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IESVIT. [ A]
Also because the Manichees, being impiously per suaded * 1.1 that wine was the gall of the prince of darknesse, did su∣perstitiously abstaine from the Chalice. The Church in dete∣station * 1.2 of this errour, commaunded, for a time, Communion vnder both kinds: Vpon which ocasion Gelasius Pope made * 1.3 the decree recorded by Gratian, aut integra Sacramenta suscipiant, aut ab integris arceantur. And why, because [ B] such Abstinents, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 qua superstitione docentur a∣stringi, that is were superstitious, not abstaining out of any deuotion, but out of impious persuasion of the impuri∣tie of Gods creature. Wherefore the crime with which some Protestants charge vs, That our receiuing vnder the sole forme of Bread, is to iumpe in opinion with the Ma∣nichees, we may (as Doctor Morton confesseth) reiect as in∣jurious, * 1.4 saying, That it was not the Manichees 〈◊〉〈◊〉 [ C] from wine, but the reason of their for 〈◊〉〈◊〉, that was iudged hereticall. This custome was the cause that Cypri∣an * 1.5 saieth, That the Law 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the eating of bloud, but the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 commaunds the same should be drunke, not only because some Christians, to wit, Priests are bound to 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Bloud of Christ, but also because Christ in his 〈◊〉〈◊〉 did 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the Sacrament of his Bodie and Bloud in both kinds. Whence grew the custome of the Primitiue Church, to receiue in both kinds, and by custome there grew further, [ D] an Oligation to drinke of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 there were some iust cause of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, as in the sicke, and in some that by nature loathed wine.