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A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…
A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our own arguments [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the answers and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Morton ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not only our ovvne argumemts [sic] against the same are strongly confirmed, but likewise the ansvveres and defences of our opposites, such as Hooker, Mortoune ... Forbesse, &c. particularly confuted.
Leiden: printed by W. Christiaens, 1637
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I can not choose but marvel much, how mPaybody was not ashamed Sect. 18 to deny, that kneeling hath been abused by the Papists. Blush ô paper, which art blotted with such a notable lie! What will not desperate impudency dare to aver? But nB. Lindsey seemeth also to hold, that kneeling hath been abused by the Papists, only in the elevation and circumgestation of the Host, but not in the participation; and that Honorius, did not command kneeling in the participation; but only in the elevation and circumgestation. Ans. 1. Saltem mendacem oportet esse memorem. Saith not the oB. himself elsewhere of the Papists, In the Sacrament they kneel to the sign, whereby he would prove a disconformity between their kneeling and ours: for we kneel, saith he, by the Sacrament to the thing signified. Now if the Papists in the Sacrament kneel to the sign, then they have Idolatrously abused kneeling, even in the participation, for the B. dare not say, that in the elevation, or circumgestation, there is either Sacrament or sign. 2. Why do our Divines controvert with the Papists, de adoratione Eucharistiae, if Papists adore it not in the participation? for the Host carried about in a box, is not the Sacrament of the Eucharist. 3. In the participation, Papists think that the Bread is already transubstantiate into the body of Christ, by virtue of the words of consecration. Now if in the participation they kneel to that which they falsely conceit to be the body of Christ, (but is indeed corruptible bread) with an intention to give it Latria or Divine worship: then in the participation they abuse it to Idolatry. But that is true. ergo. 4. pDurand showeth, that though in the holy-days of Easter and Pentecost, and the festivities of the blessed Virgin, and in the Lords days, they kneel not in the Church, but only stand (because of the joy of the festivity,) and at the most do but bow or incline their heads at prayer; yet in presentia corporis & sanguinis Christi, in presence of the bread and wine, which they think to be the body and blood of Christ, they cease not to kneel. And how vvill the B. make their participation free of this Idolatrous kneeling? The q