A reply to an answer made of M. Doctor Whitgifte Against the admonition to…A replye to an ansvvere made of M. Doctor VVhitgifte Against the admonition to…

An other reason why kneeling should be taken away / is for that sitting agreeth better with the action of the supper / whereunto M. Doctor taketh exception / both in this place / and where he speaketh again of it / that for so much as this sacrament is a sacrament of thanks giving / and thanks giving a prayer / therefore kneeling to be most fit / as that which we use ordinarily when we pray.

An other reason why kneeling should be taken away / is for that sitting agreeth better wyth the action of the supper / whervnto M. Doctor taketh exception / bothe in thys place / and where he speaketh againe of it / that for so much as thys sacrament is a sacrament of thankes geuing / and thankes geuing a prayer / therfore kneeling to be most fit / as that whych we vse ordinarily when we pray.

But he should have remembered / that that thanks giving may well come after we have received the sacrament / and that whilst we receive the bread and wine of the sacrament / we are not then most fit to speak / they being in our mouths, and during the time we receive them / our mind is occupied in considering the inestimable benefit which the Lord hath bestowed upon us / and to meditate of the fruit which we receive thereby / by the Analogy and comparison between the bodily nourishment and the spiritual / that by these considerations our minds may be more inflamed and set on fire / and our mouths may be filled with the praise of God / after we have received. And further if this be a good reason that therefore it is meet we should kneel at the supper for as much as we give thanks / then it followeth that when so ever we have supped or dined / it is meet that we should kneel / when as yet we do say grace sitting. And by this he accuseth our saviour Christ and his Apostles / as those which did not use ye which was most fit: for in his judgement he sayeth kneeling is the fittest site or position of the body which can be / and if our saviour Christ had been of that judgement / undoubtedly he would have also kneeled / and caused his Apostles so to do. In the. 181. page unto the admonition / saying that sitting is most fit / because it betokeneth rest and accomplishment of the ceremonies in our saviour Christ / M. doctor saith it is a papistical reason / and triumpheth over the authors of the admonition / because they allegory / when as notwithstanding the surplice before / crossing / and rings. &c. afterwards / are defended by nothing / but with vain allegories / which have nothing so good grounds as this hath. But let it be that this is not so sound a reason (as in deed for my part I will not defend it / and the authors them selves have corrected it) yet M. doctor might have dealt easier with all / then to call it a papistical reason / which is far from popery / and the reason of two notable learned & zealous men Johannes Alasco / and of M. Hooper in his