e idols.

Now to kneeling in the act of receiving the Lord's supper, which I will
prove to be direct and formal idolatry; and from idolatry shall it never
be purged while the world standeth, though our opposites strive for it,
_tanquam pro aris et focis_.

_Sect._ 7. The question about the idolatry of kneeling betwixt them and us
standeth in this: Whether kneeling, at the instant of receiving the
sacrament, before the consecrated bread and wine,--purposely placed in our
sight in the act of kneeling as signs standing in Christ's stead, before
which we, the receivers, are to exhibit outwardly religious adoration,--be
formally idolatry or not? No man can pick a quarrel at the stating of the
question thus; for, 1. We dispute only about kneeling at the instant of
receiving the sacramental elements, as all know. 2. No man denies inward
adoration in the act of receiving, for in our minds we then adore by the
inward graces of faith, love, thankfulness, &c., by the holy and heavenly
exercise whereof we glorify God; so that the controversy is about outward
adoration. 3. No man will deny that the consecrated elements are purposely
placed in our sight when we kneel, except he say, that they are in that
action only accidentally present before us no otherwise than the
table-cloth or the walls of the church are. 4. That the sacramental
elements are in our sight (when we kneel) as signs standing in Christ's
stead, it is most undeniable; for if these signs stand not in Christ's
stead to us, the bread bearing _vicem corporis Christi_, and the wine
_vicem sanguinis_, it followeth, that when we eat the bread and drink the
wine, we are no more eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Christ,
spiritually and sacramentally, than if we were receiving any other bread
and wine not consecrated. I stay not now upon this head, because our
opposites acknowledge it; for Dr Burges(666) calls the sacraments the
Lord's images and deputies; and the Archbishop of Spalato saith,(667) that
when we take the sacrament of Christ's body, we adore _Christum sub hac
figura figuratum_. 5. That kneelers, at the instant of receiving, have the
consecrated bread and wine in the eyes both of their bodies and minds, as
things so stated in that action, that before them they are to exhibit
outward religious adoration as well as inward, it is also most plain; for
otherwise they should fall down and kneel only out of incogitancy, having
no such purpose in their minds, or