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…

Those who speak out more plainly then Bishop Lindsey, do here Sect. 14 object to us, that reverence is due to the Sacrament, and that we our selves do reverence it, when we sit uncovered at the receiving of it. But ^rDidoclavius doth well distinguish betwixt Veneration and Adoration, because in civility we use to be uncovered, even to inferiors and equals for the regard which we bear to them, yet do we not worship them, as we worship the King on our knees. ^*As then, in civility there is a respect and reverence different from Adoration, so it is in Religion also. Yea ^sBellarmine himself distinguisheth the reverence which is due to holy things from Adoration. (t) Paybody, and ^uDr. Burgess will by no means admit this distinction betwixt Veneration and Adoration. But since neither of them hath alleged any reason against it, I hope they will be weighed down, by the Authority of the ^xArchbishop of Spalato, and ^ythe Bishop of Edinburgh, both of which agree to this distinction. ⁷So then, we give no Adoration at all to the Sacrament, because neither by any outward nor inward action, do we perform any worship for the honour of the same. ^zBurgess himself hath noted to us, that the first Nicene Council exhorteth, that men should not be humiliter intenti to the things before them. We neither submit our minds, nor humble our bodies to the Sacrament, yet (a) do we render to it Veneration, for as much as we esteem highly of it, as a most holy thing, and meddle reverently with it, without all contempt or unworthy usage. Res profecto inanimatae saith the ^bArchb. of Spalato, sint sacrae quantum placet, alium honorem à nobis non merentur, nisi in sensu negativo, as that they be not contemned, nor unworthily handled. If it be said, that we ought not to contemn the Word, yet hath it not that respect given to it, which the Sacrament hath, at which we are uncovered, so that this veneration given to the Sacrament, must be somewhat more then non Prophanatio: I answer, as honour in the Positive sense, so also in the Negative, hath various degrees: and according to the more or less immediate manifestation of Divine Ordinances to us, so ought the degrees