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A69019	The lavvfulnes of kneeling in the act of receiving the Lords Supper VVherein (by the way) also, somewhat of the crosse in baptisme. First written for satisfaction of a friend, and now published for common benefit. By Dr. Iohn Burges, pastor of Sutton Coldfield.	Burges, John, 1561?-1635.; Burges, John, 1561?-1635. Answer rejoyned to that much applauded pamphlet of a namelesse author, bearing this title: viz. A reply to Dr. Mortons generall defence of three nocent ceremonies, &c.	1631 (1631)	STC 4114; ESTC S106928	94,058	129

their holy rejoycing and thankefulnesse The like may be seene in Nehemiahs Dedication of the holy City which was dedicated with prayses to God Neh. 12.27 c. offerings and prayers Really but by a Perambulation about the wals and other solemnities there mentioned Complementally and in Ceremony The former reallities were Essentiall meanes of the Dedication the other only Accessory Ceremonies adjoyned to the reall things and no meanes of worship in themselues but per aliud by way of reference and reduction The Iewes did Dedicate their owne houses with prayers hymmes feastings and other Solemnities saith Mr. Ainesworth on Deut. 20.5 If it seeme hard That the Dedication is by the Canon referred to that vse of the Crosse I answer that the Canon doth not referre the Dedication to the Crosse simply as though that were the sole or principall meanes but onely to that as a Ceremony For thus goe the words Esteeming it a lawfull Ceremony and honourable badge whereby the Infant is dedicated c. And if I should say that Nehemiah dedicated the walls and Citie of Ierusalem by going about the walls thereof in two diuided companies you could not gainesay me nor would mistake the matter For it is vsuall to ascribe a thing done not alone the principall Agent but to any Instrument yea sometimes to occasions which worke not or to adiuncts as Mr. Cartwright well obserueth in his Answer to the Remists vpon those words of 2. Cor. 4.17 where it is said that our light affliction worketh for vs a far more exceeding and eternall waight of glory Worketh yea and it is an vsual kind of speech to say a thing is done by such a means as worketh not at all to the doing but only declareth what is done or to be done Thus a Gen. 41.13 Ioseph is said to haue hanged Pharaohs Butler The Priest to haue made b Leuit. 13. cleane the Leper the c vers 19. Sacrifices to make Attonement the Ministers of the Gospell to d Iohn 20 23. remit sins Ieremy e Iere. 1.10 to plant and plucke vp kingdomes and to make them drinke of the Lords Cup of affliction And thus wee say in Mariages With this ring I thee wedd which is after expounded that they haue declared their consent of Mariage by giuing and taking of a Ring Nor could the Makers of that Canon otherwise vnderstand themselues in those words vnlesse they would thereby crosse all that they haue said before in the body of that Canon in which they deny to the Crosse any Operatiue vertue and professe that the Sacrament is not better with it or worse without it That the child is fully baptized before that bee vsed and incorporated by the vertue of Baptisme into the mysticall body of Chri●● that they vse it only as the Fathers in their best vse as a Ceremony and Badge All which must bee ouerthrowne if Dedication bee otherwise ascribed to the Crosse then as vnto a Ceremony which signifieth the vse of the Dedication it selfe which is Really made by Baptisme which is to professe the faith of Christ crucified c. And that they so meant and no otherwise my poore selfe and others who haue stumbled at the Phrase might haue assured our selues out of the body and words of the Canon and the reference of their meaning to the Booke of Common prayer which expresly sheweth that this Ceremony is vsed only in token c. And in sooth had not the Popish abuse and Superstitions about the Crosse made vs iealous of all vse of it who would not haue thought this a decent Ceremony at the administration of Baptisme to reminde all the congregation of their Christian profession and warfare to which the Sacrament it selfe doth oblige them Wherefore if you were to subscribe to the letter of the Canon as you are not nor any man else you need not feare to take that interpretation of Ceremoniall only declaratiue Dedication For without violence to the Canon or mistake of it it is not possible to vnderstand it otherwise And therfore I say that as I would not let my Curate vse it if I held it vnlawfull so I will not forbeare the vse of it my selfe now that in my conscience I thinke the intended vse thereof to bee lawfull CAP. 14. An Obiection vsed to strengthen the former Argument answered Object THere is no man that doubteth whether Kneeling bee worship or no. Ergo At least that Ceremonie of Kneeling when we receive the Communion is not a matter of meere Order but of Worship Answ 1. It hath been shewed before cap. 10.1 that the gesture of Kneeling is neither worship nor signe of it but when so meant A Carpenter kneeles to driue a naile doth any man thinke this to be worship 2. That it is from common vse and by construction a signe of respect or reverence as well in Civill as Sacred vses 3. That it is not in any action of Gods solemne service either vnlawfull as prohibited of God or necessary as commanded of him though in some Actions more sutable to the kind of Seruice and more commodious to vs. 4. Lastly that it never was fastened by diuine Ordinance to any one kinde of religious action or other Wherefore the Question Whether God hath given man any power to mixe Actions of his worship more then to devise new worship of God may very well be spared For it supposeth Kneeling to be a worship by it selfe or at least ingraffed by the hand of God into some one action of his service which is not so 2. Wee yeeld Kneeling in the act of receiving the holy Communion to bee in our intention largo sensu in a large sense a worship of God that is propter aliud in reference to some other thing not in or ex se in or of it selfe but onely as all Circumstances observed as matters of Order and Decencie and Edification for the honouring of God in his services are worship and not otherwise The publike Declaration of the Church is that which must assure vs of the intended vse which because it is by some negligence left out of the later printed Bookes of Common Prayer I will heere set downe that I may be sure you shall know it There after a Preamble it is said in these words The 5 Rubrick s●t at the end of the Communion It is extant in all Books printed as wel in octavo as in fol in 5. 6. Edw 6 reestablished 1. Eliz. and still in force Whereas it is ordained in the Booke of Common Prayer in the administration of the Lords Supper that the Communicants kneeling should receiue the holy Communion which thing being well meant for a signification of the humble and gratefull acknowledging of the benefits of Christ giuen vnto the worthy Receiuer and to avoyd the prophanation and disorder which about the holy Communion might otherwise ensue lest yet the same kneeling might bee thought or taken otherwise we doe declare that