Secondly a Christian man and a true member of the Church may take bene∣fite by prayer and hearing of the worde of God, whiche yet for diuerse respectes is not meete to receyue the holy Communion: and indéede praying and preaching bée meanes to prepare men, and make them apt to communicate: besydes this he that is weake in fayth, corrupt in iudgement, ignorant in the right vse of the Sacra∣ment, may be admitted to prayer, and to the hearing of the worde, that he may be in∣structed (for fides ex auditu, fayth commeth by hearing) so may he not, to the receyuing of the Supper: thirdely, no man may presume to receyue the Supper except he hath first tryed and examined himselfe: but he ought to come to the hearing of the worde of God, that he may first learne how to examine himselfe. Wherfore this is not true that with what lawfulnesse they may offer themselues to the prayers and to the hearing of the worde of God, they may also offer themselues vnto the Lordes Supper. And you affirme the contrarie. Pag. 35. For there you say that the Magistrate ought to compell such as be Papistes and excommunicate persons to heare Sermons, and Pag. 133. you af∣firme the same in playner wordes, shewing a reason why suche may be admitted to the hearing of the worde, and yet not to the participation of the Lordes Supper. Lastly, I denie that any such perswasion is nourished in them, by suffering thrée or foure to communicate, but the contrarie rather, for the Godly example of these fewe may eyther prouoke the rest to the like diligence, or else confounde them and make them ashamed, especially if eyther that Godly exhortation conteyned in the booke, bée read vnto them, or they be otherwise put in minde of their slacknesse by a Godly and carefull Minister. These circumstances excepted, in the rest of the matter in this part I agrée with you.