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SAint Cyprian Sermone de Coena Domini, pag. 500. distinguisheth thus: Coen•• disposita inter Sacramentales epulas, obviarunt sibi instituta antiqua & nova.
Two sacramentall feasts there were, the Paschall, and the Eucharist; and be∣tweene them was a supper made, or placed (what could this be else but a second supper) and thus did the old and new rites meete, for as I proved before,
it was one of the old rites of the Paschall, to have annexed to it a second ordi∣nary supper: and when the Lambe was consumed, as the old tradition prescri∣bed (which none ever proved was done, or to be done wholy at the first sup∣per; and I have proved, it might without sinne continue uneaten, or unconsu∣med, even in the second supper, yea till toward the morning) and which Paschall was commonly the last bit of that nights festivitie (as some Rabbines affirme) Christ set before his Disciples cibum inconsumptibilem, everlasting food, (saith hee.) Nor are the people now invited to elaborate, costly, and artificiall feasts, (as was usuall in the second supper) but immortall food is given differing from common meats, saith Cyprian.