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BVt who shall justifie that her Commendation of the alone-communicating of your Priest? which wee may justly con∣demne by the liberallb 1.1 Confessions of your owne Doctors; who grant, first, that this is not according to the Institution of Christ, saying in the Plurall, [VNTO THEM.] Secondly, [ 40] nor to the practice of the Apostles, who were Communicating
together in prayer and breaking of bread, Act. 2. 46. That is (say they) aswell in the Eucharist as in Prayer. Thirdly, Nor to the ancient Custome of the whole Church, both Greeke and Romane. Fourthly,c 1.2 neither to Two Councels, the one called Nanetense, the other Papiense, decreeing against Private Masse. Fiftly, nor to the very names of the trued 1.3 Sacramentall Masse: which, by way of Excellencie, was sometime called [Synaxis] signifying (as Saint Basil saith) the Congregation of the faithfull: sometimes 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Communion, or Communicating: and sometimes the Prayers, used in every holy Masse, were called [Collectae] Col∣lects, [ 10] because the people used to be collected to the celebration of the Masse it selfe. Sixtly, Nor to the very* 1.4 Canon of the now Ro∣mane Masse, saying in the Plurall [Sumpsimus] wee have recei∣ved. And thereupon (seventhly) repugnant to the Complaints of your owne men, against your Abuse; who calling the joynt Communion, instituted by Christ, the Legitimate Masse; do wonder how your Priests sole-Communicating ever crept into the Church; and also deplore the contempt, which your private Masse hath brought upon your Church. Hitherto (see the Marginals) from your owne Confessions. [ 20]
Let us adde the Absurditie of the Commendation of your Councell of Trent, in saying, Wee commend the Priest's commu∣nicating alone. A man may indeed (possibly) talke alone, fret alone, play the Traytour alone: but this Communicating alone, without any other, is no better Grammar, than to say, that a man can conferre alone, conspire alone, contend, or covenant alone. Calvin saith indeed of spirituall Eating, which may be without the Sacrament (as you alsog 1.5 confesse) that a Faithfull man may feede alone of the Body and Blood of Christ: But our dis∣pute is of the Corporall and Sacramentall Communicating there∣of. [ 30] [ 40]
e 1.6 f 1.7 * 1.8Sunt qui in Miss•• communionem recruirunt: sic, face∣or: à Christo institu∣tum fuit, & ita olim fieri consu vit. Eras. Concord. Eccles. vers. sinem. [Act. 2. Erant cōmunicantes in O∣ratione & communi∣catione fractionis Pa∣nis] id est, in Eucha∣ristia non-minùs quàm oratione. Lorinus Ies. in Act. 2. 46. Odo Cameracens. in Canonem seribit, Missas solitarias antiquitùs in usu Ecclesiae non fuisse.—Et hunc fuisse antiquum Ecclesiae Romanae morem, ut plures de eodem Sacrificio participent, doctissimi quique agnoscunt.—Itáque hac nostra aetate Rev. Pater & vir doctiss. Iohan. Hoffme••sterus his verbis suam sententiam declaravit. Res, inquit, clamat, tàm in Grae∣ca quàm in Latitia Ecclesia, non solùm Sacerdotem sacrificantem, sed & reliquos Praesbyteros & Diaconos, necnon & reliquam plebem, aut saltem plebis aliquam partem communicâsse, quod quomodò cessavit miran∣dum est.—Et aliquos cùm Sacerdote adfuisse, qui sacrificia laudis offerebant, & Sacramentorum participa∣bant, Canonis (Romani) verba manifestè significant: viz. Quot ex hac Altaris participatione sacrosanctum corpus & sanguinem filij tui sumpserimus, &c. Item, Prosint nobis divina Sacrificia, quae sumpsimus. Teste G. Cassandro Consult. Art 24. pag. 216, 217,—223. &c.
Idem Ioh. Hoff∣meisterus; Quomo∣dò (inquit) ordo an∣tiquus cessaverit, mi∣randum est, & ut bo∣nus ille usus revo∣cetur laborandum Nunc verò postquàm communionis ordo à nobis observari de∣sijt, idque per negli∣gentiam tàm plebis quàm Sacerdotum, ut ait Hospin.—Ex Ca∣none quodam Conc. Nannetensis, Sacer∣dos solus Missam ce∣lebrate vetatur: ab∣surdum enim est ut dicat, [Dominus vo∣biscum: &, Sursum corda: &, Gratias a∣gimus Deo Domino nostro] cùm nullus est qui respondeat: aut ut dicat [Ore∣mus] cùm nullus ad∣est qui secum oret.—Et simile D••∣cretum reperitur in Concilio Papiensi, ut nullus Presbyter Mis∣sam celebrare praesu∣mat—Cur au∣tem Canon noster [Speaking of the forme of the Romane Mosse] alijs in superstitio∣nem, alijs in con∣temptum adductus sit, in causa potissimum est mutatio prisci ritus. Georg Cassand. quo sup.
Act. 2. 42. [Erant communi∣cantès, &c.] Vsus suit quondam frequentandae quotidiè Eucharistiae, non minùs quàm Orationis,—〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 sumitur pro usu istius Sacramenti 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: Eadem est vis etiam vocis 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, pro congregatione fidelium, ut interpretatur Basilius. Lorin. Ies. loco supra-citato.
See above at (b)
Qui dicunt Christum manducari spiritualiter à fidelibus posse, etiamsi Sacramentaliter non manducetur, at{que} eo cibo animam ali, vera quidem asseiunt. Acosta. les. de procur. Indorum Salut. c. 7. p. 532.
Collectae, per figuram, dicebantue Preces, ab ipsa celebratione Missae, quùm ad eam populus colligebatur. Bellar. l. 2. de Missa cap. 16. §. Post salutationem.
Generaliter autem dicendum est, quôd illa est legitima Missa, in qua sunt Sacer∣dotes, Respondens, Offerens, at{que} Communicans, sicut ipsa precum compositio evidenti ratione demonstrat. Durand. l. 4. c. 1. pag. 174. Walfridus Strabo, etiam aliqui antiquiores Scholasticorum Interpretes solam legiti∣mam Missam fatentur, cui intersuit Sacerdos, Respondentes, Offerentes, at{que} Communicantes Cossand. quo supra.
See above at the letter (a)