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.…

1. The second Commandment was here alleged, in the Abridgement, as forbidding all provocation unto spiritual fornication, as the seventh ⟨p. 370⟩[…] ⟨p. 371⟩[…] ⟨p. 372⟩[…] ⟨p. 373⟩[…] ⟨p. 375⟩[…] ⟨p. 374⟩[…] ⟨p. 370⟩doeth unto that which is carnal. This the Def. passed by in silence; and therein is defended by the Rej. because, according to his method, in one particular argument, he taketh knowledge of it, par, 2. c. 2. s. 2. As if John a-Stiles his plea, for 3. akers of ground, were sufficiently answered by John a-Noxe, if he cold with any show ward it off from 1. acre. His own answer is, that as the seventh Commandment doeth not forbid the use of all such things, as accidentally do, or may provoke some men to base uncleanness; but only such, as in and of themselves, are working incitements thereto; so neither doeth the second Commandment forbid the use of all such things, as the lust of some Idolaters may turn to spiritual fornication; but only of such, as have in themselves, or in such use of them, an habitude, or aptness, to provoke thereto. But 1. Our Divines generally teach (as Zanchy de Red. lib. 1. cap. 14. briefly expresseth their meaning) The sum of the second Commandment is, that in the worship of God, or Ceremonies thereabout, we are to devise nothing of our own brain, or borrow ought of Heathenish idolatrous rites. ¹2. Let this be so: the question yet remaineth; whether our Ceremonies, the Cross (for example) hath not some habitude, and aptness, to provoke towards Idolatry? I think it will not be denied, but the Cross is an Idol, at Paris, at Calais, and among the Papists, in England. Now suppose a known harlot to be brought out of the Stews at Paris, or Calais, unto Dover, and lodged there in an honest mans bed, or bed-chamber (as the Cross is in the bed of our Religion, the holy Sacrament) would any man say, that there were no habitude nor aptness, in such a harlot, and