QUESTION XI. 117 assembly that sings, lest they give countenance to false worship and superstition ; and if any other music be joined to the voice, they count it still more heinous and abominable. 5. Some believe the Lord's-supper cannot be celebrated aright at noon, because it was instituted in the evening, and is called asupper; others that live scattered at great distances in a wide country parish, can never meet to communicate in an even- ing, especially four or five months in the winter; and they think the Lord's-supper at noon is a very lawful and proper practice, . andnecessary to them, because otherwise they cannot attend it. 6. Some suppose, that it is very irreverent and unlawful to communicate in a sitting posture, and think it their duty to kneel, when they receive the seal of the greatest of blessings from the hands of God others thinkno other posture of body lawful be- sides sitting ; because it is a feast, and was instituted with the proper gestures at a table ; and many foreign protestants esteem sittingto have too much familiarity and irreverence, andkneeling too much like adoration of the bread, and therefore always stand at that ordinance. And here we may suppose some narrow- spirited christians, of each sort, that dare not be present at the sacrament, where a different gesture is used, lest they seem to en- courage a sinfulpractice by their communicating together. 7. Some are persuaded, that none have a right to the com- munion that werte not baptized by dipping, and that upon a pro- fession of their faith, forthey count all the rest unbaptized ; and these can never join at the Lord's-supper, with a minister or people that wereonlybaptized in infancy by sprinkling, and think that sufficient. Some are satisfied that there is no holy-day in the week but Saturday, or the seventh, and they require public worship and the communion on that day ; others think the first day of the week is alone holy, and they demand the celebration of the Lord's- supper on that day constantly ; nor can they leave all the common businesses of life to attend on the worship of Saturday. Now everyman sees how impracticable it is to bring these different sort of protestants to the settledcommunion of the same church. I confess I have represented their different sentiments in their extremes, and in the highest degrees of opposition ; but it must be granted also, that several such sort of christians are to be found, whoseweaker judgments and warm zeal, have car- ried these matters to the same extremes Of opposition in which I have represented them ; therefore my argument stands good, and such a promiscuous communion appears impossible. Yet here I would lay down this caution ; that though these sorts of protestants are necessarily excluded from mutual communion, it is not because either of them are unworthy of it, or because it is a3
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