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A05533 The reasons of a pastors resolution, touching the reuerend receiuing of the holy communion: written by Dauid Lindesay, D. of Diuinitie, in the Vniuersitie of Saint Andrewes in Scotland, and preacher of the gospell at Dundy Lindsay, David, d. 1641? 1619 (1619) STC 15656; ESTC S103094 57,265 200

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Sate before the Lord. The Marginall note hath remained 1. Chronicles 17. 16. Tremellius translateth the word Restitit and noteth in the Margent Consedit Catachresis And wee know the word to bee often taken for Manere to remaine This gesture of Sitting neuer commanded and neuer or very seldome practised in Gods publike worship must bee far more subiect to the Iudgement of the Church and the power that she hath to abrogate and change Ceremonies as Caluin saith then Kneeling And yet wee finde the Primitiue Church to haue discharged the vse of Kneeling at Prayer on the Lords Day and on euery day from Pasche till Whit-sunday and in stead thereof to haue appointed Standing If after this manner the Church might haue lawfully interchanged Kneeling a gesture ordained by God himselfe with Standing touching the which there is no precept How much more may our Church interchange Sitting a gesture neuer cōmanded in any publike Act of Diuine worship with Kneeling a gesture comanded by God and most agreeable to this Sacrament in euery respect without giuing of Scandall either to Pastor or people SECT 4. That by Kneeling at the Sacrament the reformation and practice of our Church is not damned NEither doth this interchange damne the reformation and practice of our Church which hitherto hath vsed Sitting a Ceremony indifferent in it selfe in their iudgement meetest for these times for to abolish the Idolatrous opinion of Transubstantiation and to declare our separation from the Popish Church wherein the truth of Gods Word all praise bee to him hath so preuailed that publikely throughout the Kingdome Transubstantiation the Masse and Idolatry therof is vniuersally abolished and abhorred So that now we haue greater cause to be afraid that abuse and corruption shall creepe into this Sacrament from pride prophanenesse and Arrianisme then from Papistry as men are prone to runne headlong from the one to the other extremity frō the conceit of Transubstantiation to contempt and despising of the sacred action and from the adoring of the Bread to adore themselues affirming in print that it is a great sin if a man in this Action do think himselfe inferiour to Christ and doe not esteeme and carry himselfe as his equall And what is that but to adore himselfe if Christ should be adored This I call a Luciferian pride or Arrianisme for he that accounteth himselfe Christs equall must either in his conceit abase Christ from being such a person as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God manifested in the flesh and from the glorious condition of that estate whereunto hee is exalted at the right hand of the Father far aboue Principalities and Powers which is worse then Arrianisme Or hee must imagine himselfe to be such a person and of such quality as our Sauiour is which no creature is nor euer shall be The Scripture saith That when hee appeareth wee shall bee like him but not his Equals Coheires wee are called but are and euer shall bee inferiours in degree to our elder Brother with whom wee must not striue for an equall portion but content with such as shall please him to vouchsafe vs for all is his by nature and merit and by his grace onely wee are and shall bee what wee are To thinke otherwise is a Luciferian pride these detestable assertions springing from the bitter root of contention about this gesture of Sitting at Table do euidently declare what place some men haue begunne already to giue to Pride Profanenesse and Arrianisme and how lightly they esteeme of the Sacrament when they professe themselues to esteeme so basely of our Sauiour the substance of the Sacrament and so highly of themselues What reuerence is giuen by the common people to this Action that I leaue to be considered by euery Pastor in his seuerall charge I feare they thinke it lesse then they would wish As we therefore doe not nor should not condemne and despise the iudgement of our godly Predecessors who to root out Idolatry did interchange Kneeling with Sitting so should we not condemne despise the iudgement of our Church at this time who haue againe interchanged Sitting with Kneeling considering it is an indifferent Ceremonie and Religious not onely for the vse but for the Authour thereof God and that now matters standing in the estate wherin they are it may haue as good and profitable an vse in our Church as Sitting had before For as Sitting hath helped to roote out the errour of Transubstantiation and to abolish the Idolatrous Bread-worship so Kneeling shall serue to preserue the