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A44790	The glory of the true church, discovered, as it was in its purity in the primitive time also, a manifestation how and when the apostacy came, and how long it hath continued in the Church of Rome, proved to be in it, because she differs in doctrin & practice from the Church of Christ in the Apostles dayes : published for this end, that people may be informed, and their understandings opened to discern of the times and seasons, and see the difference between the lambs wife and the mother of harlots / by one who desires that all may come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved, and walk in the light of the Lord, Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1661 (1661)	Wing H3162; ESTC R38990	108,097	179

were quickned by it in their hearts and minds who believed and heard the voice of him who was the Son of God and so came to live Who could not be made alive in the exercising themselves in the Ordinances and many believed in him and he chose unto him Disciples who believed in him and sent them out to preach Repentance and to begin at Jerusalem though they were the chiefest professors and ordinance men and were for conformity to the Ordinances of the first Covenant yet repentance was to be preached to them and the first Principles of Religion though they had been and were the greatest professors and observers of the Ordinances of the first Covenant that was in the Earth at that time And afterwards he sent out Disciples and gave them Commandment to preach and Disciple all Nations in the name of the Father Son and holy Ghost and these which he sent out to preach the Gospel unto whom he gave power to cast out Devils and work Miracles Prophesied after a season the word of the Kingdom both to Jews and Gentiles according as the Prophets had testified And these who was sent out and made Ministers by the holy Ghost and received gifts from the holy Ghost for the work of the Ministery they preached not up the Ordinances of the first Covenant but preached Christ the everlasting Covenant and the power of God and the wisdome of God for the remission of sin and the word of faith they declared in the mouth and in the heart and went not to Tables of stone to direct people thither but to bring people to believe in him who was the Light of the World and lighteth every man that cometh into the World that all men through him might believe And many did believe in him who was the Covenant and did believe through the Apostles words who was commissionated and fitted for the work of the Ministery and through their words which they declared many did beleive both of Jews and Gentiles and as many of Jews as did believe and separated from the Temple Priests Sacrifices Ordinances of the first Covenant and they met together in houses and other places Acts 20. 7. Chap. 28. 30 31. And the Gentiles which believed separated from their dumb Idols after which they had been led formerly and from their Temples and ceased any more to offer unto Idols and they met together at certain places in Towns and Cities not onely at Jerusalem but also at Antioch Collosse The ssolonica Corinth and divers other places which were long to enumerate Act. 11. 9. Chap. 17. 1 2. Chap. 18. 4. But now mark this that by which the Apostle gathered them from the Jewish Temples and Priest-hood and the Gentiles from their ●dols Temples was by the preaching of the everlasting Gospel to wi● no● the Law nor the Ordinances of the first Covenant but the Power of God and the word of reconciliation for the first Covenant of the Jews made not the comers thereunto perfect as pertaining to the conscience Neither the Gentiles Idols Temples nor Worships made them perfect as pertaining to the conscience but rather made them worse and more corrupted Heb. 9. 9. But the preaching and publishing of the word of reconciliation that did it was committed to the Disciples it was received and believed in by many both Iews and Gentiles as at Ephesus and elsewhere and they were made a habitation of God through the Spirit Ephes. 2. 22. Now mark this they preached not up the Letter of the Law nor that which was written in Tables of stone for the first Priest-hood that was ended and the Ministry of that and the vaile was over their hearts while Moses was read and their ability stood not in the litteral knowledge or in that which was written But they were able Ministers of the New Testament of the Spirit and so all that did beleive both Jews and Gentiles who received the word of Faith which was nigh in the mouth and in the heart Rom. 10. 8. They grew up in the knowledge of God and of his holy Sprit and great gifts grew amongst them as of Prophecy of speaking with Tongues of Interpretation and there was diversity of gifts and diversity of operations yet all by the same Spirit which the Apostles was made Ministers of and which they that did beleive and receive received gifts from it and knew the operation of it which wrought in them mightily to the throwing down the strong holds 2 Cor. 10. 4. And the principalities and powers of Darkness and to the translating and changing of them from darkness to Light and from Sa●ans power to the power of God even into the Kingdom of his dear Son Col. 1. 