To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
AND now, as to what belongs to the Prescription or Appointment of such, as ought both to Receive and Administer this Sacrament, is also not obscurely deliver'd in those words aforesaid; For it is there shown, that the proper Mini∣sters
of this Sacrament are the Elders of the Church; in whose name or in whose stead may not be understood to come the Elders or Chief among the People, but either Bishops, or Priests being Presbyters rightly ordain'd by them with the Imposition of Hands. It does also declare, That this Unction is to be apply'd to the Sick, but more especially to those, who lie so dangerously ill, that they may be thought at the end of their Life, whence it is call'd the Sacrament of Souls Departing. But if the Sick, after having receiv'd this Unction, grow well again, they may a second time be helped by this Sacrament, when they fall into the like danger of Life again: Wherefore, by no means ought they to be heard, who, against so plain and clear an opinion of St. James the Apostle, teach, That this Unction is of humane Invention, or a Ceremony taken up by the Fathers, having neither command of God, nor promise of Grace for it; Nor they who say that it is now ceased, as if it were only to be referr'd to the Primitive Church for the Grace of working Cures: Nor they who say that the Rite and Custom, which the Holy Romish Church observes, is contrary to the opinion of St. James the Apostle, and therefore ought to be changed into another: Nor, lastly, they, who affirm, That this Extream Unction may be Contemned without Sin in the Faith∣ful; For these do almost manifestly thwart the plain Words of the Apostle. Nor indeed does the Church of Rome, which is the Mother and Mistress of all others, observe ought in the administration of this Unction, as to those things which make up the Substance of this Sacrament, but what the blessed St. James hath pre∣scribed. Nor can there be such a Contempt of so great a Sacrament without great impiety, and Injuring of the Holy Ghost himself.
These are the Doctrines about the Sacraments of Pennance and Extream Un∣ction which this Holy Oecumenick Council professeth and teacheth, and propo∣seth to all the Faithful in Christ to believe and hold: And does deliver the follow∣ing Canons to be Inviolably kept, condemning and cursing to Eternity those that affirm the contrary.