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Con•stitu 57• unto the arch bishop of Constantinople M•me ⟨image 43⟩hath these words, Etiam prisci••ancitum est legitur. Nulli penitus esse licentiam domi, quae sacratissima sunt agere, sed publice &c. and in the same place. Omnibus interdicimus, magnae huius civitatis habitatoribus, magis autem totius nostre ditionis, in domibus suis habere quasdam quasi orationum domus, & in his sacra celebrare mysteria, & hinc fieri quaedam extranea catholice & Apostolice traditioni contraria. Sed siquidem domos simpliciter aliqui habere putant oportere in sacris suis orationis […] uidelicet gratia, & nullo celebrando penitus horam, quae sacri sunt mysteri•, id eis permittimus. This godly Emperor Raygnid Anno domini 500. whereby it appeareth it was not the manner of those days to celebrate the supper no where but in the congregation openly as the Pesah was commanded to be don, never part of the lam brought unto the sick man. But •tyn in there congregations as ye read Exo. 12. Num. 9. where as Eusebi•s lib. 6. cap. 34. Ecclesiastes, writeth of one or too to whom the bread was ministered in there private houses. It was down upon à singular consideration. The persons that received this sacrament in there private houses were before excommunicated by the authority of God's word, and before there reconciliation fell into this danger of death, by sickness: the deacon was commanded to minister the bread unto them that in the receiving thereof they might declare there true penitence unto the church, and dye in the promises of god that desireth not the death of sinners. In the time of Cyprian it was used to give the bread of the supper unto children if it were given them as à sacrament it ⟨image 43⟩was ill. But I cann•• believe it grant it were, I will not follow Cyprian but the institution of Christ I know that he was but a man and had his faults, as ye may see by his opinion where he would such as were Christened of heretics to be rebaptized. We should not yet by this authority, leave the example of the Apostles. Except it be in such places where as the commune ministry of the church is corrupted, and the sacrament used contrary unto the institution of Christ, there every man may in his private chamber with his Christian and faithful brothers, communicate according unto the order of the scripture. As we s ct. 2, 20.