13. And several Congregations in divers Places were all one body whereof Christ the life was the head in which they had believed and of whose power they had tasted grew up in knowledge and wisdom and gifts and the day of Christ approached which Abraham saw And they exhorted one another admonished one another and when they met togethere at several places every one according to the gift of God as he had received nor from the Letter but from the Spirit did and might admister to the edification one of another and to the building up and comforting one another in the most holy faith which gave them victory over sin which faith was ought in them by hearing of the word that was nigh them in the mouth and in the heart which was the word of consolation which was in the beginning Moreover when they met together they might Prophesie one by one and every one exercise his own gift to the edification and comfort of the body as the Spirit did lead them in order and if any went out from his measure he was judged by them that were in the Spirit Furthermore they that had beleived the Gospel which was published to them for remission of sin they grew up into great enjoyments and attainments in the righteous life of Christ which was manifest in them And though first they knew the Ministration of Condemnation and the sentence of death yet afterwards came to know the Ministration of the spirit and the sweet assurance ard Testimony of it bearing witness to the Spirit that they were the Sons of God and they were made heirs according to the promise Heb. 6. 17. and were made joynt heirs and co-heirs with Christ in the Kingdome which is immortal which fados not away and did come to know Mount Sion and the City of the Living God Heb. 12. 22. and it were large to speak of the glory and the transcendent excellency of the Church of Christ which became a purchased possession to him in the primitive times or the first hundred years after the manifestation of Christ in the flesh But take notice of this that them that were sent out who had received freely of the Father of Christ and of the Spirit Ministred freely as they had received freely without

Christ to be her Husband and sate as a Queen and the Kings of the Farth John sa● in the Revelation drink of her Cup and bewitched by her Sorceries and then all the Nations becoming Water and unstable being drunk with fornication sraggered up and down and reeled up and down and stood in nothing being out of the power which should have stablished them And then a great Beast arose out of these Nations Kindreds and Tongues and People which are these waters with seven heads and ten horns and then these Apostatized Disciples or Ministers which preached for filthy Lucre and them that beleived them sheltered them under the Beast and cryed who is able to make war with the Beast and the Kings of the Earth gave their strength to the Beast which arose out of the waters and now the false Church gets upon him these that had the form of Godliness and out of the power and rides upon the Beast and he carries her and hath done this many years and she hath travelled in the greatness of his strength And then Laws began to be made about Religion and then began compelling we heard of none in the Primitive times nor in the true Church but now the false Church calling her self by the Free-Womans name and getting on the outward dress and habit and attire saith I am she have not I the form and ordinances which was practised in the Apostles dayes Who doubts of that may look into the Primitive times and see that I am conformable to the form which was amongst the first Christians in things that are outward And thus she hath deceived the Nations Rev. 18. 23. Now Rome look to thy beginning and read thy Original and view thy Antiquity We will grant thee every dram and every hour of time these thirteen hundred years and prove thee to be in the Apostacy in doctrine and practice from the Primitive time after the first hundred years after Christ was manifested in the flesh And Christendom look about thee for thou art measured and thy compass is seen If Nations and Kindreds and Tongues and People have drunk the Whores Cup since Johus dayes as will be made manifest then what cause hast thou Rome to boast of Antiquity and universality for that doth the sooner prove thee to be a Harlor then the true Church and thy universality which hath long been boasted of proves thee no more to be the true Church of Christ then the sea can prove it self to be a Rock for if Nations Kindreds and Tongues and Languages and People universally be the waters that the Whore sits upon and the Beast rose out of the Waters Now read thy self we have measured thee as in the hollow of a hand and we have thee in the Apostacy clear thy self when thou can If the Beast compelled all both small and great to worship him and made war with all that bore not his Image then we have thee between us and the Apostles time as in a press for not such compelling was in the true Church by any Ecclesiastical or Secular power Instance if thou can from the Apostles writings any such thing or where Cains Weapons was lifted up or Creatures men and women killed by the Sword or destroyed with lingring torments in the time of the Apostles Now in that it is said the Church hath been universal to that more might be said Europe or some parts adjacent is not all the Earth and it is no where found since the Apostles that klling and compelling and forcing hath been but by thee and them that are at the best but in the Suburbs of thy City which afterwards I shall in brief descend to and so it is evidently known that thy Church so called hath been upheld more by cruelty and force then any sound Doctrine or Practice agreeable to the Apostles dayes Though thou may wipe thy Mouth and say I am clear we persecute none to death we have a Beast to ride upon and will make war for our City and will compell