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A17127	A sermon preached before His Maiestie at Whitehall, March 22. 1617. being Passion-Sunday, touching prostration, and kneeling in the worship of God. To which is added a discourse concerning kneeling at the Communion. By Iohn, Bishop of Rochester.	Buckeridge, John, 1562?-1631.	1618 (1618)	STC 4005; ESTC S106770	134,604	258

est à sancta Synodo quoniam conson● conueniens per omnes Ecclesias custodienda est consuetudo vt stantes ad orationem vota Domino reddamus Because there are some that kneele at prayers on the Lords day and the daies of Pentecost therefore it is decreed by this sacred Synod because an vniforme and conuenient custome is to be kept in all Churches that wee shall pay our vowes to God standing at prayer To the same purpose are cited some other later Councels and Fathers to proue that which no man denies that the Primitiue Church vsed to stand at prayers on the Lords day and from Easter to Pentecost in remembrance of the resurrection of our blessed Sauiour of which I shall say somewhat in their proper place In which allegations I pray obserue a plaine repugnancie betweene the witnesses and the author that produceth them for they doe directly crosse and confound his purpose for he maketh the gesture of the Apostles to bee in a maner essentiall to this Sacrament in diuers respects For why 1 the time after supper 2 the element vnleauened bread 3 the place a priuate chamber and 4 the preparation of the receiuers fasting or full may and are changed by the practise of the Church vpon good reason but this gesture of sitting may not be changed for any reason so it must be of the essence of the Sacrament And againe it is repugnant to the Law of nature to change this gesture of sitting because it doeth agree with a feast or banquet the prerogatiues of a table Ex natura rei out of the nature of the thing that is a feast a banquet and a table and the behauiour of guests at such a feast Now all the witnesses produced Fathers and Councels giue euidence for standing which is as repugnant to the Law of nature as kneeling is and so this learned Logitian proueth standing to haue bene vsed in the Primitiue Church and concludeth Ergo we must sit at the Lords Table Besides all the Fathers and Councels that mention standing in time of Prayer on Sundayes and from Easter vntill Whitsuntide doe approue of this gesture of standing as it were Ex priuilegio contra legem publicam by the way of Priuiledge or priuate law for a particular reason or cause against the publike law of Prayer which by consent of all should be made kneeling in all humilitie And all priuiledges are derogations to the common Law and rule of right And therefore it is a very poore kinde of arguing to dispute out of a priuiledge to ouerthrow the publike rule of the gesture of prayer For the Fathers decreed standing for Sundaies and from Easter to Pētecost non ex natura orationis not out of the nature of prayer which ought not to bee made standing but rather in honorem resurrectionis Domini in honour of the resurrection of Christ which as that day the first of the Creation wherein light was seuered from darknesse Apoc. 2. as Iustine Martyr reasons arose from the dead and made that day to vs the first of our Recreation regeneration or resurrection from sinne wherein all the darkenesse of sinne and death and ignorance and types and figures and shadowes was dispelled the power of Satan the Prince of darkenesse was vanquished and so discouered to be vanquished and we were brought into the cleere light of the Gospel that hath not so much as a cloud of doubting no not of our resurrection to obscure this glorious light in as much as Christ that died for our sinnes arose againe for our iustification 1. Cor. 13.20 and so became Primitiae mortuorum the first fruits of the dead and vbi primitiae ibi alij fructus where there are first fruits there are other fruits the first haue relation to other or second fruits that will follow And Christ as hee arose solus alone neuer to die more others that were raised by Christ did rise to die againe as Lazarus and others did so hee arose Totus All Christ that is all the members of Christ and all that haue the same manhood with Christ shall arise after him the faithfull from the death of sinne in this life which is the first resurrection and all men from the death of nature in the life to come And in this respect the day of rest after creation in nature was changed from the Iewes Sabbath to the day of rest of Recreation in grace and honoured with the name of Lords day because the worke of Redemption from which Christ rested at his resurrection is a greater worke and much more beneficiall to vs then the worke of Creation For Creation giues vs beeing but Redemption restores vs to that beeing which was lost by sinne to the well beeing of grace and giues vs a right by the free gift of God to the best and blessed beeing of glory And here I cannot omit this one thing that the Author of these reasons cares not to make all the Fathers and Councels and the greatest of all Councels next to the Apostles Councell the great Councell of Nice of 318. Bishops sinners against the law of Nature so hee may say somewhat against kneeling though therein he said asmuch and more against himselfe then indeed he doth against kneeling For if sitting at the Lords Supper bee essentiall to the Table and feast and banquet of Christ and the behauiour of guests and coheires the Fathers and Councels are guilty of the violation of this Law of Nature who vsed and decreed standing at prayer on Sundayes And therfore as this man most weakely would infer at the Lords Supper also which in those times it seemeth was seldom or neuer omitted on the Lords day and so all his witnesses as they testifie against him that produceth them so they are tainted with the breach of the Law of Nature which is in effect the Law of God and so no way to be credited And if any credit be to be giuen to them certainely they are good witnesses against him that produceth them and therefore they doe in effect argue thus against him Standing at Prayer and the Lords Supper was in vse in the Primitiue Church by the testimonies of Fathers and the decrees of Councels Therefore Sitting is not the gesture of the Commucants at the Lords Supper To which if wee add that the Fathers of those times and Councels best knew the practise of Christ and his Apostles whose example they proposed to themselues as their rule and institution one of these things will follow that either standing is the essential gesture which Christ and his Apostles vsed and not sitting or els the Fathers and Councels changed the gesture of sitting vsed by Christ and his Apostles into standing vpon particular reason of the resurrection of Christ and then the present Church may vpon as important reason of humilitie which is indeed the lesson that Christ taught verbo exemplo by word and example change sitting and standing into kneeling

