A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…

6. Worship is placed in the Ceremonies, therefore they are most superstitious. To make good what I say, Holiness and necessity are placed in the Ceremonies, ergo, worship. And 1. Holiness is placed in them. ⁿHooker thinks festival days clothed with outward robes of holiness; nay he saith ^oplainly, No doubt as Gods extraordinary presence hath hallowed and sanctified certain places, so they are his extraordinary works that have truly and worthily advanced certain times, for which cause they ought to be with all men that honour God, more holy then other days. ^pHe calleth also the Cross an holy sign. ^qDr. Burgess defendeth, that the Ceremonies are, and may be called worship of God, not onely ratione modi, as belonging to the reverend usage of Gods prescribed worship, but also ratione medij, though nor medij pe•se, of and by it self, yet per aliud, by virtue of somewhat else. Now do not Papists place worship in their Cross and Crucifix? yet do they place no holiness in it per se, but only per aliud, in respect of Christ Crucified thereby represented, and they tell us, ^rthat creaturae ⟨p. 4⟩insensibilinon debetur honòr vel reverentia, nisi ratione rationalis naturae; and that they give no religious respect unto the tree whereon Christ was crucified, the nails, garments, spear, manger, &c. but onely quantum ad rationem contactus membrorum Christi. Saith Dr. Burgess any less of the Ceremonies? Nay he placeth every way as much holiness, and worship in them, in the forequoted place. And ^selsewhere he teacheth, that after a sort the Ceremonies are worship in themselves, even such a worship as was that of the freewill offerings under the Law, ^t