A Testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ, written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest : being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a charge, to the people ; together with the two epistles of Aelfric on the sam subject . in, that the antient Writers ofthe Church, when they have occafion toIpeak of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper,ufe the names of fable and Altar promifcu-oufly. Mr Mede, in his Difcourfe of Altars(P, 386.) is of opinion, the Communion-fable was ufually calld by the name of Altarfor the two firfl A
A Testimony of antiquity concerning the sacramental body and blood of Christ, written in the old Saxon tongue before the conquest : being a homily appointed, in the reign of the Saxons, to be spoken at Easter, as a charge, to the people ; together with the two epistles of Aelfric on the sam subject . in, that the antient Writers ofthe Church, when they have occafion toIpeak of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper,ufe the names of fable and Altar promifcu-oufly. Mr Mede, in his Difcourfe of Altars(P, 386.) is of opinion, the Communion-fable was ufually calld by the name of Altarfor the two firfl Ages, and that the namefable is not to be found in any Author ofthofe Ages now remaining. IgnathisJrenauSyand Origen ufe the fame Word in fpeakingof the Co?nmunion-fable : and fei^tullianfrequently applies to it the name of AraDei and Altare, We know likewife, thattho the Primitive Chriftians denied, theyhad any Altar, in the Heathen or JewijhSenfe of the Word, yet they always declar-ed they had one for their own Myjiical Un-bloody Sacrifice, as they calFd the Euchariji;^nd SynefmSy fpeaking gf the Holy Table^H expiefsly [50] exprefsly ftyles it dvAiy^ctzrov ^^y,lv^ the UnhkodyAltar, But the mod that can be learnt fromthefe Authorities, is, the very early Abufeftnd 7nifapplication of the VOST
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