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A17127 A sermon preached before His Maiestie at Whitehall, March 22. 1617. being Passion-Sunday, touching prostration, and kneeling in the worship of God. To which is added a discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion. By Iohn, Bishop of Rochester. Buckeridge, John, 1562?-1631. 1618 (1618) STC 4005; ESTC S106770 134,604 258

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ad recipiendum not to sacrifice the natural bodie of Christ for that is proper to Christ to bee Hostia Sacerdos the Sacrifice and the Sacrificer and no man may offer that in sacrifice that is not his owne 2. Sam. 24.24 As Dauid would not offer sacrifice till he bought it though Araunah offered to giue it to the King freely as a King And the worde of the Psalme applied by the Apostle is Corpus dedisti mihi Hebr. 10.5 thou hast giuen mee a bodie which is onely to be offered by him whose body it is And the Apostle exhorteth Offerte corpora vestra Rom. 12.1 It is not Corpus Christi offer vp your owne bodies wherof you haue power not Christs bodie whereof he onely hath power Ioan. 10.18 Ego ponam animam meam nemo tollit I lay downe my life and no man taketh it from me but it is giuen to vs to receiue it and therewith all the fruits and benefits of his death and passion And the word Hoc facite is not properly Hoc sacrificate doe this Luc. 22.19 that is sacrifice this he must sacrifice it and wee must commemorate and represent it for it is hoc facite doe this not simply sacrifice but doe this that I haue done that is Take bread wine and blesse and consecrate it and receiue it as my body and blood and Christ did not sacrifice his body there but on the Crosse The Euangelists say Effunditur my blood is shed but it is Praesens pro futuro the present tense for the future a phrase most common and familiar in Scripture because of the certainety of it or else Effunditur virtute effundetur actu it is shed in virtue Hebr. 13.8 Christ yesterday to day and the same for euer but to bee shed in act else it must needs follow that Christs blood was not in his body but shed on the earth before it was shed by the whips and thornes and nailes and speare and so he suffred before he suffered yea he suffered when he suffered not In which respect I cannot sufficiently maruell at Bellarmins subtiltie Bellar. lib. 1. de Missa C. 2. that will haue this Sacrament to bee an externall proper sacrifice not onely as the name sacrifice doth signifie rem sacrificatam the thing sacrificed that is Christ crucified which is there truely giuen and receiued but also as it doth signifie actionem sacrificij or sacrificandi the action of sacrifice so that the action of Christs sacrifice on the Crosse and of the Priests in the Host must bee one and the same action For if they bee diuers and many in number then Christ must be offered and so suffer often which is directly against the Apostle And Christ the Priest must be one high Priest and the same action must bee bloodie and vnbloodie and haue sufferings and no sufferings in it For the number doth vary the action and two diuers agents must produce two diuers actions and blood and no blood passion and no passion must necessarily make many and diuers actions in number and so Christ must suffer and offer often And as absurd is his other conceit Bellarm. ibid. C. 1. That one and the same Action should be Res and Repraesentatio rei the thing and the representation of the thing As if he should say that one and the same man is homo viuus and homo pictus a liuing man and the image and statue of a man that the Picture and the thing pictured is all one that a sound Logitian and a subtill Sophister is all one Surely in this cōceit Bellarmine is a plaine Sophister and no Logitian for he doth instance onely in this particular of this Sacrament that it is the representation of Christs sacrifice vpon the Crosse as Christ and all antiquitie call it and the very sacrifice it selfe or action of the sacrifice and he cannot giue an instance in any thing else in the whole world in no creature no not in the Creator For the Sonne Heb. 1.3 that is the brightnesse and Image of his Father though hee be one in essence w●●h the Father yet is not one person with the Father so that if the Sacrament be the representation of the true proper and externall sacrifice of the Church then it cannot be the sacrifice it selfe And the trueth is that the Church hath euer offered true sacrifices and that in this Sacrament but as Saint Peter speaketh 1. Petr. 2.5 they bee Hostiae spirituales spirituall sacrifices acceptable vnto God per Iesum Christum by Iesus Christ so the Church offereth her dayly spirituall sacrifice not Iesum but per Iesum Christum not Iesus Christ he onely hath power to offer himselfe but by Iesus Christ her high Priest by whom they are presented vnto and accepted of God But although this Sacrament bee not an externall proper sacrifice as our aduersaries would make it yet it hath in it spirituall sacrifices of diuers sorts all which require all humilitie of soule and body in the offerers For to say nothing of the Elements that were in all times and ages brought by the people in sportulis in little baskets and so in a sort offered vp to bee consecrated for the vse of the congregation which is nowe done by publike charge there are besides diuers other spirituall Sacrifices in the whole action of the ministration of this Sacrament First then as the sacrifices of the Law had a double respect first as they were offered vp to God Secondly as they were communicated and eaten by those men that offered them so this Sacrament of the Lords supper which conteines a commemoration of Christs one and onely all-sufficient Sacrifice consummated vpon the Crosse and neuer more to bee reiterated by any man hath the same double respect in it and therefore as it is represented to God by our consecration so it may well bee called Sacrificium repraesentatiuum or commemoratiuum a representatiue or commemoratiue Sacrifice And that is warranted in the words of our Sauiour Do this in mei cōmemorationem Luk. 22 19. in remembrance of me or of my death and so expounded by the Apostle so often as yee eate this bread and drinke this cup 1. Cor. 11.26 Annunciatis mortem Domini yee shew forth or represent and commemorate the Lords death till he come And as it is receiued by vs it may be called Sacrificium communicatiuum a communicatiue sacrifice or the communication or application of that sacrifice that was offered for vs on the Crosse and that is most plaine in the Apostle 1. Cor. 10.16 The Cup of blessing which wee blesse is it not the communion of the blood of Christ the bread which wee breake is it not the communion of the bodie of Christ So that though there be not idem sacrificium the same sacrifice as it denoteth the action of sacrificing or offring which is here done only by way of representation yet
or that which is the trueth the Fathers and Councels that vpon the particular of Christs resurrection decreed for standing prayer might and did as it will appeare vse kneeling at the Lords Table according to the generall rule of Prayer at all other times and occasions and according as they then vsed to do in the participation of those great and reuerend mysteries of the Body and blood of Christ Now among all these obseruations this must not be omitted in generall before wee come to the particular that all those Fathers who vpon particular reason of Christs resurrection speake for standing prayer on Sundayes and from Easter to Pentecost and at other times according to the Common Law or rule of prayer require kneeling and humility with prayer yet in the matter of this Sacrament either they are silent and say nothing or if they speake of it they reiect both sitting and standing and speake onely for adoration and kneeling And so here bee Testes but not Testimonia names of mute witnesses whose depositions or dictats are nothing against kneeling but rather pleade for it both by their silence and their reason For concerning their silence it is more then probable that they who for the resurrection of Christ and our hope and expectation of our owne Resurrection did in a maner violate the Law of Prayer and humilitie and ordaine standing on the Lords day and from Easter to Pentecost as a testimony of our ioy and confidence and expectation thereof and dispence against the generall Law of kneeling at Prayer would also haue added the like expresse declaration in a matter of so great consequence as the Lords Supper is and said plainely that for the same reason we ought also to stand at the Lords Table when we receiue the Body and Blood of Christ since these reuerend mysteries require as reuerend gesture and behauiour as prayer doeth because in this Sacramēt we receiue all that which our praiers can aske and receiue in this life that is Christ with all the benefits of his death and Passion and the holy Ghost with all the whole traine of his gifts and graces and the greater Gods gifts are the greater should bee our humilitie and reuerence in receiuing them And the Argument is good Quod hominem