A19142:451
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.
1. He that acknowledgeth one God, Eternal, Almighty, &c. and two persons: but conceives the Holy-Ghost, not to be a distinct person beside them, but a work proceeding from them both, and so also depend• upon the Godhead thus apprehended: whether dot• such a man, falsely conceive of God, and falsely worship him: making no expression of this his conceiving o• dependence.
1. He that acknowledgeth one God, Eternall, Almighty, &c. and two persons: but conceaves the Holy-Ghost, not to be a distinct person beside them, but a work proceeding from them both, and so also depend• upon the Godhead thus apprehended: whether dot• such a man, falsely conceave of God, and falsely worship him: making no expression of this his conceaving o• dependance.
2. If there be the same ground and reason, to make false internal, as external worship, then the one may be as falsely performed as the other: but that there is the same ground for both, let any man compare them together, and it will appear at the first view: For the heart, can, and doth go aside as many ways from the rule, as the outward man doth, or can do: A man may fear God, upon a false ground, after a false manner to a wrong end: as well as preach, or pray upon a false ground, after a false manner, to a false end: So that I see no colour, nor can conceive, how those words can be excused: Internal worship is true, or not at all: Imaginary internal worship is no worship. For there is nothing, that can be called true, being ordered a right, according to rule, but there is a falsehood, which will arise by the wrong ordering, and ill disposing of the same thing: At a word, as every proper axiom• admits of a contradiction, and so of a falsehood necessarily: so likewise every individual action, which can admit of alteration, must needs admit of a wrong, as well, as of a right disposition, and by consequent of a falseness which may befall it in that kind.