which is the kind of kneeling now in question), or if any did so,
there were more need to give him instruction than ordination.

It is further told us, that he who is baptized,(756) or he who offers him
that is to be baptized, humbleth himself, and prayeth that the baptism may
be saving unto life eternal, yet worshippeth not the bason nor the water.
But how long shall simple ones love simplicity, or rather, scorners hate
knowledge? Why is kneeling in the immediate worship of prayer, wherein our
minds do purposely respect no earthly thing (but the soul, Psal. xxv. 1,
the heart, the hands, Lam. iii. 41, the eyes, Psal. cxxiii. 1, the voice,
Psal. v. 3, all directed immediately to heaven) paralleled with kneeling
in the mediate worship of receiving the sacrament, wherein we respect
purposely the outward sign, which is then in our sight, that both our
minds and our external senses may be fastened upon it? Our minds, by
meditation, and attentive consideration of that which is signified, and of
the representation thereof by the sign. Our senses, by seeing, handling,
breaking, tasting, eating, drinking.

_Sect._ 21. Thus we see that in all these examples alleged by our
opposites, there is nothing to prove the lawfulness of kneeling in such a
mediate worship, wherein something belonging to the substance of the
worship comes between God and us, and is not accidentally, but purposely
before us, upon which also our minds and senses in the action of worship
are fast fixed. Howbeit there is another respect, wherefore none of these
examples can make ought for kneeling in the act of receiving the sacrament
(which I have showed before), namely, that in the instant of receiving the
sacrament, the elements are actually images and vicarious signs standing
in Christ's stead. But belike our kneelers have not satisfied themselves
with the roving rabble of these impertinent allegations which they have
produced to prove the lawfulness of kneeling in a mediate worship, they
have prepared another refuge for themselves, which had been needless, if
they had not feared that the former ground should fail them.

What then will they say next to us? Forsooth, that when they kneel in the
act of receiving, they are praying and praising, and so worshipping God
immediately. And if we would know what a man doth then pray for, it is
told us, that he is praying and earnestly crying to God,(757) _ut eum
faciat dignum convivam_. To us it seems very strange how