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3. Bellarmine and the Mass-book, mention not kneeling in the act of receiving. They mention not indeed the peoples kneeling; because they make small account of their receiving, the mass being complete without it, and that being (with them) an accidental complement of it. But they mention the Priests bowing to the Host many times, in his receiving.

3. Bellarmine and the Masse-booke, mention not kneeling in the act of receiving. They mention not indeed the peoples kneeling; because they make small account of their receiving, the masse being complete without it, and that being (with them) an accidentall complement of it. But they mention the Priests bowing to the Hoste many times, in his receiving.

4. The Pope himself receiveth the Host standing. The Pope is a lawless man, and may do what he please, as also impose what he please upon others. But yet, in the place quoted (Sacrae Ceremoniae, lib. 2. pag. 181. Colon. 1558.) no such thing appeareth. In the page next before, I find this: The Pope boweth low, at the •omming of the Sacrament, and reverently adoreth it. And one thing (worthy of observation) concerning the Popes receiving, I find in Alexander Hales, ¹(in the last words of the second part of his Tractate concerning the Mass, which is the tenth question of his fourth part) that the Pope was wont to receive sitting, in imitation of Peter and the other Apostles, Confirming that which our Defend. and Rejoinder doubt of. If it be asked wherefore Sr. Pope receives sitting, it may be answered, in memory of B. Peter, and other Apostles, who ate the last Supper sitting. This may by ⟨p. 430⟩some be imputed to the Popes great pride, for that as it is in that book of Ceremonies which the Rejoinder quoteth,²