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.…

Hanna served God in fasting and prayer, Luc. 2.3• Fasting here was worship, saith Dr. B. in some sense, or else S. Luke was deceived. Whatsoever becometh of this consequence, the example fitteth not our Ceremo. for though D. B. hath often exhorted his Auditors to worship God in fasting & praying, in the same phrase, yet (I dare say) he never exhorted them, or any ministers to whom he hath preached amongst others, to serve God in Surplice and Prayer in crossing and baptizing, how much soever he favoureth these Ceremonies: The strange bleating such a phrase carieth with it, would have amazed his people, and affrighted the ministers, and discredited his ministry: by ⟨p. 145⟩this alone it appeareth, that the example of fasting is abused, when it is paralleled, with cross and surplice: 2. The consequence is all too peremptorily followed, or else St. Luke was deceived: I should rather think, that D.B. may be deceived in his interpretation of St, Luke: The phrase which St. Luke useth, doeth no more urge us, to make fasting worship in any sense, then St. Paul his phrase Eph 6. Watching unto all supplication with perseverance, doth constrain us to make perseverance, or watching a worship, distinct from supplication: Or then, the same Pauls phrase