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
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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
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Lindsay, David, d. 1641?
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London :: Printed by George Purslowe, for Ralph Rounthwaite, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Golden Lyon,
1619.
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Church of Scotland -- Customs and practices -- Early works to 1800.
Lord's Supper -- Church of Scotland -- Early works to 1800.
Posture in worship -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A05533.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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SECT. 5. An Answer to the instance of
Honorius.
AND heere let me tell you, that
the instance of Honorius will not
serue:* 1.1 for Honorius did onely ordaine,
after the consecration,* 1.2 at the eleua∣tion
of the Host (so they call the Sa∣cramentall
Bread) that the people
should reuerently bow themselues,
that is Kneele, as is manifest by the
constant practice whereby obedi∣ence
hath been giuen to this Canon.
This belongeth not to gesture vsed
at the receiuing: for in euery Masse
at the eleuation the people kneeled
and adored; and this was done be∣fore
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that either the Priest himselfe,
or they, receiued; yea, when after
the people did not receiue at all, but
the Priest himselfe alone, which was
most frequent in these last times,
wherein the people receiued but
once in the yeere. But at what time,
and by whose authoritie Kneeling
began to be vsed of the people, at the
receiuing of the Sacrament, I hope
shall not bee certainly designed. For
by the contrarie, Honorius Canon see∣meth
to import, that before his time,
the people vsed to Kneele, when they
receiued; because it ordaineth that
they should only Kneele at the eleua∣tion,
and not at the receiuing, which
doubtlesse, it would, if it had not been
in custome before; for it is not pro∣bable,
but at the receiuing they
should haue beene ordained to haue
giuen the same reuerence that they
were appointed to giue at the eleua∣tion,
had it not beene already in prac∣tise,
& therfore needles to be inioined