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.…

3. The wholl• intention saith he) w•s, to condemn the Popish Ceremony, as necessary, or Sacramental, But this could not be so: because Bellarmine in that place, first answereth about their figurative nature, and then after addeth:¹ to that which is objected of the number and weight of popish laws. 4. D. Wh. (addeth he) did allow of humane significant Rites: as certain Feasts. Now if D. Wh. yielding something to the stream of time, and custom, did account some such humane institutions tolerable, that is nothing to the purpose. For we urge here his general rule only: of Feasts we shall after answer. In the mean time, concerning D. Wh. his general sentence of humane significant Ceremonies, let these his words be considered: Bellarmin saith, the Ceremonies are instituted of the Church to help the ruder sort. I answer the rude are not to be instructed with Ceremonies, God hath given Scripture that out of them the rude may draw instruction. ²And it is to be observed, that D. Wh. in that place confuteth the one and thirty Chapter of Bell. his s•cond book, de effectu Sacram. But the confutation of the two and thirty Chapter is wholly wanting: in which this Argument was to be handled, in defence of Calvins, Chemnitius, and Brentius his reason: God would have this difference between us and the Jews, teaching them as children by sensible signs, us, as men more simply without signs. ³Now that D. Wh. in his Lectures passed over that Chapter with silence, it is not credible; but it seemeth rather, that honest Mr. Allenson found his sentence there so cross to our English tenets about Ceremonies, that he durst not set forth his words in ⟨p. 281⟩print. For of D. Wards fidelity, in setting forth what Mr. Allenson had prepared for the press (ne verbulo immutato) cannot without wrong be doubted of.

3. The wholl• intention sayth he) w•s, to condemne the Popish Ceremonie, as necessarie, or Sacramentall, But this could not be so: because Bellarmine in that place, first answereth about their figurative nature, and then after addeth: