A19142:402
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And by the same reason, Non-residents, Pluralists, Tot Quots, common swearers of diminutive oaths, & dicers, standing upon the lawfulness of their practise, may upon that supposition, call those, that gainsay them superstitious brethren.
And by the same reason, Non-residents, Pluralists, Tot Quots, common swearers of diminitive oaths, & dicers, standing upon the lawfulnes of their practise, may upon that supposition, call those, that gaynesay them superstitious brethren.
2. For the exploding rather then answering or confuting of the foresaid ridiculous accusation it was alleged: That superstition is a kind of excess of religious worship, and that an excess, or error in a negation, was never called by any author superstition, when he meant to speak properly, except that very negation, be held as a special worship. That we do not abstain from these Ceremo. but as from other unlawful corruptions (even out of the compass of worship: That every erroneous denial of things lawful is not superstition, and that all sorts of definitions which are given of superstition, do touch upon our Cerem. rather then on the denial or condemning of them. All this could not stay the Rej. but he must maintain, and renew this weighty charge, as he calleth it, and pronounce, that if we can avoid it, it is our wit, (as if he would say) our book hath saved us: Let us therefore consider, what the accuser can say, to bring us to this extreme pass.
2. For the exploiding rather then answering or confuting of the foresaid ridiculous accusation it was alledged: That superstition is a kynd of excesse of religious worship, and that an excesse, or error in a negation, was never called by any author superstition, when he meant to speake properly, except that very negation, be held as a speciall worship. That we doe not absteine from these Ceremo. but as from other unlawfull corruptions (even out of the compasse of worship: That every erroneous deniall of things lawfull is not superstition, and that all sorts of definitions which are given of superstition, doe touch upon our Cerem. rather then on the deniall or condemning of them. All this could not stay the Rej. but he must maintaine, and renue this weighty charge, as he calleth it, and pronounce, that if we can avoyd it, it is our witt, (as if he would say) our book hath saved us: Lett us therfore consider, what the accuser can say, to bringe us to this extreame passe.