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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER I. textit{Of the most noted or most considerable Names under wMch tJte Holy Communion hath been anciently spoken of. BEFORE I corne directly to treat of the thing, it may be proper to observe something of the names it has anciently gone under: which I shall endeavour to range in chronological order, according to the time when each name may be supposed to have come up. or first to have grown into vogue. A.d. 33. textit{Breaking of Bread. The oldest name given to this holy ceremony, or religious service, seems to have been that of ' breaking bread, ' taken from what the disciples saw done by our Lord in the solemnity of the institution. I choose to set the date according to the time of the first clear instance we have of it, rather than according to the time when St. Luke related it in his history; because very probably he followed the style of thos-e who then celebrated it. St. Luke in his history of the Acts, speaking of the disciples, says: ' They continued steadfastly in the Apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers V The circumstances of the text plead strongly for interpreting it of the Holy Communion: and the Syriac version (which is of great antiquity) renders it 'breaking of the Eucharist6;' which issome confirmation of the same construction. A little lower, in the same chapter, mention is again made of the disciples, as ' continuing daily in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house1;' or rather 'in a house, set apart for holy uses e.'; * I said, first clear instance; kind; yet since it is a disputed because though Luke xxiv. 30, 35 construction, and such as cannot has been understood of the Kucha- be ascertained, 1 call that instance rist by some ancients, and more not clear, but pass it off as none, moderns, (Romanist...
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