SECT. IIII.
The fourth headlesse arrow is their argu∣ment, fetcht from the Communion of the sick; And thus they draw it at vs:
* 1.1 The fourth Rite is the communion of the sicke, which for the most part was administred in one kind. Eusebius in his. 6. booke of his Ecclesiasticall history writeth of a Priest, that gaue to a young Lad à piece of the holy Eucharist to carrie it to old Serapion, that lay on his death-bed and that he commanded that the young Boy should moisten it before hee gaue it him. Paulinus in the life of Saint Ambrose writeth, that Saint Ambrose a little before his death receiued the Lords body, and as soone as he had swallowed it down, presently gaue vp the Ghost. And Amphilochius in the life of Saint Basil writeth, that at his death he re∣ceiued the Sacrament in one kind, namely, in bread, which he had kept along time.
First, these instances are not to the purpose: * 1.2 for our question is of the prohibition of giuing the Laietie the Cup in the Church. These in∣stances are for priuate communions of the sick at home. Our question is of members of the