_status questionis non est, nisi an Christus in eucharistia sit adorandus, cultu latriae_. Now, albeit Papists understand by the outward sign of Christ’s body in the eucharist nothing else but the species or accidents of the bread, yet since they attribute to the same _quod sub illis accidentibus ut vocant sit substantialiter corpus Christi vivum, cum sua Deitate conjunctum_,(679) and since they give adoration or _latria_(680) to the species, though not _per se_, yet as _quid unum_ with the Body of Christ which they contain,—hereby it is evident that they worship idolatrously those very accidents. And I would understand, if any of our opposites dare say that Papists commit no such idolatry as here I impute to them? Or, if they acknowledge this idolatry of Papists, how make they themselves clean? for we see that the worship which Papists give to the species of the bread is only relative to Christ, and of the same kind with that which Formalists give to the bread and wine. _Sect._ 9. Secondly, Religious kneeling before the bread which is set before us for a sign to stand in Christ’s stead, and before which we adore whilst it is to us actually an image representing Christ,(681) is the very bowing down and worshipping forbidden in the second commandment. The eucharist is called by the fathers _imago, signum, figura, similitudo_, as Hospinian(682) instanceth out of Origen, Nazianzen, Augustine, Hilary, Tertullian, Ambrose. The Archbishop of Armagh hath also observed,(683) that the fathers expressly call the sacrament an image of Christ’s body, and well might they call it so, since the sacramental elements do not only represent Christ to us, but also stand in Christ’s stead, in such sort that by the worthy receiving of them we are assured that we receive Christ himself; and in eating of this bread, and drinking of this wine, we eat the flesh, and drink the blood of Christ spiritually, and by faith. Neither could the consecrated elements make a sacrament if they were not such images standing in Christ’s stead. But what needeth any more? Dr Burges(684) himself calleth the sacraments the Lord’s images. Now, that a man who adoreth before the painted or graven image of Christ, though he profess that he intendeth his whole adoration to Christ, and that he placeth the image before him only to represent Christ, and to stir up his mind to worship Christ, doth nevertheless commit idolatry, I trust none of our opposites will deny. Nay, Bishop Lindsey teacheth plainly,(685) that it is idolatry to set before the eyes of our minds or bodies any image as a mean or motive of adoration, even though the worship should be abstracted from the image, and not given unto it. Well, then, will it please him to let us see that kneeling before the actual images of Christ’s body and blood in the sacrament, even though these images should be no otherwise considered in the act of adoration, but as active objects,