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of time, that custom having been already very widely changed, she, induced by weighty and just reasons, has ordained certain things touching the use thereof, he in regard to this very sacrament; wiien, after having Wherefore, holy Mother Church, knowing this her au- of the sacraments, their substance being untouched, it The holy Synod furthermore declares that this power most expedient, for the profit of those who receive, or Christian religion, not been unusual, yet, in progress ministers of Christ, and the dispensers of the mysteries the use of both species has, from the beginning of the may ordain, or change, what things soever it may judge has ever been in the Church, that, in the dispensation for the veneration of the said sacraments, according to when he says : Let a man so account of us, as of the And indeed it is sufficiently manifest that he him- savs : The rest I will set in order w r hen I come. this the Apostle seems not obscurely to have intimated, thority in the administration of the sacraments, although is not lawful to reprobate, or to change at pleasure, self exercised this power, as in many other things, so 42 ROMAN CATHOLICISM without the authority of the Church itself. [Chap. 2.] species, and decreed that it be held as a law ; which it the varying circumstances, times, and places. And of God. approved of this custom of communicating under one

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