[ 48 1 proper to exprefs a due Senfe of the great Love and Goodnefs of our bleffed Saviour in dying for Mankind ; That Kneeling is a Scriptural Pofture of Wor- fhip is not deny'd: The Queftion there- fore is Whether in fo folemn an A& of Worfhip as Humiliation for thofe Sins whichwere theOccafion of our.Saviour's Death, and Thankfgiving for his won- derful Goodnefs in laying down his Life ; whether in fuch Ads of Worfhip any Pofture can be too refpetful and fub- mïffve ? There are no Chriflians who have not departed from the original In- ftitution in fome Circumftances,, fuch as the Time, the Place, the Manner, the Company ; nay, and thevery Po- Pot. it. p. r yo fiuto, Bi .op Burnet obferves, " it was " apparent in our Saviour's Practice, that the Jewif'h Church had CHAN cc GED the Po/lure of that Institution the Paffover, in whofeRoom the " Eucharift came : For, tho' Mofes " had appointed the Jews to eat their " Pafchal Lamb, ftanding with their " Loins girt, with Staves in their " Hands, and Shoes on their Feet ; yet " the Jews didafterwards change this " into theCommon-Table-Pofture ; of " whichChange, tho' there is no men- u tion in the Old Testament, yet we " fee it was fo in our Saviour's Time. And
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