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.…

SECT. XVIII.

The second charge of scandal, is in respect of the Separatists. Where 1. I ask, if Gaius had made a separation from the Church wherein Diotrephes lived, whether the Apostle John had been cause of that scandal, because he condemned his abuse of excommunication, Joh. 3.9.10. 2. If any separate from churches where Images are retained, who is the cause, they that dislike of Images, or they that retain them? 3. The dislike of Ceremonies is not the chief cause for which separation is made: but the intolerable abuses which are in Ecclesiastical Courts, by which it cometh to pass, that many poor men being troubled at the first for a small thing, afterward are driven to fly the country: and flying with a hatred of such courses, are ready ⟨p. 27⟩to receive that impression which is most opposite unto them. The thing it self is plain enough to all indifferent men, that Ecclesiastical corruptions urged and obtruded, are the proper occasion of separation.

THe second charge of scandall, is in respect of the Separatists. Where 1. I aske, if Gaius had made a separation from the Church wherein Diotrephes lived, whether the Apostle Iohn had beene cause of that scandall, because he condemned his abuse of excommunication, Ioh. 3.9.10. 2. If any separate from churches where Images are retained, who is the cause, they that dislike of Images, or they that retaine them? 3. The dislike of Ceremonies is not the cheife cause for which separation is made: but the intollerable abuses which are in Ecclesiasticall Courts, by which it commeth to passe, that many poore men being troubled at the first for a small thing, afterward are driven to flye the countrey: and flying with a hatred of such courses, are ready