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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.…
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgess his rejoinder for D. Morton The first partA fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgesse his rejoinder for D. Morton The first part
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1633
Part › Chapter 4 › SECT. 25.26.27.28. Concerning the Defender his Reasons.
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The first is, that we have wrought the faithful Servants of Christ, out of the love and estimation of many. By Faithful servants of Christ, he must needs mean Conformists, as they are Conformists; and that Generally: for if he except any kind of them, they will cast upon him that imputation, which he layeth upon us: you say unto other men; stand a loof off; we are more holy, or more faithful then you, &c. Now 1. let any man consider, if it be any faithfulness to Christ, to observe and urge those religious Ceremonies, which he never commanded, but rather forbidden, as hath been proved? 2. Those which are in other things faithful, we go not about to work out of the love and estimation of others, but them out of the love and estimation of unfaithful conformity. May not a man speak against Non residency, if some honest man be come to it? But it becometh not the Rej. to ⟨p. 522⟩speak of bringing Christs servants out of love and estimation with many; while he writeth in defence of those courses, which have brought thousands of them out of house and home, into so extreme misery, as our Prelates could possibly bring any, and more then they bring the servants of Antichrist into.
The first is, that we have wrought the faithfull Servants of Christ, out of the love and estimation of many. By Faithfull servants of Christ, he must needs meane Conformists, as they are Conformists; and that Generally: for if he except any kinde of them, they will cast upon him that imputation, which he layeth upon us: you say unto other men; stand a loofe off; we are more holy, or more faithfull then you, &c. Now 1. let any man consider, if it be any faithfulnesse to Christ, to observe and urge those religious Ceremonies, which he never commanded, but rather forbidden, as hath beene prooved? 2. Those which are in other things faithfull, we goe not about to worke out of the love and estimation of others, but them out of the love and estimation of unfaithfull conformity. May not a man speake against Non residency, if some honest man be come to it? But it becommeth not the Rej. to ⟨p. 522⟩speake of bringing Christs servants out of love and estimation with many; while he writeth in defence of those courses, which have brought thousands of them out of house and home, into so extreame misery, as our Prelates could possibly bring any, and more then they bring the servants of Antichrist into.