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.…

Where he showeth by divers instances, both out of Scripture, and out of common speech; how that word which, doeth not always note the same singular substance; therein confuting all the ground that the Rej. had for censuring the Repl. of rashness to be repented of. This sentence is the more also to be favoured; because according to the other, which our Def. and Rej. maintain, it will be very hard to answer that objection against Solomons repentance, which Rabanus on 2. Reg. 23. groundeth on that superstition: Solomon never truly repented of his idolatry: for if he had manifested fruits worthy repentance, he would have taken order with those Idols, which he had set up by removing them, and (being so wise a man) never have left them to stand for stumbling blocks to fools, as if what he had erroneously devised, had been well and wisely done. ¹Beside all this, it is not credible, that the same individual Temples stood by Jerusalem from Solomons ⟨p. 398⟩time, to Josiah; if it were but for this, that the Assyrians came even unto the gates of Jerusalem, spoiling and breaking down all costly buildings, (such as Solomons Temples were) not sparing▪ but deriding the gods of Nations. 2. Reg. 18.

Where he sheweth by divers instances, both out of Scripture, and out of common speech; how that word which, doeth not alwayes note the same singular substance; therein confuting all the ground that the Rej. had for censuring the Repl. of rashnesse to bee repented of. This sentence is the more also to be favoured; because according to the other, which our Def. and Rej. maintaine, it will be very hard to answer that objection against Solomons repentance, which Rabanus on 2. Reg. 23. groundeth on that superstition: Solomon never truely repented of his idolatrie: for if he had manifested fruits worthy repentance, he would have taken order with those Idols, which he had set up by remooving them, and (being so wise a man) never have left them to stand for stumbling blocks to fooles, as if what hee had erroneously devised, had beene well and wisely done. ¹Beside all this, it is not credible, that the same individuall Temples stood by Ierusalem from Solomons ⟨p. 398⟩