A19142:1286
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.
Tertullian calleth it Signaculum Orationis, the Seal of Prayer; the words of prayer therein used being Peace be unto thee. Now though Tertullian maketh no words of this form of Prayer to be used; yet suppose all: 1. this is manifestly an Oratorial phrase (which the Rejoinder denied) not Explicatory, but needing explication; which yet I will not spend time about. 2. Tertullian according to his hyperbolical fashion, ascribeth so much to this Kiss, as smelleth of Superstition:1 What prayer is there perfect which is separated from a holy kiss? He showeth notwithstanding that it was used in private houses as well as in the Congregation:2 At home perhaps you may put of till another time the Salutation of peace. 4. He discovereth a custom something contradictory to his former assertion. At Easter we do well to lay aside the Kiss. 5.3 There were even in Tertullians time, divers superstitions creeping in among Christians, about prayer, as he in that his treatise of Prayer showeth: Washing, doffing of cloaks, sitting upon beds. What then can be made of this testimony?
Tertullian calleth it Signaculum Orationis, the Seal of Prayer; the words of prayer therin used being Peace be unto thee. Now though Tertullian maketh no words of this forme of Prayer to be used; yet suppose all: 1. this is manifestly an Oratoriall phraze (which the Rejoynder denied) not Explicatorie, but needing explication; which yet I will not spend time about. 2. Tertullian according to his hyperbolicall fashion, ascribeth so muche to this Kisse, as smelleth of Superstition:1 What prayer is there perfect which is separated from a holy kisse? He sheweth notwithstanding that it was used in privat houses as well as in the Congregation:2 At home perhaps you may put of till another time the Salutation of peace. 4. He discovereth a custome something contradictorie to his former assertion. At Easter we do well to lay aside the Kisse. 5.3