144 The HISTORY of the PuRITANS. VoL. ll K. Charles I. Pfal. xcv. 6. that it was ufual in queen Elizabeth's.time ; and that the I644· ) knights if tbe garter were obliged to this practice by the orders of their ~ chapter. Befides the altar is the chief place of God's refidence on earth, for there it is, this is my body; whereas in the pulpit 'tis only, this is my 7/Jord. And !hall r bow to men in each houfe of parliament, and not bow to God in his houfe whither I come to worfhip him? Surely I muil: wor– fhip God, and bow to him, thPugh neither altar nor communion-table be in the church. Bowing at tbe name if jefus. Of copes. · Bowing at the name of JEsus is prefcribed in direct terms by queen Elizabeth's injunctions, N" 12. and by the 18th canon of our church; and though il:anding up at the Gloria Patri is not prefcribed by any canon of the church, 'tis neverthelefs of great antiquity ; nor is the reading the fecond fervice at the communion-table an innovation, ir being the confi:ant practice in cathedrals, and warranted by the m– brick. The ufe of copes is prefcribed by the 24th canon of I 6o3. which fay s, tbat in all cathedrals and collegiate churches, the communion jhall be atlminiftered on principalfeaft days,Jometimes by tbe bijhop if preji:nt,Jome– timeJ by the dean, andfometimes by the canon or prebendar)', the P.rindpal mi– nijter '1.[/ing a decent cope; fo that here is no innovation, any more than in the ufe of organs, which our church has generally approved, and made ufe of. Laud's Hi!1:, As to the fi:atutes of the univerfity of Oxford, 'tis honour more than . P· 304. enough for me, that I have finilhed and fettled them; nor did I any thing in them but by the confent of the convocation; and as to the par– ticulars, there is nothing but what is agreeable to their charters, and the ancient cufi:om and ufage of the u·niverfity. · M. reply to The managers replied, that bo~ving to tbe altar is popifh fupedlitious bowing to the and idolatrous, being prefcribed only by popith canons, and introduced ~~a~.ne p. on purpofe to fupport the doctrine of tranfubftantiation, which the arch• 6l64,'474• bifhop's praClice feems very much to countenance, when at his coming up 477• 487. to the altar to confecrate the bread, he makes three low bows, and at his going away three more, giving this reafon for it, quia hoc eft corpus meum, becaufe, tbis is my body; whereas he does not bow to the pulpit, becaufe a greater reverence is due to the body than to· tbe ~vord of the Lord. Be– fJdes, it has no foundation in antiquity, nor has it been approved by any prottfi:ant writers, excc:pt the archbii110p's creatures, fuch as Dr. He)'lin, Pock!ington, &c. and has been condemned by the beil: writers as popilh and fuperfiitious. The black book of the knights of the garter at Wind– for, is a forry precedent for a proteil:ant archbifhop to foll ow, being made in the darkeft times of popery (viz.) in the reign of king Henry V. and if they bow Deo & a!tan·, to God and to his altar, as the archbilhop in the fiar-chamber is of Qpinion chriflians ought" to do, we can't but think - it
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