A19142:1075
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D.…A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D.…
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgess his rejoinder for D. Morton The first partA fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgesse his rejoinder for D. Morton The first part
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1633
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SECT. 4. The judgement of Protestant Divines concerning significant Ceremonies.
1. The Rejoinder was not so large in the former section, about one Divine, but he is as brief, in this, about many. For first in general, he would persuade us with words, that the Def. in answering four testimonies, had answered all, in one word: that no Protestant Divine (except Beza) hath spoken absolutely against signs symbolical and merely significant ▪
1. THe Rejoynder was not so large in the former section, about one Divine, but he is as brief, in this, about many. For first in generall, he would perswade us with wordes, that the Def. in answering fower testimonies, had answered all, in one worde: that no Protestant Divine (except Beza) hath spoken absol•tely against signes symbolicall and meerly significant ▪
Which kind of rejoynding, had had some sense, if mere denying of a conclusion, were a sufficient answer to an argument drawn from diverse testimonies alleged for the proof of it. But yet not trusting to this kind of answering, he adventureth, to clear the particular allegations: which was more then the Def. would undertake. One would have expected, that here he should have answered, that which is so pertinent to the purpose, found in the Abridgement, pag. 32. because he put it of before (pag. 247.) with a tale of boy, and promised after to show, that it is nothing to the purpose. The allegation is this: To them that say Images may stand in Churches, as helps to stir up devotion, and to put men in remembrance of good things (with whom the Def. and Rejoinder consent) it is answered (by P. Martyr, Gwalter, Lavater, Ursine, Polanus, and others) that the Lord himself hath appointed