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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
A manuduction to the following dispute. › Chapter 7: Touching other partitions of Ceremonies, Pag.
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Neither is it any thing to me, what authority others do arrogate to themselves, concerning my practise, but what they require me to practise: I should account him as good a master or Lord, that should say, do this upon judgment, that thou shouldest do it, because I command it, as him, that saith, thou shalt do this, judge what thou wilt judge: The Rej. it may be will say, that he meaneth a freedom of judgment, in not accounting of them necessary to salvation: But no learned Papist holds their Ceremonias minores necessary to salvation, if he speak of necessity of sinning upon omission without scandal or contempt, that hath been handled before. Zanchius in his Ep. to Q. Elizabeth dealeth plainly, & pat to the point in hand. If these Cer. be propounded to Christians they must be propounded, either as indifferent or necessary: If this, we do impiously, to make those things necessary, which God hath left indifferent: If that, they are then to be left free, unto the church, but by commanding & constraining we make them necessary: ⟨p. 82⟩So Calvin de vera Ecclesiae reformation Opus. pag. 337. The• will except, 1that they b• things of a middle nature, the use whereof is indifferent to Christians, why therefore do they forbid any thing to be omitted?
Neither is it any thing to me, what au•hority others do arrogate to themselves, concerning my practise, but what they require me to practise: I should ac•ount him as good a master or Lord, that should say, do this upon judgment, that thou shouldest do it, because I commaund it, as him, that sayth, thou shalt do this, judge what thou wilt judge: The Rej. it may be will say, that he meaneth a freedome of judgment, in not accounting of them necessary to salvation: But no learned Papist •houlds their Ceremonias minores necessary to salvation, if he speake of necessity of synning upon omission without scandall or contempt, that hath beene handled before. Zanchius in his Ep. to Q. Elizabeth dealeth plainly, & patt to the point in hand. If these Cer. be propoūded to Christians they must be propoūded, either as indifferent or necessary: If this, we do impiously, to make those things necessary, which God hath left indifferent: If that, they are then to be left free, unto the church, but by cōmaunding & cōstraining we make thē necessary: