For the Latin Church, Innocentius 1. Bishop of Rome may satisfy us. Decentius of Eugubium consulting him about divers particulars concerning the Church Service; Innocent ein his Epistle in answer thereto, refers him, not to any written orders or prescriptions, which may well be presumed he would have done, if there had been any; but to what he had seen practiced at Rome, when he was there. But more particularly and expressly, Can. 3. he determines that the Presbyter might anoint the Baptized with Chrism, non tamen frontem ex eodem oleo signare; but not anoint their Foreheads with it; that being reserved by him (and first by him) to Bishops: But what words should be used in that Rite, he might not tell him in writing; verbo vero dicere non possum, ne magis prodere videar, quam ad consultationem respondere; least he should seem a Betrayer (of the Churches Arcana) rather then an Adviser. Now if they were thus reserved and cautious in a Baptismal Rite; as much or more caution would be thought requisite as to the Lords Supper, which was anciently, in ⟨p. 41⟩their stile and account, secretumf, and [Greek or Hebrew]. And indeed he shows himself no less reserved about the Eucharist; so we find him, Cap. 1. Cum post omnia quae aperire non debeo, pax sit necessario indicenda; Those things, which past in the celebration of the Eucharist, before the salutation of Peace (before which were all the Prayers) he might not open to him in Writing; and in reference to the whole†, thus, towards the conclusion, cap. 8. Reliqua vero quae scribi fas non erat, quum adfueris, interrogati, poterimus edicere. For the rest, which it is not lawful to write, when thou art here, we may, being desired, declare them. Now, if to write this in an Epistle to a particular person, who was not only [Greek or Hebrew], but, as Nyssen speaks, [Greek or Hebrew] (de Christi Baptism.) would have been no less then prodere, no better then treachery, a betraying the arcana ecclesiae; what would it have been to have had them written for public use, and exposed in Common Prayer Books?
For the Latin Church, Innocentius 1. Bishop of Rome may satisfie us. Decentius of Eugubium consulting him about divers particulars concerning the Church Service; Innocent ein his Epistle in answer thereto, refers him, not to any written orders or prescriptions, which may well be presumed he would have done, if there had been any; but to what he had seen practiced at Rome, when he was there. But more particularly and expresly, Can. 3. he determines that the Presbyter might anoint the Baptized with Chrism, non tamen frontem ex eodem oleo signare; but not anoint their Foreheads with it; that being reserved by him (and first by him) to Bishops: But what words should be used in that Rite, he might not tell him in writing; verbo vero dicere non possum, ne magis prodere videar, quam ad consultationem respondere; least he should seem a Betrayer (of the Churches Arcana) rather then an Adviser. Now if they were thus reserved and cautious in a Baptismal Rite; as much or more caution would be thought requisite as to the Lords Supper, which was antiently, in ⟨p. 41⟩their stile and account, secretumf, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. And indeed he shews himself no less reserved about the Eucharist; so we find him, Cap. 1. Cum post omnia quae aperire non debeo, pax sit necessario indicenda; Those things, which past in the celebration of the Eucharist, before the salutation of Peace (before which were all the Prayers) he might not open to him in Writing; and in reference to the whole†, thus, towards the conclusion, cap. 8. Reliqua vero quae scribi fas non erat, quum adfueris, interrogati, poterimus edicere. For the rest, which it is not lawful to write, when thou art here, we may, being desired, declare them. Now, if to write this in an Epistle to a particular person, who was not only 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, but, as Nyssen speaks, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (de Christi Baptism.) would have been no less then prodere, no better then treachery, a betraying the arcana ecclesiae; what would it have been to have had them written for publick use, and exposed in Common Prayer Books?
- eSaepe dilectionem tuam ad Urbem venisse, ac nobiscum in ecclesia convenisse, & quem morem vel in consecrandis mysteriis, vel in caeteris agendis arcanis teneat, cognovisse, non dubium est; quod sufficere arbitrarer ad informationem ecclesiae tuae, vel reformationem—nisi de aliquibus consulendum nos esse dixisses. Praefat. epist. ad Decentium, in Crab, Conc. tom. 1. p. 452.Saepe dilectionem tuam ad Ʋrbem venisse, ac nobiscum in ecclesia convenisse, & quem morem vel in consecrandis mysteriis, vel in caeteris agendis arcanis teneat, cognovisse, non dubium est; quod sufficere arbitrarer ad informationem ecclesiae tuae, vel reformationem—nisi de aliquibus consulendum nos esse dixisses. Praefat. epist. ad Decentium, in Crab, Conc. tom. 1. p. 452.
- fInnocentius negat se tunc temporis, i. e. cum scriberet ad Decentium Eugubinum debere dicere, Chamier, t. 4. l. 6. c. 8. Sect. 52. least the writing might have come into the hands of the non-initiated. Populus pars erat [Greek or Hebrew], pars [Greek or Hebrew], illis neque videre licebat, neque audire, & hi satis erant, ut non auderet omnia literis Innocentius committere, Sect. 53, Vid. Bellar. Sect. 50.Innocentius negat se tunc temporis, i. e. cum scriberet ad Decentium Eugubinum debere dicere, Chamier, t. 4. l. 6. c. 8. Sect. 52. least the writing might have come into the hands of the non-initiated. Populus pars erat 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, pars 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, illis neque videre licebat, neque audire, & hi satis erant, ut non auderet omnia literis Innocentius committere, Sect. 53, Vid. Bellar. Sect. 50.
- †Cyril [Greek or Hebrew]. If a Catechumen ask thee what the Teachers say, [Greek or Hebrew], &c.—Aegroti vinum quandoque pollulant; quod si intempellive detur [Greek or Hebrew], &c. Catech. 6. [Greek or Hebrew].Cyril 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. If a Catechumen ask thee what the Teachers say, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c.—Aegroti vinum quandoque pollulant; quod si intempellive detur 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c. Catech. 6. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
