A19142:1328
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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4. If all circumstances belonging to time, place, person, instruments or manner of actions sacred, be sacred significant Ceremonies; then not the Clock only, but the leaden weights of it, not the ground only upon which men stand in worship, but the Rushes also strewed by occasion upon it, or the Besom wherewith it is swept; not the Preachers voice only, but his black Cap, his comely heard; not the Communion Table-clothe only, but the ⟨p. 364⟩colour of it; not distinct speaking only, but every Preachers proper Tone, are sacred, significant, ceremonial Weights, Rushes, Besoms, Caps, Beards, Colours, Tones, &c.
4. If all circumstances belonging to time, place, person, instruments or manner of actions sacred, be sacred significant Ceremonies; then not the Clocke onely, but the leaden weights of it, not the ground onely upon which men stand in worship, but the Rushes also strowed by occasion upon it, or the Besome wherewith it is swept; not the Preachers voyce onely, but his black Cap, his comely heard; not the Communion Table-clothe onely, but the ⟨p. 364⟩colour of it; not distinct speaking onely, but every Preachers proper Tone, are sacred, significant, ceremoniall Weights, Rushes, Bezomes, Caps, Beards, Colours, Tones, &c.
See what an argument the Def. made against us, according to the Rej. his explication: If Signs Indicant that is, such as by the nature of the things themselves, without any religious signification put upon them by institution, are lawful; then Symbolical signs, that is, those which teach a spiritual duty, by their mystical instituted signification, cannot be unlawful. In striving to help the Def. out of the water, he hath sunk, and followed him deeper in, then before he seemed to be plunged.
See what an argument the Def. made against us, according to the Rej. his explication: If Signes Indicant that is, such as by the nature of the things themselves, without any religious signification put upon them by institution, are lawfull; then Symbolicall signes, that is, those which teach a spirituall duty, by their mysticall instituted signification, cannot be unlawfull. In striving to helpe the Def. out of the water, hee hath sunke, and followed him deeper in, then before he seemed to bee plunged.