A69535:564
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.
It is not fit the Minister should have power to deny this viation, or holy Communion 1to any that humbly desire it, according to the Rubric; which no man disturbed in his wits can do, and whosoever does, must in charity be presumed to be penitent, and fit to receive.
It is not fit the Minister should have power to deny this viation, or holy Communion 1to any that humbly desire it, according to the Rubrick; which no man disturbed in his wits can do, and whosoever does, must in charity be presumed to be penitent, and fit to receive.
- 1Sect. 3. p. 34, Exc. 1.
Repl. There is no condition mentioned in the Rubric, but that he (be desirous to receive the Communion in his house) humbly is not there: And why may not a man disturbed in his wits desire the Communion? you deny things that ordinarily fall out, and yet lay the weight of your Cause on that denial. But why must we give the Sacrament to those that have lived in gross ignorance, Infidelity, and profaneness, and never manifested credibly, that they repent? You say that (whosoever desireth the Sacrament, according to the Rubric, must in charity be presumed to be penitent.) But where hath God commanded or approved so blind & dangerous an act as this, under the name of Charity? the ordinary observations ⟨p. 144⟩