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.…

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?

9. Ecclesiastical the Replier denied these Feasts to have been, or Religious, because they were used in the same manner, or to the same end, out of the assemblies, that is, to the relief of the poor, and maintenance of brotherly love. The Rejoinder, First, opposeth appropriation: as if all things used in the Church, were appropriated to it! So common salutations used at Church should be appropriations. He secondly concludeth from thence, that (by this reason) Eating of things offered to Idols, in the idols Temple, should not be religious. But this doeth not agree; except the meat used in Love-feasts, were first sacrificed to God: which yet hath not been proved: nor then, except the eating of things offered to Idols, were merely religious; which the Christians of Corinth (ep. 1. cap. 8.) did not think, nor the Apostle teach. Yet might those Eatings have such a relation unto the Idols, as might make them superstitious (even without that superstitious opinion which the Defender and Rejo. require unto superstition) though such a relation unto the true God, and his religion, do not make feasts by man invented, truly and merely religious.