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CHAP. IIII. Concerning the nature and definition of a Ceremony: Pag. 29.30.

Here we have the chief hinges, whereupon the doors and windows of the Rej. do always both open and shut, brought as it were into one box, by the examining of these therefore, we shall perceive what strength is in all the building.

HEre we have the cheif hynges, whereupon the doores and wyndowes of the Rej. doe alwayes both open and shutt, brought as it were into one box, by the examining of these therfore, we shall perceave what strenght is in all the building.

The beginning of this doctrine is orderly taken from the definition of a Cerem:¹ A Ceremony is an outward action designed and purposely observed and done, in reference to some other thing, to the substance whereof it is neither a cause nor a part. I will no• here use Scaliger's saying: Nothing more unhappy then a Grammarian adventuring to define. For this is not the fault of this Definition,² that it is too Grammatical, because no Hebrew, Greek, or Latin Grammar, no nor Dictionary neither, hath any such word, as beareth the sense of the thing here defined: Let any ⟨p. 22⟩man make trial, and he shall find this true, that there is no word Hebrew, Greek, or Latin, that hath any such meaning. But I may well apply, that rule of Lawyers: A definition is a dangerous thing in law: i.e. in those human laws, which have no ground, but mans will, such as those are whereby our Ceremonies have their being: The unhappiness of this Definition is, that as it is recorded of Doria the Admiral of Genua in a great Seafight against the Turks, he fetched his course so far about to gain the wind, that he could never come to strike one stroke, before the fight was ended: So this Rej. seeking to get some advantage of windy words, doth in this definition, go so far about, that by this course, he is not likely to come orderly unto the grapple.