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