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CHAP. V. Of the sorts and differences of Ceremonies.

The first partition of Ceremo. into private or public, close or open, may pass for the evidence of it, but yet it may be questioned, seeing institution is essential to a Ceremony, as before we have been taught, to whom the institution of private Ceremonies do belong? whether the convocation house may appoint men, when they eat and drink, go to bed and rise up, to sign themselves with the sign of the Cross?

THe first partition of Ceremo. into private or publike, close or open, may passe for the evidence of it, but yet it may be quaestioned, seing institution is essentiall to a Ceremony, as before we have beene taught, to whom the institution of private Ceremonies do belonge? whether the convocation house may appoint men, when they eat and drink, goe to bedd and rise up, to signe themselves with the signe of the Crosse?

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.