Alexander Suarez
Puritan Board Freshman
Other than the clarification of communicants sitting about the table during the administration of the Lord’s Supper, what differences are you referring to? Yes, there were different conceptions in the Assembly of what was required corporately to ordinarily prepare for the Lord's Supper (see Baillie quote I provided above), but not between the Scots commissioners themselves. I think it is fair to summarize the Scots' position thus: The Lord's Supper should fittingly (which I suggest is the meaning of "convenient"/"convenience" in what you quoted above) be observed as often as the congregants can be prepared.
I am a bit confused as to why you brought up "sitting about the table." My original post was limited to the question of frequency.
You then brought up the matter of preparation, and I stated that it seems to me there were different conceptions of what was required corporately to prepare for the Lord's Supper (as the quotation from Baillie illustrates).
I did not claim that there were differences among the Scottish commissioners nor the CoS. That is a distinct issue. My claim was and is that there were different conceptions on frequency and corporate preparation in the Westminster Assembly.
Does that help clarify?