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. Out of a Carthaginian Synod, two things were alleged: 1. that certain Altars in high ways, erecte• in memory of Martyrs, should be abolished. 2. Tha• all relics, and monuments of Idolatry should be utterly destroyed. In the first, the Replier confessed, that there is nothing express to our purpose: because those Altar are noted which are destitute of Martyrs relics. Ye• (saith he) there was as good reason, for abolishing other as them. No (answereth the Rejoinder) because by th•s• Altars destitute of relics, the Church was mocked. And s• was the Church mocked (say I) by those which had relics in them: not only because they had no certain rule of discerning true relics from false; but also, because they were by such means induced, to place a special holiness in those places, and led-on to the invocation of Saints departed.

2. Out of a Carthaginian Synod, two thinges were alleged: 1. that certaine Altars in high wayes, erecte• in memorie of Martyrs, should be abolished. 2. Tha• all reliques, and monuments of Idolatry should be utterly destroyed. In the first, the Replier confessed, that there is nothing expresse to our purpose: because those Altar are noted which are destitute of Martyrs reliques. Ye• (sayth he) there was as good reason, for abolishing other as them. No (answereth the Rejoynder) because by th•s• Altars destitute of reliques, the Church was mocked. And s• was the Church mocked (say I) by those which had reliques in them: not onely because they had no certaine rule of discerning true reliques from false; but also, because they were by such meanes induced, to place a speciall holinesse in those places, and led-on to the invocation of Saints departed.