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.…

•n the church, which fall under the nature of a counsel, but •hose which come under the nature of a precept, the violators •o not of them, all ours would make guilty of sin, unless peradventure they shall be found contemners.

•n the church, which fall under the nature of a counsell, but •hose which come under the nature of a praecept, the violators •o not of them, all ours would make guilty of synne, unlesse peradventure they shall be found contemners.

This which Cassander saith is fair, yet to make it ⟨p. 72⟩more full, I will add some other testimonies, and those of note.¹ Gregorius de Valentia a Jesuit, Tom. 4. disput. 3. question. 1. part. 4. It is a notorious lye, that we attribute so much to these rites as we do to the Sacraments, and that we have them in the same account, as though a true Sacrament could not be instituted without them: If any of the vulgar sor• err in that behalf and so conceive, assuredly; neither the church nor divines so teach: If they be omitted without scandal and contempt, and the matter be small and that a serious will and full deliberation be wanting, it will be only a venial sin. So Cajetan a Cardinal: The rule is universal, that in those things which stand by a positive law, if the transgression be made without contempt, and crossing the end of th• law, from some excuse appearing to the party, if it proceed from him, who hath a mind no ways siding against the command which binds to a mortal sin, a mortal sin is no• by that breach committed, because it is not the intention of th holy and just mother the church, to ensnare such good souls with so dangerous a bond.