A second part of The mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practical, in several tractates: wherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untyed, many dark places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies and errors refuted ... Whereunto are annexed, several letters of the same author, and Dr. Jeremy Taylor, concerning Original Sin. Together with a reply unto Dr. Hammonds vindication of his grounds of uniformity from 1 Cor. 14.40. By Henry Jeanes, minister of Gods Word at Chedzoy in Somersetshire.

Jeanes.

1, Unlesse you can prove, that there cannot be outward significations and expressions of reverence in Gods service, without humane Symbolical ceremo∣nies, all this your enlargement about the expressions of reverence will be to no purpose. We require reverence in all parts of Gods worship as well as you; but then we hold, that Gods worship may be performed reverently, and in a seemly manner, without mystical ceremonies of humane invention.

2. Kneeling in Prayer is an expression of the highest degree of Reverence, Adoration; and it hath a higher rule than Custome, viz. Scripture and the light of Nature: No Custome can render this Kneeling undecent; unlesse you will say those words of the Psalmist, Psal. 95. 6, doe not oblige Christians: O come,

let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our maker.

3. There be some customary expressions of reverence, that are undeniably unjustifiable, and you cannot say that they are implyed in the Apostles 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Thus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 expression of reverence, 'tis a 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with Papists not to touch the bread with their hands, but to have it put into their 〈◊〉〈◊〉; and upon the like pretence of reverence, it is customary amongst them, for Lay men to abstain from the Cup altogether.

Lastly, why you bring in the Heathens throwing of stones at Mercury in a way of worship, I cannot divine; for I cannot imagine, that you 〈◊〉〈◊〉 it to be a decent way of worship, and if it be undecent, then 〈◊〉〈◊〉 serveth nothing unto the exemplification of your meaning.