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TO this we answer, our of the Conclusions of your owne [ 40] Doctors, aswell of the new, as of the old Schooles; your m 1.1 Iesuite Vasquez, for the new, Concluding, that the words, [This do yee, as often as you drinke it, in remembrance of Mee,] as they command the end of the Celebration of this Sacrament,
in the remembrance of the Passion of Christ: so doe they also com∣mand the Act and manner therof, which is, by drinking of the Sa∣cramentall Cup. Which hee holdeth to be so manifest a Truth, that hee thinketh no man to be so blinde, as not to discerne it, saying, Who seeth not this? Accordingly he allegeth Solo, for the old Schoole, concluding that the words [Drinke yee all of this, as often, &c.] Do simply command the act of Drinking: or else (saith he) the Church hath no ground, for the Priest that conse∣crateth, to celebrate in both kinds. And this Obligation Cardi∣nall n 1.2 Cusanus affirmeth to lye alwayes upon the Church; [ 10] Whereby your Mastero 1.3 Brerely may see, and acknowledge his double Errour.
And, indeed, the Evidence is so great, that although all Ro∣mish Vniversities should withstand it, we might herein appeale to common Sense: for Christ having first commanded his Disciples, saying, in the Celebration of this Sacrament, [Drinke yee all of this;] this is the Act: and adding further, saying, [As often, or whensoever as yee shall drinke it, do this in remembrance of mee,] which is the End so commanded; it doth equally im∣ply a command of the Act of Drinking, aswell as of the End. [ 20] Now the Catholike Church did alwayes hold, that there ought to be an Often Commemoration of the Passion of Christ, even untill his comming againe (as saith the Apostle) by the Ce∣lebration of this Sacrament. And the word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] As often, or whensoever yee receive, &c. (being indefinite, and assigning no certaine dayes or times) giveth libertie to the Church to solem∣nize this Memoriall at her convenient times; yet so, that When∣soever the Church celebrateth this Sacrament, shee do it accor∣ding to the forme of Christ his Institution, by communicating in both kinds. [ 30]
{fleur-de-lys}Yet is not this all, but if you desire an Argument of Gods wonderfull Providence, you may see it in this, in deli∣vering up your owne Cardinals to that Stupidity, as to be caught in their owne subtilty, by the cleare light of the Text, well discerned by your Divines of2 1.4 Colen in these words of Saint Paul, [As often as you do eate this Bread, and drinke this Cup.] Do you marke? the [Quotiescunque,] is applyed equally to both, The eating of the one, and Drinking of the o∣ther. If then their Consequence were good, that the Church, by virtue of that [Quotiescunque,] had a libertie to abstaine [ 40] from the Cup, it would follow that (against the universall do∣ctrine of both sides) the Church might celebrate the Com∣munion without distribution of either of both, whereof more in the next Section.
If the Pope, sitting in the Assembly of his Cardinals, delive∣ring unto each of them a Ring, to put upon their thumbes, should say, Do this as often as you come before mee, in testi∣monie
of my love: (Wee demand) Are they not, as often as they come into the presence of that Pope, chargeable to put on each one his Ring upon his thumbe, by virtue of the Popes Command? [Do this] who seeth not this, that doth not wil∣fully blind-fold and stupifie his wits? Shall wee conclude? As your owne Doctors inferre from these words of Christ [Do this] that Laicks, who be of yeares, are bound by the Law of God to communicate: by the same Text may wee conclude, that they are likewise obliged to participate of the Cup.
[ 10] {fleur-de-lys}And although our Argument, taken from the words of Christ [Do this as often] seeme to be hereunto of no force with your two Cardinals, who spy therein a wonderfull gappe of libertie for a non-use of the Cup, in the celebration of this Sacrament; yet your Councell of Trent pronounceth that* 1.5 The Priest by these words. [Do this as often as, &c.] is commanded to consecrate in both kinds; Which indeed ought to be unto us an Argument of the singular Providence of God, to see the Adversaries of his Truth, to be Babylonishly Confounded by the Contrarietie of their owne tongues.
Praecepit igi∣tur Christus, in ver∣bis Lucae, ut ipsà sumptione comme∣moremus Passionem ejus; & non tantùm ut quoties illud sumeremus Passionem ipsius in memoriam revocaremus. Ac proindè praecepit, ut opere aliquo commemoratio fiat alicujus beneficij accepti, ex modo ipso praecipiendi. Praecepit etiam ut fiat opus ipsum, quis hoc non videat? Vasquez. les. ia 3. Thom. Disp. 113. cap. 2. At verò non est negandum, esse Praeceptum simplicitèr faciendum, alioquin non haberemus fundamentum Praecepti celebrandi in Ecclesia. Sot•• in 4. Dist. 12. q. 1. Art. 12.
Credimus eos rectè oblagari, dùm militainus in hac vi∣ra, ad Sacramentum Fucharistiae, eo mo∣do, quo perfectiùs significat Passionem: id est, sub utraqu•• specie, &c. Card. Cu∣san. Epist. 2. ad Bo∣hem. pag. 831.
Who in his Booke of the Litur∣gie of the Masse, stan∣deth so much upon the no command of Christ for the use of boto kinds, that he justifi∣eth an ancient Ro∣mane Custome (as he calleth it) of the Priest himselfe, recei∣ving on Good Fri∣day only under one kind.] Tract. 4. Sect. 4. pag 407. And Tra. 4. Sect. 7. pag. 421 [As often:] not sig∣nifying the necessitie of Drinking.
Enchirid. Co¦loni••nse de Sacramen. Euch. verb [Hujus.] Divus Paulus ape••tius reliquis habet: Quo∣tiescun{que} manduca∣veritis hunc panem, & poculum hoc bib••∣tis, mortem Domini annuntiabitis. 1. Cor. 11. 26.
See afterwards Sect. 4. at the letter (a) and Sect. 6. at (m).