A medicine for the soule as well as for them that be sick, most necessary in the bytternes of death, and in their last moost daungerous seasons.

¶ Of the communion, and of extreme Vnction.

The minde beyng purified by a true and perfyte cō∣fession iustly made vnto God and the priest, lette the paciente with al his myghte desyre the most reuerent sacra∣ment of the bodye and bloud of Christ to be brought vnto him. And let him in especialli beware that he come not vnto the com∣munion or that sacred holy ta∣ble with defyled handes. For it is not to be supposed those most greuous thretes which are mē∣cioned of s. Paul to be frustrate. Therfore after that he hath pre¦pared him selfe according to his capacitie and maners, let him deuoutly ponder and pronounce these wordes: Lord thou art the

viande of oure pylgrymage, wherwith we are recreated and nourished as longe as we tra∣uayle in this wylde worlde and runne in this race. Leade me therfore O Lorde by this recei∣uyng of the body into the lande of the liuyng, into that countre of the lyuyng, where I shall be∣hold thee face to face in the glo¦ry of the father. When he hath made an ende of these sayinges, let him receiue the sacrament of ••he body of Christ with a plen∣tyful sayth in the remembrance of his death and passion. The Lordes supper beyng fynyshed, if the sycknes be iudged curable by no art of Phisycke, lette the priest praye ouer the diseased, a∣••oyntyng him with oyle, not by ••••ttyng to any charmes as the

Ethenikes are accustomed) but by calling vpon the name of our lord Iesus Christ, thē the which there is no kind of enchaūtment more effectuall. Let a sure confi∣dence also be anexed to the prai∣ers, thē god wil heare thē, & saue the sick persō. Ia. 5. Neither on∣ly the health of the body shalbe restored vnto him (if that shalbe profitable for the sycke) but also if he hath committed synnes (as for the most parte the infirmities of the body spring of the il dispo∣sitions of the minde) they shalbe forgeuē him at the praiers of the elders, if that faith commendeth both those that do pray and him for whom they praye.