The question of worship could not be allowed to rest. "Innovations" were still discussed; it was resolved in the Lower House, on the 1st September, that scandalous pictures and images should be removed from sacred edifices, and candlesticks and basins from the Communion-table, that there should be no "corporal bowing" at the name of Jesus, and that the Lord's Day should be duly observed.[218] The Peers did not agree with the other House in all these proceedings; they were prepared to command, that no rails should be erected where none existed already; that chancels should be levelled if they had been raised within the last fifteen years; that all images of the Trinity should be abolished; and that any representation of the Virgin set up within twenty years should be pulled down. But the Lords declined to forbid bowing at the name of Jesus; and--omitting any direct reply to the message on the subject from the Lower House--they simply resolved to print and publish the order of the 16th of January, commanding that divine service should be performed according to Act of Parliament; that those who disturbed "wholesome order" should be punished; and that clergymen should introduce no ceremonies which might give offence.[219] The Commons were highly displeased at this, and immediately published their own resolution on their own authority, adding, that they hoped their proposed reformations might be perfected; and that, in the mean time, the people "should quietly attend the reformation intended," without any disturbance of God's worship and the public peace.[220] The Houses, on the 9th of September, adjourned their sittings for six weeks. When the conflicting orders of Parliament respecting worship came before the nation, the Anglicans adhered to the one issued by the Lords for preserving things as they were, the Puritans upheld the other published by the Commons in favour of reformation: party strife consequently increased, leading to fresh disturbances of the peace. Resistance to the order of the Commons burst out in St. Giles' Cripplegate, St. George's Southwark, and other parishes. There the High Church party defended the threatened communion-rails, as though they had been the outworks of a beleaguered citadel. On the other hand, where Puritanism had the ascendancy, violent opposition was made to the reading of the liturgy, service books were torn and surplices rent.[221] [Sidenote: _Reaction._]