be taken
away; but if the maintainers of these opinions will not be thus agreed,
let the reader consider to which of them he will adhere.

If the first opinion be followed, then it will be most easily answered to
Paybody, that _inter coenandum instituta fuit eucharistia, cum jam rursum
mensoe accubuissent. Sed post coenam paschalem, et usum agni
legalis._(1243) When Matthew and Mark say, As they did eat, Jesus took
bread, they speak of the common or ordinary supper; but when Luke and Paul
say, that he took the cup after supper, they speak of the paschal supper,
which was eaten before the common supper.

Again, if the reader follow the other opinion, which holdeth that Christ
had no other supper that night before the evangelical except the paschal
only, yet still the answer to Paybody shall be easy; for whereas he would
prove from those words of Luke and Paul, "Likewise also the cup after
supper," that when Matthew and Mark say, "As they did eat, Jesus took
bread," their meaning is only this, "After supper Jesus took bread," he
reasoneth very inconsiderately, forasmuch as Luke and Paul say not of the
bread, but of the cup only, that Jesus took it after supper. And will
Paybody say, that he took the cup so soon as he took the bread? If we will
speak with Scripture, we must say, that as they did eat the preceding
supper (to which we read they sat down) Jesus took bread; for nothing at
all intervened betwixt their eating of that other preceding supper, and
his taking of the eucharistical cup, there intervened the taking,
blessing, breaking, distributing, and eating of the bread.

Now, therefore, from that which hath been said, we may well conclude that
our opposites have no reason which they do or can object against the
certainty of that received tenet, that the apostles received from Christ
the sacramental bread and wine whilst they were sitting. Dr Forbesse
himself(1244) setteth down some testimonies of Musculus, Chamier, and the
professors of Leyden, all acknowledging that the apostles, when they
received the Lord's supper, were still sitting.

_Sect._ 7. The second answer that our opposites hath given us, followeth:
They say, that though the apostles did not change their gesture of sitting
which they used in the former supper, when all this is granted to us, yet
there is as great difference betwixt our form of sitting and that form of
the Jews which the apostles used as there is betwixt _sedere_ and
_jacere_.

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