A19142:1344
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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3. The Repl. alleged, that the words Lev. 18.3.4. are general: after their doings ye shall not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. To this the Rej answereth, that these general words are to be restrained unto the ma•ter spoken of, that is, incest, and such mad doings of the Egyptians, and Canaanites. But 1. why are these words more to be restrained unto the matter spoken of in the same chapter, then those, 1. Cor. 4.40 Let all things be done decently and in order, which the Def. and Rej. extend as far as it pleaseth our Convocation to call things decent, and orderly. 2. That they cannot be so restrained, is manifest out of the context; where the ordinances of Idolaters are opposed to all those Ordinances, Statutes, and Judgements of God, to the doing whereof is promised ⟨p. 373⟩life. 3. Junius a judicious Interpreter, in his Analysis of the place, maketh the four first verses of this 18. chap. to pertain unto divers chapters following, and not, to the 18 only: ne alienis exemplis, aut legibus vivant. Pelican also upon the place, speaketh home, in this manner: God, by this one law, would have them cast away and abhor, whatsoever had (in worship) pleased the Gentiles. Much more care ought Christians to have of this; who being taught to worship God in spirit and truth, ought, first and last, to have abhorred the idle, unreasonable, and deceitful forms and rites of Idolaters. Which if the ancient Bishops had well considered, the Church had never been pestered with so many profane rites, and base Ceremonies; by which it came to pass, that some Christians differ little from Gentiles, save in the names of their Idols. 1Lyra also (a Papist) on Lev. 18. saith plainly: He intended to exclude from the children of Israel every rite of the Gentiles. 2And on Lev. 19.19. This is commanded, for detestation of Idolatry: because Idolaters did so, the Israelites may not do so.