A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…

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 pag. 160. The Romish Bishop doeth reverence to no man under heaven, by rising up to him, or by inclining, or uncovering his head. So it may be thought from the same principle, he doeth not reverence to the Host. But I the rather assent to Alexander Hales, because I have read some where, I think it is in Hospinian de Templis, that the Pope hath no Organ-piping-music in his Church or Chapel. And these I account the relics of ancient simplicity, in worship, which the Pope received from the first Bishops of Rome, and regarded not to make alterations of, without advantage.

4. The Pope himselfe receiveth the Hoste standing. The Pope is a lawlesse man, and may doe 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 finde 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 finde in Alexander Hales,