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I Come next to Pietie. In respect of Pietie, there be none of vs, that doe not plead for Kneeling in deed, when wee teach our people at the Sacrament not to settle their thoughts and mindes vpon the exter∣nall things; but to lift vp their hearts from earth to heauen: from the Pa∣stor who giues the externall element, to God the Father that giueth his
Sonne, and to God the Sonne, who giueth himselfe: from the Symbols; the Bread and the Cup; to the Bread that came downe from Heauen; to the flesh and the bloud of Christ: and therfore exhorteth them, that as their hand is ready; so their hearts may be prepared, and their minds, to receiue the Lord Iesus Christ him∣selfe, with faith and thankfulnes, and that they come with a Religious re∣solution in this action, and by this action, to celebrate the remembrance of his death, till his comming againe. All these considerations, and diuine Meditations, whereunto we stirre vp our people; (First, of the order and forme of giuing: Secondly, of the gift: Thirdly, of the manner how we receiue: Fourthly, of the nature and chiefe ends of this Sacrament) do al most euidently proue & euince, that Pietie craueth of vs a most Re∣ligious gesture to bee vsed in this action.