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3 That none may receive the Lords Supper that dare not kneel in the act of receiving; but the Minister must exclude all such from the Communion: although such kneeling not only differs from the practice of Christ and of his Apostles, but (at least on the Lords day) is contrary to the practice of the Catholic Church, for many hundred years after, and forbidden by the most Venerable Councils that ever were in the Christian world. All which Impositions, are made yet more grievous, by that subscription to their lawfulness, which the Canon exacts, and by the heavy punishment upon the non-observance of them which the Act of Uniformity inflicts.

3 That none may receive the Lords Supper that dare not kneel in the act of receiving; but the Minister must exclude all such from the Communion: although such kneeling not only differs from the practice of Christ and of his Apostles, but (at least on the Lords day) is contrary to the practice of the Catholick Church, for many hundred years after, and forbidden by the most Venerable Councils that ever were in the Christian world. All which Impositions, are made yet more grievous, by that subscription to their lawfulness, which the Canon exacts, and by the heavy punishment upon the non-observance of them which the Act of Uniformity inflicts.

And it being doubtful whether God hath given power unto men, to institute in his Worship such mystical Teaching signs, which not being necessary in genere, fall not under the Rule of doing all things decently, orderly, and to edification, and which once granted will upon the same reason, open a door to the Arbitrary ⟨p. 9⟩Imposition of Numerous Ceremonies of which St. Augustine complained in his days; and the things in controversy being in the judgement of the Imposers confessedly indifferent, who do not so much as pretend any real goodness in them of themselves, otherwise than what is derived from their being imposed, and consequently the Imposition ceasing, that will cease also, and the Worship of God not become indecent without them.

And it being doubtful whether God hath given power unto men, to institute in his Worship such mystical Teaching signs, which not being necessary in genere, fall not under the Rule of doing all things decently, orderly, and to edification, and which once granted will upon the same reason, open a door to the Arbitrary