A19142:133
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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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?
Last of all, it is remarkable that Doctor Burgesse himself pa. 8. doth impute these mischeifes unto civill vvarr about Ceremonies: vvhich if it be vvell vveighed, it vvill manifest too much prejudice, in his former discourse. For in Civill vvarrs, the mischeifs ensuing on them, are not vvont to be charged upon one part alone, & that poore, passive, overpovvred, obnoxious to the suffering of vvhat-soever pressures their opposites please to lay upon them, vvhich is the Case of the Non-conformists in these Commotions: Tell us I pray ⟨image 40⟩yovv, if in your conscience, the Praelats Canons, courses, Courts, & proceedings, haue had no hand in vvorking mischeife? nay diverse of these mischeifes, vvhich you haue affectedly placed on the other syde?
If non-residents, double treble beneficed men, unable, perverse, scandalous, half-Popish Ministers, have not had a finger in them? If those trumpeters, & drummers, who proclaim the innocency, & justness of our Prelates proceedings, have not brought something to the furtherance of these mischiefs? If you speak your conscience, it must needs say, yes; &, so confess, it was your passion, not your judgement, that obtruded all upon Non-conformity.