A19142:254
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 example then of human Ceremonies, by any orthodox church imposed upon Gods people, which the Rej. brings, is in the Church of Engl. And here he ⟨p. 11⟩beginneth, with famous Queen Elizabeths days, though he fetch that very story, out of the History of Frankfort troubles, which were in Queen Mary's •ayes: about the same Cerem: and before that in King Edwards: To say nothing of the manifold testimonies, of Martyrs against such corruptions, before King Edward: •s this any illustration of your Question to be debated?
The first example then of humaine Ceremonies, by any orthodox church imposed upō Gods people, which the Rej. brings, is in the Church of Engl. And here he ⟨p. 11⟩•eginneth, with famous Queene Elizabeths dayes, •hough he fetch that very story, out of the History of •ranckford troubles, which were in Queene Maryes •ayes: about the same Cerem: and before that in King Edwards: To say nothing of the manyfold testimonies, of Martyrs against such corruptiōs, before King Edward: •s this any illustration of your Quaestion to be debated?
Now for the Tenets, which have been and are about •hese Cerem. the Rej. noted out of T. C. that the old •enet of those, who opposed our Cerem., was to hold •hem inconvenient only, not unlawful, But 1. he showeth no such thing about the Cross: 2. Nay the contrary appeareth in D.B. himself, who pag. 16. confesseth, that 39. years ago, he did at the least doubt, that the Cross was unlawful, and for that cause (not for scandal, as he did the Surplice) he refused it even to Deprivation: He would not have us think, I am sure, that he had then a singular new Tenet by himself, but inclined to the old. 3. Mr. Hooker P. 246. observeth, that the first pleadings of T. C. against other Cerem: either inferred unlawfulness, or nothing. 4. The last rules,