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A47436 A discourse concerning the inventions of men in the worship of God by William Lord Bishop of Derry ... King, William, 1650-1729. 1694 (1694) Wing K528; ESTC R9667 85,542 194

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the following deduction 1. The Altar was of Old the Lord's Table from whence his Attendants were fed Mal. i. 7 Ye offer polluted Bread upon mine Altar and ye say Wherein have we polluted thee In that ye say The Table of the Lord is contemptible 2. On this account the Israelites came to the Altar and worshiped before it as being God's Table on which the Sacrifice was presented as his Meat of which they were permitted to partake So 2 Chron. vi 12 And he stood before the Altar of the Lord vers 13. And kneeled down on his knees And 1 Kings viii 54 He arose from before the Altar from kneeling on his knees Nor can it be said That this kneeling of Solomon was only because he offered up a Prayer at that time and that therefore he was in a praying posture for undoubtedly it was the Duty of all that were present at any Sacrifice to offer up prayers to God with the Sacrifice And accordingly we find it commanded 2 Kings xviii·22 Ye shall worship before this Altar in Jerusalem literally Ye shall bow down your selves 3. The Communion-Table is called the Lord's-Table 1 Cor. x. 21 4. The Israelites partaking of the Altar is proposed as an Example for our partaking of the Lord's Table 1 Cor. x. 16 The Cup of Blessing which we bless is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ The Bread which we break is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ vers 18. Behold Israel after the Flesh Are not they which eat of the Sacrifices partakers of the Altar 5. In allusion to this Religious Eating with Bodily Worship it is Prophecied of our Saviour Psal. xxii 29 All they that be fat upon Earth that is the favoured and happy Servants of God here called in vers 26. The meek shall eat and Worship Since then the Scripture sets forth to us a Relious Eating at the Lords-Table with Worship and the Holy Communion is such an Eating at his Table it follows that the Scripture Warrants our Worshiping when we Eat 2. We are Commanded in Scripture to receive the Holy Eucharist In remembrance of Christ's death and by it we shew his death till he come The same Scriptures Command us to Worship our Saviour For he is the Lord and Worship thou him Psal. xlv 11 If ever then we are to Worship our Saviour it is certainly when we come to him in the nearest approaches that we are capable of in this World and with the highest sense of Gratitude that our Souls can admit of to remember and adore him for the greatest Act of love that could be extended towards us even laying down his Life for us and partake of the benefits thereof by feeding on him If it be not our duty to Worship him with our Bodies as well as our Minds on this occasion it is hard to say when we are obliged to do it This consideration prevail'd with the Protestant Church of Poland to oblige all their Members to receive kneeling or standing in Opposition to the Socinians who refused to pay any Worship to our Saviour and therefore Celebrated his Supper sitting The Words of their General Synod are these Corpus Confession p. 236. Quod attinet ad Caeremonias c. As to the Ceremonies of the Lord's-Supper the Decree some time ago discust in the Synod of Sandomir and the Conclusion made and repeated in the General Synod of Cracow and Petrokow is also approved in this Session of the Synod of Vladislaw vizt That sitting at the Lord's-Table shall not be used in any of the Churches of Poland or Lithuania c. of our Communion For this Ceremony tho' indifferent as others are is not used by the Christian and Reformed Churches and is proper to the Infidel Arrians only who place themselves in an equal Throne with the Lord. Since then sitting has crept into some of our Churches chiefly by the occasion and countenance of those who have miserably fallen from us and denied the Lord that bought us We intreat and exhort all those Congregations and our Brethren in the Lord that they would change sitting into the Ceremonies used by us Protestants in all the Reformed Churches of Europe even that the Lord's Supper may be administred to the Communicants standing or kneeling with a protestation against Bread-Worship used by the Papists both which Rites as they have been hitherto used in some Churches we leave free and approve without blaming or giving offence to those who use either This Synod was held June 19 th 1583. The Synod of Petrokow above mentioned held June 1.2.3 1578. pa. 234. expresses it self in these words Because those Traiterous Fugitives from us to Arianism who change all things in the Church pretending to imitate Christ without discretion were the first Authors amongst us of sitting at the Lord's Table contrary to the Rites used in all the Reformed Churches through Europe Therefore we reject this Ceremony as proper to them who treat as well Christ as his Sacraments irreverently as indecent and irreligious and very offensive to well meaning people It ought to be observed that this Church reckons Sitting a Ceremony and a Ceremony of an ill signification and Original and not used by any Protestant Church in their time IV. But I find most people acknowledge the reasonableness of this and grant if it were left to us how we wou'd Receive that we ought to do it with Adoration but say they Obedience is better then Sacrifice we are commanded to do what Christ did and he Instituted and his Disciples received it in a Table posture and therefore so ought we Notwithstanding the Scriptures Reason and Decency seem to recommend another posture to us Now to this Argument which is the only one I find brought from Scripture and which seems to prevail with most I answer 1. That we are not required nor is it convenient to imitate all that Christ did Neither the time nor the number of Receivers nor the posture being obligatory to us as appears from St. Paul 1 Cor xi 23. who having occasion to mention what he received of the Lord concerning this Sacrament mentions only our Saviour's taking Bread giving thanks and breaking it and then saying Take eat this is my Body c. without the circumstances of the number of Receivers his posture or being at supper Nay that we may not think that this had any relation to a common supper or the circumstances of it he observes that Supper was done when he took the Cup. Our Saviour's posture therefore whatever it was is no wise obligatory to us it not being any part of what St. Paul professes to have received from Christ concerning this Sacrament 2. I have already proved that Religious Eating was accompanied with Bodily Worship and therefore if it were granted that we were obliged to receive this Sacrament in a Table posture from the example of our Saviour yet it would not follow that we should not receive it kneeling