4. Bowing to the Altar and Setting the Communion Table Altar-wise

This gross Popish idolatry, after the Prelates had contended and striven for it several years, was at last enacted and established by them in their last Canons in the year 1640. And it was the immediate forerunner of their deserved ruin, for by this pestilent innovation they did bring back the work of Reformation, not only as the Sun in Ahaz his dial ten degrees, but almost an hundred years backward. For this gross piece of Popish idolatry was put down by King Edward the sixth in the year 1550, even in the dawning of the day, in the very beginning of the Reformation, as you may see in the Book of Martyrs. But seeing the Prelates are so mad upon it, to conjure it up again from the grave, and from the bottomless pit, we must therefore a little enquire into it. Their late contentions and persecutions for it, have occasioned large and learned disputes against it, but of all that has been said, or might be said against it, I shall mind you only of these six things.