A19142:1627
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. 29.30. Concerning our Confessions, and Practises.
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8. The last question was, if it be not a kind of slander, to say, that the Church of Geneva imposeth a round Wafer-cake, like the Papists, to be used in the Lords Supper. And if it be not a wide leap, to bring in the practise of Geneva, for an instance of the Nonconformists practise, in England? The Rejoinder answereth 1. Yes, it is a slander to impute unto Geneva a round Wafer-cake, like the Papists: but addeth, that the Defender did not so. If he doeth not, what mean those words of his: albeit the Church of Geneva is not ignorant, what the round Wafer among the Papists did signify? Or what consequence made the Defender from Geneva's Wafer-cake, to Ceremonies abused unto Idolatry, if the Geneva Wafer-cake be not like unto the Papists?
8. The last quaestion was, if it be not a kinde of slander, to say, that the Church of Geneva imposeth a round Wafer-cake, like the Papists, to be used in the Lords Supper. And if it be not a wide leap, to bring in the practise of Geneva, for an instance of the Nonconformists practise, in England? The Rejoynder answereth 1. Yes, it is a slander to impute unto Geneva a round Wafer-cake, like the Papists: but addeth, that the Defender did not so. If he doeth not, what mean those wordes of his: allbeit the Church of Geneva is not ignorant, what the round Wafer among the Papists did signifie? Or what consequence made the Defender from Genevas Wafer-cake, to Ceremonies abused unto Idolatrie, if the Geneva Wafer-cake be not like unto the Papists?
In the second place, the Rejoinder confesseth, that the bread used at Geneva, is a large square Cake, which is broken in sundry parcels, unto the Communicants: and yet he addeth, that it is a Wafer-Cake, as thin, as thin may be. Where it is something, that he confesseth their bread not to be like the Papists, neither in extensive quantity, nor yet in Form and Figure. But yet I am persuaded, he wrongeth that Church, in making their Cakes as thin as the Papists Host. For the Papists Host is a starchy or scummy crust, distinct from cibarius panis, bread fitting for food, by our Divines censure of it: And it is not credible, that the Church of Geneva should retain such a gross corruption. But (saith the Rejoinder) you allow their Ceremony of Wafer-bread. Nothing less. We never read, nor heard from them, that they made any Wafer fashion a Religious significant Ceremony. This