Mr. Richard Baxter's last legacy in select admonitions and directions to all sober dissenters

Q. 3. But what if I cannot communicate, unless I conform to an imposed gesture, as kneeling? Answ. I never yet heard any thing to prove kneeling unlawful; there is no Word of God, for, or against, any gesture. Christ's example cannot be proved to oblige us in this, and his gesture was not such a sitting as ours. The nature of the Ordinance is mixed. And if it be lawful to take a Pardon from the King upon our Knees, I know not what can make it unlawful to take a Sealed Pardon from Christ,¹ by his Ambassador, upon our Knees. As for this Ceremony of kneeling at the Sacrament especially, since the Rubric is inserted, which disclaimeth, both all Bread-worship, and the bodily Real-presence, my judgment was ever for it. God having made some gesture necessary, and confined us to none, but left it to humane determination, I shall submit to Magistrates in their proper Work. I am not sure, that Christ intended the example of himself in this as obligatory; but I am sure,² he hath commanded me obedience, and peace. Mr. Perkins was for kneeling, and Mr. Baines in his Letters writes for it, and answers objections against it.

Q. 3. But what if I cannot communicate, unless I conform to an imposed gesture, as kneeling? Answ. I never yet heard any thing to prove kneeling unlawful; there is no Word of God, for, or against, any gesture. Christ's example cannot be proved to oblige us in this, and his gesture was not such a sitting as ours. The nature of the Ordinance is mixt. And if it be lawful to take a Pardon from the King upon our Knees, I know not what can make it unlawful to take a Sealed Pardon from Christ,¹ by his Ambassador, upon our Knees. As for this Ceremony of kneeling at the Sacrament especially, since the Rubrick is inserted, which disclaimeth, both all Bread-worship, and the bodily Real-presence, my judgment was ever for it. God having made some gesture necessary, and confined us to none, but left it to humane determination, I shall submit to Magistrates in their proper Work. I am not sure, that Christ intended the example of himself in this as oligatory; but I am sure,² he hath commanded me obedience, and peace. Mr. Perkins was for kneeling, and Mr. Baines in his Letters writes for it, and answers objections against it.