The second partition into Ceremon. civill, sacred or mixed: Civill, when their immediate object and end is civill; Sacred, 1when the immediate object and end is matter pertaining to religion, requireth more attention. And 1. it is to be noted, that by this division, all natural Ceremo. are abrogated ⟨p. 54⟩or excluded, for else the first distribution should have been; Ceremo. are either natural or instituted: Now Bellarmine himself more considerately maketh some ceremon. natural.2 Certain Cerem. receive institution, as it were from nature it self, which may be called natural Cerem. as to look up to heaven, to lift up our hands, and to bow our knees, when we pray unto God. Note also the varying of the phrase: In civill cerem. he requireth an immediate civill object & end, but in sacred he will have it enough, that the immediate object and end, be matter pertaining to religion. There may be some purpose in this, to exclude all civill Cerem. and so civility out of matters pertaining to religion, that all things being counted religious, human mystical Ceremo. in religion, may not be discerned from common observations, which are equally and often used to the same immediate end both in civill, and in religious matters. These things reserved, the substance of this partition may pass, together with the illustrations of it: Only one illustration I would have remembered for future use. An action (saith the Rej.) imperated of religion, or springing out of the fear of God, may be civill, and belong to the second table. This is that which some of our Divines mean, when they speak of mediate worship, that is, there be duties belonging to the second table, imperated or governed by religion, but not immediately flowing from it. This the Rej. taketh hold of in many places, and maketh thus actions religious, which here he calleth civill. The conclusion drawn out of this partition is, that they have the spirit of contradiction, which say that the church may not ordain Cer. ⟨p. 55⟩merely ecclesiastical, but only common, because all Cer. in religious affairs, are merely ecclesiastical: And beside the cross & surplice have there civill use, as a cross for a shop sign, &c.
The second partition into Ceremon. civill, sacred or mixt: Civill, when theire immediate object and end is civill; Sacred, 1when the immediate object and end is matter pertaining to religiō, requireth more attention. And 1. it is to be noted, that by this division, all naturall Ceremo. are abrogated ⟨p. 54⟩or excluded, for else the first distribution should have beene; Ceremo. are either naturall or instituted: Now Bellarmine himself more considerately maketh some ceremon. naturall.2 Certaine Cerem. receave institution, as it were from nature it self, which may be called naturall Cerem. as to looke up to heaven, to lift up our hands, and to bow our knees, when we pray unto God. Note also the varying of the phrase: In civill cerem. he requireth an immediate civill object & end, but in sacred he will have it enough, that the immediate object and end, be matter pertaining to religion. There may be some purpose in this, to exclu•e all civill Cerem. and so civility out of matters pertaining to religion, that all things being counted religious, humaine misticall Ceremo. in religion, may not be discerned from common observations, which are equally and often used to the same immediate end both in civill, and in religious matters. These things reserved, the substance of this partition may passe, together with the illustrations of it: Only one illustration I would have remembred for future use. An action (saith the Rej.) imperated of religion, or springing out of the feare of God, may be civill, and belong to the second table. This is that which some of our Divines meane, when they speake of mediate worship, that is, there be duties belonging to the second table, imperated or governed by religion, but not immediatly flowing from it. This the Rej. taketh hould of in many places, and maketh thus actions religious, which here he calleth civill. The conclusion drawen out of this partition is, that they have the spirit of contradiction, which say that the church may not ordaine Cer. ⟨p. 55⟩meerely ecclesiasticall, but only common, because all Cer. in religious affaires, are m•erely ecclesiastical: And besyde the crosse & surplice have ther civill use, as a crosse for a shop signe, &c.
- 1The distribution is imperfect and excludes natural Cerem out of the world.The distrib•tion is imperfect and excludes naturall Cerem out of the world.
- 2De effect. Saeram. lib. • cap. 29. Q•aedam Ceremoniae sunt ab ipsa natura •uodammodo institutae, quae naturales dici possunt: quale est. respicere in •••lum, tollere, manus, ••ectere genua, cum De••m oramus.
