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 to be applied to a religious affair, make a thing sacred, then all things almost and all arts may be sacred, because they may be applied to a matter, thing, or person religious, as the next object and end. If the pulpit be a sacred thing, because it is applied to support the minister preaching: then is the air sacred, its applied to his speech in speaking: then is the light sacred, its applied to his eye in reading, then are his spectacles sacred, for they are used by him, reading his text, then the two pottle pots, which hold the wine consecrated, should be sacred pots, Nay the ministers doublet, that covers him, yea if he was hoarse, and took some oil to help his voice, they should now become sacred doublets, and sacred oil. The paper book which the preacher ⟨p. 60⟩looked on, when he is out in his sermon, should be a sacred paper book, and to follow the Rej. if putting on of ashes upon the head, be sacred in the day of humiliation, then by like proportion, when God enjoins people in a fast, to putt on their poorest and meanest attire, those ragged bands, and old Caps, and Quoifes were sacred bands, and Quoifes and Caps: But do you laugh at these things masters? when the Rej. is so violent in this cause, that he breaks the bridle, and flies out against all, that will not yield to him in this: And I would wish the reader to consider how righteous it is, with God, to suffer men to fall foully when they will follow their own imaginations: Erewhile the Rej. made all things Cerem. by the looseness of his definition, and now to help the Ceremo. he would make all things sacred by the large compass he gives to religious Cere. The vanity of which expression, I hope appears sufficiently, by that, which hath been said, but yet that the meanest may feel with his finger, the grossness of this mistake,¹ I shall add one more instance. The height of the sun, or the sound of a clock one & the same, may at the same time, in the same city, be a direction for Protestants, Papists, Jews, Anabaptists, & all sects to assemble for religious service: It may at the same time by the same sound be a direction, for magistrates to meet for judicature, for drunkards to meet to riot, for gamesters to meet to play, for travellers to meet to set upon their journey:

If to be applyed to a religious affaire, make a thing sacred, then all things almost and all arts may be sacred, because they may be applyed to a matter, thing, or person religious, as the next object and end. If the pulpitt be a sacred thing, because it is applyed to support the minister preaching: then is the ayre sacred, its applyed to his speech in speaking: then is the light sacred, its applyed to his eye in reading, then are his spectacles sacred, for they are used by him, reading his text, then the two pottle potts, which hould the wyne consecrated, should be sacred potts, Nay the ministers doublett, that covers him, yea if he was hoarse, and tooke some oyle to help his voice, they should now become sacred doubletts, and sacred oyle. The paper book which the preacher