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MAister Doctor asketh how it is proued that there was any examination of the communicantes. After thys sorte: all thinges necessarye were vsed in the churches of God in ye Apostles times / but examynation of those whose knowledge of the mistery of the gospell was not knowne or doubted of / was a ne∣cessary thing / therfore it was vsed in the churches of God which were in the Apo∣stles tyme. Then he sayeth he is sure there is neither commaundement nor exam∣ple in all the scripture. In the booke of the Chronicles he might haue red / that * 1.1 the Leuites were there commaunded to prepare the people vnto the receyuing of the passeouer / in place whereof we haue the Lordes supper. Now examination being a part of the preparation / it followeth that heere is cōmaundement of the ex∣amination. And how holdeth thys argument / S. Paule commaundeth that eue∣ry man should proue hym selfe / Ergo there is no commaundement that the myni∣ster should proue and examine them? so I may say that euery man is a spirituall king to gouerne hym selfe / therefore he may not be gouerned of others. The au∣thors * 1.2 of the Admonition doe not meane that euery one shoulde be examyned as those whose vnderstanding in the gospell is well knowen / or which doe examyne them selues / and so they interpreate them selues in the. 108. page.