A69535:217
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by…
The grand debate between the most reverend bishops and the Presbyterian divines appointed by His Sacred Majesty as commissioners for the review and alteration of the Book of common prayer, &c. : being an exact account of their whole proceedings : the most perfect copy.
London printed : s.n., 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Of the Communion of the sick.
But if the sick person be not able to come to Church, yet is desirous 1to receive the Communion in his house, then must he give knowledge over night, or early in the morning to the Curate, and having a convenient place in the sick mans house, he shall there administer the holy Communion.
BUt if the sick person be not able to come to Church, yet is desirous 1to receive the Communion in his house, then must he give knowledge over night, or early in the morning to the Curate, and having a convenient place in the sick mans house, he shall there administer the holy Communion.
- 1Rub.
Considering that many sick persons, either by their ignorance or vicious life, without any evident manifestation of repentance, 1or by the nature of the disease disturbing their intellectuals, be unmeet for receiving the Sacrament: It is proposed that the Minister be not enjoined to administer the Sacrament to every sick person that shall desire it, but only as he shall judge expedient.