Is the breaking or cutting of bread an indifferent ceremony?
It is not: but essentiall and Sacramentall, wholy belonging to the end or scope, and moreouer to the forme of the
Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.
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- Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes.
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"Institutions of Christian religion framed out of Gods word, and the writings of the best diuines, methodically handled by questions and answers, fit for all such as desire to know, or practise the will of God. Written in Latin by William Bucanus Professor of Diuinitie in the Vniuersitie of Lausanna. And published in English by Robert Hill, Bachelor in Diuinitie, and Fellow of Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, for the benefit of our English nation, to which is added in the end the practise of papists against Protestant princes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69010.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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holy Supper, as also the powring in of wine into the cup: foras∣much as, by it the faithfull do behold with the eyes of their mind Christ, not onely bestowing himselfe for vs, but as it were torne in peeces, beaten to peeces, broken in peeces, with vnspeakeable torments of minde and body, and torne a sunder euen to the most violent separation of the soule from the bodie, and according to his humane nature butchered as it were into two parts, and trick∣ling downe drops of bloud for our saluation.
Not that his bodie was broken in verie deed: For not a bone in it ought to be brokē, as was shadowed out by t••e Paschal Lamba 1.1 but we cal it broken, because then it was pulled a sunder, his side opened, his hands and feete pierced, at length also the bodie se∣parated from the soule: which also is the cause why the Apostle by a Sacramentall Metotonymie, and chaunge of names, doth attribute to the bodie it selfe of the Lord, that which was done in that bread, and ought also now to be done: when as hee saith that the Lord spake this concerning the bread: This is my bodie which is broken for you. 1. Cor. 11 24. And from the same cu∣stome of breaking of bread, the Eucharist, is called breaking of bread.a 1.2.
And that the custome of breaking was vsuall in the Churches in Paules time, it plainely appeareth by his owne words, when he saith: The bread which wee breake, 1. Cor. 10. and this custome, the Church long obserued. But the manner of the Hoste 6. That is, of giuing those round small little morsels the Church of Rome instituted.
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a 1.1
Ioh. 19.33 36 Exod. 124.
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a 1.2
Acts. 2.42 &. 20.7