PARAGRAPH I.
FIrst, therefore I resume that, which before I proved, and no man can justly deny, that the upper Chamber wherein they are the Paschall, and the Common Supper, was a well furnished Chamber. For it was a Guest-Chamber Marke 14.14. which always useth to be best a∣dorned. It was a large upper room; so large, (if Dionysius Carthusianus opine not amisse) as that it received the 120 Disciples mentioned Acts 1. vers. 15. vide Dionys. Carth. in Luc. 22. fol. 257. & Act. 1. fol. 76. Furnished, and prepared; not with meat, but with all other necessary utensils. For the Apostles themselves were commanded, There to make ready, vers. 15. and they did make ready the Passeover, vers. 16.
Therefore the Table was not furnished with meat to their hands: but the room with decent houshold-stuffe. It was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: yet 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. It was not only Mensa strata, a spread Table. The whole upper Chamber was Coenaculum grande stratum, a large well accommoded room. And in it might well be lesser Tables, round Tables, Livery Tables, Tables to be used, if need were, with their faire furniture.
It had been a simple, poore room, if there had been nothing els, but only what was for present use, or what is particularly specialized: were there no chayres, no stooles, no cushions, no water, no linnen to bee spred, or spred at other boords.