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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.…
A fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's worship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgess his rejoinder for D. Morton The first partA fresh suit against human ceremonies in God's vvorship. Or a triplication unto. D. Burgesse his rejoinder for D. Morton The first part
Amsterdam: printed by the successors of Giles Thorp, 1633
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Herein (I say) the Rej. missed the mark miserably: For the Temple was a type of Christs body: Pull down this temple, and I will raise it up within three days: ⟨p. 49⟩but he spake of the temple of his body, John 2.19.21. and the very frame of it by Gods institution and ordination, was holy, had an efficiency, and virtue through God appointment, to carry up the heart to God, by that virtual respect, and efficacy which it had, as his means to that end. Now let the Church institute, and appoint a place, and put this virtue, & efficacy in it, by their institution to the same end, to which the temple was appointed, and I suppose the Rej. himself will say, its superstition and false worship: But our temples have no such thing, putt upon them, to no such end, & therefore are not in the same end and use: unless the Rej. will •hould, that prayers better ascend in Pauls church, when he rounds a pillar in the ear, then when he prays abroad: and that he is of opinion, with Bishop Andrewes, that we are heard,1 not because of the prayer that is made, but because of the place in which it is made: but I hope the Rej. is far of from such delusions.
Herein (I say) the Rej. missed the mark miserablely: For the Temple was a type of Christs body: Pull down this temple, and I will rayse it up within three dayes: ⟨p. 49⟩but he spake of the temple of his body, Iohn 2.19.21. and the very frame of it by Gods institution and ordination, was holy, had an efficiency, and virtue through God appointment, to cary up the heart to God, by that virtuall respect, and efficacy which it had, as his meanes to that end. Now lett the Church institute, and appoint a place, and put this virtue, & efficacy in it, by their institution to the same end, to which the temple was appointed, and I suppose the Rej. himself will say, its superstition and false worship: But our temples have no such thing, putt upon them, to no such end, & therfore are not in the same end and use: unlesse the Rej. will hould, that prayers better ascend in Paulls church, when he rounds a pillar in the eare, then when he prayes abroad: and that he is of opinion, with Bishop Andrewes, that we are heard,