The communion of the laity
Subtitle: an essay, chiefly historical, on the rule and practice of the church with respect to the reception of the consecrated elements, at the celebration of the holy eucharist
Publisher: Rivingtons
Published: 1855
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: INTRODUCTION. Pp. 1, 2.; title: CHAPTER I. Pp. 3—69.; title: Section I. Of Divine service in the primitive Church.; title: All present at the celebration of the Lord's Supper communicated. Questions to which this rule gave rise. Tertullian. — Augustine. — Ambrose. — Clemens Alexandrinus.; title: Note 7, p. 6. Peculiar use of the word synaxis.; title: Note 4, p. 10. Frequency of celebration in the early Church.; title: Sect. II. The Scriptural accounts of our Lord's institution militate against the division of the rite into a Sacrifice and a Sacrament. Sect. III. The analogy of the Jewish sacrifices equally against it. Note 6 , p. 20. Josephus misquoted by Mr. Wilberforce.; title: Note 3 , p. 23. Mistakes of Mr. Wilberforce with regard to the Passover. Sect. IV. The Sacrament and the commemoration inseparable according to the Fathers. Tertullian. — Basil. — Augustine. — Chrysostom. — The Council of Toledo.; title: We commemorate the sacrifice of Christ by partaking of the symbols.; title: Basil. — Augustine. — Cyril of Alexandria. — Leo. — Pseudo-Ambrose. Remission of sins ascribed not to the sacrifice, but to the Communion. Hippolytus.— Cyprian. — Ambrose. — Cyril of Alexandria.— The ancient Liturgies. Inference from this.; title: Sect. V. Early language respecting the Consistentes a proof that in the opinion of the first ages there could be no offering without partaking.; title: Peculiar custom at Alexandria. Clemens Alexandrinus. — Timothy I. — Eusebius Alex.; title: Sect, VI, Only mortal sin held to disqualify for Communion. Origen. — Cyprian. — Chrysostom. — Augustine. — The author De Sacramentis. — Eusebius of Alexandria. — Gennadius Massil. — Isidore of Seville.— Rabanus. — Walafridus Strabo. — The Third Council of Tours. — Zonaras.; title: Agreeably to this principle, S. Chrysostom declares that all who do not receive must be considered penitents.; title: Sect. VII. Ecclesiastical decisions against the presence of non-participants.— The ninth Apostolical Canon.— The Council of Antioch, a.d. 341.; title: The version of the Apostolical Canon by Dionysius Exiguus. — Its authority in the West. — Followed by Cresconius, Regino, Burchard, Ivo, Gratian.; title: Interpretation of the Apostolical Canon by the Eastern canonists. Zonaras. — Balsam on.; title: The origin of the Antidoron.; title: Note 8, p. 56. Opinion of Zonaras misrepresented.; title: Note 5, p. 59. Earliest notices of the Antidoron.; title: Sect. VIII. Testimony of writers, from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, to the primitive usage of communicating all present. Micrologus. — Speculum Anon. — John Beleth. — Petrus Blesensis. — Scriptor Anon. De Off. Div. — Hugo Cardinalis. — Durant. — Ralph De Rivo. — Aquinas. — De Lyra. — Denys a Ryckel. — Gemma Animse. — Clichtovaeus, — Coclilaeus.— Cassander.; title: Sect, IX. Testimony of Roman Catholic writers since the Council of Trent. Bona. — Sala. — Mabillon. — Schelstrate, — Dupin. — Van Espen. — Martene. — Ciglieri. — Maskell.; title: CHAPTER II. Pp. 70 — 99.; title: Section I, When the primitive rule was no longer observed, 11011 - participants left before the Communion.; title: Sect. II. In the sixth century they were ordered not to leave before the Bishop gave his blessing ; — which was before the Communion.; title: Note 6 , p. 74. The Canons of Agde and Orleans on the departure of non-participants.; title: The mass considered over before the Communion began.; title: Note 4 , p. 78. On the use of the Lord's Prayer and the blessing after the consecration.; title: Sect. III. Growing neglect of Communion by the laity.; title: Attempts to check the evil.; title: Sect. IV. Rise of solitary and private masses. They were con- demned at first as involving a contradiction; but defended by Peter Damian, Innocent III., &c.; title: Sect. V. Theory of spiritual reception. The priest held to receive for the people, as the mouth for the members. Strabo. — Hugo Victorinus. — Honorius Augustod. — De Lyra. — Vincent Ferrer. — Eggeling and Biel. — Clichtovseus. — Myconius, &c.; title: Sect. VI. State of things at the time of the Reformation. Erasmus. — Bucer. — Council of Trent.; title: CHAPTER III. Pp. 100—128.; title: Section I. The first Book of Edward VI. ordered non-participants to leave the quire ; the second , to leave the Church. — A proposition, a.d. 1559, that they should leave before the Nicene Creed. The order to leave the Church imposed, as the nearest practicable approach to the primitive rule. Cranmer. — Guest. — Jewel.; title: Sect. II. Testimonies of English divines before the last revision of the Liturgy. Whitgift. — Hooker.— Whitaker. — Field. — Overal. — Andrewes. — Bedel. — Laud, Juxon, Wren. — Montague. — John Forbes. — L'Estrange. — Cosin.; title: Note 2 , p. 110. Overal and Cosin misrepresented by Mr. Wilberforce.; title: Sect. III. The warning to depart withdrawn at the last revision, because no longer necessary, and, therefore, not appropriate. Its principle still approved by our Divines. Payne. — Beveridge. — Johnson. — Bingham. — Waterland.; title: Sect. IV. Undue reverence towards the Consecrated elements. Adoration of the host.; title: Tendency to such excesses in the English advocates of staying without receiving.; title: Condemnation of gazing and adoring by the English Church in accordance with the teaching of the early Fathers. Origen. — The Bishops at Nicaea. — Athanasius. — Augustine. — Nilus.; title: Conclusion.