"Cor. II. 28. Was it ever establish'd as a "Law even in the Church of Rome, that the "People fhould receive under one Kind only, "until the Council of Conftance, in the Year, << 1415, fo decreed? And that (as they them"felves exprefs it) in direct Oppofition to Chrift's town Inftitution? Their Words are, Licet "Chriftus poft Canam inftituerit, & fuis Difcipu"lis adminiftraverit, fub utraque Specie Panis & "Vini, boc venerabile Sacramentum; tamen "boc non obftante, &c. Conc. Conft. Seff. 13. "Certainly to receive a true Sacrament, is to "receive all that Chrift has therein inftituted or appointed to be received: For if any thing, "which Chrift has fo inftituted, be wilfully omit "ted, it cannot be a true Sacrament, but must be "either none at all or at beft but a defective or "imperfect one; and yet the Council of Trent, " in the fame Breath (Seff 21. Cap.3.) owns that "Chrift inftituted this Sacrament and deliver'd "it to the Apostles in both Kinds, and at the "very fame Time, declares that the true Sacra"ment is received under one Kind, (which is "now become a Part of that Catholick Faith, "without which (according to Pope Pius) no "Man can be faved."

Had your Grace been pleas'd in the Beginning of this Paragraph, to change your Stile a little, and fay: I have thus long infifled upon the Diffi culties attending Tranfubftantiation. I fhould have readily agreed with your Grace. Difficulties there are, indeed, infuperable by human Comprehenfion attending Tranfubftantiation, and the Mystery of the Trinity; but greater at. tending the latter, than the former; for which we cannot otherwise account, than by adoring

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what we cannot comprehend, as I had the Honour to tell your Grace before out of the primitive Fathers, and a learned Bishop of the Church of England. But that there thou'd be any Abfurdities in what my Redeemer faid, or did, I will not, I cannot fay.

Your Grace proceeds, and a few Lines after, asks this Queftion: Did then the Apostles every where teach the Chriftian Church, under Pain of Damnation, to believe that under one Kind only, whole and intire Chrift, and a true Sacrament is taken and received? With humble Submiffion, My Lord, I think the proper Question(in this Debate between your Grace and us) fhou'd be this: Did not the Apoftles every where teach the Church, that it was effentially neceffary to receive the Sacrament in both Kinds? For if fo: Then to take it in one Kind is to take no Sacrament at áll (as your Grace obferves) fince the Effence of any Thing is indivifible. Take away an effential Part, and you destroy the whole. Take away the Soul from the Body, the Man is no more. If then to take in both Kinds be of the Effence of the Sacrament, and that it is effentially neceffary to drink the Blood, as well as it is to eat the Body of Chrift in the Communion, it will neceffarily follow that the Sacrament was always, in the true Church of Chrift received in both Kinds by both Clergy and Laity, not only for a thousand Years, as your Grace fays, but also from the beginning to this Day; and that if, by any Chance, it had happened to be taken in one Kind, the Church must have looked upon it as a great Abufe, and have condemned it as fuch. But, the quite contrary appears by the best Monuments we have of the Practice

and Doctrine of the primitive Church, which tells us, that the Sacrament was given to Infants and little Children under the Species of Wine; to the Sick under that of Bread, to the Solitaries or Hermits, to Travellers for their fpiritual Comfort in any Neceffity or Danger, and to the People to take at home in their Houses under the fame Kind.

Your Grace fays, It is confeffed by the most learned of our Communion, (and denied by none that you know of) that the whole Church every where, for above a Thousand Years gave the Sacrament in both Kinds to all the People. Your Grace then, did not read the Bishop of Meaux's Treatife upon this Subject, nor Belarmine, nor Peron, nor an hundred other Controvertists, who all affirm what I here advance. Nay the Words of Chrift plainly evince it. If any Man eat of this Bread he shall live for ever, and the Bread that I will give is my Flefb (to ufe your own Verfion) which I will give for the Life of the World. Joh. 6. 51. fays Chrift. If then by eating that Bread which is his Flefb, I fhall live for ever; do not I receive all that I want? What can I expect, by eating and drinking the Body and Blood of Chrift more than to live for ever, which Chrift tells me I fhall attain to, by eating only of the Bread, which is his Flefb? In a Word, Chrift promises the fame Bleffing, the fame Reward, viz. The Life everlasting to those who receive his Body under one, as well as under both Kinds. St. Paul, 1. Cor. Cap. 11. 27. confirms this Doctrine; his Words are: Wherefore whofoever fhall eat this Bread, or drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily fhall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. From this Paf

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fage of St. Paul, two Things are evidently plain: The First, that to take of either Kind, namely, under the Species of Bread to fome, and under the Species of Wine to others, was fufficient in order to eternal Salvation. The Second, that the Body and Blood of Chrift are really contained under either Kind, that is, either under the Species of Bread, or under the Species of Wine, fince St. Paul affirms, that whofoever takes either Kind unworthily fhall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord, which furely he could not be, by taking the Body only, if the Blood of Chrift was not there alfo.

Your Grace will tell me it is in the English Bibles with the Copulative and, and not with the Disjunctive or. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread, and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily, &c. I know, My Lord, it is fo, but, I cannot help it. But this I know also, that this Tranflation is contrary to all the Mamufcripts, and antient printed Texts, of St. Paul, whether in Greek or Latin, that ever I cou'd find; and I do affure your Grace, I did fearch many, and had an Opportunity of conful ting fome of the beft Libraries in Europe. They are render'd with the Disjunctive vel in all the antient Manufcripts and printed Copies of the Latin Vulgat, which I cou'd meet with, and which cannot be fufpected of any Defign, as being made long before our Difputes arofe; they are fo in all the French Tranflations even thofe of Geneva, that ever I read: Quiconque mans gera de ce Pain ou boira de cette Coup. They are fo in the Latin Bible of Tremellius and fu nius printed in London 1661. Quifquis ederit: K 2

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Panem bunc, vel biberit Poculum Domini, In a Word, I believe there is not a Manufcript, or printed Bible extant, except your English, and thofe made from it, that has the Copulative and in this Verfe of St. Paul.

Perhaps your Grace may tell me again; that the Copulative' and, is often in the Bible taken for the Disjunctive or; I grant it is, My Lord; But I am pretty fure your Grace will never find in any other Tranflation of the new Teftament, except your own, that ever this Disjunctive, or, was taken for the Copulative na and; or that any other Interpreter had render'd it fo. Whence I conclude from the Words of Chrift, and St. Paul, that neither Chrift intended, nor St. Paul ever taught, it fhou'd be effential or neceffary, for the worthy Participation of the Sacrament, to take it in both Kinds, and that the giving it in one or both, is but a Point of Difcipline left by Chrift to the Discretion of the Church; as the Exigencies of Time, Place, and Perfons fhall re quire: For befides the many Prophanations that attended the giving the Cup, as the fpilling and treading under Foot the precious Blood of our Redeemer (which cou'd not be feen without Horror) when the firft Fervour of Christianity abated, and Multitudes came crouding to receive it. The all feeing God, qui attingit a Fine ad Finem fortiter, & omnia difponit fuavitér, forefaw it was naturally impoffible for all Chriftians and in all Countries, to take the Sacrament in both Kinds. How many Countries' are there in the World where no Wine grows? How many remote and barbarous Nations have received the Faith, and have Millions of Christi

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