to our worship and institutions we 'l cry him up for the higher power and we will frighten people that who resists this resists the ordinance of God And he will kill and destroy and compel and force and we shall be clear and he will call us the holy Church and we will call him the higher Power And so it is clear and evident by what hath been said that thou art in the Apostacy as hereafter shall be manifested by name and practice First thy Ministers are not according to the Ministers of Christ in the Primitive times their call not such their practice no● such They were made Ministers in the primitive times by the holy Ghost and by the Spirit but yours by natural parts Tongues Arts Philosophy and Study and packing up Old Authors together to make a little discourse of and this must be called the Gospel Secondly the Ministers of Christ they preach freely not for gifts and rewards and Tythes but you have brought in Judaisme Tythes which belongeth to the first Priest-hood your Oblations Obventions your Mortuaries and these Invented and Introduced things to maintain your Ministers by Thirdly the Ministers of Christ did not compel any at Corinth Thessalonica Macedonia or any other Church to give them such and such maintenance by force who received not their Doctrine But you compel and force and have made that which you call the Gospel chargeable to the Earth where you have power 1 Cor. 9. 18. Fourthly your Doctrine is contrary to the Doctrine of Christ and the primitive times as that the real and substantial presence of Christs Body and blood after the consecration of Priests is in the bread and wine which may corrupt and so doth not the body of Christ do contrary to Christs Doctrine who saith he that eats my flesh and drinks my blood shall live for ever Joh. 6. 56. But you that eat that which you call his substantial and real Body and blood both it and you shall corrupt Fifthly of the unbloody Sacrifice of the Masse this sacrifice doth no good at all for where there is no blood there is no life and where there is no blood there is no remission saith Paul Heb. 9. 14. and so your sacrifice is abominable and an Idol and such an one as there is no mention made of in the Scriptures Sixthly of your Liturgy and publick prayers in an unknown tongue this is an unprofitable and a vain Worship and this is like your unbloody Sacrifice herein you are like Barbarians one to another and how should they that worship with you say Amen when they know not what you say you praying in an unknown tongue is contrary to the Apostles Doctrine who said 1 Cor. 14. and the 18 verse I thank my God I speak with Tongues more than you all verse 19. yet in the Church I had rather speake five words with my understanding that I might reach others also then ten thousand in an unknown Tongue

called though the words declare of it but is not it Now they went and preached and Discipled in the Name of the Father Son and holy Ghost which is a Ministery far beyond the written or declarative sound and indeed is a Spiritual and invisible thing which the Apostles Acts 26. 18. declaring his Message which he had received by the holy Ghost saith I was sent to turn them viz. the Gentiles and Iews and them of Arabia and else where he Sojourned from darkness unto light and from Satans power unto Gods Power that they that beleived in the light and received the power of God which he preached to them might receive remission of fins for remission of sin was onely preached in his Name and no name under Heaven there is by which men can be saved but by the Name of Jesus though the Apostles spoke according to the motion of the Spirit in divers words calling him the gift of God the free gift of righteousness the unspeakable gift the true Light that lightneth every man that cometh into the World the Power of God and the wisdom of God which wisdom and power they had received and because the Son of God was revealed in them The Apostle said I am a debter to the Jews and the Greeks Rom 1. 14. and he having received this freely of the Father he went to the ●ews and went to the Greeks to the Gentiles and Heathen where the name of this gift and power and Jesus had not been named and published freely without gifts and rewards and the necessity did lie upon him 1 Cor. 9 16. and the love of Christ which was shed abroad in his heart constrained him and made him reckon himself as a debter unto all because of the abundant loving kindness and riches of Gods love and grace and spiritual gifts which he had received he longed and thirsted and travelled to communicate it unto others Largely I might speak of this hidden mystery as to demonstrate what the Gospel of Christ was and is but in what I have already said them that are any thing spiritual minded will iudge that the Law and the Prophets Matthew Mark Luke and John and the Epistles was not the everlasting Gospel but it was a thing beyond and above and before any of these writings was although they all in their several ages bore Testimony of it viz. the power of God which condemns sin in the flesh and mortifies the deeds thereof and gives victory over it and taketh up all that believe in it into one life power and vertue into pure peace and heavenly contentment and perfect satisfaction So you who are calling the letter the Gospel or the new Testament writings the Gospel I would ask you a question also when was there a time since the first hundred years after Christ or in that time till now but these words and writings have not been spoken and preached bought and sold as a Gospel not only in the Church of Rome but also