Touching kneeling at the communion it forceth not who did first appoint it (although I can finde no such decree made by Honorius) it is the meetest manner of receiuing this sacrament in mine opinion, being commonly vsed in praying and giuing of thanks, both whiche are annexed to this sacrament, and are to be required in the cōmuni∣cants, and therfore I thinke this to be a good reason: the meet est ge∣sture for praying and thāksgiuing is kneeling, but those that receiue the Eucharist pray and giue thāks, Ergo the meetest gesture for them is kneeling.
The onely perill is adoration, whiche may as well be committed sitting or standing. But wherefore then serueth preaching? there is as much daunger of contempt the one way, as there is of adoration the other way. In such matters Christian magistrates haue autho∣ritie to appointe what they thinke most conuenient, and the same must be obserued of those that be pacifici, and not contentiosi. But of sit∣ting and kneeling at the communion more is to be spoken hereafter in the second part.