The Lords Supper or, A vindication of the sacrament of the blessed body and blood of Christ according to its primitive institution. In eight books; discovering the superstitious, sacrilegious, and idolatrous abomination of the Romish Master. Together with the consequent obstinacies, overtures of perjuries, and the heresies discernable in the defenders thereof. By Thomas Morton B.D. Bp. of Duresme.

That there are Sixe other Defects able to frustrate the Consecra∣tion, by reason of the person of the Priest himselfe, as being Incompetent for want of due Baptisme. SECT. IV.

FOr first you have aa 1.1 Case of one being a Priest, who [ 30] had not beene baptized; and next concerning Defects of Bap∣tisme, you resolve (as before of pronunciation of the forme of the Eucharist)b 1.2 that if in pronunciation of the wordes of Baptisme [Baptizo te in nomine Patris, Filij, & Spiritus Sancti] the Minister (whether man, or woman) shall vary one word, which may corrupt the true sense of the words, although but in one Syllable, or Letter, be it either by adding, removing, changing, or by any of the sixe Defects, (already spoken of) as in saying, Ego te baptizo in nomine Patriae, &c. or the like, then the whole Consecration is of no effect. The possibility of [ 40] womens erring in their ministery of Baptisme, Cardinal Pole may seeme to teach in that his Article, whereby it is inquired, c 1.3 Whether Parsons, Vicars, and Curates be diligent in teaching women to baptize Children after the maner of the Church.

Take with you another Case, supposed by your selves, the d 1.4 Author delivereth it at length, the briefe is this: The woman bap∣tizeth an Infant, because it is the Child of a noble man, in Rosewater, the Baptisme is voyd; the Childe is afterwards ordained a Bishop, & he is after that sent by the Pope into divers parts of the world, and by him innumerable Priests are ordained; after the death of the Bishop, the case is made knowne, but who they were that had beene ordained cannot possibly be knowne, whose Ordi∣nations are all invalid, and their Ministery and Consecrations of [ 10] no effect. What remedy now in this Case? None (saith the Author) at all, except there be a Privilege in the Pope to consti∣tute all them Priests, who had beene so irregularly ordained, onely by his word, Dicendo, sint Saderdotes, saying, Be they all Priests. So hee, who notwithstanding had rather thinke the Case could not possibly happen, than to trust to this Remedy. How-ever it might be in this one, the possibility of the other Six Defects neither man nor woman can deny, every one con∣cluding a Materiall Idolatry.

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Notes

• a 1.1

  Decret. li. 13. tit. 43. cap. 3. Vehiens ad gradum Sacerdotij comperit tandē quod non sit baptizatus, ri∣tè fecimus ipsum baptizari.
• b 1.2

  Bellarm. Vel una litera. De Sa∣cram. in Gen. cap. 25. §. Secunda Prop.—Haec sunt necessaria necessitate Sacra∣menti, ut nimirùm non peccet Sacerdos corrumpendo verba Consecrationis: ut in Baptismo si quis dicat, Baptizo te in nomine Matris, &c. Alan. Card de Sacrā. in Gen. cap. 21. And Azorius, See above, Sect. 2. lit. (c)
• c 1.3

  M. Fox his Acts and Monum. pag. 1969.
• d 1.4

  Cosmus Philiarch. de offic. Sacerd. Tom. 1. lib. 1. cap. 14. Potest dari casus, sicut audivi datum esse, quòd filius alicujus nobilis sit à leva∣trice baptizatus aquà ••osaccâ, quia est filius nobilis, &c.