Third rubric at the end.
But if a man, either by reason of extremity of sickness, &c.
I think this rubric, in what I conceive to be its true meaning, a
precious doctrine, as fully acquitting our church of all Romish
superstition, respecting the nature of the Eucharist, in relation to
the whole scheme of man's redemption. But the latter part of it--"he
doth eat and drink the Body and Blood of our Saviour Christ profitably
to his soul's health, although he do not receive the sacrament with
his mouth"--seems to me very incautiously expressed, and scarcely to
be reconciled with the Church's own definition of a sacrament in
general. For in such a case, where is "the outward and visible sign of
the inward and spiritual grace given"?[184]