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.…

The second place is expounded by the Defend. an• Rejoynd. only of Idols and immediate instruments of Idolatry: which cannot be true, except all places groves an• green trees (there mentioned) which had served to the use of notorious Idolatry, were immediate instruments. And if that were so, why not, or were not once ou• Ceremonies as immediate? Because (saith the Rejoynd, they were rather subjects of superstition. Which is a new ⟨p. 425⟩nothing. For subjects often are all one with objects, and ma•y objects of superstition are Idols. Places were rather subjects (distinct from objects) then Images, such as our Cross is. The sum is (•ayth the Rejoinder) that synod in the former Canon, reformed and continued a human Ceremony notoriously abused to superstition: and in the •ater, were zealous against all monuments of idolatry. Zealous indeed they were against known Idolatry: but •hey did not discern all the superstitious and idolatrous •eedes, which at that time were springing up among •hem, in immoderate and unwarrantable honouring of •aints. As for their reformation of Altars with relics, […] was no more, then divers Popish Synods have professed to do. But this I would have marked, that Altars •ith Relics honoured as they were in those days, are now with the Rejoinder accounted good religious Ceremonies.

The second place is expounded by the Defend. an• Rejoynd. onely of Idols and immediate instruments of Idolatry: which cannot bee true, except all places groves an• greene trees (there mentioned) which had serued to the use of notorious Idolatry, were immediate instruments. And if that were so, why not, or were not once ou• Ceremonies as immediate? Because (sayth the Rejoynd, they were rather subjects of superstition. Which is a new