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.…

Concerning the general, that a Ceremon: is an action and external: Zwarez a great Master of the Ceremonies, telleth us, that a Ceremony is not only a transient action, but also a permanent thing: De Resig. vol. 1. ar. •. lib. 4. cap. 14. and that Ceremonies may be distinguished according to the number of the ten predicaments, of which, action maketh but one, and an external action but half a one: But let us hear the Rej. express himself: The Cross and Surplice, are not Cerem: but •he wearing of the Surplice &c. P. 30. Touching which we must understand,¹ such outward things have a fourfold consideration: 1. According to their nature, as they arise •ut of their principles, as the linen cloth of a Surplice, •he wood of a crucifix. 2. That artificial frame or fashion that appeareth in these. 3. The impression or ordination, which is put upon these to this or that end. •. The using of these, or stirring up the heart by these •n practise: So in the brazen Serpent, we may attend, •. the brass or metal out of which it was made: 2. the fashion of it: 3. the impression of God in or by this so fashioned to such a purpose: 4. the using of this, erecting of it up by Moses, the seeing and beholding of it by •he people: whence it is easy, to see the deceit of the ⟨p. 22⟩[…] ⟨p. 23⟩[…] ⟨p. 24⟩Rej. his assertion: Things in the second, & third senses, formerly mentioned, are by all writers truly called cerem: either not attending, yea excluding in our consideration, the fourth respect which is the use: Namely that habitude or impression which was imprinted upon a crucifix, or brazen Serpent, by which they had a moral fitness, either lawfully, or unlawfully putt upon them, for their several ends, are Cerem. lawful or unlawful. Thus the current of writers Papistical confess: the church hath power, to make and appoint Ceremonies and enjoin the using of them, so that they are ceremonies, before they be used, their high Altar is a ceremony, yea holy all the time, before it be used, in bearing the unbloody sacrifice: Thus all Interpreters, term the types of the old law cerem:, for that spiritual disposition they have, and typicalness which the Lord set upon them, as well when no man used them, as when they were used: The Brazen Serpent being once set up: