A Word also as touching the gestures and deportments of the body in the act of receiving the Sacrament, which hath been variable according to the manner of the Countries where it hath been, and is administred, as it was the custome of the Jewes to sit upon the ground, as Christ leaning upon Johns breast at Supper, which is imitated now by the Irish; but the Communion of the body and blood of Christ is called the Lords Supper, and sit∣ting being an accustomed gesture amongst us at our ordinary sup∣pers therefore sitting is a gesture most stress for such an 〈◊〉〈◊〉. A∣gain, some Churches use the posture of standing as well as sitting in imitation of the Passeover, but we never read that the Apo∣stles kneeted at the Sacrament, for so to doe is directly Idolatry and Superstition, as may thus appeare:
For to worship God in act, or desort a creature is Idolatry and Popery, but such is their kneeling, ergo. 2. To worship Christs Man-hood as present when it is absent is Idolatry, but Christs lo∣call body is in Heaven as I have proved, and therefore being so adored here on earth is Idolatry, and Superstition.