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HAMILTON’S FACILE TRAICTISE, l600.
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The ane or the vther mon be the table of deuils. Bot wha ar
participant of the communion at the table of deuils (says the
Apostle) hes fellowschipe with deuils and ar maid partakers of
thame and of thair seruice. Thairfore wha ar participent at the
5 table of this Caluinian communion hes fellowschipe with deuils,
becaus thay ar maid partakers of thair seruice. This is the iust
reuard whilk thay ressaue for thair communion with the Ministers,
agains the knawin veritie. Thir politiks flatters thame selfis in
this impietie, estimand that it is na sinne to eat and drink bread
10 and wyne, whilks ar guid creatures of God. Lat thir grosse
Christians consider that the Idolathits war guid createurs of God
in thame selfis, yit the communion thairof was sa euil, that it
maid the ressauers of the same partakers of deuils and of thair
seruice. In lyk maner, albeit the braid and wyne in the Caluinian
15 communion be guid in thame selfis, yit becaus thay ar apply it
thairin to a fals vse, repugnant directlie to Christs institution,
thay mak the ressauers thairof partakers to the worscheping and
seruice of dewils, and be this thay mak thame selfis vnworthie to
ressaue the trew communion of Christs pretious bodie and bluid
20 at the table of the lord, be the whilk thay suld be nourisit spiri-
tuallie in saule and bodie to aeternel gloire.
The Sacrament of Mariage.
. . . When the Apostle sayes that Mariage A a he page 418.
subioines, I say, in Christ and his kirk. Seing than that mariage Ephes. v.
amangis trew Christians, quha ar membres of Christs Catholik
25 kirk, conferris grace for thair in wart sanctification, and to fortifie
thair spiritual vnion : thairfore mariage amangis trew Christians,
is a trew sacrament. In this it differs from the Mariage of
pagans and heretiks, quhais mariage is not a sacrament, and
consequentlie thay ar destitut of this sacramental grace, quhilk
30 is the caus of sa lytil loue and fidelitie, as is sein betuix mariet
personnes amangis thame. Luther the first autheur of al thir

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