among all them that are separated from her even untill now this hath been preacht to Nations Kindreds Tongues and People and if the writings be the everlasting Gospel then how doth John say or why did he so say that the everlasting Gospel should go forth again and be preacht again after the Apostacy or to bring out of the Apostacy But it clearly implies the words had been preached and published and the temporary writings which was given sorth at divers times had been preached up for Gospel these many hundred years which many have received by tradition but the power of God and the gift of God by which and from which the Ministers of Christ in all ages ministered hath been wanting if not altogether lost for the most part among them that are called Christians Then what is the quarrel betwixt you and the Romanists it s but in translation at the most and while words and translations and vertions have been contended about the everlasting Gospel hath been hid Therefore all people are upon heaps and the Nations like waters rowling up and down in instabillity Now the reformed Ministry so called are in many things in the same practice with the former You deny an immediate call and sets up an outward Ordination and a form of Laying on of hands without the holy Ghost ordaining such and such who have some skill in natural Tongues or some words of Oratory to be a subject matter to make Ministers upon and that which they preach in words which hath been held in the form long without the life you call the Gospel and these are confined to a Parish as the former to such a Cloyster and such a Monastry and these preach for hire and gifts and rewards and for maintenance and kepts up all the soresaid wayes and maintenance as Lawful and will make people believe it is according to Gospel institution when alas it is but the Popes Tythes Oblations Obventions Mortuaries and Prayers for the Dead keeping up the wages but denyes the work And Tythe of all things as Piggs and Geese Hens and Eggs Apples and Cherries and Turnips and all nothing excepted this is a feeble thing as to hold out to people for Gospel maintenance and the preachers of the Gospel are ashamed of it Furthermore them that will not give it sue them at Law throw them into holes till they dye take away ten fold that which is claimed say the man is not subject to Gospel order denies Ministers maintenance this hath been crime enough to take away the estates and lives of men all this is in the Apostacy And seeing it is said we are under a Gospel administration and ordinances what do you with Organs whistlers and Pipes in any part of your Services this pertained to the Jews and not to the Primitive Church And what do you do with Surplices Tipets Hood and other strang● kind of Garments It may be the High-priests Garments or the Priests linin Ephod or linin breeches must be brought in for a Gospel proof and for an Apostolick Ordinance And what do you with the Popes Lent And why should the Popes Lent be among the reformed Protestants Churches forbiding meats and drinks And why forbidding marriage in Lent and who ordained these dayes What have they been borrowed from the Heathen Or are they looked upon to be such dayes as used to be cited in the Callender for the dog-dayes which have been brought from the Heathen and stands to this day in too much credit among believers so called And why is one day preferred before and above another and some counted holy dayes as though some others were unholy dayes and why such a Collect and such a Gospel and such a Chapter and such a Psalme mincing and cutting and severing the Scriptures into pieces and shreds Is this like Apostolick Doctrine Truly friends many things we have to say if you had an ear to hear and that upon good grounds we can speak that we look upon all

his Diocess and all was confirmed by the Bishop of Rome Telesphorus appointed that Lent should be kept before Easter and added another week to it which we call Quinquagesima and this week he commanded Priests to fast more then the Laity and thus one runs into one invention after another and hath brought in all this mountain of darkness so that the practice of these things since the Apostles dayes hath been much-what corrupted and imitation at the best without life and are either from the Jews and their worship or from the Heathen or from their own inventions and imaginations which are so many in their Mattens and their prayers that at last Beads where glad to be got to tell them and so all who view these things and sees them to be in the Apostacy come out from among them and them that are joyned to Idols let them alone and keep your selves from them and compare but the worship and practice of the primitive times in the Apostles days with all this which hath been brought in since part of which is here demonstrated and much more might be said but you will see that these practices are not Apostolical neither agreeable with the purest times but people have been corrupted with them and made twofold worse than before And as concerning the Mass and Letany which are used in many congregations there hath been so many Authors about patching them up that they are almost past numeration but take a short hint of the forming of them up near unto the Apostles time although they did celebrate the Sacrament as it was called it was done with little mixture or ceremony but only repeating the words of Christ and after the consecration they joyned to it the Pater noster Celistinus ordained some prayers that the Priest should say when he re-vesteth himself to Mass or putting on his