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prove too much P He proves to his own satisfaction that confirmation is not necessary for attend. ance at Holy Communion, except in certain cases, although the rubric at the close of the Confirmation Service says : "And there shall none be admitted to the Holy Communion, until such time as he be confirmed, or be ready and desirous to be confirmed." A fortiori, is not baptism unnecessary, for at, the close of the Baptismal Service there is no rubric to say that none shall be admitted to Holy Communion unless baptized, and the prefatory rubrics of the Communion Service do not