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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05347	A treatise of the authority of the church The summe wherof was delivered in a sermon preached at Belfast, at the visitation of the diocese of Downe and Conner the tenth day of August 1636. By Henrie Leslie bishop of the diocese. Intended for the satisfaction of them who in those places oppose the orders of our church, and since published upon occasion of a libell sent abroad in writing, wherin this sermon, and all his proceedings are most falsely traduced. Together with an answer to certaine objections made against the orders of our church, especially kneeling at the communion.	Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661.	1637 (1637)	STC 15499; ESTC S114016	124,588	210

word our dull affections are not stirred up to worship God but either by the contemplation of his workes or meditation in his word or consideration of his holy Sacraments So that if we take away all occasionall worship before a creature we must needs destroy all Religion VI. I desire the Disputer and his fellowes to remember that many of their owne faction in England though they kneele not in the act of receiving yet they doe kneele in blessing of the Elements and giving thankes And they themselves use to stand exhort the people to humble themselves and to pray unto God for a blessing here is worship before the Elements with a religious respect unto them for which they have no more warrant either by commandement or by the example of Christs Institution then we have for kneeling in the act of receiving And of the twaine it seemeth rather to be Idolatry to worship in beholding the Elements then in receiving of them for no man can be so mad as to worship that which he is tearing with his teeth VII They sit uncovered before the Elements with a religious respect unto them which they use not to doe in hearing of the word Now uncovering the head is a gesture of worship as well as kneeling If the one be Idolatrous so is the other neither have they any more warrant either by commandement or by the example of Christs Institution for the one then we have for the other Besides they use diverse other expressions of worship as lifting up of the eyes and hands unto Heaven which is daylie used by the Priest in the Masse And sometimes weeping which hath been abused to Idolatry as by the women whom the Prophet saw mourning for Tammuz Ezek. 8.14 a Prophet of an Idol for whom there was a solemne mourning once a yeare in the night yet have I seene many of their disciples not only lift up their eyes and hands unto Heaven but also weepe when they received the Sacrament and that as I charitably beleeve out of a godly sense of their owne misery and of Gods mercy Now were it not strange if our kneeling onely should be Idolatrous and not also those other gestures which are expressions of worship and have been abused to Idolatry as much as kneeling Finally I desire him to remember what I have often said that all gestures being common to true worshippers and false it is onely the publicke doctrine and received opinion that determines the use and end of all gestures and puts a difference between the servants of God worshippers of Idols Insomuch that as I told him in the Court If the first Reformers of our Religion had onely changed the gesture from kneeling to sitting not the doctrine touching the Sacrament it selfe Idolatry would have remayned But the doctrine of our Church sufficiently cleeres us that we worship not the bread either directly or indirectly Mediately or immediately permanently or transiently relatively or absolutely To which purpose I will here set downe that Declaration published in the first Booke of Common Prayer Anno 1552 which was approved by all the Divines of the Reformed Churches which was publickly read at my visitation to have given satisfaction to these men And whereof I shall desire the Reader to take speciall notice because some of that faction have slandered our Church with an Idolatrous intent saying This gesture seemes to be injoyned even with a superstitious intent ●●ridg pag. 6● and meaning to adore the Sacrament it selfe What the intent was shall appeare by this Declaration following Out of the Booke of Common Prayer Imprinted by Edward Whitchurch MDLII Cum privilegie Although no order can be so perfectly devised but it may be of some either for their ignorance infirmity or else of malice and obstinacy misconstrued depraved and interpreted in a wrong part And yet because brotherly charity willeth that so much as conveniently may be offences should be taken away Therfor we willing to doe the same Wher as it is ordayned in the Booke 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 a signification of the humble and gratefull asknowledging of the benefites of Christ given unto the worthy receiver and to avoyd the prophanation and disorder which about the h●ly Communion might else ensue Lest yet the same kneeling might be thought or taken otherwise wee doe declare that it is not meant thereby that any adoration is done or ought to be done either to the Sacramentall bread or wine there bodily received or unto any reall and essentiall presence there being of Christs naturall flesh and blood For as concerning the Sa●ramentall bread and wine they remaine still in their very naturall substances and therfor may not he adored for that were Idolatry to be abhorred of all faithfull Christians And as concerning the naturall body and blood of our Saviour Christ they are in Heaven and not here For it is against the truth of Christs true naturall body to bee in moe places then in one at one time This is the Doctrine of our Church against which no man in his right wits can except And that the Reader may see the opposition between light and darknes I will give him a tast of their doctrine as I have gathered it out of their unworthy authors which is such as I hope all Christian eares will abhorre Repli part to B Morton pag. 36. Sitting at the Table of the Lord is a part of the Sacramentall signe whereby they condemne all Churches which either kneele or stand of the breach of Christs Institution are guilty of will-worship as I have proved The principall worke namely of a Receiver is meditation upon the Analogie between the signes and the things signified Perth Assem pag. ●02 which a very reprobate may doe Survay pag. 75. It seemes not warrantable by the Word that in the action of ministring the Elements the Minister should minister to Christ and the Church both When it is his Office to stand between God the people and minister unto both Disput pag. 27. Whatsoever libertie or praerogative a table of repast hath for those that partake therof the same have Communicants at the Lords Table Whereupon it would follow that they may cover their heads eate liberally drinke oftner then once and discourse one with another Disput pag. 14. and 20. Worship to God and receiving of Christ preached to us in the elements are two such opposite imployments that the one cannot but frustrate the other Wee cannot banquet with the second person and yet intertayne holy important negotiation with the first Where besides that he makes it unlawfull to pray to God so much as mentally in the act of receiving no haeretick could have said more to divide the Persons of the Trinity Disput pag. 6. c. Kneeling imports inferiority therfor it