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.…

1. The first answer is, that the accusation is not true, unless the Agreement of the Articles of Faith, and Religion were not good. But 1. this being granted to be good, yet the accusation may be true, because this Act of An. 1571. can hardly be said to have been concluded within the memory of man. 2. It may well be questioned whether in this, our Convocation hath done that which was not better done to their hands. To which purpose it shall not be extravagant, nor unprofitable, to compare a little the Articles as they were set forth in King Edwards days, Anno 1552. with the edition which the Convocation of Anno 1571. hath left us. In the former we find ⟨p. 116⟩this Article De Gratia. ¹The Grace of Christ, or the Holy Spirit which is given by him, takes away the heart of stone, and gives an heart of flesh; such as were unwilling to things lawful, he makes willing; and such as willed things unlawful, he makes unwilling. Which Article is, I know not wherefore, left out in the later edition. This I am sure of, that if the said Article had been renewed in the same manner as it was first set down, it had been one bar more than now is found against those among us which follow Arminius, and his Remonstrants, & one warrant for public preaching against them, Secondly, in the Article of Justification, it was before said, that the doctrine by sole faith in that sense in which it is explained in the Homily of Justification, ²is most certain; Now in the later edition this most certain is left out, and for co sensu is putt in an ambiguous terme ut. Whatsoever was the occasion or meaning of this change, the former words were more full against those that broach new doctrines about Justification, such as Dr. Jackson doeth in his book of Justifying Faith. Thirdly, in the Article o• Sacraments, the former edition had, that the efficacy of them is not from the work done, ³which expression (in their Latin) as it is strange, and not known in holy writ, so it carrieth w•th it a sense savouring little of piety, but much of superstition. Which words, if they had been still retained, (as they are not) some superstitious conceits about the Sacramē s might by them have been suppressed. Fourthly, In the Article De Coena Domini, the olde edition had these words: