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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09811	Altare Christianum: or, The dead vicars plea Wherein the vicar of Gr. being dead, yet speaketh, and pleadeth out of antiquity, against him that hath broken downe his altar. Presented, and humbly submitted to the consideration of his superiours, the governours of our Church. By Iohn Pocklington. Dr. D.	Pocklington, John.	1637 (1637)	STC 20075; ESTC S114776	107,710	173

tales epulas to such a banquet Per istos Dies at this time Christ feedeth us daily Mensa illius est illa in medio constituta his Table is that whith is set in the midst What is the cause then that you that are in the ranke of Audientes and see this Table doe not come to the banquet It may bee you thought within your selves when the Gospell was read what should be the meaning of this my flesh is meat indeed and my bloud is drinke indeed Si volueris erit revelatum if you will it shall bee made knowne unto you Accede ad professionem solvisti quaestionem doe but make profession of your faith and the doubt will bee thereupon cleered Tu autem Catechumenus diceris Audiens surdus es Thou who remainest in the ranke of Catechumeni art called a Hearer but art indeed starke deafe Well what must this Hearer and Catechumenus doe that hee may understand how the bread is flesh indeed and his bloud is drinke indeed Why this doe Ecce Pascha est da nomen ad Baptismam Now the time is Easter give in your name that you may bee Baptized Si non te excitat Festivitas ducat ipsa Curiositas If the solemnity of the time excite you not thereunto let curiosity make you doe it that so you may understand my Text He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud abideth in me and I in him Now let us take a view of what can be extracted out of S. Augustines speech Mensa illius est illa in medio posita his Table is set in the midst The Author would make a Novice of the Vicar and make him believe that the Lords Table was set in the midst of the people that all that would might come unto it and that hee doth invite all his Hearers hand over head to come unto it and reproveth them for their slacknesse in not comming whe● they were bidden And that Audientes had no other signification or distinction in those times then now it hath viz. that all sort of people that heare Gods Word are allowed to come and receive the Eucharist But the case is cleane otherwise as may appeare by that which hath beene said For 1. Had these Hearers beene never so willing to come to the Lords Table yet they could not have beene admitted because as yet they were no members of the Church being not Baptized 2. Hee doth invite them to come to that Table set before them but exhorts them to take the benefit of that Feast of Easter which was the appointed time for Baptisme and give up their names to the Bishop that so performing the duty belonging to Competentes they might after the Scrutinie taken be Baptized And being by Baptisme made Neophyti new plants and true members of the Church they might draw neere as it is in our Liturgy and take that holy Sacrament to their comfort 3. It is manifest by that which hath been said Cap. 11. and 12. that the Lords Table did not stand where every one of what ranke soever might see it and be partaker thereof before they were Baptized Now let any man that readeth Saint Augustine and understandeth what hee readeth say whether the Vicar could know out of St. Augustine that Communion Tables stood in the midst of the Church among the people whereunto Audientes all sort of Hearers might resort or rather whether the cleane contrary doth not appeare out of him that neither Audientes before they were made Catechumeni not Catechumeni before they were Competentes nor Competentes before they were Neophyti and Fideles were allowed to approach neere unto the place where the holy Altar stood or so much as see the mysteries belonging to that holy Sacrament Hence it was that none of these but Fideles did understand Saint Augustines Text but let them come and bee Baptized then they might For the Table was set in the midst for all that were Fideles to be partakers thereof Ob. But Saint Augustine saies plainely in medi● Constituta it was set in the midst and in the midst it could not stand if all as well one as other might not come equally to it Sol. This phrase implyes no more but that the Altar was so fixed that all those might take the benefit thereof to whom in right it belonged As all know that understand Latine or English Take the warrant of holy Scripture for it God is said to walke in the midst of the Campe of the Israelites yet wee know hee did not walke in the midst of them as this man calls the midst i. Nei●ther in the Front Wing or Rere but just in the very midst For hee went before them by day in a Pillar of a cloud and by night in a Pillar of fire Yet hee is as truly said to walke in the midst as hee is said to stand in the midst when the cloud stood over the Tabernacle which was properly in the midst In like manner the Altar may be said to stand in the midst of the Presbytery though it stand at the upper end of the Quire as the Lord was in the midst of the people when he went before them or behinde them Wherfore if the Author desire to know how the Table did not stand in the midst of the Church among the People let him read a booke which he is in reason bound to read before he cite him St. Augustine in the place alledged and he shall be satisfied that S. Augustine makes utterly against his purpose But if hee had lookt well upon Saint Augustine and observed how he invites both Audientes Catechumeni Competentes and Neophyti which we are sure could be neither Priests nor Deacons to give up their names that they might bee Baptized and so bee made partakers as well of CHRISTS bloud as of his body for all these are invited to eate CHRISTS flesh and drinke his bloud and no barre is put in against them though they were Lay-men and could be no other but Lay-men but only that they did as yet remaine in those inferiour orders he might from hence have drawne a necessary conclusion in defence of the practice of our Church that Lay-men in Saint Augustines time did receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper in both kindes and so were all alike able to understand his Text touching the eating of Christs flesh and drinking of his bloud By framing this Argument out of Saint Augustine hee might have done the Church true and acceptable service whereas by wresting Saint Augustines words to maintaine a conceit of his owne to humour fancifull people hee doth crosse and confound the practise of Antiquity and disturbeth the holy endeavours of the Governours of our Church that seeke only to conforme the same to the Primitive times and by that meanes brings both his Learning and Piety into question And so I come to his next authority CAP. XVI The Testimony of the Councell of Constantinople examined