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.…

10. Now we must hear, how the Rejoinder doeth say for the defence of those answers which the Def. gave to four• Divines, chosen out by himself to answer, of whom, Calvin is the first. Of whom it is said, that he condemneth only such Ceremonies, as are substituted to the very office of Sacraments. Where if he meaneth part of the office of Sacraments,¹ he and we consent about Calvin but if he mean the whole complete office of Sacram. then he wrongeth Calvin. For upon Lev. 4.21. his meaning cannot be, that all the old Ceremonies of the Jews, had such a complete Sacramental office, as Circumcision, and the Passover had. Upon Isa. 20.2. speaking of Isaiah's going barefoot for a sign of future captivity (which was not the full office of a Sacrament) he saith: If Isaiah had done this of himself he might well have been laughed at. Those rites are of no worth which have not God for their author, which we are carefully to note, against the papists who obtrude upon us empty ceremonies for true Sacraments. This rule is for them: if they come from God we are to embrace them, if not, to scorn them, nay they cannot be received without dishonour to God, when therein mortal men take upon them the authority of God. And upon Mat. 21.25. he hath this doctrine: no sacred sign ought to be admitted among the godly, unless it be shown to be of God, ²nor is it in mens choice to mint any thing. But the Rejoinder affirmeth, that Calvin doeth expressly allow Symbolical signs, as exercises, and incitements of piety. The Place he meaneth is Inst. lib. 4. c. 10. sect. 14. where there is no express allowance at all, of mere humane Symbolical signs, but only of some Ceremonies, ⟨p. 241⟩to help the ruder sort of people in their unskilfulness. Now this kind of Ceremonies Calvin himself in the 28.29. sect. of the same chapter, doeth manifestly declare, to be matters of mere and necessary decency. The end of decency is,