BEfore wee shall say any thing our selves of the Primitive Custome, in using Both kinds in the administration of this Sacrament, and the extent thereof, both in the longitude of Continuance, and latitude of Vniversality, wee are ready to [ 20] heare how farre your owne Doctors will yeeld unto us, in both these points, touching the publike use of Both kinds. Wher∣fore, hearken but unto the Marginals, and you shall finde your Iesuites, with others, uttering these voyces:f 1.1 Wee must con∣fesse, Wee doe confesse; yea, Wee do ingenuously confesse a Custome of both kinds (aswell to the Laicks as Priests) to have beene in the Primitive Church most frequent and generall: as is proved by the ancient Fathers both Greeke and Latine, among whom are Leo and Gregorie (both) Popes of Rome; yea and universall also for a long time, continuing a thousand yeares in the Church of Rome, and in [ 30] the Greeke Church unto this day. So they.
Where wee see both the Antiquity and Vniversality thereof to the full, which it were easie for us to have shewne Gradatim, descending downe from the first Age unto the twelfth; but that when wee have as much confessed as neede be proved, it might [ 40]