not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption." If, you are but sure you know bread and wine, says Baxter, when you see, and feel, and taste, and smell them, then you are at the end of this controversy.

XXIX.

OF THE WICKED, WHICH EAT NOT THE BODY OF CHRIST, IN THE USE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER.

The wicked, and such as be void of a lively faith, although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth (as St. Augustine saith) the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, yet, in no wise are they partakers of Christ, but rather, to their condemnation, do eat and drink, the sign or sacrament of so great a thing.

Q. What do you say of the wicked, and such as be void of a lively faith?

A. Although they do carnally and visibly press with their teeth, (as St. Augustine saith,) the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, yet in no wise are they partakers of Christ.

Q. What do they rather eat and drink?

A. To their condemnation they do eat and drink the sign, or sacrament of so great a thing.

Scripture Proofs.

1 Corinthians x. 21. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of Devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of Devils.

1 Corinthians xi. 29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

The inward and spiritual effects of the sacrament depend upon the state and disposition of him who communicates; so we of the Church of England, who own no other presence but an inward and spiritual one, cannot conceive that the wicked who believe not in Christ do receive Him. This Article is drawn up in the very words of St. Augustine, and entirely overthrows the doctrine of Transubstantiation; for if the elements be changed into the very body and blood of Christ, then no reason can be assigned why wicked men, and even rats and mice, may not eat the body of Christ. Origen says, the good eat the living bread which came down from heaven; but the wicked eat dead bread, which is death.'

It is a question whether the eating of the flesh of the Son of Man and drinking his blood (John vi. 53.) is to be understood of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, because it was not appointed till a year after these words were spoken.

XXX.

OF BOTH KINDS.

The cup of the Lord is not to be denied to the lay-people: for, both the parts of the Lord's sacrament, by Christ's ordinance and commandment, ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike.

Q. What do you say of the cup of the Lord?
A. That it is not to be denied to the lay-people.
Q. Whom do you mean by lay-people?
A. People distinct from the clergy.

Q. For what reason is the cup not to be denied to the lay-people?

A. Because both parts of the Lord's sacrament, by Christ's ordinance and commandment, ought to be ministered to all Christian men alike.

Scripture Proofs.

Mark xiv. 23. And He took the cup; and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them: and they all drank of it.

1. Corinthians xi. 26. As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lords death till He come. Matthew xxvi. 27. Drink ye all of it.

Those who refuse the Cup to the Laity, and give an unbroken wafer instead of broken bread, in effect disannul our Lords institution, and substitute another in its place.

It is material to notice the reason assigned by our Redeemer why all the Apostles were to drink of the Cup," for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins." All, therefore, who stand in need of remission of sins, are to drink of the Cup; that is, all mankind, Laity as well as Clergy.