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Moderation a virtue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate…Moderation a vertue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate…
Moderation a virtue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate divines and laity of the Church of England represented in some late immoderate discourses, under the nick-names of Grindalizers and Trimmers / by a lover of moderation, resident upon his cure ; with an appendix, demonstrating that parish-churches are no conventicles ... in answer to a late pamphlet entitled, Parish-churches turned into conventicles, &c.Moderation a vertue, or, A vindication of the principles and practices of the moderate divines and laity of the Church of England represented in some late immoderate discourses, under the nick-names of Grindalizers and Trimmers / by a lover of moderation, resident upon his cure ; with an appendix, demonstrating that parish-churches are no conventicles ... in answer to a late pamphlet entitled, Parish-churches turned into conventicles, &c.
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. The next Imputation, is his giving the Sacrament kneeling, sitting, or standing. I suppose the Reverend Preacher will strike out Kneeling out of the Bill, when he reviews it. I will take no Advantage of that Inadvertency, but to the other Offence make a Return.
And here again, we meet with a Ceremony, which first is enjoined the People. 2. Some great Men have interpreted the Rubric thus, He shall deliver the Communion to the People kneeling, not forbidding him to deliver it to them that kneel not. 3. The words of the Canon 27, are lax, Ministri cum Caenam Domini administrant neminem scienter ejusdem facient participem, qui in Genua non fuerit, inclinatus, sub poenaâ Suspensionis. The Communicant is not bound in express Terms to kneel in the very Act of receiving; if he kneel in the time of the Communion, it seems to be sufficient, tho he do not in the Act of receiving the Bread and Wine. The Canon saith not the Minister shall be suspended, if he deliver the Sacrament to any one that doth not kneel in the very Act, but qui in Genua non fuerint inclinatus. If he kneel before, or after, he is not excluded, nor the Minister punishable by the Canon, whatever the Intention of it was. But leaving these things to the Interpretation of Superiors: Let any Minister be named that receives the Sacrament sitting or standing. And if some Communicants do, it is submitted, whether a Minister in some cases ought not rather to venture upon his Ordinaries Indulgence, then put away some Communicants for not kneeling, for which he hath no Law to warrant him (that I know.)
And here again, we meet with a Ceremony, which first is enjoyned the People. 2. Some great Men have interpreted the Rubrick thus, He shall deliver the Communion to the People kneeling, not forbidding him to deliver it to them that kneel not. 3. The words of the Canon 27, are lax, Ministri cum Caenam Domini administrant neminem scienter ejusdem facient participem, qui in Genua non fuerit, inclinatus, sub poenaâ Suspensionis. The Communicant is not bound in express Terms to kneel in the very Act of receiving; if he kneel in the time of the Communion, it seems to be sufficient, tho he do not in the Act of receiving the Bread and Wine. The Canon saith not the Minister shall be suspended, if he deliver the Sacrament to any one that doth not kneel in the very Act, but qui in Genua non fuerint inclinatus. If he kneel before, or after, he is not excluded, nor the Minister punishable by the Canon, whatever the Intention of it was. But leaving these things to the Interpretation of Superiors: Let any Minister be named that receives the Sacrament sitting or standing. And if some Communicants do, it is submitted, whether a Minister in some cases ought not rather to venture upon his Ordinaries Indulgence, then put away some Communicants for not kneeling, for which he hath no Law to warrant him (that I know.)