e in Zion, in the words which
the prelate citeth against us, is, that they slept upon beds of ivory
(such was their softness and superfluity), and swimmed in excessive
pleasures upon their couches; and, incontinent, their filthy and muddy
stream of carnal delicacy and excessive voluptuousness which defiled their
beds, led him back to the unclean fountain out of which it issued, even
their riotous pampering of themselves at table; therefore he subjoineth,
"And eat the lambs out of the flock," &c. For _ex mensis itur ad cubilia,
ex gula in venerem_, saith Cornelius a Lapide, commenting upon the same
text. Thus have I cleared the place in such sort, that the Bishop cannot
but shoot short of his aims; wherefore I go on to other replies.

4. If the apostles, when they received the Lord's supper, or the Jews,
when they did eat at table, were lying all along, how could their mouths
receive drink unspilt? or how could they have the use of both their arms?
which the Bishop himself would not, I am sure, gainsay, if he would once
try the matter in his own person, and essay to eat and drink whilst lying
along.

5. The words used by Matthew, chap. xxvi. 10, and by Mark, chap. xiv. 18,
where they speak of Christ sitting down with the twelve, is also used by
John, chap. vi. 11, where he speaketh of the peoples' sitting down upon
the grass to eat the loaves and fishes: and will any man think that the
people did eat lying along upon the grass, where they might far better sit
upright?

6. If our opposites like to speak with others, then let them look back
upon the testimonies which I have alleged before. Jansenius putteth
_discubuisse et sedisse_; Martyr, _sedentibus aut discumbentibus_. Pareus
useth the word _consedisse_; Meisnerus,(1248) _consedendo; Evangelista_,
saith Dr Stella,(1249) _dicit dominum discubuisse, id est sedisse ad
mensam_.

7. If they like to speak to themselves: Camero,(1250) speaking of John's
leaning on Christ's bosom at supper, saith, _Christus autem sedebat
medius_; Dr Morton saith,(1251) it cannot be denied that the gesture of
Christ and his apostles at the last supper was sitting,--only, saith he,
the evangelists leave it uncertain whether this sitting was upright, or
somewhat leaning.

_Sect._ 8. Their third answer is, that Christ's sitting at the last supper
is no more exemplary and imitable than the upper chamber, or the night
season, or the sex and number of communicants, &c.

_Ans._ 1. As for the se