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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

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in celebrating those mysteries And in his time and after before the Transubstantiation they did Adore Christ as coexistent with the bread which perhaps gaue occasion to Auerrois who liued eightie yeares before Honorius to say that Christians did adore their God and then eate him For at that time the errour of Consubstantiation had gotten strength and they did as it were confine the locall presence of Christ to the bread once sanctified at least in the Sacramentall vse of it and did performe diuine honour to the Sonne of God as being therin Not yet intending to adore that which was seene but that which was taken to bee therein vt contentum in continente ineffably there yet ibi there The difference betwixt these and the former ages was in this That the former Ages did in receiuing the Sacrament c Adoring as Aug. said not that which is seene and perisheth but that which is beleeved c. adore Christ as therin mystically as the signified thing is in the Signe without any opinion of Christs bodily presence in the creatures themselues or of alteration made in the substance nature or forme of the creatures whereas that Age dreamed of a Consubstantiation The following did embrace that monster of Transubstantiation and then when all the substance of the visible creature was held to be gone they did easily turne and entend the Adoration to the visible things as if there had beene now no substance of any creature left therein but only the appearances of familiar creatures vnder which Christ himselfe was substantially but inuisible That there was this difference the writings of the seuerall Ages will manifest to any diligent Reader and among other things this cause which is kept I confesse still though stripped of the sense it had that in celebrating or consecrating the prayer was not made that the Bread and Wine might bee made the body and blood of Christ in themselues as is now fansied but Vt nobis accipientibus fiant corpus sanguis Domini to vs receiuing of them they may become the body and blood of the Lord. Intimating that the Reall presence of Christ in a spirituall manner is not effected in the visible signes but in and vnto the faithfull Receiuer of them And that all the conuersion and changing of the Bread and Wine was only in their vse in that they were mystically and in type the body and blood of Christ as the Arke was Iehouah as the Rocke was Christ 1. Corinthians 10. The Adoration therfore of Christ in the vse of the Sacrament hath alwayes beene in the Christian Church First without any reference of diuine honour to the visible things themselues as being really turned into Christ or containing him within themselues Afterwards from the preuailing of Guilmund and other against Berengarine and the truth for a reall presence of Christs conioyned with the bread they directed their Adoration to the creatures but not for the creatures or Elements sakes but for Christs sake At last came in the Adoration of the Sacrament or visible element of bread it selfe as hauing no substance or materiall subsistence but onely the naturall Body of Christ by vertue of Consecration by Concomitance wholly Christ who is God to be adored for euer In the first times and second the adoration was onely in the vse For out of the Sacramentall vse they did not beleeue such a Reall presence but after the abomination of Transubstantiation once got the field because there was then nothing of the creature supposed to be left but the Accidents and those as Bellar. himselfe speaketh vnited to the person of the Sonne of God Then followed that wheresoeuer that appeared Diuine honour was held fit to bee done thereto as vnto the very Son of God incarnate and certainely existent vnder those Species of Bread and Wine as euer he was on the Crosse or in the wombe of his mother onely for feare of frighting vs hee is pleased to bee there invisible and as after the manner of a Spirit but yet in his very true naturall body the same that was crucified say they This most abominable Idolatrie followed indeed the Transubstantiation But the two other sorts of Adoration of Christ in the vse of the Sacrament went before this The middle also was Idolatrous not in obiecto in the object as the last but interpretatiue because they conceiued very Christ to be coexistent then with the sanctified Creatures and as so adored him but not the visible creatures The first Adoring was vndoubtedly lawfull when the sanctified creatures were vnderstood to bee the Body and Blood of Christ not in rei veritate as being changed the one into the other or one coexistent with the other but in significante mysterio in a signifying mysterie as August spake made the Body and Blood of Christ not by any alteration of their substance forme and nature as Theodoret but onely by their Institution and Deputation to that vse and therefore were not the very Body and Blood of Christ nor did exhibit the same as was after dreamed to the mouth and bodie of euery Receiuer of them but onely to the soule of the true beleeuers who receiued spiritually and by faith rem sacramenti the thing signified by the outward elements For all that while the adoration or diuine worship was directed only to Christ as sitting at the right hand of God in heauen and that in the act of Communicating Hence the 1. Nicene Councell exhorteth that men should not bee humiliter intenti humbly intent to the things before them but looke vp higher Hence came into the Lyturgie Sursum corda lift vp your hearts Hence many plaine speeches of Saint August Chrysost and others that the Receivers must as Eagles mount vp to heauen and take hold of Chirst there Prepare mentem non ventrem fidem non dentes their heart not their stomacke faith not their teeth to receiue Christ himselfe and feed vpon him That Adoration preceded Transubstantiation Ann. 1130. lib de Canonii observantia proposit 23. prope finem Tom 11. Bibl. Pat. Colon pag. 460. D. Col. 1. which was defined at the fourth Lateran Councell Ann. 1215 I shew In the 11 Centurie we haue in Radulpho Decano Tungrensi the maner of receiuing the Sacrament set forth in these words Inclinatus autem dicit antequam communicet Domine Iesu Christe qui voluntate patris cooperante Spiritu sancto per mortem propriam mundum viuificasti libera me per hoc sacro-sanctum corpus sanguinē tuum ab omnibus iniquitatibus malis meis c. Cum distribuit dicit Corpus Domini nostri Iesu Christi proficiet tibi in vitam aeteruam Amen The Priest bowing himselfe before hee communicates saith thus O Lord Iesus Christ who by the will of the Father and the consecration of the holy Ghost hast quickned the world through thine owne death deliver mee by this thy most holy body and blood from all mine iniquities and