clothes and began Judica me Domine c. And in the Church of Greece they sang when the people assembled together Damasus instituted the confession at the beginning of Mass And Gorgius caused confession to be said nine times over in the Latin Church Gregory in Excelsis is ascribed unto Telesphorus and Hilarus And also Telesphorus ordained Epistles and Gospels and Damasus divided them as they are read at this day in the reformed Churches And Anastasius commanded that People should stand at the Gospel Marcus ordained the first part of the Creed to be read after it was made by the Councel of Nice and the second part and Spiritum Sanctum that the Councel at Constantinople composed Eutichianus instituted the Offertory to be sung while the people offered something to the poor Galasius made the prefaces in the beginning they used but one An●ekius added the Snactus out of the Prophet Esay Burning of incense that which was occupied in the Old Testament by Aaron and the Pannims in their superstitious rites Leo the third ordained it to be had in the Latine Church and privity of Mass called the Common was made by divers persons as Gallatius made reigitur Satitius added Communicantes and Alexander made qui pridie hanc igitur Leo joyned to it Gregory annexed three petitions in the same Dies qui nostros c. Innocentius Priests in the upper part of the Church called the Quire should kiss one another that Pax should be born to the people blessed with hands and challices came out of the Hebrew Ceremonies Christ at his ascention blessed his Disciples and Surgius from this ordained Angus Dei seven hundred years after Christs ascention to be sung of the Clergy at the time of Communion and often turning the Priest to the Altar and wheeling about when he saith Dominus vobiscum or Oratis Fratres these came from the Hebrew rites When the Mass is ended the Deacon turns to the People and saith Ita missa est which words are borrowed from the Pagans they were used in the Sacrifices of Isis that when the Sacrifices was done this was the Watch-word that the People might depart and of this sprang the custom of singing Ita missa est signifying that all service was ended Mass is an Hebrew Word signifies an Oblation and sacrifice with all circumstances concerning the same Alexander inhibited that they should not sacrifice but once in a day Telesphorus ordained three Masses to be said on Christmas day the first at midnight when Christ was born the second in the morning when the Shepherds visited him the third further on the day as at the third hour Foelix decreed on that Mass might be said but in places consecrated and none was to meddle with the mysteries of consecration but the Priest Anaclatus ordained that no Mass should be said but in the presence of two in the least least the Priest should say in vain to bare walls Dami us vobiscum the Lord be with you when none were present and so on this wise one piece and scrap was added to another with much more which I shall not trouble the Reader with by which Peoples minds have been drawn from attending on Gods Spirit to hearken to these foolish ceremonies and invented charms and so have been led out into ignorance and into the region of the shadow of death where many have taken up their habitations and Babylons Merchants these many hundred years have traded with such Merchandize under the name of Apostolical Ordinances and holy Institutions CHP. XI Concerning the Passover and the Supper THE Passover was a command of God by Moses unto Israel while they were in captivity in Egypt which God manifested his wonderous works in the land of Egypt and in the field of Zoan for their deliverance Exod. 12. 3 4 5 6 7 8. That every family shall take to them every man a Lamb according to the house of their Fathers a Lamb for an house and where the family was little the Neighbours were to joyn with him ver 21. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said unto them draw out and take a Lamb according to your families and kill the Passover and ye shall take a bunch of Hysop and dip it in the Blood that is in the basin and sprinkle the lintel and the two side posts of the door with the Blood and none of you shall go out of doors untill the morning ver 22 23. The Lord will pass through to smite the Eyptians and when he sees the Blood upon the lintels and posts he will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you and ye shall observe this thing as an ordinance for thee and thy seed forever ver 24. And it shall come to pass when the children shall say unto you what means this service ye shall say it is the sacrifice of the Lords Passover who passed over our Houses in Egypt and smote the Egyptians And this was the Ordinance which was performed and this is that Passover which Christ sent his Disciples to prepare according to the time

