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Pope Innocent the third ordained,¹ that the sacrament of the altar should be kept in the churches continually under ⟨image 129⟩lock and key, to the intent to be in a readiness at all times, least, saith he, they that are sick, should want the spiritual comfort in the troublesome time of death. In the year,² &c. Lib. Concil. Chron. Pant. But in the primitive church there was no such reservation and keeping of the sacramental bread either for the sick or for the hole, as it is at this present. For in the Apostles time and many years after, if any bread remained of the communion, it was not reserved & hanged up in the Pyx to be worshipped, as the use is among the papists, brought in by the devil and Antichrist, but it was given to the poor people to eat. And in the time of Hesichius & of Origen (as their commentaries upon Leviticus do testify) the bread that remained after the communion, was burnt to ashes. And Clement Pope of Rome made a decree, that if any of the sacramental bread remained, after the Lords Supper was once done, the clerks should not reserve it to be hanged up and worshipped, but consume and eat it.³ The old custom was this saith Evagrius in his ecclesiastical history, ⟨p. 100⟩that when much of the holy parts of the undefiled body of Christ our God did remain, that the young children, which were wont to go to school, should be called to eat them, And Saint Hierome witnesseth also in his commentary upon Saint Pauls Epistle to the Corinthians, that after the communion, whatsoever they left, saith he, of the sacrifices (he meaneth the sacramental bread and wine) they consumed it there together in the Church,⁴ eating their common Supper.

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