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4. The Rej. cannot give us any probable reason, why lights should be more foppish, then the Surplice or crossings in the supper: Nay he undertaketh to justify both lights and crossings in the supper, and a hundred other Cerem: upon the same terms, that he defendeth these.

4. The Rej. cannot give us any probable reason, why lights should be more foppish, then the Surplice or crossings in the supper: Nay he undertaketh to justifye both lights and crossings in the supper, and a hundred other Cerem: upon the same termes, that he defendeth these.

•. Calvin did ordinarily call such Ceremon:¹ as ours by no her name then these: Epist. 25.9. Adventitious trifles, •ere mockeries: Epist. 505. babish and sapless mixtures: •gaine Epist. 260. strange trifles mere fopperies: again: Some jerem. are openly Idolatrous others are foolish, and unmeet: And Epist. 117. the use of the linen garment with many fopperies is retained both with them of Magdeburg, and ••hem of Wittenberg. Neither was Calvin alone in these ••rmes. Cassander pag. 852. complaineth that most of ••ur writers consent in them. Not only they have omitted •hose as less profitable and superfluous, but the most (meaning ••ur Protestant Divines) have judged them, foppish, ridiculous, and babish, yea to be condemned, and abandoned, as hurtful, and pernicious. The puppy good of popish superstition. Those superfluous trifles. Mr. Fox in Mr. Hoppers Story, •rifles tending more to superstition then otherwise, like •nto stage players attire. 6. All human religious mystical Cer. are the births of folly, because every man s foolish in finding out of religious worship, according to his own imagination. 7. These Cer. are of the same ynd with confessed fopperies, as the placing of mysteries in every weather cock, upon church steeples, as some do: the Ludi Sacri among the papists in frequent use like unto stage plays: The rocking of a babe in a cradle all night, at the Nativity time, the Harrowing of hell at Easter; The representation of fighting horse and foot, according to the Custom of Mozarabo: Hist. Concil. Trident. P. 642. If a May pole should be brought into the church, for children to dance about and clime upon, in sign of their desire to seek things above: If a