Sacrament from profanation our selues from pride our Sauiour from contempt and to debarre those frantike opinions aboue expressed Sitting hath made a separation betwixt vs and the corruptions of the Romane Church Kneeling shall serue to declare our Vnion with other wel-reformed Churches with whom otherwise wee agree in all points of doctrine and to winne such to our profession of the Romane Church who doe not so much abhorre our Communion for any errour in the substance of faith as for the profanenesse that they esteeme to bee in some externall Ceremonies Paul became all things to all men in things indifferent to winne some if hee became all things may wee not in some things yea in a thing commanded by God conforme our selues to winne some if it be possible Finally who is ignorant that all this alteration and change hath proceeded from the constant resolution the instant desire of a most wise and religious Prince our gracious Soueraigne A motiue of the greatest moment on earth if either wee consider his Royall authority or Fatherly affection what power hee hath by the one and what credit hee deseruedly hath by the other who hath giuen and daily giues greater proofe of his loue and care towards the glory of God and the welfare of his Church both by way of action and passion then all his Subiects beside His Highnesse Will then Desire against this and other points being most orderly formally propounded to the generall Assembly of our Church to bee aduised reasoned and concluded and being in it selfe most iust and reasonable as his Maiestie is perswaded not onely out of his owne most profound and incomparable knowledge as in euery thing so chiefly in matters of this kinde but by the iudgement of the best and most learned Diuines of the Church His Maiesties Will I say being such and after such a manner propounded and concerning onely matters indifferent and alterable if without greater reason then any that was or hath beene propounded to the contrarie it had beene gaine-stood and his Highnesse thereby moued to griefe displeasure there is no question but vpon those grounds and reasons whereby hee was perswaded that his purpose was lawfull hee might haue beene prouoked to proceed and by his Royall Anthority inioyne and command both Pastors and People to giue obedience in obseruing and practising these Articles which if his Maiesty had done then should we who were the Pastors of the Church and members of that Meeting haue iustly incurred the blame of pertinacie and of vnwise contention in the estimation of all peaceable and well-disposed Christians and should haue giuen occasion to seditious and vnquiet spirits to burden a most iust and equitable Prince with a most vile imputation of tyrannie and made the Aduersaries of the Truth to reioyce and exult beholding through our foolishnesse a breach made and a gap opened whereby the enemy might enter in betwixt vs and our gracious Soueraigne whereupon what euils might haue followed may be easily perceiued by all who haue not their opinions in greater estimation then the honour of the Prince the welfare of their brethren and the Peace of the Church whereof they are members The consideration meditation of these things are the reasons that mooue mee to thinke that in faith we may obey the acts of the late Assembly in this and all the rest of the Articles concluded therein and therefore that in faith wee cannot disobey but shall thereby offend our God giue scandall to his Church and vantage to the Aduersaries by our contentions and distractions From the which the God of Peace preserue vs blesse vs with that Peace that passeth all vnderstanding vntill our Peace-maker appeare who shall reward his brethren the Peace-makers not onely with that most honorable stile to bee called the Sonnes of God but to bee Heires and Coheires with him of the Kingdome of God Amen FINIS Rom. 16 16 1. Cor. 8. 8. Rom. 14. 17. 1. Cor. 10. 28. Gal. 2. 11. Tert. de Coro Milit. Heb. 11. 6. Gal. 5. 13. 1. Cor. 14. 33. 1. Thes. 5. 20. Mat. 26. 20. Mar. 14. 18 Luk. 22. 14 Ioh. 13. 12. Ioh. 13. 23. Luk. 7. 38. Ioh. 12. 3. Iohn 13. 4. 12. Luke 9. 14. Mat. 23. 6. Luke 9. 14. Mat. 26. 26 Col. 2. 18. Mat. 26. 20 Luk. 22. 11. Luk. 22. 20. Mar. 14. 12 Ioh. 13. 27. a Act. 20. 7. b Tert. de Coro Milit. M●t. 26. 27. 1. Cor. 10. 16. Luk. 22. 30 Better not to determine the s●t time for 〈…〉 Decretal Gregor li. 3. Tit. 41. Canon 20 Euseb. Eccl. li. 7. cap. 9. Lyps de Mil. Rom. lib. 5. Luk. 17. 16. 1. Cor. 11. 27 29. 1. Cor. 11. 21. Ioh. 6. 35. Esay 53. 4. a Tert. de resurrectione carnis b Christus Deuorandus auditu c Ruminandus intellectu d Et fide digirendus Quo res sensiles fiunt intelligibiles Whereby the meaning of the externall things which wee propounded to the senses is declared to the minde The Word likewise worketh seuerally Psal. 22. 25. Psal. 22. 26. Ioh. 13. 13. Luk. 22. 27. Ioh. 6. 54. Ioh. 6. 56. Ioh. 6. 57. 1. Cor. 10. 17. 1. Cor. 10. 21.