Sicut enim indecens est, si vasa altaris sacrosancta vulgaribus unquam usibus ac vilibus profanentur officiis, ita perversum omni modo ac miserum est, si is qui ad consecranda in altari dominica sacramenta ordinatus est, nunc quidem eisdem conficiendis sacramentis Domino famulaturus assistat, nunc egressus ecclesiam ipso ore eisdemque manibus quibus paulo ante sacra tractaverat, repente frivola loqui vel agere Dominum offensurus incipiat.
For as it is unseemly that the holy vessels of the altar should ever be defiled with mean and common use, so it is utterly wrong and lamentable that he who hath been ordained to consecrate the Lords sacrament upon the altar should at one moment stand to serve the Lord in the celebration thereof, and the next moment pass straight from the church and begin to sin against the Lord, by using for vain speech or act the very same lips and hands with the which a little before he had been occupied with holy things.
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