PAR. 4.
BUt Bellarmine is much to blame, to thinke that the Eucharist was given, in Coena sub-specie panis: at supper-time under the element of bread; and the Cup, post coenam: after supper. There was no such distance of time be∣tweene them. Both Saint Matthew, Saint Marke, and Saint Paul, immediately conjoyne them: and so doth Saint Luke: though somewhat (as the Copies now are) is placed, as done after the Eucharist; which by the other Evangelists is re∣lated, before the taking of the Eucharist. But no action intervened, to sever the Bread from the Cup, but the sumption of the sacred Bread, and the immediate consecration of the Wine. If Cyprian in sermone S. de Lapsis, said, Calicem offer∣ri solere praesentibus post expleta solennia. That the cup was wont to be offered, after the solemnities were performed: which (saith Bellarmine) is, finita jam Missa. after the Masse was ended: yet hee speaketh of his owne time, not of Christs In∣stitution of both kindes: where both were given, similiter post coenam, alike af∣ter supper; and not the one during supper time, and the other after it.