A19142:132
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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Go we to reason: the best that either the Rej. or any beside, can make of our Cerem: is, that they are things indifferent. Now that weak ones may doubt & stagger about such, That doubting, they ought not to practise them 14. Rom: last vers: is made a duty. That mens walking according to conscience, should be the cause of others disobedience; That keeping the law, should be an occasion in it self of profaning the law; that stopping the very appearance of the least evil, should set open a gap to the greatest; I appeal to any reasonable man whether it be not a consequence void of common sense, unless men have a miraculous skill to solder quicksilver, or tysande together, or make heaven & earth meet!
Goe vve to reason: the best that either the Rej. or any beside, can make of our Cerem: is, that they are things indifferent. Novv that vveake ones may doubt & stagger about such, That doubting, they ought not to practise them 14. Rom: last vers: is made a duty. That mens vvalking according to conscience, should be the cause of others disobedience; That keeping the lavv, should be an occasion in it self of prophaning the lavv; that stopping the very appearance of the least evill, should sett open a gappe to the greatest; I appeale to any reasonable man vvhether it be not a consequence voyd of common sense, unlesse men haue a miraculous skill to soder quicksilver, or tysande together, or make heauen & earth meet!
Last of all, it is remarkable that Doctor Burgess himself pa. 8. doth impute these mischiefs unto civill war about Ceremonies: which if it be well weighed, it vvill manifest too much prejudice, in his former discourse. For in Civill wars, the mischiefs ensuing on them, are not wont to be charged upon one part alone, & that poor, passive, overpowered, obnoxious to the suffering of what-soever pressures their opposites please to lay upon them, which is the Case of the Non-conformists in these Commotions: Tell us I pray ⟨image 40⟩you, if in your conscience, the Prelates Canons, courses, Courts, & proceedings, have had no hand in working mischief? nay diverse of these mischiefs, which you have affectedly placed on the other side?