A19142:108
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And yet Mr. Jacob, that he might seem to hold fair quarter with Mr. Cartwright, & other learned Divines, who acknowledge, that certain Ecclesiastical rites & Cerem: appropriated to holy actions, were left to the determination of the Church, under some general rules of the word, vvill seem to allow somewhat, he cannot tell what, some circumstances only civill, or occasional, as the time & place, which he rather calleth circumstances, then Cerem: that so, if any shall say, he alloweth nothing to the Churches determination, to be squared, by some rules: He may answer for himself & say: yes, certain circumstances are; namely such as are necessary in civill, as well as sacred actions. If on the other side, one challenge him to give some liberty to men, for the ordaining of rites, which are but extrinsical circumstances about the worship of God: He may answer for himself, he hath protested against all mere Ecclesiastical Rites, which are ordained by men, & not left so much as one, to their determination.
And yet Mr. Iacob, that he might seeme to hold fayre quarter vvith Mr. Cartvvright, & other learned Divines, vvho acknovvledge, that certayne Ecclesiasticall rites & Cerem: appropriated to holy actions, vvere left to the determination of the Church, under some generall rules of the vvord, vvill seeme to allovv somevvhat, he cannot tell vvhat, some circumstances only civill, or occasionall, as the tyme & place, vvhich he rather calleth circumstances, then Cerem: that so, if any shall say, he allovveth nothing to the Churches determination, to be squared, by some rules: He may ansvver for himself & say: yes, certayne circumstances are; namely such as are necessary in civill, as vvell as sacred actions. If on the other side, one challenge him to giue some liberty to men, for the ordayning of rites, vvhich are but extrinsecall circumstances about the vvorship of God: He may ansvver for himself, he hath protested agaynst all meere Ecclesiasticall Rites, vvhich are ordayned by men, & not left so much as one, to their determination.
Thus, as he, that by turning of his picture of an horse, made it running, or a tumbling horse, which you would: So hath Mr. Jacob provided for himself, there to square some circumstances, by 4. rules, or to put of all by another, as the market shall require.