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Updated: June 4, 2025
Both far and near, then, both long since and lately, it is more than notorious how grossly and grievously the ceremonies have been polluted with idolatry and superstition. I cannot choose but marvel much how Paybody was not ashamed to deny that kneeling has been abused by the Papists. Blush, O paper, which art blotted with such a notable lie! What will not desperate impudency dare to aver?
Paybody, therefore, is greatly mistaken when he thinks that meats sacrificed to idols, being the good creatures of God, were allowed by the Lord, out of the case of scandal, notwithstanding of idolatrous pollution; for the eating of things sacrificed to idols is reproved as idolatry, Rev. ii.; and the eating of such things is condemned as a fellowship with devils, 1 Cor. x. 20.
This reason being alleged by the Abridgement of the Lincoln ministers, Paybody answereth, that it is not a bare signification that makes a thing participate of the sacrament’s nature, but such a signification as is sacramental, both in what is signified and how. Ans. 1.
Paybody thinks kneeling, in the act of receiving the communion, to be expedient for the reverend using and handling of that holy sacrament, and that much reverence ariseth to the sacrament from it. Ans.
Whereunto we answer, that there are two opinions touching the suppers which Christ did eat with his disciples that night wherein he was betrayed. And whichsoever the reader please to follow, it shall be most easy to break all the strength of the argument which Paybody opposeth unto us. Sect. 4.
That which deceiveth Paybody, is the confounding of scandalising and displeasing.
To that place, 2 Cor. vi., Paybody answereth, that nothing else is there meant, than that we must beware and separate ourselves from the communion of their sins and idolatries. Ans. 1.
And will Paybody say, that he took the cup so soon as he took the bread? Now, therefore, from that which hath been said, we may well conclude that our opposites have no reason which they do or can object against the certainty of that received tenet, that the apostles received from Christ the sacramental bread and wine whilst they were sitting.
I see the Bishop perceiveth that no answer can take kneeling at the communion out of the compass of the brazen serpent, except to say it hath a necessary use; this is the dead lift, which yet helpeth not, as I have showed. Sect. 16. Paybody also will here talk with us, therefore we will talk with him too.
If Paybody had been in Calvin’s place, he could not have called the Nicodemites idolaters, forasmuch as they have no intention to worship the popish images when they kneel and worship before them.
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