R. ABBOT.
Whether it bee S. Mathew or S. Paul, they serue both for the confirming of one truth, and doe both condemne the Antichristian and damnable sacriledge of the Church of Rome, in maiming the Sacrament of Christ contrary to the institution of Christ himselfe, to the very intention and purpose of the Sacrament, to the example and practise of all ancient churches. Our Sauiour Christ saith: a 1.1 Drinke yee all of this. But the Church of Rome saith; Not so, for there are iust and reasonable causes why it is not fit that all drinke therof, but it is sufficient that the Priest alone drinke for all. M. Bishop to make this good, telleth vs that Christ there spake to his Apostles onely, and that some thing there∣about is spoken to them, which may not bee extended vnto lay∣men, but vnto Priests onely. But how will hee make it ap∣peare that Christ in the one part of the Sacrament spake to the Apostles onely, and not in the other also? There were none there present but the Apostles, and what direction haue we in the words of Christ, to restraine the vse of the cup, as peculiar to the Priests, and to make the other common to the people? And if Christ did so intend, how falleth it out that the Apostle S. Paul in the recitall of