Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

1. Undetermined gestures of Reverence and Honour in time of Public Worship. As to be uncovered, or put off the Hat at Prayer, or the Lord's Supper. This we do directly in honour and reverence to God, whom we there Worship; and therefore it is it self a subordinate act of Worship.

1. Undetermined gestures of Reverence and Honour in time of Publick Worship. As to be uncovered, or put off the Hat at Prayer, or the Lord's Supper. This we do directly in honour and reverence to God, whom we there Worship; and therefore it is it self a subordinate act of Worship.

So to stand, or kneel at Prayer, and not to sit. Though in Scripture we read of sitting, standing, kneeling, and prostration: yet no one of these is made necessary by Institution: yet are they subordinate Acts of Worship, expressing our inward Worship of God: And the reason why being uncovered, or kneeling, are now chosen, is not a particular Institution, but because the Custom of the Country hath made them the most congruous Expression of our inward Worship: when as Paul tells us, That then and there it was a shame for a man to be covered: and the whole Church for many hundred years forbade all kneeling, in Adoration, on the Lord's Days. And more,

So to stand, or kneel at Prayer, and not to sit. Though in Scripture we read of sitting, standing, kneeling, and prostration: yet no one of these is made necessary by Institution: yet are they subordinate Acts of Worship, expressing our inward Worship of God: And the reason why being uncovered, or kneeling, are now chosen, is not a particular Institution, but because the Custom of the Country hath made them the most congruous Expression of our inward Worship: when as Paul tells us, That then and there it was a shame for a man to be covered: and the whole Church for many hundred years forbad all kneeling, in Adoration, on the Lord's Days. And more,