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And albeit the Roman ritual do appoint, that clergymen coming to receive the sacrament do it kneeling, yet this was done in veneration of the altar, or of that which standeth thereupon, and not for adoration of the host put into their mouths. Ans. 1. As for the decree of Honorius, I have already answered with Chemnitius, that it had reference specially to the receiving. 2.
Now κύροω signifieth to confirm or ratify by authority; and so Chemnitius, Bullinger, and Cartwright, expoundeth it in this place. It cometh from κῦρος, authority, whence cometh also κύριος, a lord, or one having authority.
Chemnitius noteth, that when Christ, after he had chosen his twelve apostles, ordained them to preach the gospel, to cast out devils, and to heal diseases, we read of no ceremony used in this ordination, but only that Christ gave them power to preach, to heal, and to cast out devils, and so sent them away to the work.
Ad usum illa instituta sunt, says Chemnitius, speaking of this decree, quando scilicet panis consecratur, et quando ad infirmos defertur, ut exhibeatur et sumatur. So that that which was specially respected in the decree, was adoring in the participation.
Things which are most indifferent in themselves become evil in the case of scandal, and so may not be used. So hold the Century writers; so Pareus; so Zanchius; so Chemnitius; so Augustine; and so hath the Apostle taught. But that out of the practice of the ceremonies there groweth active scandal unto the weak, we have most clearly proven.
For as Chemnitius marketh out of Tertullian and Cyprian, the Montanists were the first who began to ascribe any spiritual efficacy or operation to rites and ceremonies devised by men. Sect. 6.
That it be not used as a sacred significant ceremony to represent and signify either the delivering to the person ordained authority to preach and to minister the sacraments, or the consecration and mancipation of him to the holy ministry; or, lastly, God’s bestowing of the gifts of his Spirit upon him, together with his powerful protection and gracious preservation in the performing of the works of his calling, but only as a moral sign, solemnly to assign and point out the person ordained; which, also, was one of the ends and uses whereunto this rite of laying on of hands was applied by the apostles themselves, as Chemnitius showeth.
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