prescribed because it became him to fulfill all Righteousness and he being not yet sacrificed up this offering was not ended but now he being offered up this is to be witnessed in the Spirit and in the hearts of his people who are marked and bear his spot when a destroyer comes to execute vengeance upon the Wicked he passes over his Seed which bears his Image And when Christ came with the twelve and sate down in the place appointed in the even the same night he was betrayed And he said unto them I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer Luke 22. 15 17 19. And he took Bread and gave thanks and brake it and gave it unto them saying this is my Body which is given for you this do in remembrance of me likewise also the Cup after supper saying this is the Cup of the New Testament for you in my blood ver 20. and this he gave as a sign a token to the Disciples that as often as they did eat the bread drink the Cup they should remember him and it should shew forth his death till he came again and this was practised by the Disciples according as Christ had said unto them therefore the Apostle said 1 Cor. 11. 23. That I receive of the Lord that delivered I unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night he was betrayed took Bread and brake it and said take eat this is my Body which is broken for you after the same manner also he took the Cup when he had supped saying this Cup is the New Testament in my blood this do ye as often as ye do it in remembrance of me ver 24 25. For as often as ye eat this Bread and Drink this Cup ye shew forth his death till he comes and so he pureth them upon examination ver 28. Let a man examine himself and so let him eat of this bread and drink of this cup ver 29 For he that eats and drinks unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lords Body But Believers grew in the knowledge of the mystery which was revealed through the Spirit and came to see beyond these outward things and things visible 2 Cor. 4 28. While we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things that are seen are temporal but the things that are not seen are eternal So that which was given for a sign to be observed in remembrance of Christ till he came was visible to wit the bread and the Cup which he gave to the Disciples at supper which they were exercised in for some time in the time of weakness while their eyes and minds where much outward but they came to look at things which are beyond time and things they saw which are not seen in time but things that were Eternal and this they sed upon and so the Corinthians grew up in the Life and knew the flesh of Christ and his Blood and they did eat his Flesh and Drink his Blood and had Life in them now they which eat his flesh and drink his Blood need nothing to put them in memory of that which they already enjoy and possess and so the Apostles brought them to a further examination not to look at things visible but to examine themselves whether they were in the Faith for he that is in the Faith is in that which is visible Prove your selves know you not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except you be reprobates 2 Cor. 13. 5. Now they who came to witness Christ in them knew the Resurection and the Life in them and witnessed the Life of the Son of God to live in them and they in it and this was a further state then looking at visible things which was in remembrance only of his death and blessed are they who have an eye to see and an heart to believe these things And now the Apostle spake unto wise men and bad them judge what he said 1 Cor. 10. 15. So that novices or them that were young or Babes had hardly been able to discern if he had spoken such things to them but he spoke to wise men which could judge of what he said and ver 16. thus he said the Cup of blessing which we bless is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ and the Bread which we break is it not the communion of the Body if Christ ver 17. for we being many are one Bread and one Body for we are all partakers of that one Bread and that one Bread was Christ who said I am the Bread of Life and this they witnessed and these are great mysteries and them whose eyes are towards visible things cannot see them And what a noise and a stir hath been made these many hundred years and what killing and persecuting about things that are seen And since the Mysterie hath been lost and the key which opens the Mysterie how people have waded in the dark till they have lost themselves and are sunk down into utter darkness as hath been manifest about visible things which do corrupt how many have been killed about this Bread and this Cup which are visible since the Apostles daies and how many Institutions and Laws have been made about this and have foughten like Swine about the husk and discerns not the life neither the Lords Body It is endless to declare what stir they make about this Bread and this Wine in the Church of Rome which I shall not now stand to particularize much but however after the Priest have consecrated it they conclude it to be the very Body and Blood of Christ and yet a thing which may be seen and that is a temporal thing and so gave it names past numeration And what work they have made about times and dayes when it was fi● to be received and how many Decrees have been made about these things Anaclatus caused a Decree to be made that all was to come to it under pain of Excommunication And Victor denounced that those should be interdectid from all service when they should receive the Sacrament that would not be reconciled to their Neighbours of all Gurdges and hatred Again Clepheranius one hundred years after Anaclatus commanded that all that professed Christ or bare the name of Christians being of the age of twelve or fourteen years should at least once a year at Easter receive the blessed Sacrament Fabianus decreed that they should receive it three times in a year and Innocentius the third decreed it should be kept in the Church that it should be ready at all times least they that were sick should want the spiritual comfort of it And Honorus the third confirmed the same And Austin concluded the Eucharist to be of absolute necessity for Infants And what a stir hath been in the reformed Churches so called about this And what disorderly work and what high Imputations they have