A19142:1118
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.
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,
The Def. first answereth, by a distinction, betwixt the signification of grace conferred, and the signification of mans dutie, the former wherof he maketh Sacramentall, but not the later. To the which was replied, that Sacr. also doe signifie the dutie of man towards God. This (sayth the Rej.) is not true: bec. Sacr. doe onely implie that dutie. But I would knowe of him, 1. how the Sacr. as signes, doe implie that which they doe not signifie, all so well as our signe of a crosse doeth signifie any dutie? The aerall crosse doeth (though very untowardly) represēt the wooddē crosse, wheron our Saviour was crucified, & so by a trope, Christ crucified: & then implieth our dutie to Christ. And doe not Sacraments signifie Christ, & our dutie toward him so well as this? 2. I aske,
If Baptism do not signify our whole mortification, vivification, and putting on of Christ? 3. If the Sacraments do only by themselves, imply these duties, yet that implication being explicated in their administration, what use is there of putting that explicated duty under a bushel, or bed of mans making?
If Baptisme doe not signifie our wholle mortification, vivification, and putting on of Christ? 3. If the Sacraments doe onely by themselves, implie these duties, yet that implication being explicated in their administration, what use is ther of putting that explicated dutie under a bushel, or bed of mans making?