Tricoenivm Christi in nocte proditionis suæ The threefold svpper of Christ in the night that he vvas betrayed / explained by Edvvard Kellett.

PARAGRAPH. 1. Fifthly, Proofes from Papists.

BAronius also ad annum 34. Numero 38. is much amisse in some points: Two Suppers (saith he) were conjoyned in the Paschall feast: or rather, Ʋnius coenae, duplex mensa; a second course at the same Supper: So farre well enough with a good interpretation. In the first was the eating of the Lambe. In the second, was the Ceremony of unleavened bread. But is it possi∣ble, that so learned a man should thinke, They did eate the Paschall Lambe without bread? Or first gobble in the flesh, and at the second course thrust in the unleave∣ned bread after? was it not the expresse Law to eate the one with the other? The flesh roasted with fire, and unleavened bread, Exod. 12.8. Suppose we grant it to be a second course (which indeede was a second Supper) doe any of us eate our flesh at the first Messe, and our bread at the second Messe? And though it be said, they shall eate it in the same night; yet no man can justly imagine, the flesh was eaten the first part of the night; and the bread was crammed in after the first service. Sense shall guide me above any Rituall, and yet the Rituall both beginneth the paschall Supper, with the consecration of the unleavened bread; and confesseth (saith Baronius) um tantùm in paschate, sed & in aliis maximis Judaeorum solennibus diebus, ut Pente∣coste, & Scenopegia ejusmodi duplices coenas exhiberi consuevisse. That not onely at Easter, but also on other great feastivall dayes of the Iewes; as at Whitsontide, and at the feast of Tabernacles, such double Suppers were wont to be exhibited.

Thus among the Iewes, you shall finde Maymonides, for the second Supper; and the very Rituall it selfe, you have also Scaliger, Kemnitias, and Beza, for the same among the Protestants.

I have begun with Baronius among the Papists. He againe saith expresly: Christ gave Iudas the Sop in the second Supper.

I touched also at Franciscus Lucas Burgensis: who againe, on Matth. 26.21. Edentibus illis, thus hath it: Inter edendum; edendum autem non pascha, quod primum festinanter a stantibus comestum fuerat, sed reliquos ejus coenae cibos; as they did eate. But the passeover was not to be eaten, which was first eaten in haste (by the Israelites) standing; but the other Viands of that Supper.

The same Lucas Burgensis, on Iohnn 13.2. Coenâ factâ: The Supper being ended:

thus: Coena, (cujus primus cibus fuer at agnus Paschalis; reliquus cibus vulgaris) facta, non ita ut mensa esset ablata, & gratiae actae.—post coenam ordinariam: sed ante sacram, & Eucharisticam. The supper (whose first service was the pas∣chall Lambe, the rest of the dishes ordinary, or common victuals) being ended; not so ended as that the table was removed, and grace said—after the or∣dinary, or common supper: but before the sacred and Eucharisticall supper.

The same on Luke 22.20. Addit hoc Lucas, postquam coenasset, or post coenasse, or postquam coenassent, (as it is in the Syriack) ut intelligamus sacramentum hoc, non per∣tinu••sse ad vulgarem coenam, quae pascendo corpori subservierat. After hee had sup∣ped; or, after supper: or, After they had supped—to give us to understand, that this Sacrament did not belong to the Vulgar, or Common Supper, which served for the feeding of the body.

Sebastian Barradius. Tom. 4. pag. 31. After Christ with his Apostles had eaten the Paschall Lambe, In mensa recubuit, cibos{que} alios sumpsit. Againe, ibid. It was not forbidden, but usuall to eate other meates in the Paschall Supper.

The same Barradius. pag. 64. speaking of the words: Post quam coenavit: After hee h••d supped; They are to be understood de sola coena legali, & communi, quae sequuta est legalem—Onely of the legall and common Supper, which followed after the Legall: where hee plainly acknowledgeth two suppers, the Legall one: and the common one following it.

The same having a little before cited the Ecclesiasticall hymne.

Post Agnum typicum expletis epulis, Corpus Dominicum datum discipulis.

After the Pascall Lambe, and second Festivall Christ gave his Disciples his body mysticall.

Hee coucludeth from expletis epulis, ergo post coenam & epulas omnes. The ban∣quets being ended: Therefore (hee gave his body) After supper, and all other banquets; which words prove more banquetting stuffe, than a platter of sowre sauce onely (as Scaliger would have it) in the second supper. Fost agnum alios sumebant cibos, quos intingebant in condimentum hoc, vel aliud praeparatum, saith Barradius truly. After the Lambe they did eate other meate, which they dipped in this sauce, or some other sauce newly prepared for that purpose.

Maldonate on Matt. 26.26. pag. 555. thus Cum tres eodem tempore actiones fue∣rint, quae tres coenae vocari solent: Whereas there were three actions, which com∣monly they call three suppers: the first in which the Paschall Lambe was eaten, which is called the ceremoniall supper. The second, the common, and usuall sup∣per: for (saith hee) the Lambe being religiously eaten, because (for the most part) they who ate of it, were not filled or satisfied, they had another supper of which they did sup to saturity; and pag. 557. at the beginning, Solebat eso jam agno, coena communis apponi. There was wont, when the Lambe was eaten, to be served in a common supper. The third supper was when Christ consecrated his Body, and Blood. So farre, well.