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.…

12. It was secondly added by the Replier, that significant Ceremonies are external acts of religious worship, even as they are used to further devotion▪ Suarez, in 3. q. 65. ar. 4. Bell. de Eff. Sacr. lib. 2. cap. 29, and 31. and therefore being invented by man, of the same nature with Images, by which, and at which, God is worshipped. The Rejoinder here (for want of a better answer) flieth to his old Sanctuary, of meritorious, necessary, and immediate worship grossly held by Papists of their Ceremonies, whether th•y be significant, or not significant. But he hath in the former part of this writing, been so beaten out of this burrow, that we need not again spend time in digging about it. Let any man look upon the places quoted, and he shall find, that (merit necessity, and immediateness set a part) significant Ceremonies are external acts of religious worship: which was all that this argument required. And I dare leave it (though not to the Rejoinder yet) to D. Burgesses judgement, if merit, necessity, be things either chiefly, or at all, forbidden in the second Commandment, more then in any other? Certainly, meritorious conceits are generally forbidden: but in no one Commandment specially: and necessary binding of Conscience by man, belongeth to the first. The Replier looking for an answer ⟨p. 299⟩something like this, of essential and accidental worship, for preventing of it, said that such a distinction would help no more here, then that of the Papists, betwixt [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew].

12. It was secondly added by the Replier, that significant Ceremonies are externall actes of religious worship, even as they are used to further devotion▪ Suarez, in 3. q. 65. ar. 4. Bell. de Eff. Sacr. lib. 2. cap. 29, and 31. and therfore being invented by man, of the same nature with Images, by which, and at which, God is worshiped. The Rejoynder here (for want of a better answer) flieth to his olde Sanctuarie, of meritorious, necessarie, and immediat worship grosly held by Papists of their Ceremonies, whether th•y be significant, or not significant. But he hath in the former part of this writing, been so beaten out of this burrow, that we need not againe spend time in digging about it. Let any man looke upon the places quoted, and he shall finde, that (merit necessitie, and immediatnesse set a part) significant Ceremonies are externall acts of religious worship: which was all that this argument required. And I dare leave it (though not to the Rejoynder yet) to D. Burgesses judgement, if merit, necessitie, be thinges eyther cheifly, or at all, forbidden in the second Commandement, more then in any other? Certainly, meritorious conceites are generally forbidden: but in no one Commandement specially: and necessarie binding of Conscience by man, belongeth to the first. The Replier looking for an answer