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.…

Here (1) it is justly to be faulted,¹ that he goes against all rules of art and reason, making up the chief part of his definition, of a negative, and so in issue tells us, what the thing is not, not what it is: For having said, that a cerem. must be in reference, the demand might be, what reference is that, he adds it is not a cause, or a part, And any may in reason still enquire, if it be not either if those two, what is it then, or what intend you by it, here he leaves himself not a muse or a hole to escape, but even a broad field to walk at liberty in, either to affirm, or deny what he will: For press him thus: If it be not the reference of a cause or part, is it then referred by way of comparison? No: Is it by way of opposition? No: And thus where shall we hold him, or make him stay, Nay ⟨p. 30⟩where will he himself find foothold to stand: Just for all the world, as if he should define a man to be a living creature, which is not a bird, nor a fish, nor a lamb, nor an ox, how senseless and sapless would such descriptions be, and yet this of the Rej. in this place is the like. And hence it is, that in stead of a clearer knowledge, and apprehension of the thing, which should be gained by a definition, I dare be bold to make it good (for I speak but what by experience I have found) that the most ordinary, yea judicious readers, when they thought they knew some thing of a Cerem. before: after they had read this definition, they knew, just nothing at all: Thus his defining is like flinging dust in the eyes of a mans understanding, to delude and deceive, at the least to dazzle and trouble his reason: I hope by the next return, the Rej. will be content to acknowledge this fault, and will tell us in plain English, what he means by this reference▪ which if he do, I am verily persuaded he will be forced to see, how far wide he was, when he minted and vented these feeble conceits. How ever we will see, what we can make of it, and in this our enquiry, it must not seem strange to the Drs learning, that being simple men, our dull capacities compass several ways that we may find out the foundation, upon which this assertion is built, In which we profess in a word of truth, our desire is not to pervert his meaning, but to understand it.

Here (1) it is justly to be faulted,¹