alone are not defrauded of any grace necessary to If it is unseemly for any one to approach to any proach not to receive it but with great reverence and mortal sin, how T contrite soever he may seem to him- unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself. self, ought to approach to the Sacred Eucharist sary proof to be, that no one, conscious to himself of tuted, and delivered to the apostles this sacrament, in Wherefore, he who would communicate, ought to recall REVERENCE TO THE SACRAMENT 43 salvation. [Chap. 3.] already said, our Redeemer, in that Last Supper, insti- It moreover declares, that although, as hath been Christ whole and entire and a true sacrament is received under either species alone ; and that therefore, as re- to mind the precept of the Apostle : Let a man prove holiness, especially as we read in the Apostle those heavenly sacrament are understood by a Christian, of the sacred functions unless he approach holily; words full of terror : He that eateth and drinketh without previous sacramental confession. [Session 13, gards the fruit thereof, they who receive one species PREPARATION TO RECEIVE THE SACRAMENT himself. Now ecclesiastical usage declares that neces- two species, yet ought it to be acknowledged, that assuredly, the more the holiness and divinity of this the more diligently ought he to give heed that he ap-