop of Spalato sayth the like. k The Kirk speaketh this way of that mystery, sayth Swarez the Iesuite, O sacred banket, in which Christ is received, the memory of his passion is celebrate, the mind is fi•••••••• with grace, and a piedge of our glory to come is gi∣ven to us. Aquinas sayth, m that it is not on∣ly
signum rememoratiuum, a signe forcommemo∣ration of Christs passion, which is past, demon∣stratiuum, demonstrative of a present benefit; but also prognosticum, id est, p••aenunciatiuum futu∣rae gloriae, foretell••th our glory to come. Yet doe we not urge any such type, as i•• this sup∣per were ordained to that end, or as if it were typus destinatus, but onely we count it a∣mongst typo•• factos, because Christ alludeth to it, Luk 22. 29. when he promised another feast in heaven. But this all men doe, they make it a figure of a thing present, to wit, of the spirituall feast whereat the soule is fee∣ding, when we partake of the outward sym∣boles. And when we ascrive any significa∣tion to our sitting, we say not, that it signi∣fieth our sitting in heaven, but a present rest, and ease of the soule admitted familiarly to the spirituall table, where Christ dineth and suppeth with it. n
(l) ••om. 3. p. 8. O sacr••m convivium, in quo Chri∣stus sumitur, recolitur me∣mor••a passio∣nis ••ius, mens impletur gra∣tia, et fu••••••ae gloriae nobis p••gnu•• da∣tur.
In Mat. 26. Et in no∣stra coena ty∣pus est futu¦rae coe ae, ac m••nsae Do∣mini••••e qua Luc 22. 29 &c.
Liturg. e••∣••les pereg.
lib. 5. de rep. eccles. cap 6 appendice ad Naz an.
Part. 3. quaest. 60. a••t. 3.
See more Sol. 33. 34.