kneeling, it appeareth that the gesture or posture in receiving the sacrament used in that place where Tertullian lived, was standing; because, speaking of the receiving of the sacrament, he saith, _Si et ad aram Dei steteris_. _Sect._ 27. As for the rest of the testimonies Dr Burges produceth out of the fathers for kneeling,(773) I need not insist upon them, for either they speak of the inward adoration of the heart, which we ought to direct unto Christ when we receive the sacrament (and this none of us denieth), or else they speak of adoring the sacrament, where, by the word _adoration_, we may not understand any divine worship, inward or outward, but a reverence of another nature called _veneration_. That this (which we deny not neither), and no more, is meant by the fathers when they speak of the adoration of the sacrament, Antonius de Dominis showeth more copiously.(774) And thus we have suffered the impetuous current of the Doctor’s audacious promises, backed with a verbal discourse to go softly by us. _Quid dignum tanto tulit hic promissor hiatu?_ _Sect._ 28. Finally, If any be curious to know what gesture the ancient church did use in the receiving of the eucharist, to such I say, first of all, that Didoclavius maintaineth that which none of our opposites are able to infringe, namely, that no testimony can be produced which may evince that ever kneeling was used before the time of Honorius III., neither is it less truly observed by the author of the _History of the Waldenses_,(775) that bowing of the knees before the host was then only enjoined when the opinion of transubstantiation got place. Next I say, the ancient gesture, whereof we read most frequently, was standing. Chrysostom, complaining of few communicants, saith,(776) _Frustra habetur quotidiana oblatio, frustra stamus ad altare, nemo est qui simul participet_. The century writers(777) make out of Dionysius Alexandrinus’s epistle to Xistus, bishop of Rome, that the custom of the church of Alexandria in receiving the sacrament, was, _ut mensae assisterent_. It is also noted by Hospiman,(778) that in the days of Tertullian the Christians _stantes sacramenta percipiebant_.