6. A great matter is made of that which the Replier said, concerning 1500. years experience of humane significant Ceremonies. For about this the Rej. saith, that it is wonderful rashness, answering the spirit of montanus, to challenge the whole Church of error, in this matter, for 1500. years. But 1. it is rashness in the Rej. to accuse one of challenging the whole Church, who mentioned not, in his challenge, either Church or whole. 2. The whole Church cannot be understood, except the Waldenses and all like unto them, that is the purer part, be excluded out of the whole Church. 3. Doctor Morton himself (Prot. Apol. cap. 25. sect. 9.) maintaineth this sentence of Mr. Calfhill: the Fathers declined all from the simplicity of the Gospel, in Ceremonies; if by simplicity be understood a virtue, opposite, either unto superfluity, or superstition. And And are not superfluity and superstition, errors? 4. From ⟨p. 356⟩the primitive times by the space of six hundred years, the Church generally erred, in giving the Lords Supper unto infants, as D. Morton showeth (Prot. Apol. l. 2. cap. 25. sect. 10.) and after that for many hundred years, it mended (for the common course of errors) as sour ale doth in Summer. 5. The Rej. cannot name any Church in all that time free from errors: neither can he deny, but the Church that erreth in doctrine, may err in Ceremonies. Ergo. 6. He was unhappy in mentioning Montanus his spirit, which breathed, and broached so many humane Ceremonies, that the Church hath ever since been more wronged thereby, in Ceremonies, then in any other respect, or by any other spirit of that time, as all men know, that have read those writings of Tertullian, which were dictated by a piece of Montanus his spirit. Montanus would have three Lents, in stead of one: Montanus advanced the Cross unto more honour, then ever it had before: Montanus (in one word) was of a ceremonial spirit.
6. A great matter is made of that which the Replier said, concerning 1500. yeares experience of humane significant Ceremonies. For about this the Rej. sayth, that it is wonderfull rashnesse, answering the spirit of montanus, to challenge the whole Church of error, in this matter, for 1500. yeares. But 1. it is rashnesse in the Rej. to accuse one of challenging the whole Church, who mentioned not, in his challenge, either Church or whole. 2. The whole Church cannot be understood, except the Waldenses and all like unto them, that is the purer part, bee excluded out of the whole Church. 3. Doctor Morton himselfe (Prot. Apol. cap. 25. sect. 9.) maintaineth this sentence of Mr. Calfhill: the Fathers declined all from the simplicity of the Gospel, in Ceremonies; if by simplicity be understood a vertue, opposite, either unto superfluitie, or superstition. And And are not superfluity and superstition, errors? 4. From ⟨p. 356⟩the primitive times by the space of sixe hundred yeares, the Church generally erred, in giving the Lords Supper unto infants, as D. Morton sheweth (Prot. Apol. l. 2. cap. 25. sect. 10.) and after that for many hundred yeares, it mended (for the common course of errors) as soure ale doth in Sommer. 5. The Rej. cannot name any Church in all that time free from errors: neither can he denie, but the Church that erreth in doctrine, may erre in Ceremonies. Ergo. 6. Hee was unhappie in mentioning Montanus his spirit, which breathed, and broached so many humane Ceremonies, that the Church hath ever since beene more wronged thereby, in Ceremonies, then in any other respect, or by any other spirit of that time, as all men know, that have read those writings of Tertullian, which were dictated by a piece of Montanus his spirit. Montanus would have three Lents, in stead of one: Montanus advanced the Crosse unto more honour, then ever it had before: Montanus (in one word) was of a ceremoniall spirit.
