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.…

To invocate the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost over the baptized, and then by thrice redipping, or sprinkling, upon mans pleasure, to signify they are three Persons, is as if one should light a ⟨p. 243⟩candle, for the manifesting of something, and then put a bushel over it, for signifying of the same thing. 5. How can the same three at one and the same time, signify three Persons, & three days? Can men give manifold disparate senses to one and the same Ceremonies, as literal, allegorical, tropological, and anagogical? 5. Why may not as well three Crosses be made upon the Baptized; for the same mysteries? 6. It could not be of any moment, for those ancient Bishops, sometime to dip thrice, for signifying of the Trinity, and some time once, for signifying of the Unity. Seeing Trinity and Unity are not to be separated in the solemn signification of them, and Heretics are not confuted with humane signs.

To invocate the name of the Father, the Sonne, and the Holy Ghost over the baptized, and then by thrice redipping, or sprinkling, upon mans pleasure, to signifie they are three Persons, is as if one should light a ⟨p. 243⟩candle, for the manifesting of something, and then put a bushel over it, for signifying of the same thinge. 5. How can the same three at one and the same time, signifie three Persons, & three days? Can men give manifold disparate senses to one and the same Ceremonies, as literall, allegoricall, tropologicall, and anagogicall? 5. Why may not as well three Crosses be made upon the Baptized; for the same mysteries? 6. It could not be of any moment, for those auncient Byshops, sometime to dip thrice, for signifying of the Trinitie, and some time once, for signifying of the Vnitie. Seing Trinitie and Vnitie are not to be separated in the solemne signification of them, and Heretikes are not confuted with humane signes.

12. Jewel is the next in order. But for so much as neither his words are quoted, nor the place where they may be found noted, (on either side) but only according to one English Edition, which I have not, I cannot say much of them: Yet this I may truly say, that the Rejoinder is put to hard shift, in opposing of the Repliers answer, when he distinguisheth betwixt graces, and duties, actually performed. For these two are expressed by the same name, of the Apostle Paul,