M. Hardinge. The .27. Diuision.
S. Chrysostom••* 1.1 many times exhortinge his people to prepare themselues to receiue their rightes, at least at Easter, in one place saith thus: what meaneth this? The moste parte of you be partakers of this Sacrifice but once in the yeere, some twise, some oftener. Therefore this that I speake, is to al, not to them onely that be here present, but to those also that liue in wildernesse. For they receiue the Sacrament but once in the yere, and peraduenture but once in two yeres. VVel, what then? whome shal wee receiue? those that come but once, or that come often, or that come seldome? Soothely, wee receiue them that come with a pure and a cleane conscience, with a cleane harte, and to be shorte, with a blamelesse life. They that be su••he, let them come alwaies: and they that be not suche, let them not come, not so muche as once. VVhy so? bicause they receiue to them selues iudgement, damnation, and punishement. The auncient doctoures, specially Chrysostome and Augustine, be ful of such sentences.