A19142:1126
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.
6. Instance was given (by the Replier) that both sanctity, and constancy, which are the things •ignified by Surplice, and Cross, are signified in Baptism. The Rej. his answer is, that they are not barely or only signified in Baptism, as duties, nor by any distinct sign represented. As if this were the question, and not this: if Sacraments do signify moral duties! Certainly, if Sacraments do signify these virtues as graces and duties (as is proved, and also confessed) no Christian need desire to have them •ignified over again barely and only as duties, no more then after an instrument made betwixt the Lord of Manner, and his Tenet, containing the conditions of both parts, the tenet should seek for a new instrument, ⟨p. 258⟩signifying his conditions a part: and not only so, but after that his conditions had been expressed generally, that he should keep all the land in good culture, according as he found it, he should seek for one instrument about the woods, another for the •arable land, another for the meadows, another for the pastures, and another for the broom fields, or for every acre one, & that not from the Lord of the manner, but from some Justice of peace, or high Constable of the Hundred. Neither is it a thing profitable, for Christians to remember their duty, without remembrance of Gods grace thereto appertaining.
6. Instance was given (by the Replier) that both sanctitie, and constancie, which are the thinges •ignified by Surplice, and Crosse, are signified in Baptisme. The Rej. his answer is, that they are not barely or onely signified in Baptisme, as duties, nor by any distinct signe repraesented. As if this were the question, and not this: if Sacraments doe signifie morall duties! Certainly, if Sacraments doe signifie these vertues as graces and duties (as is proved, and also confessed) no Christian need desire to have them •ignified over againe barely and onely as duties, no more then after an instrument made betwixt the Lord of Manner, and his Tenent, conteyning the conditions of both partes, the tenent should seek for a new instrumēt, ⟨p. 258⟩