ARTICLE I.
WHere there is not a settled Church, it is not permitted to celebrate the Lords Supper.
The reason of this First Article is, because the Lords Supper is so called by reason of the Communion of those which participate thereof, it is the Opinion of St. Chry∣sostom which he has thus Expressed, * 1.1 The Apostle calls it the Lords Supper, because all those which are invited, take it in common, with concord. The Author of the Commen∣taries on St. Pauls Epistles in St. Jerom's Works, saith, That the Lords Supper ought to be common to all: * 1.2 The Lords Supper, saith St. Isidore of Sevil, is so called, from the Communion of those which Eat of it, and the Com∣municants, from their assembling in Common; * 1.3 thence it is that Justin Martyr writes in his first Apology that they assembled on Sundays from the Cities, and from the Country round about, to hear the Word of God, * 1.4 and to partake of the Holy Sacrament, and he also observes they sent some to the absent, to shew doubtless the Com∣munion they had together, and I can't tell but 'twas with respect hereunto that the Council of Laodicea conceived in these Terms the 58th. Cannon; Bishops nor Priest must not make Oblations in private Houses: that is to say, that they should not there Celebrate the Eucharist, which was not begun to be celebrated without Communicants