In what place is it to be administred?
In a publick assēbly, not to euery man priuately, nor to such as ly sick at home, or which are readie to die, out of the congregation, and partaking together of the faithfull: because it ought to bee ecclesiasticall and publick,c 1.1 not 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉b 1.2 that is a priuate Sup∣per, and the Supper is a symbole of the communion of Saints: neither ought men to open a gappe to the opinion of the worke wrought, and of a preposterous confidence, as is in the popish communion.
In the time of Iustine the Deacon, some did carrie that which was left of the communion, at what time the Lords Supper was celebrated, to thē which were absent by reason of their disease, frō the publique assembly, or vnto strangers, and outlandish bishops into their Inne. And as Eusebius reporteth, the bishoppe of Rome was wont to doe so,* 1.3 but without superstition, and for no other end but for a token of concord and consent in Doctrine, and in the whole profession: but because we say, that wee must not so much enquire whether those fragments were sent, or but whe∣ther they were well sent. And that custome hath degenerated in∣to superstition, whereby at this day, the host is carried to them a∣lone which are about to die, and that for certaine gaine and ad∣uantage, as also in a vaine perswasion of a certaine necessarie pro∣uision for their iourney, that custome of carrying the Supper to the absent, is worthily taken away in our Churches. Cyprian in the administration of this Sacrament, Wee ought to doe no other thing then that which Christ did.