182 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. as they are appointed. Only upon a certain occasion, when the wine failed, I sent for more, which I delivered to the people, using the words appointed in the book tobe used in the delivery of the sacrament,not again repeating the words of the institution : partly, because, as I take it, being an entire action and one supper, thewords of the institution at first deliveredwere sufficient ; and partly, because, in the Book of CommonPrayer, there is no order appointed to which I could refer the case. And as to the second, I answer that once or twice, I did not use the ring. For looking into the mass-book, I found the words with which the papists hallow the ring ; and because this seemed to me no less derogatory to the death of Christ, than holy bread and holy water, I thought as other persons had omitted those, I might omitthis. Commissioner. There is no such thing in the Book of Common Prayer. Dean. He speaketh of the mass-book. Bishop. Then you compare the mass-book and the com- mon prayerbook, and make theone as bad as the other. J. My lord, I make no such comparison. But after I was complained of to my ordinary, Dr. Watts, archdeacon of Middlesex, who reprehended me, I used the ring, as I have good and sufficient witness. Since, therefore, I did in this default correct myself, I refer myself to your honour's discretion, whether I have herein stubbornly and contemptu- ously broken the law.--As to the third charge, 1 answer, that I have omitted to make the sign of the cross, but not of contempt. But seeing I have already suffered seven weeks imprisonment, with the loss of my place. and living, I beseech you, be indifferent judges, whether this be not sufficient for so small a crime. Mr. Gerard. Youwere not sent to prison for that, but for your irreverent behaviour. J. I trust, sir, I did not behave myself more irreverently than I do now. Whereas the indictment is, that I omitted the whole prayer, " We receive this child," &c. This is false ; for I never administered baptism without using that prayer, though I omitted making the sign of the' cross. B. Those two are but trifles, The chief is the consecra- tion of the sacrament. For, as it had not the word, it was no sacrament, and so the people were mocked. J. My lord,. I did not mock the people; for it was a sacrament. D. St. Augustin saith, " That the word must be added to
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