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.…

SECT. 2. Concerning the exemplifying of the former distinction of worship by instances, and confirming of it by witnesses in the same treat: Cap. 4.

SECT. 2. Concerning the ex•mplyfying of the former distinction of worship by instances, and confirming of it by witnesses in the same treat: Cap. 4.

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 Acts 20.19. serving the Lord with many tears and temptations, do make temptations a special kind of worship. 3. Fasting may be called worship by a trope, as being a special adjunct of some extraordinary worship, and yet not be a special kind of immediate reductive worship, or any other kind. 4. The truth is that fasting, is such a help to extraordinary humiliation, as moderate fasting, is to extraordinary thanksgiving, and therefore is no more worship, then Christian fasting: And to this purpose do our divines answer, concerning this place, which is ordinarily objected by every Papist, as here by the Rej. See Chemnitius upon these words: See Polanus, Syntag. lib. 9. cap. 8. Fasting is a help to prayer,