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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	drink_v	eat_v	lord_n	9,664	5	4.7498	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17573	A dispute vpon communicating at our confused communions	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 4356; ESTC S118324	41,392	84

kneeling were intended in regard of anie vocal prayer of the Minister then where there is no vocall prayer at the deliverie kneeling is not intended and they have greatlie failed who have kneeled But that is done almost everie where where there is kneeling Thirdlie if in regard of the vocall prayer of the Minister then if a Minister vtter demonstrativelie Christs owne words the communicant must not kneele but if h● vtter the words of mans framing he must kneele So Christs order must be overthrown that kneeling may have place Fourthlie suppose vocall prayer had beene enjoyned and the communicant to follow it mentallie what can be the reason to vrge kneeling in regard of that vocal prayer rather then anie other if there were no further intended then to kneele in regard of the vocall prayer of the Minister At a convention holden at Sainct Andrewes before Perth assemblie it was thought good that people should either stand or kneele in time of prayer at other times What need I insist vpon this point seing there was no direction for a vocall prayer farre lesse a declaration that kneeling was intended in regard of that prayer The mentall prayer of the communicants owne framing not enjoyned not kneeling in regard of it If by lifting vp of the heart could be meant the mentall prayer of the communcants owne framing and cōceiving it must be either a set continued prayer or short ejaculation momentanie petitions The set and continued prayer which may be called Oratio instructa a prayer set in order according to Davids phrase Psal 5. Mane instruā coram te sum speculiturus cannot consist with the exercise of receaving eating drincking and the mentall actions answering analogicallie to them Eyther the minde must be abstracted from meditation and consideration of these outword rites whereabout the senses and members are employed or els it must be distracted and divided betwixt two exercises A Prince would not be content to be so vsed by a poore supplicant to see him employed in another action athough lawful and honest when he is preferring his petition to him Dist. 49. cap. sacer It is then the sacrifice of fooles Offer it now to thy Governor wil he be pleased with thee or accept thy person Malach. 1.8 Indignum est dare Deo quod dedignaretur homo If we make petition but to some earthlie Prince we fixe the eye both of bodie and minde up●n him and scare least some incongruous or vnseemlie word move him to aver● his countenance Tot●m in cum menti● corporis aciem defigimus de nutu ej●s tr●●ida expectatione pendemus C●llat 23. cap. 27. non mediocrit●● f●rmid●ntes ne quod forte incongruum verbum audientes misericordiam avertat sayeth Cassianus The like incongruity of confoūding two exercises receaving eating drinking in time of sett prayer and adoration vpon our knees was never heard among the verie barbarians and I thinke would never have beene heard among Christans if they had not imagined falsly that they were eating the flesh and drinking the blood of their God Next if by lifting vp of the heart be meant the sett mentall prayer of the communicant it will follow that kneeling cannot be farther vrged then the sett mentall prayer it self But I beleeve that the communicant if he be well exercised in the mentall actions answering analogicallie to the outward communicateth worthilie howbeit he conceave not a set mental prayer Thirdlie if kneeling be enjoyned in regard of sett mentall prayer to be conceaved by the communicant then a secret or private prayer is commanded in a publ●●k assemblie without a vocall either of the Minister or of him that prayeth even then when the Minist●r and congregation is not praying He concurreth not with the congregation nor the congregation with him And beside the signes and gestures of secret and mentall prayer where there is not vocall should be concealed in publick far lesse should they be extorted They may as well enjoyn the communicant to lift up his eyes or knock on his b●e●st that we may know he is praying as to enjoyne kneeling if it were intended in regard of this secret prayer For kneeling lifting up of the hands eyes knocking on the breast are naturall adumbrations of the inward motions and passions of our soule which ought not to be extorted It must be therefore for some other regard that kneeling is intended then in regard of anie sett mentall prayer For whether he pray or not mentallie he is urged to kneele Kneeling not intended in regard of the eiaculations of the heart If by lifting up of the heart be meant the momentanie petitions and short ejaculations of the soule that lifting up may very well consist with set meditation and not onely with this action of receiving eating drinking the sacramentall elements but also with the receiving of our ordinary and daily foode eating and drinking at common tables In a word with all our actions whether civil or religious and may be incident to my passing by a Crucifixe at which time I may not kneele howbeit I detest the Image I may very well passing by with neglect or contempt groane to God for the blindnesse of the people or lift up my hand or my eyes because these gestures may well expresse our inward ejaculations But kneeling attendeth not upon ejaculations but upon set prayer or thankesgiving purposely intended It was therefore a silly tale of one of our ministers to say that wee granted they might lift up their eyes but we envied the poore knee Will any man inferre that I may kneele at eating of daily food because I may then lift up my eyes These ejaculations and holy motions of the heart may be and are often incident at hearing of the word and sometimes more fervent then at the receiving of the Sacrament It is not therefore in regard of that lifting uppe of the heart by short eiacalations of prayer that kneeling is intended What hath beene sayd against the pretext of prayer The pretence of mentall reall thankesgiving answered let it be applyed to thanksgiving vocall or mentall set and contined or iaculatorie and momentanie If they will say that the action of eating and drinking is a reall thankesgiving and shewing forth of the Lords death the Apostle sayth not so but requireth a declaration by words of the Lords death as oft as we communicate But put the case the Apostle had sayd by eating and drinking yee shewe forth the Lords death yet is not the action a reall thanksgiving but a reall commemoration to speake so of Christs death and passion and consequentlie of the nature of preaching and shewing forth of the Lords death and passion and not of the nature of thanksgiving It is one thing to professe and publish Gods mercies before men for the redemption of man and another thing to offer up thankes to God by way of adoration God may be honoured many wayes but every honour