A19142:1305
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
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SECT. 29. Concerning the Ancient Custom of Significant Ceremonies among Christians.
SECT. 29. Concerning the Ancient Custome of Significant Ceremonies among Christians.
1. AS the Def. was passing over from Scriptures, to humane writings, and customs, he was told by the Replier, that here he may find more fish for his net, in the troubled waters of mans infirmity, then were to be looked for in the Scripture fountains. This the Rej. thought not worthy of any answer. Let the Reader yet take knowledge, that we ⟨p. 351⟩esteem not any thing like of a thousand objections fetched from testimony subject to error, as we would have done of one plain testimony Divine, if it could have been produced.
1. AS the Def. was passing over from Scriptures, to humane writings, and customes, he was told by the Replier, that heere hee may finde more fish for his net, in the troubled waters of mans infirmitie, then were to bee looked for in the Scripture fountaines. This the Rej. thought not worthy of any answer. Let the Reader yet take knowledge, that we ⟨p. 351⟩esteeme not any thing like of a thousand objections fetched from testimonie subject to errour, as we would have done of one plaine testimonie Divine, if it could have beene produced.
2. The oldest Records we have (saith the Rej.) do mention humane mystical Ceremonies in Gods worship, as Apostolical traditions. Which 1. is not true: because those which call them Apostolical, use not to call, or esteem them humane. 2 The Records of the first age, which we have, are so imperfect, and uncertain, that God (in so disposing of them by his Providence) doeth in a manner warn us, not to depend on them, but only on his written Word. 3. The great variety that was found, in the first ages, about the observation of Lent, and Easter, doeth manifestly prove, they were not Apostolical: as Chamier showeth (De jejunio, cap. 7.) Not out of any certain law, but out of private devotions, and consequently Superstition.