The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…

We desire that at the distribution of the Bread & Wine to the Communicants we may use the words of our Saviour as near as ¹may be, and that the Minister be not required to deliver the bread & wine into every particular Communicants hand, and to repeat the words to each one in the singular number, but that it may suffice to speak them to divers jointly, according to our Saviours example. We also desire that kneeling at the Sacrament (it not being the gesture which the Apostles used, though Christ was personally present amongst them, nor that which was used in the purest and primitive times of the Church) may be left free, as it was 1 & 2 Ea. 6. As touching Kneeling, &c. they may be used or left, as every mans devotion serveth, without blame.

We desire that at the distribution of the Bread & Wine to the Communicants we may use the words of our Saviour as near as ¹may be, and that the Minister be not required to deliver the bread & wine into every particular Communicants hand, and to repeat the words to eachone in the singular number, but that it may suffice to speak them to divers joyntly, according to our Saviours example. We also desire that kneeling at the Sacrament (it not being the gesture which the Apostles used, though Christ was personally present amongst them, nor that which was used in the purest and primitive times of the Church) may be left free, as it was 1 & 2 Ea. 6. As touching Kneeling, &c. they may be used or left, as every mans devotion serveth, without blame.

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And note, That every Parishioner shall communicate, at the least, three times in the year, of which Easter shall be one; and after shall ¹receive the Sacraments, and other Rites, according to the Orders in this book appointed.