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John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 11:23-24

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1 Corinthians11:23-24

Verſe 23. For I have received] Rectumeſt regula ſui & obliqui. The Apoſtle ſeems to rectifie them, by reducing them to the firſt inſtitution.

The ſame night, &c.] It was his laſt bequeath to his Church, for a [non-Latin text not transcribed], as Ignatius hath it, a ſoveraign both purgative and preſervative.

This is my body] En praeclaram illam conſecrationem, Behold that goodly conſecration (ſaith Beza) for the which the Shavelings ſay, that they are more holy, then the very virgin Mary. For that Mary only conceived Chriſt, but they create him.Beza in confeſſ: 241. Whereunto the Virgin might well reply, That ſhe carefully nouriſhed Chriſt whom they cruelly devour. Doſt thou beleeve (ſaid the Doctour to the Martyr) that Chriſts body and bloud is in the Euchariſt really and ſubſtantially? I believe, ſaith he,Act. and Mon. that that is a reall lie, and a ſubſtantiall lie. When Cranmer was brought forth to diſpute in Oxford, Dr Weston Prolocutour thus began the diſputation,Act. and Mon. fol. 1300. Convenistis bodiè fratres, profligaturi deteſtandam illam haereſin de veritate corporis Chriſti in Sacramento, &c. At which miſtake, divers learned men burſt out into a great laughter.

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