...situation did not imply that the communion table ought to be esteemed "a true and proper altar, wherein Christ is again really sacrificed ; but it is and...primitive Church called it an altar and in no other." To protect the table so placed from irreverent treatment and abuse, it should be "decently severed...

...should be movable, does not imply that ' it is or ought to be esteemed a true or proper altar, wherein Christ is again really sacrificed, but it is, and...Primitive Church called it an altar, and in no other.' This distinction is most valuable, most historical, and sound. The mediaeval Mass was a literal sacrifice...

...that this situation of the Holy Table doth not imply that it is or ought to be esteemed a true and proper altar, whereon Christ is again really sacrificed,...Primitive Church called it an altar, and in no other. And because experience hath shewed us how irreverent the behaviour of many people is in many places,...

...the canons, drawn up for that year, and recommended that "the communion table be called an altar ... in that sense in which the primitive Church called it an altar .. . that it be placed in the east end of the chancel and railed in to avoid irreverent behaviour ....

...that although the table was not 'a true and proper altar, wherein Christ is again sacrificed . . . it is and may be called an altar by us in that sense...which the primitive church called it an altar and no other'.:'' In keeping with Caroline respect for the beauty of holiness, the table or altar was to...

...that this situation of the holy table, doth not imply that it is, or ought to be esteemed a true and proper altar, whereon Christ is again really sacrificed:...primitive church called it an altar, and in no other' (Synodalia. A Collection of Articles of Religion, Canons, and Proceedings of Convocations in the Province...