A19142:1254
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. The Defender went about to prove, first, that this Altar did mystically signify a spiritual duty, in respect of the Gileadites then living; viz: to teach that the Lord was God.
6. The Defender went about to prove, first, that this Altar did mystically signifie a spirituall dutie, in respect of the Gileadites then living; viz: to teache that the Lord was God.
To this it was replied, that it doeth not appear out of the text, that there was intended any use for the praesent age, that then lived: nay the contrary may be gathered out of the 24. and 25. verses: We have done it for f•ar of this thing, saying: In time to come, your children might speak unto our children, &c. So shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord. The Rejoinder opposeth, that there is afterward mention made of us, and you. But that is nothing: because it noteth only, that the generations to come, may deny us, on this side Jordan, not ⟨p. 325⟩to have been joint Tribes with you on the other side of that River. Upon this, the Repl. concluded, that this Altar was no direct help unto devotion. To which is rejoined, that it was not a direct (that is immediate) help unto devotion; but immediately significative, & collaterally for devotion it was. Such distinctions I never heard, nor read. Any man may see, that a Ceremony directly and immediately signifying a spiritual duty, is a direct & immediate help to devotion. To what other help, this help was collateral, I would fain know.
To this it was replied, that it doeth not appear out of the text, that ther was intended any use for the praesent age, that then lived: nay the contrarie may be gathered out of the 24. and 25. verses: We have doen it for f•ar of this thing, saying: In time to come, your children might speak unto our children, &c. So shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord. The Rejoynder opposeth, that ther is afterward mention made of us, and you. But that is nothing: because it noteth onely, that the generations to come, may denie us, on this side Iordan, not