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…

Secondly, religious kneeling before the Bread which is set before Sect. 9 us for a sign to stand in Christs stead, and before which we adore whilst it is to us actually an ^eImage representing Christ; is the very bowing down and worshipping forbidden in the second commandment. The Eucharist is called by the Fathers, Imago, Signum, Figura, Similitudo, as ^fHospinian instanceth out of Origen, Nazianzen, Augustine, Hilarius, Tertullian, Ambrose. ^gThe Archbishop of Armagh hath also observed, that the Fathers expressly call the Sacrament, an Image of Christs body: and well might they call it so, since the Sacramental Elements do not only represent Christ to us, but also stand in Christs stead, in such sort, that by the worthy receiving of them, we are assured that we receive Christ himself, and in eating of this Bread and drinking of this Wine, we eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ spiritually and by faith. Neither could the consecrated Elements make a Sacrament, if they were not such Images, standing in Christs stead. But what needeth any more? ^hDr. Burgess himself calleth the Sacraments the Lords Images. Now that a man who adoreth before the painted or graven Image of Christ, though he profess that he intendeth his whole adoration to Christ, and that he placeth the Image before him only to represent Christ, and to stir up his mind to worship Christ, doth nevertheless commit Idolatry, I trust, none of our Opposites will deny. Nay, ⁱB. Lindsey teacheth plainly, that it is Idolatry to set before the eyes of our minds, or bodies, any Image as a mean or motive of adoration, even though the worship should be abstracted from the Image and not given unto it. Well then: will it please him to let us see, that kneeling before the actual Images of Christs body and blood in the Sacrament, even though these Images should be no otherwise considered in the act of adoration, but as active objects, motives, and occasions which stir up the mind of the kneeler to worship Christ, (for this is the best face which himself puts upon kneeling, though falsely, as we shall see afterward,) is not so great Idolatry as the other. All the difference which