A19142:1727
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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SECT. XII.
Here certain Divines are brought in witnessing, 1. that superstitions do deprive men of Christian liberty: which we deny not, but take their testimonies as making against our ceremonies: because as I have formerly showed some of these superstitious opinions are inseparable from the imposing and using of them. 2. That Christian liberty doth not consist in the use or disuse of things indifferent: which we also willingly grant. But I would have the Defendant remember, ⟨p. 41⟩that all freedom is not in the mind & conscience. For where the mind is free, the body may be bound; else Christians should not taste so much of this worlds misery as they do. Now Christ hath left unto us not only an inward liberty of mind and conscience, but also an outward freedom of our bodies and outward man, from such bodily rites in his worship as have not his stamp upon them, and his Spirit and blessing promised unto them. Of this the Defendant saith nothing at all.
HEre certaine Divines are brought in witnessing, 1. that superstitions doe dep•ive men of Christian liberty: which we deny not, but take their testimonies as making against our ceremonies: because as I haue formerly shewed some of these superstitious opinions are inseparable from the imposing and using of them. 2. That Christian liberty doth not consist in the use or disuse of things indifferent: which we also willingly grant. But I would haue the Defendant remember, ⟨p. 41⟩that all freedome is not in the minde & conscience. For where the minde is free, the body may be bound; else Christians should not taste so much of this worlds misery as they doe. Now Christ hath left unto us not onely an inward liberty of minde and conscience, but also an outward freedom of our bodies and outward man, from such bodily rites in his worship as have not his stampe upon them, and his Spirit and blessing promised unto them. Of this the Defendant saith nothing at all.