A01760:418
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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The question about the Idolatry of kneeling, betwixt them and us, Sect. 7 standeth in this. Whether kneeling at the instant of receiving the Sacrament, before the consecrated Bread & Wine, purposely placed in our sight, in the act of kneeling, as Signs standing in Christs stead before which we the receivers are to exhibit outwardly religious adoration; be formally idolatry, or not? No man can pick a quarrel at the stating of the question thus. For, 1. We dispute only about kneeling at the instant of receiving he ⟨p. 53⟩Sacramental Elements, as all know. 2. No man denies inward adoration, in the act of receiving, for in our minds we then adore, by the inward graces of Faith, Love, Thankfulness, &c. by the holy and Heavenly exercise whereof we glorify God; so that the controversy is about outward adoration. 3. No man will deny h•t the consecrated Elements are purposely placed in our sight, when we kneel, except he say, that they are in that action only accidentally present before us, no otherwise then the Table-cloth, or the walls of the Church are. 4. That the Sacramental Elements, are in our sight (when we kneel) as Signs standing in Christs stead; it is most undeniable. For if these Signs stand not in Christs stead to us, the Bread bearing vicem corporis Christi, and the Wine vicem sanguinis; it followeth, that when we eat the bread, and drink the wine, we are no more eating the flesh, and drinking the blood of Christ, spiritual•y and sacramentally, then if we were receiving any other Bread and Wine not consecrated. I stay not now upon this head, because our Opposites acknowledge it, for nDr. Burgess calls the Sacraments the Lords images and deputies. And the oArchbishop of Spalato saith, that when we take the Sacrament of Christs body, we adore Christum sub hac figura figuratum. 5. That kneelers at the instant of receiving, have the consecrated Bread an Wine in the eyes both of their bodies and minds, as things so stated in that action, that before them, they are to exhibit outward religious adoration, as well as inward; it is also most plain. For otherwise they should fall down and kneel, only out of incogitancy, having no such purpose in their minds, nor choice in their wills, as to kneel before these Sacramental Signs.