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.…

as the cross, it is not, nor we affirm ⟨p. 39⟩it to be, part of our faith in God, or our constant obedience to him, and yet we say as its made a token to import these, and so made a teacher of these, its a ceremonious, yet a real species of worship in the general, though false: So that either the Consect. is to no purpose, carrying only an empty sound of words, or if it be taken in a fair sense, it will not free our ceremonies, from the charge of false worship: Thus far we have made a little digression from the Rej. but not from the matter (Christian Reader) nay nor yet wholly from the Rej. because all this, adds still, to the manifestation and confutation of the desperate feebleness of his definition, joined merely out of his own conceit, •nd vented to the world, without either proof or authority.

as the crosse, it is not, nor we affirme ⟨p. 39⟩it to be, part of our fayth in God, or our constant obedience to him, and yet we say as its made a token to import these, and so made a teacher of these, its a ceremonious, yet a reall species of worship in the generall, though false: So that either the Consect. is to no purpose, carying only an empty sound of words, or if it be taken in a fayer sense, it will not free our ceremonies, from the charge of false worship: Thus farr we have made a little digression from the Rej. but not from the matter (Christian Reader) nay nor yet wholly from the Rej. because all this, adds still, to the manifestation and confutation of the desperate feeblenes of his definition, joyned merely out of his owne conceit, •nd vented to the world, without either proofe or au•hority.

From these premises certain consectaries are deduced, the quality whereof may easily be guessed at, by •hat which hath been found in the premises viz. that hey are either to little purpose, or false: For the conclusion being false, all the collections which hence he gathers, must needs be as untrue, so that either they are not sound, or else they take no force or foundation of oundnes and truth from hence, if there be any in them, nd therefore I need add no further examination, for the ree it self falling, the boughs must needs follow: For ny collection he makes must in this, or the like form e concluded: If a Ceremo. be an action external, &c. hen this and that and the other will follow. Let me eason, and on the contrary side assume: but a cerem. s not an outward action instituted, &c. nor is that definition