VI.
Baptisme shall not be administred but in Church Assem∣blies, where there is a Church publickly setled, and where there is not a publick Church, and the Fathers and Mothers by reason of sickness fear to have their Children christned at Church, the Ministers shall prudently advise what to do in the matter; however that there be the form of a Church, together with Exhortations and Prayers; But if there be no Church, and that an Assembly is not to be had, the Minister shall make no scruple to baptize the Infant of a Believer presented to him, with Prayer and Exhortation.
The Fifty Ninth Cannon of the VI. Oecumenical Council in the year 692, forbids administring Baptisme in Oratories, in private Houses, it requires it should be perform'd in the Catholick Churches, * 1.1 threatning to de∣pose the Church-Men which obey not this Decree, and to Excommunicate the Laity which shall violate it. Nevertheless the same Council permits to do it by ad∣vice of the Bishop of the place, Cannon Thirty First, although the Fifty Eighth of that of Laodicea had ab∣solutely