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death_n	lord_n	show_v	supper_n	4,170	5	9.3436	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02930	The curtaine of Church-povver and authoritie in things called indifferent Drawne and laid open, to shew the many infectious sores and maladies they bring in, and cover. Together with sundry infallible reasons, proving that the service of God, and the generall good of the Church and common wealth require that they should be abolished. By Ia: Henric	Henric, James.	1632 (1632)	STC 13071; ESTC S111374	72,115	112

bow toward the Altar or table but what a mockerie is this while in the meane they have no true compassion on the members of Christ that have suffered in the Palatinate and elsewhere and so come to lie under the Altar and crie How long Lord holy and true They also ordaine holy daies for the Saints and one for all Saints but what a mockerie is this while in the meane they will not suffer men to confesse and defend the faith and ordinances left by the Saints as above said This is in effect to persecute the Saints and then make holie daies for them when they are dead like them that builded the tombes of the Prophets their fathers had killed Mat. 23.29 What a mockerie is it to ordaine that none shall hold two benefices with cure unles he bee at least a maister of art Can. 41. as if that degree might priviledge him to bee worse then others Can. 24. What a mockerie is it to ordaine that in all Cathedrall Churches the communion shal be administred uppon principall feast daies sometime by the Bishop sometime by the Deane and sometime by a Canon or Prebendarie using a decent cope and being assisted with the Gospeller and Episteler when none of all these things are ordained in the new testament That is neither Diocessan or provinciall Bishops Deanes Canons Prebendaries Epistlers Gospellers Cathedrall Churches nor Copes or as another Canon enjoyneth all sorts to weare on their surplesses hoodes sutable to their degrees Can. 5 8 whē they administer the Sacramēt These things nourish pride ambition idlenes nonresidencie temporising and ignorance Gods ordinances are not the better observed by them but the worse as also by the pettie Canons * See Earles characters c. 69. of singing men and their singing while the people can neither joyne with them nor understand them they serve but for a vaine shew to please ignorance and popish people Divers Canons courts and customes depend on the Episcopall office authoritie and Ministerie which must needes be sore burdens because that office is not ex jure divino much lesse the Canons courts and proceedings It would wearie a man to thinke of all the abuses in the Bishops courtes in subordinate officers the complaints of them that are oppressed by them in every diocesse shew them to bee popish and intolerable and therefore I will passe by them As touching kneeling at the Sacrament which also is an ordinance of humane authoritie I know there are many in the Church of England who perceiving that there is no quiet living there without obedience to this and the like ordinances consider that it is but a gesture that the Sacrament is called the Eucharist which signifies thanksgiving and the cup is called the cup of blessing that giving of thankes or blessing of God is a kind of prayer and this being the Sacrament of thanksgiving may be received kneeling especially where men are not permitted to receive it otherwise I answer that as these are the reasons of such as be conformable because they know not how to helpe it I purpose not to dispute against them But these are not the reasons of the Bishops and such others as impose this ceremonie of kneeling Take the Church representative as they would have it taken for the assembly of Bishops and others in convocation and of them that see their ordinances observed there is no such professed doctrine or explanation of the reason that because it is a Sacrament of thanksgiving and the cup a cup of blessing men ought to kneele in receiving it and if there were yet that is not a sufficient reason for them to presume to impose it without warrant of precept or example in holy writ For they know that all or most of the Psalmes are expresse prayers praises and thanksgivings yet neither doe wee reade that Christ made men sing them kneeling neither doe the Bishops no nor the Papists themselves make men say reade or sing them kneeling It is true that in thanksgiving it is not only lawfull but best beseeming to doe it kneeling that as soone as ever the Sacrament is received it can not but be good to give thankes kneeling so doe the reformed Churches yet before and after meate men give God thanks standing yea many doe it sitting and the Bishops are not troubled with it Besides the act of receiving is not an action or praier of thanksgiving but an act of receiving And it is out of question that Christ administred this Sacrament to his Apostles as all or the most part of them were sitting Mathew saith As they were eating Math. 26.26 Iesus tooke bread blessed it and gave it Now no man wil be so mad as to imagine that they were supping or eating the Paschal-lambe on their knees Marke saith Mar. 14.18 vers 22. As they sate and did eate Iesus said one of you shall betray me then it followeth And as they did eate Iesus tooke bread and blessed and gave it that is therefore as they sate If it had beene necessarie that men should take it kneeling Christ would have commanded them to rise and take it kneeling a command that better beseemes him then a Bishop or Minister or the Apostles would have so ordained and ordered it Luke saith when the howre was come Luc. 22. 14. vers 19. he sate downe and the twelve Apostles with him and so as Mathew and Marke adde as they did eate he tooke bread and gave it As in effect Luke himself addeth And hee tooke bread or to shew that though this banquet came after supper yet it was before they were risen and therefore Mark saith it was As they did eate After that the Corinthians tooke the Sacrament as they were eating or supping wherefore the Apostle reproveth them saying In eating everie one takes his owne supper before and one is hungrie and another drunken 1. Cor. 11.21 what have yee not houses to eate and drinke in He would not have them come to Church to satisfye hunger he doth not reprove thē for sitting at the Lords supper but for making a meale before it and together with it which was a reason why the time was changed and appointed to be before men goe home to dinner If any man hunger let him eate at home then he addeth Vers 34. and the rest I will set in order when I come that is other matters this is already ordered whence it appeares that in the Apostles time it was received sitting or standing as a supper is received and usually eaten And verie reason doth manifest that this order could not sodainly be changed but by degrees and as superstition errour ignorance increased Christ that instituted this Sacrament did it to confirme and strengthen our faith and to make us shew the Lords death the benefit thereof to our owne soules and others This is best performed by meditating that as the bread is broken for us and given to us so