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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
A DEFENCE OF THE NON-CONFORMIST'S Plea for Peace, AGAINST Mr. J. CH… › Chapter 17
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CHAP. XVII.
§ 1. IN your sixteenth Section you profess your liking of sitting at the Lord's Supper rather than kneeling: How then can you declare [Assent, Consent and Approbation] to the Liturgy ⟨p. 38⟩(expounded by the Canons) which in plain words, and by sharp penalties on Dissenters, so much preferreth kneeling before sitting.
§ 2. Your preferring the preaching and hearing of the Word, and Prayer, and Praise, as more excellent than the carnal (you mean the outward) part in the Lord's Supper, is very far from Conformity to the common sense of the Bishops, who ordered the Altaring of the Communion Tables, and commended bowing towards them, and suspended so many Ministers on such accounts; even far from the sense of Arch-Bishop Laud, expressed in his life by Dr. Heylin, and of the whole Church of England expressed in the Canons of 1640.
§ 3. I answered before your conceit that the Liturgy alloweth you to give the Sacrament to them that kneel not, and your distorting the Canon, because the Title is against Schismatics, when they mean that those that kneel not, shall be taken and excluded as Schismatics, and so excommunicated (as I have proved) and not that the word is distinguishing and limiting, allowing you to admit those to sit that are not Schismatics. The Bishops will deride that Exposition. They that heard us at the Savoy, can tell you who that Dr. (now a Dean) was, who craved leave to have disputed the Case against me, and to have proved [That it is an Act of mercy to those that scruple and refuse to receive the Sacrament kneeling, to deny them the Communion of the Church therein.]