words hee calleth this Sacrament Tribunal Christi the Tribunall of Christ And after Considera quaeso mensa Regalis est apposita Angeli mensae ministrantes ipse Rex adest tu adstas oscitans sordescunt tibi vestimenta nihil est tibi curae at pura sunt igitur adora communica Consider I pray you a Kingly feast is prouided the Angels minister at the Table the King himselfe is present and standest thou gaping thy garments are foule and takest thou no care but thy garments are pure Adore then and Communicate Quo non oportet igitur esse puriorem tali fruentem Sacrificio quo solari radio non splendidiorem manum carnem hanc diuidentem os quod igne spirituali repletur linguam quae tremendo nimis sanguine rubescit What shall I say then but that he must be cleerer then the Sunne beames that distributes this flesh and haue a mouth filled with heauenly fire and a tongue red with this fearefull blood that will duely receiue this reuerend Sacrament for it is not man but God that feedeth vs and it is not earthly but heauenly food wherewith we are refreshed And therefore I maruell not 1. Cor. 11.10 if the Apostle say that women must bee couered in the Church Propter Angelos for the Angels Gen. 28.12 13 When God as on Iacobs ladder standeth and beholdeth and the Angels are present and ascend and descend and the Priest doth represent the person of Christ in the consecration and the people be as the Apostles that receiue these dreadfull mysteries For bee it that the Angels bee there vnderstood Angels per naturam by nature and creation as the blessed Angels that are Gods ministring spirits or Angels per officium by office that haue the power of consecrating these dreadfull mysteries All reuerence is due to that sacred worke whereof God is the giuer Christ the gift it selfe the holy Ghost supreme agent the Angels assistants and the Bishops and Priests Angels by office are instruments and the mysteries themselues so dreadful reuerend that the lowest of humility is scant lowly enough for so great graces Since Dial. lib. 4. c. 58. as Gregorie speaketh Quis fidelium habere dubium possit in ipsa immolationis hora ad Sacerdotis vocem Coelos aperiri in illo Iesu Christi mysterio Angelorum choros adesse summis ima sociari terrena coelestibus iungi vnū quiddam ex visibilibus atque inuisibilibus fieri What faithfull man can doubt that in the houre of immolation at the voice of the Priest the heauens are open the quires of Angels are present in those mysteries of Iesus Christ the highest are sociated to the lowest earthly things are ioyned to heauenly things and some one thing is made of things visible and inuisible And may this coniunction of heauen earth spirit and flesh Christ our flesh be made without the greatest humilitie on our part May wee presume to eate the bread of heauen forget the duetie of sinful and earthly men that are but dust and ashes No surely Reuerend dreadfull mysteries must haue receiuers that come with reuerence and dread and such as our action is such must be our affection that is to receiue that with feare and trembling which is so fearefull and dreadfull in it selfe And men in feare fall to the ground in horror and confusion and wee out of humilitie must prostrate our selues and bow and kneele on the ground when wee consider that we are but earth and ashes in comparison of the reuerēd mysteries of which we may well say Quis ad haec idoneus Lord who is fit for these things So then though we kneele not nor adore those reuerend mysteries because they are but creatures yet wee ought to adore and kneele at the receipt of these mysteries since we receiue the body blood of Christ and Christ himselfe God and man to whom all adoration and prostration and kneeling is due I conclude this Reason with Chrysostomes wordes Terram tibi Coelum facit hoc mysterium In 2. Cor. 10. hom 24. Aperi ergo coeli portas perspice vel potiùs non coeli sed coeli coelorum tunc videbis quod dictum est nam quod illic est omnium preciocissimum maximè honorandum hoc ostendam tibi situm in terrâ sicut enim in regiâ id quod est omnium magnificentissimum non sunt parietes non tectum aureum sed corpus Regis sedens in solio sed hoc tibi nunc licet videre in terrâ Non enim Angelos nec Archangelos neque coelos coelos coelorum sed ipsum eorum ostendo Dominum vidisti quemadmodum quod est omnium praestantissimum maxime honorandum vides in terra neque solum vides sed etiam tangis sed etiam comedis eo accepto domum reuerteris Si tibi Regis filius cum mundo purpura diademate traditus esset ferendus quaecunque sunt in terrâ abiecisses Nunc autem non hominis Regis filium accipiens sed ipsum vnigenitum Dei Filium dic rogo non extimescis et eorum quae ad hanc vitam pertinent non omnem expellis amorem This mystery makes the earth to be heauen vnto thee open then the gates of heauen or rather of the heauen of heauens and behold and then thou shalt see that which is spoken For that which is of all others most precious and most to bee honored this will I shew thee vpon earth as in the Kings Court that which of all others is most magnificent is not the walls and golden seeling but the bodie of the King sitting in his Throne And that thou mayest now see on earth for I shew thee not Angels nor Archangels nor the heauen nor the heauens of heauens but the Lord of them Thou seest then that which is the best and most honorable in earth and thou doest not onely see him but touch him and feed on him and hauing receiued him thou returnest to thy house If the Kings sonne and his robe and his Diademe had been committed to be caried by thee thou wouldest haue cast away all other things on earth But now thou hast receiued not the Kings sonne that is a man but the onely begotten Sonne of God tell mee I pray thee doest thou not feare and cast off all the loue of the things that appertaine to this life The conclusion then in short is this These dreadfull and reuerend mysteries may bee as Tutors and Schoolemasters to imprint the same dread and reuerence in the soules and bodies of the receiuers which they carrie in themselues great and reuerend dreadfull mysteries must bee receiued with great and dreadfull humilitie of soule and humiliation of body of which kneeling is a part and therefore in the action of participating and receiuing wee must kneele that it may appeare in the sight of God and his Angels and men that wee doe homage and