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A88809	Of baptisme. The heads and order of such things as are especially insisted on, you will find in the table of chapters.	Lawrence, Henry, 1600-1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing L663; Thomason E1116_1; ESTC R210176	92,194	427

necessitated to the mistake of their building To conclude if there were any force left in these authorities for infant Baptisme as I conceave there is not why should it not regulate our practife in the other Sacrament to give that to infants which was ancient and of use in many churches as well as the other as it remaynes also in some to this day and it is like would in more had not Popish superstition given the supper the start of Baptisme to such a degree as to make it not so much the signe and representation of Christ as Christ himself and the very Protestants themselves are so respective to this Sacrament of the Supper above the other as to give it as a reason vvhy it should not be administred to infants least it should fall in contempt Hosp Hist Sacram. p. 60. Wee shall produce some testimonies that the Supper was administred to infants as well as Baptisme as necessary to salvation if antiquity be to be esteemed a great argument for the administring of one Sacrament why not of the other For this Hospinian in his second booke Histo Sacram. pa. 59. quotes Cyprian Se. 5. de lapsis and affirmes also that Ierome Aust and other Fathers witnes that those vvhich vvere baptized not onely of age but also infants vvithout any delay received the holy mysteries under both signes So Ierome against the Luciferians Non potest inquit Baptima tradere sine Eucharistia Baptisme must not be given vvithout the Eucharist And Aust lib. de Dogm Eccles cap. 52. Siparvuli sunt ait vel hebetes qui doctrinam non capiant respondeant pro illis qui eos offerunt juxta morem baptizandi sic manus impositione at Chrismate communiti Eucharistiae mysteriis admittantur If they be little sayes he or dull vvhich are not capable of doctrine let those ansvver for them vvhich offer them according to the custome of baptizing and so being fortified by Chrisme and imposition of hands let them be admitted to the mystery of the Euchariste Also Epist 107. hee speakes thus Infantes si in illa parva aetate moriuntur utique secundum ea quae per corpus gesserunt id est tempore quo in corpore fuerunt quando per corda ora gestantium crediderunt vel non quando baptizati vel non baptizati sunt quando carnem Christi manducaverunt vel non manducaverunt quandò sanguinem biberunt vel non biberunt secundum haec ergo quae per corpus gesserunt non secundum ea quae si diu hic viverent gesturi fuerant judicantur Infants if they dye in that young age are judged according to that vvhich they have done by the body that is in the time in the vvhich they vvere in the body vvhen by the heartes and mouthes of those that carried them they beleeved or not beleeved vvhen they vvere baptized or not baptized vvhen they did eat the flesh of Christ or not eat it vvhen they drunke his blood or not drunke it according therefore to those things vvhich they did by the body they are to be judged not according to those vvhich if they had lived long they vvould have done So lib. 5. Hypognosticôn cont Pelag. Quomodo inquit vita regni caelorum parvulis promittitur non renatis ex aqua Spiritusancto non cibatis carne atque non potatis sanguine Christi qui in remissionem peccatorum fusus est Hovv saith he is the kingdome of heaven promised to children not renevved by vvater and the holy Ghost not fed vvith the flesh and made to drinke of the blood of Christ vvhich is shed for the remission of sinnes This custome received of old so farre prevayled afterwards especially in the time of Charles the Great that not onely the Eucharist was communicated to infants in the publike assembly of the church after Baptisme or at other times when they were wont to come together for the Lords Supper but also the bread of the Supper was kept to be communicated and given to sick children as well as to those of yeares for this Hospinnian quotes Canonem Carolinum lib. 1. de legib Francorum in these words Presbyter Eucharistiam semper habeat paratam ut quando quis infirmatus fuerit aut parvulus infirmus fuerit statim eum communicet ne sine communione moriatur Let the Presbyter have the Eucharist ever ready that vvhen any is vveake or vvhen a little child shall be vveake or sicke hee may presently communicate him least he should dye vvithout communion Amongst the Aethiopians as Osorius witnesseth in his 9. booke de gestis Emmanuelis Infants in the same day that they are initiated to holy thinges take the Eucharist in a bitt of bread Hospinian also affirmes that not many yeares agoe there vvere reliques of this custome in Lorrayne and the places adjoyning for vvhen an infant vvas to be baptized the Priest vvho baptized him brought a little boxe in vvhich vvas the Sacrament to the Alter and shevved one Host as they call it to the people then he put it in the boxe againe and reatches forth his tvvo fingers vvith vvhich hee had tucht it to be vvasht vvith vvine by the Clarke or Church-vvarden and distills of that vvine into the mouth of the baptized Infant saying The blood of our Lord Iesus Christ proffit thee unto eternall life Also at this day as Brerewood in his learned inquiries touching the diversity of Religion affirmes The Supper is admninistred to Infants immediately after their Baptisme in both kindes by the Iacobits a people called by that name vvhich are in great numbers in Syria Cyprus Mesopotamia Babylon and Palestine for the Patriarch of Ierusalem who keepeth his residence still in Ierusalem in which City there still remaine ten or more churches of Christians is also a Iacobite Also the Cophty which are the Christians in Aegypt for it is a name of their nation rather then of their religion doe the same namely give the Sacrament of the Eucharist to infants presently after Baptisme The like doe the Christians tearmed Habassines which are the midland Aethiopians As also the Armenians Christians dispersed for trade through the Turkish Empire but inhabiting especially Armenia the greater and the lesser and Cylicia More might be quoted and are by Brerewood in those his collections Now the reason why the Papists have quitted this practise out of whose rubbish we drew our reformation as being once involved in that lumpe confusion seemes to me to appeare out of their Tridentine constitutions Trid. Concil sec 5. where it is affirmed Parvulos usu rationis carentes nulla obligari necessitate ad Sacramentalem Eucharistiae communionem si quidem per Baptismi lavacrum regenerati Christo incorporati adeptam suam Filiorum Dei gratiam in illa aetate amittere non possunt That children vvhich vvant the use of reason are by no necessity obliged to the Sacramentall communion of the Eucharist for as much as being regenerate