A19142:1116
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. 5. Concerning the wrong, that is done to Gods Sacraments, by humane significant Ceremonies.
SECT. 5. Concerning the wronge, that is doen to Gods Sacraments, by humane sigmificant Ceremonies.
1. The Argument dependeth on this: that humane Ceremonies appropriated to Gods worship, if they be ordained to teach any spiritual duty, by their mystical signification, usurp a chief part of the nature of Sacraments. This was in the Abr. backed with many testimonies: which the Rej. having before eluded (so well as he could) here contenteth himself to say, they are counterfeit, forced, or forged stuff: The contrary whereof hath been declared. Now for the naked Arg. he affirmeth it to have no sinews which must be tried by the answers, & defence of them.
1. THe Argument dependeth on this: that humane Ceremonies appropriated to Gods wo•ship, if they be ordeyned to teache any spirituall dutie, by their mysticall signification, usurpe a cheif part of the nature of Sacraments. This was in the Abr. backed with many testimonies: which the Rej. having before eluded (so well as he could) here contenteth himself to say, they are counterfeit, forced, or forged stuffe: The contrarie wherof hath been declared. Now for the naked Arg. he affirmeth it to have no sienws which must be tried by the answers, & defence of them.
The Def. first answereth, by a distinction, betwixt the signification of grace conferred, and the signification of mans duty, the former whereof he maketh Sacramental, but not the later. To the which was replied, that Sacr. also do signify the duty of man towards God. This (saith the Rej.) is not true: bec. Sacr. do only imply that duty. But I would know of him, 1. how the Sacr. as signs, do imply that which they do not signify, all so well as our sign of a cross doeth signify any duty? The aerall cross doeth (though very untowardly) represent the wooden cross, whereon our Saviour was crucified, & so by a trope, Christ crucified: & then implieth our duty to Christ. And do not Sacraments signify Christ, & our duty toward him so well as this? 2. I ask,