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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

any time or in any place if policie and decencie did not craue Order to bee kept whereby the priuiledge of subiects is not impaired but ciuility established and their vtility procured Euen so in the worship of God when rules are set down touching Times Places and Ceremonies of Diuine Worship according to these grounds Christian liberty is not abridged but confusion schismes and disorders are preuented Decency and Order are preserued God is not the Authour of confusion and vnquietnesse but of order and peace in all the Churches of the Saints The contrary whereof must needs be if in these things indifferent euery man were permitted to vse his owne will for as many wits as many wils as many heads as many diuerse conceits This meditation I hope is not vnproper for this time wherein yet many are in the balance of deliberation vnresolued whither to sway Some doubting of the acts of the late assembly of our Church holden at Perth be determinations of things indifferēt or if they containe necessary points grounds of diuine worship whither faith would they should bee obeyed or gaine-stood Here it were good to try all things and after tryall to hold that which is best Goe to then let vs put some of them that are most controuerted to a proofe For if after tryall we shal finde that the acts concerning these be such as in faith wee may obey then doubtlesse in faith we cānot disobey if we may obey them without offence to God or scandal to our neighbour we shall not disobey wthout the offence of God our neighbor our whole Church What the reasons of my resolutions are I shall propound and submit them to your charitable censures where I erre I shal not be ashamed to be corrected where we doubt let vs inquire and where we accord let vs proceed and goe forward together The point most controuerted is that which concerneth the bowing of our knees at the receiuing of the body and bloud of our Lord in the Sacrament For some hold that gesture of Sitting is a necessarie Ceremonie if not essentiall yet surely such as belongeth ad integritatē Sacramenti to the perfection of the Sacrament And others hold that although it be a thing indifferent yet it is more proper and agreeable to the nature of this Sacrament then Kneeling which they esteeme either idolatrous or at least such a gesture as being abused to Idolatrie cannot be vsed in faith according to the grounds of Pietie Charitie and Decencie CHAP. I. That Sitting is not a necessary Gesture to be vsed at the receiiuing of the Sacrament SECT 1. The forme of Gesture vsed by our Sauiour and the Apostles at the Paschal Supper TO beginne at the opinion that holdeth the necessitie of Sitting it may bee presumed that our Sauiour and the Apostles obserued the same Gesture and position of the body at the celebration of the Sacrament that hee vsed before at the Paschall Supper That Gesture is expressed by the Greeke words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifie not our forme of sitting called in that tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but a certaine kinde of lying and stretching downe of the bodie for men of ranke and quality in these dayes sate not as we doe at Tables but lay at them on beds of repose not appointed for sleeping but for resting and easing of their bodies while they were at meales Wherevpon they did not commonly lye downe before that they had washed their feet if they were bare-footed Plautus in Persa locus hic tuus est hic accumbe ferte aquam pedibus This is thy place come lye downe here bring water to his feet and if they were shooed they did put off their shooes and layd them by One telling how hee went to table saith Deposui solcas I laid my shooes by They lay on their left sides with their brests towards the table hauing the rest of their body stretched downe on their beds as we reade in the sixt of Amos not euen downe as when they went to sleepe but inclining to the back-side of the beds that they might make place one to another For as wee sit one by another side to side so they lay with their backs towards their neighbours bellies leaning their head and shoulders at their brests So Iohn lay on our Sauiours bosome when they drew vp their legges a little their feet did easily reach to the back-side of the beds whereat the seruants stood as is manifest by these Verses Omnia cum retro pueris obsonia tradas Cur non mensa tibi ponitur a pedibus Seeing saith the Poet that thou giuest all the dishes back ouer to the seruants why doest thou not rather set the table it selfe behinde at thy feet where the seruants stand On such a bed our Sauiour lay in the house of Simon the Pharise when the sinfull woman stood behinde him and washed his feete with her teares and dryed them with her hayres And so did Mary Magdalen stand and anoint them their Standing sheweth that his feet lay somewhat high aboue the ground for the beds had a height proportionall to the tables whereat they lay Aeneas lay vpon an high and stately one Inde toro Pater Aeneas sic orsus ab alto their standing behinde sheweth that our Sauiours feete lay back towards the outside of the beds where they stood Hereby it seemeth most probable that after the first Supper or rather the first seruice of the Paschal Supper our Sauiour did rise alone and went about the backside of the beds whereon the Apostles lay and washed their feet they lying still at table as the women did his for in Iohn no mention is made either of their rising or lying downe againe but of our Sauiours onely This was the Table-Gesture vsed by the Iewes as is manifest by the sixt of Amos verse 4 5 6. by these Histories of our Sauiour and by the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signified to lye and leane downe either on a bed or on the ground for on the ground they lay who had no standing table to eate at as the multitudes whom our Sauiour fedde miraculously in the Desart And these Oppressors and Idolaters whom Amos reprooueth Chap. 2. verse 8. in these words They lye downe vpon cloathes layed to pledge by euery Altar and drinke the Wine of the condemned in the house of their God After this manner the Christians are forbidden to lye downe in Idoleio in the Idol Chappell and eate their sacrifices Thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Cor. 8. 10. is to bee interpret by Amos words As to the table of Diuels mentioned in the tenth Chapter it is not to bee taken for a materiall one standing in the Idols temple but for the thing sacrificed to the Idol which the Idolaters broght home to their own tables and therevnto inuited the Christians who are forbidden wittingly to eate thereof 1. Cor. 10.