A19142:462
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.
At a word: an action may be done by the rule of Ethics, or the rule of outward ecclesiastical policy and church discipline appointed by Christ: Or lastly by an inward spiritual principle of grace: The two former, may be true without the last, though a mans sins in separating the last from the first, because though the first be good in their kind, yet they are not sufficient: the former therefore are to be continued, and the sin in the last to be reformed: Hence the Prophet Isaiah 1.16. Put away the evil of your doings, the Lord enjoins them not to take away their works, but the evil of them: as though he should have said; sacrifice still according to rule prescribed; choose a sacrifice without blemish &c. for the matter; offer it according to rites appointed, for the manner, as before, but being also a heart ⟨p. 132⟩humbled, a life reformed, wherein you have hitherto failed, keep that which is good, and add that which is awanting.
At a word: an action may be done by the rule of Ethicks, or the rule of outward ecclesiasticall policy and church discipline appointed by Christ: Or lastly by an inward spirituall principle of grace: The two former, may be true without the last, though a mans sinnes in seperating the last from the first, because though the first be good in their kynd, yet they are not sufficient: the former therfore are to be continued, and the sinne in the last to be reformed: Hence the Prophet Isaiah 1.16. Put away the evill of your doings, the Lord enjoynes thē not to take away their works, but the evill of them: as though he should have said; sacrifice still according to rule prescribed; choose a sacrifice without blemish &c. for the matter; offer it according to rites appointed, for the manner, as before, but being also a heart ⟨p. 132⟩humbled, a life reformed, wherein you have hitherto fayled, keepe that which is good, and add that which is awanting.