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.…

If a porter or baker wear a linen garment in the Church, upon occasion, as at other times, no man will except against it, or account it a ceremony, ecclesiastical, or religious.

If a porter or baker weare a lynnen garment in the Church, upon occasion, as at other tymes, no man will except against it, or account it a ceremony, ecclesiasticall, or religious.

A cross that is used for a shop sign, hath no ecclesiastical or civill use in religion, except there be so many temples in one place, that they must be distinguished by signs, as shops are: As for the examples mentioned before, of the Bishops in their formalities, and the Clerks in their surplices, at a funeral for civill use: I answer, the immediate end of such formalities is religious, even in that, they are characters of ecclesiastical persons, and their religious office: Are not Rochets and such like formalities ecclesiastical ceremonies, being signs of chief ecclesiastical officers as such? The funeral, at ⟨p. 57⟩which they are present, doth no more make them civill, then among the Papists it maketh all their superstition to become a civill order: Nay by this it appeareth that both civill ceremonies may be used in ecclesiastical affairs, and ecclesiastical cerem. in civill affairs, because both may be used in the same affairs. To traverse these notions more full, I add these considerations: These words, matter pertaining to religion added in the explication of sacred cerem. may carry a double sense. ¹1. That it is enough to make ceremonies sacred, if this be their end to be serviceable to some thing, which is an ordinance, or to some person, in a holy function, or performance of an ordinance, and this seems to be the Rej. meaning for his examples carry this meaning, when wearing of blacks, rending of garments, in days of humiliation are made by him sacred cer. as also by those words, wherein he is so peremptory, and expresseth his lordly censuring, even of mens hearts, in lusting after contradiction, if they deny ceremonies used in religious affairs to be merely ecclesiastical, but this we conceive to be false, & hope it hath in part, and shall appear to be more plainly in the following discourse.