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 passage being thus cleared, let us now come to that which the Replier took for the Def. his only answer: Melchiades for bad fasting at the same time with Pagans, because they lived in the same Country, at the same time, and place. This (said the Replier) could not make the difference▪ because so little a distance may be betwixt one Country, and another, that it can bring up no difference of moment. The Rejoinder answereth 1. that it was a reason of inconvenience only. But Melchiades said out of 2. Cor. 6. that it was to make the Temple of God agree with Idols. Is that only inconvenient, and not unlawful? And if it were nothing but inconvenience, was it not confessed, in the beginning of this Chapter, that Ceremonies Idolatrously abused, if they be not of convenient necessity, are unlawful? If this be so, then much more unlawful are they, if they be inconvenient. He addeth 2. that some place & time may make a difference: ⟨p. 445⟩which the Replier denied not; but only said, that every distance of Country (such as is betwixt Dover and Calais, is not sufficient.

The passage being thus cleared, let us now come to that which the Replier tooke for the Def. his onely answer: Melchiades for bad fasting at the same time with Pagans, because they lived in the same Countrie, at the same time, and place. This (sayd the Replier) could not make the difference▪ because so litle a distance may be betwixt one Countrie, and another, that it can bring up no difference of moment. The Rejoynder answereth 1. that it was a reason of inconvenience onely. But Melchiades sayd out of 2. Cor. 6. that it was to make the Temple of God agree with Idols. Is that onely inconvenient, and not unlawful? And if it were nothing but inconveniencie, was it not confessed, in the beginning of this Chapter, that Ceremonies Idolatrously abused, if they be not of convenient necessitie, are unlawfull? If this be so, then much more unlawful are they, if they be inconvenient. He addeth 2. that some place & time may make a difference: ⟨p. 445⟩which the Replier denied not; but onely sayd, that every distance of Countrie (such as is betwixt Dover and Calise, is not sufficient.