I Do not a litle maruell of certaine fonde men, whiche woulde haue the supper of the Lorde to be ministred with a greate solemne feaste, or banquette, because mention is made in the Epistle to the Corinthians, of a great supper in whiche the riche and poore did feast together. But if the wordes of Paule be well expended, they shall finde there that Paule woulde haue no suche ban∣quetting. His wordes be these. num domos non habetis ad edendū & bi∣bendum? Haue you not houses to eate and drinke, as though he shoulde saye, the quantitie of meate and drinke is not required to the sanctifica∣tion or celebration of the Lordes supper: for what soeuer it be, (be it ne∣uer so litle of the holy Symboles) is sufficient to the celebration therof, wherby we see, that Paule doth cōdemne and reiecte that maner of ban∣quetting, whiche the Corinthians vsed in receyuinge the Lordes supper. For the churche oughte not to assemble together, but only to heare doc∣trine, to offer prayers, to rendre thankes, to confesse their faith, to re∣ceyue the Sacraments, and to other godly exercises. If any other thinge be done in the churche, it is done out of season, for euery man hath his house appointed him to feaste, to banquet, to eate, and to drincke.
The sacraments are not instituted for the necessitie of the bodie, for that ende Manna, and water out of the rocke were geuen to the Iewes: but the Sacramentes of the gospell pertayne not to that ende. All the holy Fathers both of the Greke church, and also of the weste churche, be of that iudgement.
It is lawfull in the action of baptisme, to recite goods promises, to re∣cite the Symbole, to require the faith, eyther of the adulte which come to