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…

First, the kneelers worship Christ in or by the Elements, as their own confessions declare. When we take the Eucharist, we adore the body of Christ, per suum signum saith ^pthe Archbishop of Spalato. We kneel by the Sacrament to the thing signified, saith the ^qBishop of Edinburgh. ^rThe Archbishop of Sanct-Andrews, and ^sDr. Burgess, profess the adoring of Christ in the Sacrament. Dr. Morton maintaineth such an adoration in the Sacrament, as he calleth relative from the Sign to Christ. And ^tPaybody defendeth him herein. But ^uthe replier to Dr. Morton particular defence, inferreth well, that if the adoration be relative from the Sign, it must first be carried to the Sign as a means of conveyance unto Christ. ^xDr. Burgess alloweth adoration, or Divine worship, (as he calleth it,) to be given to the Sacrament respectively: and ^yhe allegeth a place of Theodoret, to prove ⟨p. 54⟩that such an adoration as he there taketh for Divine worship, is done to the Sacrament in relation to Christ, and that this adoration performed to the mysteries as types, is to be passed over to the Archetype, which is the body and blood of Christ. Since then, that kneeling, about which our question is, by the confession of kneelers themselves, is Divine worship given by the sign to the thing signified, and done to the Sacrament respectively or in relation to Christ; he that will say, that it is not Idolatry, must acquit the Papists of Idolatry also, in worshipping before their Images: for they do in like manner profess, that they adore prototypon per imaginem, ad imaginem, or in imagine, and that they give no more to the image, but relative or respective worship.