received the bread,
Hospinian(1228) thinks it no less certain. They made no doubt of the
certainty hereof who composed that old verse which we find in
Aquinas:(1229)--

Rex sedet in coena, turba cinctus duodena;
Se tenet in manibus; se cibat ipse cibus.

Papists also put it out of controversy; for Bellarmine acknowledgeth(1230)
that the apostles could not externally adore Christ by prostrating
themselves in the last supper, _quando recumbere cum eo illis necesse
erat_; where we see he could guess nothing of the change of their gesture.
_Intelligendum est_, saith Jansenius,(1231) _dominum in novissima hac
coena, discubuisse et sedisse ante et post comestum agnum_. Dr Stella
sticketh not to say,(1232) _distribuit salvator mundi panem
discumbentibus_.

_Sect._ 3. But now having heard Bishop Lindsey, let us hear what
Paybody(1233) will say. He taketh him to another subterfuge, and tells us,
that though we read that Christ took bread whilst they did eat, yet can it
not be concluded hence that he took bread whilst they did sit; because,
saith he, "as they did eat," is expounded by Luke (chap. xxii. 20) and
Paul (1 Cor. xi. 25) to be _after they had done eating_, or _after
supper_. Thus is their languages divided. Bishop Lindsey did yield to us,
that when Christ took bread they were sitting; and his conjecture was,
that this gesture of sitting might have been changed after the taking of
the bread. Paybody saw that he had done with the argument if he should
grant that they were sitting when Christ took bread, therefore he calleth
that in question. Vulcan's own gimmers could not make his answer and the
Bishop's to stick together.

But let us examine the ground which Paybody takes for his opinion. He
would prove from Luke and Paul, that when Matthew and Mark say, "As they
were eating, Jesus took bread," the meaning is only this, _After supper,
Jesus took bread_; importing, that Christ's taking of bread did not make
up one continued action with their eating, and that therefore their
gesture of sitting might have been changed between their eating of the
preceding supper and his taking of the sacramental bread.

Whereunto we answer, that there are two opinions touching the suppers
which Christ did eat with his disciples that night wherein he was
betrayed. And whichsoever the reader please to follow, it shall be most
easy to break all the strength of the argument which Paybody opposeth unto
us.

_Sect._ 4. First, then, some d