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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17588	A solution of Doctor Resolutus, his resolutions for kneeling	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1619 (1619)	STC 4364; ESTC S107403	44,245	58

Christ for the religions respect reverence that by it they are taught to giue to him I see men make no account vvhat they deny providing they can insnare simple people and bring them to the doing of the act The Doctor sayd othervvayes at the pretended assembly and the act penned by him and some others vvhen it vvas reformed the copie vvhereof subscrived by the clarke come in my hands speaketh as I have already alledged It is there ordained that vve kneele in reverence of so divine a Mysterie to vvit as is the Sacrament or holy communion vvhereof mention is made in the vvords immediatly preceeding And the vvords follovving in remembrance of so mysticall an union as vve are made partokers of thereby to vvit by the mysterie declare that by the vvord mystery is meant the Sacrament The like speech he hath in this book that the communion of the body and blood of Christ is offered to us by the sacred mysteries vvhich are given at the table It is an usuall tearme of the ancients to call the Sacrament sometimes mysteries in the plurall number sometime mysterie in the singular number as the Doctor doth also varie the tearm in this book And in the English Confession the bread and vvine are called the heavenly mysteries of the body and blood of Christ. To kneele then in religious reverence of the Sacrament is to adore it For all religious kneeling is a gesture not of ordinary and common reverence but of adoration Seeing therefore the publick intent of the inforced act is Idolatrie vvhatsoever be the private intent of the communicant he is guiltie of Idolatry in kneeling A man may go to Rome and take the Sacrament at the Antichrists hand if private intention will save him from the guiltines of Idolatry Our conformitie with our neighbour Kirk doth also manifest the intent of our act The disputers against Mr. Rogers Mr. Hutton D. Cowel and D. Spark prove out of their vvriters that the reverence of the Sacrament is intended I vvill onely set down Mr. Huttons words Our bowing at the Sacrament saith he is an outvvard reverence meet to be performed because of that holy action in hand namely our religious communicating partly to stirre up in others a more religious estimation of those divine seales partly to remove all prophane thoughts of Epicures and contemners partly to put a difference between the ordinary bread wine those Sacramentall to which we give more reverence because they are more thē ordinary bread wine That book of cōmon prayer wherto they are tied by the statute of Q. Elisabeth giveth also to understand that kneeling at the communion is enjoyned upon this ground that the Sacrament might not be profaned but held in a reverent and holy estimation amongst us I heare that our men have put in another word to colour the matter In reverence of God and of so divine a mystery but that will not help the matter For God wil be the totall onlie object of adoration he will have no compartner he will have it to be directed to him alone immediatly But what if by the word mysterie be understood the action of celebration that will not help the matter For the action of celebration is nothing else but the mysticall rites and ceremonies employed about the elemēts giving receiving eating drinking I may not kneele in reverence of the mysticall rites more then of the mysticall elements I may not lawfully adore actions more then substances No action never so mysticall or holy is the right object of our adotation Seeing therefore we kneele in reverence of the Sacramēt it is in part the object of our adoration vve are sayd as properly to bow before it as the Papist to bow before his image Yea suppose a thing situate before us vvanting life be not the object of our adoration as a vvall or a tree yet are we said properly to bow before it in our vulgar language howbeit speaking Greeke we would not use the vvord Enopion to that purpose David or Daniel may be justly sayd to bovv toward the Temple they being farre removed from the sight of it or toward the Ark the Ark being out of sight in the holy of holies The elements are not onely in our sight but are also the object of our reverend vvorship as the crucifix is to the Papist And admit that the speech were not proper to say we bow down before any dead element the doctors phrase is sufficient for us For we may not bow down toward a creature as the object of our adoration Yea and further we may not bovv by direction and ordinance novv under the nevv Testament tovvard any place or creature there to vvorship God as the people of old did tovvard the Ark vvhere God manifested himselfe by a singular manner of presence sitting betvyixt the Cherubins It is manifest then that the publick intent of the act is Idolatrous seeing the elements are made an object of our reverent kneeling Yet let us examine the Doctors private but pretended intent 1. If vve kneele onely to Christ at that time and place vvhen the elements in the sight and use of them as instrumentall causes vvaken and stirr us up to give that bodily worship then at what time and in what place soever vve are moved and stirred up by any creature work of God word Sacrament type figure monument to acknowledge our dutie of bodily worship to God we should give it in that place at the same instant time For the Doctor did except onely Images and Idols as not fitt to teach us any thing of God and consequently that we should not bowe before them But of this purpose we spake a litle before See also Perth Assembly 2. If I kneele onely in regard of the pretended prayer of the soule and yet in the mean time of my kneeling which is an externall worship I perform an other action of divine service I confound two parts of externall worship I am praying and in that regard as is pretended kneeling and in the meane time I am beholding with mine eyes the mysticall actions hearkening with the eares to the audible words receiving the elements vvith my hands eating and drinking vvith my mouth and so one person at one time is 〈◊〉 two sundry parts of externall vvorship For these actions are not the actions and gestures of prayer and adoration The diuers kindes of Gods vvorship should not be confounded vvith other but specially none of them ought to be confounded with prayer and adoration for eschewing of Idolatrie Did ADAM eate of the tree of life the people of God eate of the Paschall supper or the manna the Priests eates of the things sacrificed of the presence bread or other holy meate and adore in the mean time also The Lord would have externall adoration superceeded during the use of the meanes the vvord the Sacraments both for eschewing of Idolatrie lest vve adore the meanes and