M. Hardinge. The .8. Diuision.
And where as it was ministred in bothe kindes at Corinth, as it appeareth by S. Paule, and in sundrie other places, as wee finde moste euidently in the writinges of diuers auncient Fathers: Yet the Churche hath beene mooued by diuerse and weighty causes, to take order, that the people should re∣ceiue their Communion vnder one kinde, not onely in the Councel of Basil, but also in that of Con∣stance, and longe before them aboue a thousande yeeres, in 52* 1.1 the first Councel of Ephesus, as many doo probably geather, and namely Vrbanus Regius a Doctour of Luthers schoole, confesseth in his Booke De locis Communibus. One cause, and not the least, was, that thereby the heresie of Nestorius might the rather be extinguished, who amongst other errours helde opinion 53* 1.2 that vnder the forme of Breade in the Sacrament is conteined the Body of Christe without his Bloud: and vnder the forme of the Wine, his Bloud onely without his Body. Many other causes mooued those Fathers to take that order, for the auoiding of many inconueniences, daungers and offences, whiche might happen in the vse of the Cuppe: as vnreuerence of so high a Sacrament, whereof Christen people at the begin∣ninge had a maruelous care and regarde: the lothesomenesse of many, that can not brooke the taste of wine: the difficultie of gettinge, and impossibilitie of keepinge wine from corruption, in countries situated neare to the Northe Pole, in that Clyme, where is knowen to be greate extremitie of colde, biside a number of the like. So that it had beene bisides reason, to haue bounde al to the necessitie of bothe kindes.