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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
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SECT. 12. Concerning the Feast of Dedication. John. 10.22.23.
SECT. 12. Concerning the Feast of Dedication. Iohn. 10.22.23.
1. A Feast of Dedication is brought-in as an instance of a humane Ceremony appropriated unto Gods service, out of John 10. Now what Feast of Dedication this was, & whether it were merely of humane institution; this hath always been, and is still in great question. Nonnius taketh it for that which Solomon appointed: Chrysostom, Theophilact, Euthymius, Cajetan, Calvin, &c. interpret it of that which began in the time of Ezra: Others of that instituted by the Maccabees 1. Mac. 4. This last the Defender took for granted, and thereupon buildeth his Argument: and yet neither the former, nor this can easily be so evidently proved merely humane, as it may be made a foundation for humane Ceremonies now. Junius de cultu Sanct. lib. 3. cap. 5. thus answereth Bellarmine, affirming that God did not appoint this Ceremony: It is false: Solomon, Ezra's, the Maccabees, followed the Analogy of that place Ex. 4. Lev. 8. the right of which law if it had not been, yet we must needs say that as Prophets they were led by extraordinary & singular revelation, not to be Exemplary therein to us.1