A26853:591
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointedAn accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed
An account of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persuasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.An accompt of all the proceedings of the commissioners of both persvvasions appointed by His Sacred Majesty, according to letters patent, for the review of the Book of common prayer, &c.
London : s.n., 1661
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Sect. 11. Communion three times a year.
Answ. [This desire to have the Parishioners at liberty, whether they will ever receive the Communion or not, savours of too much neglect, and coldness of affection towards the holy Sacrament: it is more sitting that order should be taken to bring it into more frequent use, as it was in the first and best times: Our Rubr. is directly according to the ancient Counc. of Eliberis, cap. 81. Grat. de Consecrat. no man is to be accounted a good Catholic Christian that does not receive three times in the year: The distempers which indispose men to it, must be corrected, and not the receiving of the Sacrament therefore omitted: It is a pitiful pretence to say they are not fit, and make their sin their excuse: formerly our Church was quarrelled at for not compelling men to the Communion; now for urging men: How shall she please?] Hooker, l. 5. s. 8.
Answ. [This desire to have the Parishioners at liberty, whether they will ever receive the Communion or not, savours of too much neglect, and coldness of affection towards the holy Sacrament: it is more sitting that order should be taken to bring it into more frequent use, as it was in the first and best times: Our Rubr. is directly according to the ancient Counc. of Eliberis, cap. 81. Grat. de Consecrat. no man is to be accounted a good Catholick Christian that does not receive three times in the year: The distempers which indispose men to it, must be corrected, and not the receiving of the Sacrament therefore omitted: It is a pittiful pretence to say they are not fit, and make their sin their excuse: formerly our Church was quarrelled at for not compelling men to the Communion; now for urging men: How shall she please?] Hooker, l. 5. s. 8.