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.…

6. This representative mother, is very seldom extant viz, when there is a Parliament, which now we have not had these diverse years: And when she appeareth, she can give no milk to her children, further then she hath commission from man: None of her children can have access unto her, only she appointed many years since, certain servants of hers, with restraint of their fathers allowance, to diet them, with dry ceremonies, and scourge them, with silencing, deprivation, excommunication, if they find fault with that provision, which is very pap, with a hatchet; Is not such a mother worthy grand titles and honour?

6. This representative mother, is very seldome exstant viz, when ther is a Parliament, which now we have not had these diverse yeares: And when she appeareth, she can give no milk to her children, further then she hath commission from man: None of her children can have accesse unto her, only she appointed many yeares since, certaine servants of hers, with restraint of their fathers allowance, to dyet them, with drye ceremonies, and scourge them, with silencing, deprivation, excommunication, if they fynd fault with that provision, which is very pap, with a hatchet; Is not such a mother worthy grand titles and honor?

7. The examples of such motherhood, which the Rej. fetcheth, from the assemblies of Israel, Scotland, and ⟨p. 90⟩our Parliament, have no agreement. For 1. we read of no assemblies of Elders (by office in Israel) from whence all other were excluded, styled either Mothers of Israel, or all Israel: Neither was there in any such assemblies, this motherly authority exercised, of appointing human sacred Ceremo. unto Israel. 2. The assemblies of Scotland, before Perth, had no such state, as our convocation, nor power of commanding, but only advised of, and directed those things which God had appointed, and the churches were known to desire, yet might their judgment be well called, the judgment of the church of Scotland, because they pronounced nothing, but that which all the churches of Scotland, did publicly profess, even in their solemn confession. 3. Our Parliament is not styled, the Mother common wealth of England, yet in civill affairs, more liberty is left for stile, and power, unto public assemblies, then in religious: But if the lower house of Parliament, were not more freely chosen, and of greater power, then the poor lower house of Convocation, a quaere might be made, whether the state or common wealth of England were there or no.