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.…

Another answer of the Rejoinders is notorious: Bellarmine (saith he) allegeth this feast of Dedication, to prove the Dedication, or Consecration of Churches: which is nothing to our question of significant Rites. Now surely if Dedication and Consecration of Churches be nothing to our question of significant Rites; the Def. and Rej. say nothing to the purpose, when they prove this question of signifying Rites, by the Maccabees Feast of Dedication. And if that Feast of Dedication, doeth not prove humane Dedications lawful; much less doeth it prove the lawfulness of other significant Ceremonies, such as ours are.

Another answere of the Rejoynders is notorious: Bellarmine (saith he) allegeth this feast of Dedication, to proove the Dedication, or Consecration of Churches: which is nothing to our question of significant Rites. Now surely if Dedication and Consecration of Churches bee nothing to our question of significant Rites; the Def. and Rej. say nothing to the purpose, when they prove this question of signifying Rites, by the Maccabees Feast of Dedication. And if that Feast of Dedication, doeth not proove humane Dedications lawfull; much lesse doeth it prove the lawfulnesse of other significant Ceremonies, such as ours are.

3. The Defendant for backing of this instance, added, that our Saviour seemeth to approve that humane ⟨p. 320⟩Feast, by his presence, Joh. 10. To which it was replied, that he seemeth only: because we only read, that he walked in Solomons Perch, at that Feast: which he might do, without observing or approving of it. This is Junius his answer to Bellarmine, alleging that Christ by his presence honoured that Feast:¹ Christ did not properly honour the Feast, but the Congregation of the faithful at the Feast: For Christ took all such occasions then, to wit, before those solemnities were abolished, of sowing the seed of his Gospel: Nor did Christ ought that we read at those times, but preach in the Temple. And sure I am, that neither walking in the Porch, nor declaring that he was that Christ, belonged properly unto the solemnity of that Feast. If he had preached of Dedications and Consecrations, with allowance, that had been something.