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.…

2. His general answer is, that these five reasons of equity, do not prove, that we are bound unto all and the very same ways of repressing Idolatry, &c. which the Jews were bound to. This we confess, as the Rej. testifieth, neither could they, upon that supposition, be called five reasons of equity only, but of rigour. And what a kind of answering is this; to say, reasons do not prove that which they were not brought to prove? The question is, whether they do not prove, that it is contrary to Gods Word to use (much more to command the use of) such Ceremonies in the worship of God, as man hath devised, if they be notoriously known, to have been of old, and still to be abused unto Idolatry, by the Papists, especially if the same be now of no necessary use in the Church? This was the opposition, ⟨p. 386⟩for proof whereof, these five reasons of equity were brought. And for this we have all our Divines that confound Popish Images, out of the self-same places of Scripture, as Ursine on the second Commandment, Polanus, Syntag. lib. 9. cap. 26. and whom not?

2. His generall answer is, that these five reasons of equity, doe not prove, that we are bound unto all and the very same wayes of repressing Idolatrie, &c. which the Iewes were bound to. This we confesse, as the Rej. testifieth, neither could they, upon that supposition, be called five reasons of equity onely, but of rigor. And what a kinde of answering is this; to say, reasons doe not proove that which they were not brought to proove? The question is, whether they do not proove, that it is contrary to Gods Word to use (much more to command the use of) such Ceremo•ies in the worship of God, as man hath devized, if they be notoriously knowne, to have beene of olde, and still to be abused unto Idolatry, by the Papists, especially if the same be now of no necessary use in the Church? This was the opppsition, ⟨p. 386⟩for proofe whereof, these five reasons of equity were brought. And for this we have all our Divines that confound Popish Images, out of the selfe-same places of Scripture, as Vrsine on the second Commandement, Polanus, Syntag. lib. 9. cap. 26. and whom not?