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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
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The first records the Rej. bringeth for contentions about Cerem: are from Rom. 14. but he might, (and would also if it had served his turn) have fetched it further, from Math. 15. where the Pharisees contend against Christ, and his Disciples about their ceremonial observations: Or from the first authors of that Sect, Sammay and Hills, profane dissipators of Gods Law, by their traditions, as out of their very names, Cardinal Baronius himself noteth. Neither is that contention Rom. 14. agreeable to our Question, because the Ceremonies there questioned, were not of human institution, nor urged by authority of any Church or Prelates.
THe first records the Rej. bringeth for contentions about Cerem: are from Rom. 14. but he might, (and would also if it had served his turne) have fetched it further, from Math. 15. where the Pharisyes contend against Christ, and his Disciples about their ceremoniall observations: Or from the first authors of that Sect, Sammay and Hilles, prophane dissipators of Gods Law, by their traditions, as out of their very names, Cardinall Baronius himselfe noteth. Neither is that contention Rom. 14. agreeable to our Quaestion, because the Ceremonies there quaestioned, were not of humaine institution, nor urged by authority of any Church or Prelates.
The second instance which the Rej. bringeth, is about the feast of Easter, whereabout he saith, the world was set on fire. And this indeed is worth the observing, that so soon as Victor-Bishops began to urge human cerem: upon the Church of God, all was presently in a fire, but were not these presumptuous Victors, the kindlers of that fire? The next step which the Rej. taketh (over a thousand year wide) is to Illiricus, about permitting the use of a surplice, where it is to be noted,