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2. The Repl. taking from the Def. this proposition: Nothing is properly called a Ceremony, if it be altogether destitute of signification; saith that this convinceth not us at all: because, if this be true, then our tenet is, that all ceremonies properly so called, of mans invention, should be packed out of the Church. What? (saith the Rej.) even Sitting at the Communion, and a communion-Table? Yea, say we, even these if they can be proved to be Ceremonies ⟨p. 345⟩of mans invention.

2. The Repl. taking from the Def. this proposition: Nothing is properly called a Ceremony, if it bee altogether destitute of signification; sayth that this convinceth not us at all: because, if this be true, then our tenet is, that all ceremonies properly so called, of mans invention, should be packed out of the Church. What? (sayth the Rej.) even Sitting at the Communion, and a communion-Table? Yea, say we, even these if they can be prooved to bee Ceremonies ⟨p. 345⟩of mans invention.

3. From the former consideration, the Defen. was challenged, for having gone about to deceive us, often times before, by confounding all circumstances of order and decency, with properly called Ceremonies; whereas now, in the winding up of all, he confesseth, that they cannot be properly called Ceremonies, except they be significant. The Rejoinder his answer is, that all such circumstances are some way significant, though not symbolically: because they signify some way what is to be done, or where, or when, or why, or how. Now though every circumstance doeth some way argue that whereof it is a circumstance, and so in a large sense may be called a sign of it; yet 1. every circumstance is not a sign of what is to be done: because some have no place, until the thing be done. 2. Both the Def. and Rej. have hitherto confounded indicant and symbolical signs, except only one place, where (for a shift) the Rej. saith, Beza, differing in phrase from other Divines, meaneth by Symbolical, Sacramental signs, pag. 264.265. Here therefore to distinguish them, is to confess their former dealing not fair.