though it be defectiue in the Fathers sense which is this The Fathers and Counsels decreed for standing at Prayer on Sundayes and from Easter to Pentecost But in the celebration of the Eucharist according to Christs institution there was not neither should be now any prayer at all as these men suppose Therefore the Fathers and Councels that decreed for standing at Prayer on Sundayes and from Easter to Pentecost spake nothing of the Lords Supper in which there ought to bee no prayer at all So then the silence of the Fathers in point of the Lords Supper is an argument that they spake onely of standing at Prayer and not at the Lords Supper Come to the Reason and it wil appeare more plainely For besides that priuate Lawes are stricti iuris and therefore to be restrained to the strict letter and no further And as the Lawyers say Exceptio firmat regulam the exception doth make the rule more strong and firme the exception of Sundayes and betweene Easter and Pentecost concerning standing at prayer maketh the rule strong that we should not stand at any other time and the exception of Prayer on Sunday maketh it strong that at other parts of diuine worship whereof the Sacrament is a principall and most eminent part we should not stand but vse the gesture that the nature of the action requireth which is humilitie and kneeling The reason which the Fathers giue is the memorie and celebration of the resurrection of Christ and the confidence that we haue of our part in the first and second Resurrection Now what is this Reason to this Sacrament which is Commemoratio not Resurrectionis but Mortis a commemoration not of the Resurrection but of the death and Passion of Christ 1. Cor. 11.26 The Apostle saith not as often as you eate this bread and drinke this Cup Annunciabitis resurrectionem you shall shew forth the resurrection but Annunciabitis mortem Domini you shall shew foorth the death of the Lord So then the reason of the Fathers is quite turned against this disputer The Christians did stand at praier on Sundaies and from the Passeouer to Pentecost vpon a particular reason that is for the memorie of Christs Resurrection and the ioy and confidence of our Consurreximus our rising with Christ Phil. 3.10 and the power of his Resurrection in vs Wee come to this Sacrament not to celebrate the memorie of Christs resurrection nor our confidence of rising together with him but in remembrance of his death and Passion in which wee must die to sinne as hee died to nature Therefore though we stand at Prayer to celebrate Christs resurrection yet we ought to kneele in all humilitie at the receiuing of this Sacrament in remembrance of his death and Passion for the Passion of Christ is as forcible to procure sorrow and humilitie for our sinne that deliuered him to death as the Resurrection of Christ is able to procure ioy and confidence for our redemption and deliuerance from sinne and death And of the oxen and fatlings Christ said Matth. 22.4 Tauri mei altilia occisa sunt mine oxen and fatlings are killed and Christ was slaine not onely that he might be to Godward Pretium the price of our ransome but also that hee might to vs-ward be Cibus our food Wherein because man doeth altogether abhorre to eate liuing flesh our blessed Sauiour was put to death that so hee might be the food of our soules So then the reason of the Fathers which moued them to decree standing at Prayer on Sundayes and from Easter to Pentecost doeth proue a contrario that when we celebrate the memorie of Christs Passion in the Eucharist which mooueth compunction and humilitie we should then kneele in token of our contrition and humiliation as they did stand in the ioy and confidence of Christs and their owne resurrection Whereby it appeareth that the Fathers who ioyne teares and contrition and confession and prayer with this Sacrament ment not to alter the humilitie in the receiuing thereof though they change the ordinary gesture of kneeling at Prayer vpon Sundayes and from Easter to Pentecost for the ioy and confidence they receiued of our Sauiours Resurrection Thus haue we passed the example of our Sauiour and his Apostles and haue not yet found any solid proofe for sitting at the Sacrament but rather left it doubtfull what gesture they vsed whether standing as at the Passeouer or kneeling or lying or sitting Now after the time of Christs Ascention vnto the time of Iustin Martyr and Tertullian and Dionysius of Alexandria there is no Author produced that saith any thing concerning the gesture of Communicants only there is a coniecturall argument made to