A19142:405
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
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2. The practise of superstitious persons in those days, condemned here by the verdict of this place, caries no proportion or resemblance, with our cessation, or negative abstaining from cerem. because there touch not, •ast not, &c. were taken up by virtue of mans imposition, and for the more special worship of God,1 in a more peculiar manner, but we cease from ours, by virtue of another rule, with no such intent, as to present any peculiar kind of honour to God thereby: And thus abstaining from our Ceremon. as unlawful, upon conscience (though they were lawful,) cannot be superstition, except first it be an elicited act of religion, or worship: Such worship it cannot be, except either in the intention of the abstainer, or in the nature of the forbearance, it be used as a means, to give unto God special honour, that is, other and more immediate honour, then we do, by acts of obedience, common to the second table, with the first: But this is neither in our intention, nor doth the nature of such forbearance as we use, imply it: For that common charge which usually occurs in scripture, cease to do evil, Isay. 1. Abstain from all appearance of evil, 1. Thess. 5. is a duty of obedience in general common to both tables: Now, if it be only materially determined, upon a work of the second table, not formally elicited, from love or justice to our ⟨p. 98⟩brother, it is no act of love or justice. As if a man hating his neighbour, should yet for fear of Gods judgment, abstain from killing of him, this was no act of love, or justice, toward him; Even so, abstaining from our Cerem. as evil for fear of offending God, though it may materially be referred to the first table, yet cannot it be an elicited act of worship, except it floweth from religion, or a desire to do special honour to God thereby.
2. The practise of superstitious persons in those dayes, condemned here by the verdit of this place, caries no proportion or resemblance, with our cessation, or negative absteining from cerem. because there touch not, •ast not, &c. were taken up by virtue of mans imposiion, and for the more speciall worship of God,