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.…

8. In the Abridgement, unto Images were joined Oil, Lights, Spittle, Cream, and Holy Water. But it pleased the Def. to pass over Lights, and Cream, untouched. And concerning Oil and Spittle, by the Rejoinder his own correction of the Repliers collection, his answer is: that they, having their birth and being from an Apish imitation of a miraculous employment of them, are therefore to be kept out of doors, though some significant Ceremonies be let in. Now this is no answer (as the Replier observed) except the miraculous using of any thing doeth forbid, that it should at any time after be used for signification. ⟨p. 292⟩Which the Rej. would neither affirm, nor deny; but only calleth it a flout. But it is such a flout, as being granted, it cashiereth the Cross, as being above all other Ceremonies for fame of miracles wrought by it, and the Surplice also, as being, in part, an Apish imitation of the Angels miraculous apparitions in white. But the trueth is: our Prelates do place it in the Churches power, to retain, as Ceremonies of Baptism, Chrism, Salt, Candles, Exorcisms, Ephata, and the Consecration of the Water, so well as the Cross. These are the very words of Lancelot Andrues, the late famous B. of Winchester, in his answer to the 18. Chapter of Cardinal Perron's Reply, pag. 12. or sect. 17. For Holy Water, his more distinct answer was, that their (i. e. Papists) sprinkling of water upon the People, for remembrance of their Baptism, if it were applied only for to make them often mindful, and careful to keep their vow of Christianity, made once to God in Baptism, it might be called a moral Ceremony and Christian. But as it is used in Romish Church, as operative, to the purging of venial sins, and driving away of Devils, it is Popish and execrable. I am constrained to repeat the Def. his words, that they may discover the vanity of the Rej. his exceptions against the reply to them opposed: which was, that Calvin Inst. lib. 4. cap. 10. s. 20. And Junius in Bellarmine de Cultu Sanctorum, libr. 3. cap. 7. n. 8. were of another mind: &c.