A19142:1311
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. 30.
IN this section, four or five Protestant Divines are named, as allowing of some significant Ceremonies. But there is not any one of them, whose judgement to the contrary, hath not been manifestly declared. I will not therefore so much distrust the Readers attention, ⟨p. 357⟩and understanding, as to weary him with needless repetitions.
IN this section, foure or five Protestant Divines are named, as allowing of some significant Ceremonies. But there is not any one of them, whose judgement to the contrary, hath not beene manifestly declared. I will not therefore so much distrust the Readers attention, ⟨p. 357⟩and understanding, as to weary him with needlesse repetitions.
SECT. 31.
Here the Defend. urgeth upon us, the ordinary form, of swearing upon a book. To which if the Replier hath not said enough, I leave it to the Readers judgement, after he hath compared the Rej. opposed: which speaketh 1. of Gambolling; 2. of Bucklers and Quarrelling; 3. of a proof necessary to an answer; 4. of swearing by a book; 5. of Sophistication, in confounding our Churches esteem, and the trueth about this form of swearing; 6. of equality betwixt special solemn worship of God, and occasional swearing, in civill Assemblies. I will only add, as an explication of the Repliers answer, that which D. Jackson answereth the Papists, about this fashion (Orig. of unbel. sect. 4. cap. 35.) We use the book, only as a complement of the civill act, whereby we give satisfaction unto men; or as a visible resemblancer partly, to by standers, or spectators, whose eyes by this means may become as true witnesses as their ears, that such protestations have been made; partly unto him that makes them, who will be more wary and circumspect what he avoucheth and protesteth, when he perceiveth his speeches must be sealed with such remarkable circumstances, as they cannot be often recalled to his own and others memory. To the same end, men of honourable place and calling, use to lay their