For they (u) 1.1 may baptise in the presence of a Byshop or priest, or in their absence (if necessitie so requyre) minister the other Sacrament, lykewyse reade the holy Scriptures and homilies in the congregation, instructe the youth in the Catechisme, and also preache, if he be commaunded by the Byshop.
I knowe not what you meane by your Ponti. tit. in the margent of your booke, but if you meane the booke entituled, the forme and mā∣ner of making and consecrating Byshops, &c. nowe allowed in this Churche of Englande, then do you vntruely reporte it, for there is no mention of baptising in the presence of a Bishop or Priest, neyther yet of ministring the other Sacramente in their absence if necessitie re∣quire: onely the booke sayeth, that a Deacon may baptise or preache, if he be thervnto admitted by the Byshop, and that he may so doe by the worde of God I haue proued before. As for reading the holye Scriptures, and Homelies in the Congregation, also for instruc∣ting the youth in the Catechisme, who doubteth but that a Deacon may doe them?