And we desire that the following Rubric in the Common-Prayer-Book in 5 & 6 Ed. 6. established by Law as much as any other part of the Common-Prayer-Book, may be restored for the Vindication of our Church in the matter of kneeling at the Sacrament (although the gesture be left in different) (Although no order can be so perfectly devised, but it may be of some, either for their ignorance and infirmity, or else of malice ⟨p. 18⟩and obstinacy misconstrued and depraved, and interpreted in a wrong part. And yet because that brotherly Charity willeth, that (so much as conveniently may be) offences should be taken away; Therefore we willing to do the same whereas it is ordered in the Book of Common-Prayer in the administration of the Lords Supper, that the communicants kneeling should receive the Holy Communion; which thing being well meant for the signification of the humble and grateful acknowledgement of the benefit of Christ given to the worthy Receivers, and to avoid the profanation and disorder, which about the Holy Communion might else ensue) lest yet the same kneeling might be thought, or taken otherwise: We do declare that it is not meant thereby, that any Adoration is done, or ought to be done, either unto the Sacramental Bread or Wine, there bodily received, or unto any real and essential presence there being of Christs natural flesh and blood, forasmuch as concerning the Sacramental Bread and Wine they remain still in their very natural substance, and therefore may not be adored; for that were Idolatry to be abhorred of all faithful Christians: And as concerning the natural body and blood of our Saviour Christ, they are in Heaven, and not here; for it is against the truth of Christs natural body to be in more places than in one at one time.
And we desire that the following Rubrick in the Common-Prayer-Book in 5 & 6 Ed. 6. established by Law as much as any other part of the Common-Prayer-Book, may be restored for the Vindication of our Church in the matter of kneeling at the Sacrament (although the gesture be left in different) (Although no order can be so perfectly devised, but it may be of some, either for their ignorance and infirmity, or else of malice ⟨p. 18⟩and obstinacy misconstrued and depraved, and interpreted in a wrong part. And yet because that brotherly Charity willeth, that (so much as conveniently may be) offences should be taken away; Therefore we willing to do the same whereas it is ordered in the Book of Common-Prayer in the administration of the Lords Supper, that the communicants kneeling should receive the Holy Communion; which thing being well meant for the signification of the humble and grateful acknowledgment of the benefit of Christ given to the worthy Receivers, and to avoid the prophanation and disorder, which about the Holy Communion might else ensue) lest yet the same kneeling might be thought, or taken otherwise: We do declare that it is not meant thereby, that any Adoration is done, or ought to be done, either unto the Sacramental Bread or Wine, there bodily received, or unto any real and essential presence there being of Christs natural flesh and blood, forasmuch as concerning the Sacramental Bread and Wine they remain still in their very natural substance, and therefore may not be adored; for that were Idolatry to be aborred of all faithful Christians: And as concerning the natural body and blood of our Saviour Christ, they are in Heaven, and not here; for it is against the truth of Christs natural body to be in more places than in one at one time.
