Two papers of proposals concerning the discipline and ceremonies of the Church of England…

2. We are sure that Kneeling in any Adoration at all in any Worship on any Lords day in the year, or any Week day between Easter and Pentecost, was not only dis-used, but forbidden by General Councils, (as Concil. Nicene. 1 […] 20. Concil. Trull. &c.) and disclaimed by Ancient Writer•; and this as a general uncontrolled Tradition: and therefore ⟨p. 22⟩that Kneeling in the Act of Receiving, is a Novelty contrary to the Decrees and practice of the Church for many hundred years after the Apostles. And if we part with the venerable Examples of all Antiquity, where it agrees with Scripture, (and that for nothing) we shall depart from the Terms which most Moderators think necessary for the reconciling of the Churches; and Novelty is a Dishonour to any part of Religion. And if Antiquity be honourable, the most ancient and nearest the Legislation and Fountain, must be most honourable: and it is not safe to intimate a Charge of Unreverence upon all the Apostles and primitive Christians, and the universal Church, for so many hundred years together of its purest time.

2. We are sure that Kneeling in any Adoration at all in any Worship on any Lords day in the year, or any Week day between Easter and Penticost, was not only dis-used, but forbidden by General Councils, (as Concil. Nicen. 1 〈…〉 20. Concil. Trull. &c.) and disclaimed by Ancient Writer•; and this as a general uncontrolled Tradition: and therefore ⟨p. 22⟩that Kneeling in the Act of Receiving, is a Novelty contrary to the Decrees and practice of the Church for many hundred years after the Apostles. And if we part with the venerable Examples of all Antiquity, where it agrees with Scripture, (and that for nothing) we shall depart from the Terms which most Moderators think necessary for the reconciling of the Churches; and Novelty is a Dishonor to any part of Religion. And if Antiquity be honorable, the most ancient and nearest the Legislation and Fountain, must be most honorable: and it is not safe to intimate a Charge of Unreverence upon all the Apostles and primitive Christians, and the universal Church, for so many hundred years together of its purest time.