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8. The third answer of the same Mr. Nic. was (as it is reported) that these Love-feasts were not of mystical signification, nor yet merely Ecclesiastical. And this the Replier undertook to maintain: because no signification was added unto their nature by any institution, so far as by any certain evidence can be declared.

8. The third answer of the same Mr. Nic. was (as it is reported) that these Love-feasts were not of mysticall signification, nor yet meerely Ecclesiasticall. And this the Replier undertooke to mainteyne: because no signification was added unto their nature by any institution, so farre as by any certeine evidence can be declared.

The Rejoinder opposeth, that the appropriating of their natural signification, to the signifying of Christian love, might be in that use, by Ordination. Where, First might be, is not a proof: and we require in an instance objected for an Argument, that it should be proved fitting. Secondly, Every Ordination doeth not infer mystical signification. ⟨p. 338⟩I• it be ordained (as it is) that Collection of Alms, for the poor, be used in the Church, hath it therefore a new mystical signification put upon it above that which it would have out of the Church?

The Rejoynder opposeth, that the appropriating of their naturall signification, to the signifying of Christian love, might be in that use, by Ordination. Where, First might be, is not a proofe: and we require in an instance objected for an Argument, that it should be prooved fitting. Secondly, Every Ordination doeth not inferre mysticall signification. ⟨p. 338⟩I• it be ordained (as it is) that Collection of Almes, for the poore, bee used in the Church, hath it therefore a new mysticall signification put upon it above that which it would have out of the Church?