"III. The outward matter thereof, or Signes, are Bread
and Wine.
IV. The Supper is lame, without both Signes; and to rob
the people of the Cup, is Sacrilege.
V. The inward matter is Christ, with all his satisfaction
and merit.
VI. As it is Jewish superstition, to use unleavened Bread;
so the Popish Penny-wafers are superstitious reliques.
VII. Its outward form consists in Actions and Words.
VIII. The Actions are the breaking of Bread, and powring
out of Wine; the distribution of both Signes, and the receiving thereof
with the hand and mouth.
IX. The word is, the whole Institution, containing the
Eucharist, the command, and the promise; but the promise chiefly."—John
Wollebius, The Abridgment of Christian Divinitie, (1650). |