A19142:1678
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
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Fourthly, the Apostle doth not pronounce any woe for not preaching, where imprisonment doth hinder. Now he whose conscience is against the ceremonies, or doubteth of them, is spiritually imprisoned, so that he cannot by using of them, make his way to the pulpit.
Fourthly, the Apostle doth not pronounce any woe for not preaching, where imprisonment do•h hinder. Now hee whose conscience is against the ceremonies, or doubteth of them, is spiritually imprisoned, so that he cannot by using of them, make his way to the pulpit.
Fifthly, it is a mere jest, though a bitter one, to say, that we leave our ministries: when we do all that our consciences will suffer us to do, for the holding of our places: and when we have done all that, depart against our wills with sorrow. Non discedit a statione, qui cedit invitus. See M. Parker, p. 1. c. 4. s. 14.
Fiftly, it is a meere jest, though a bitter one, to say, that we leave our ministeries: when we doe all that our consciences will suffer us to doe, for the holding of our places: and when we have done all that, depart against our wills with sorrow. Non discedit a statione, qui cedit invitus. See M. Parker, p. 1. c. 4. s. 14.
But the Defendant undertaketh to prove, that the cause of silencing is not in the Bishops that suspend and deprive us, but in our selves. He is as it seemeth, a great adventurer: For he cometh forth upon this piece of service with flying colours: Know you well what you s•y (saith he) when you lay the cause of your silencing upon the Bishops? Yes surely, very well. For a cause is that which bringeth force or virtue to the being of another thing.