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.…

The last witness is Melanchthon, who faith in one place: […] man may not institute any worship of God, i.e. works ••ich God so alloweth, that he holdeth himself to be honoured them of themselves, or whose immediate end is, that God […] be honoured by them: As if we did hold the contrary, […] is not this testimony wisely alleged, that all men […] his opposites may grant, and the grant of it, neither hurts them, or helps him: Nay take away that ⟨p. 152⟩clause, Gods allowance and holding himself honoured, which no human institution can infer) we say that our Cerem. are such, for it is as an immediate end, of all mystical teaching rites, to honour God, by them and in them as of the word, so far as it preacheth the same virtues that Ceremon. do teach: And so much is taught by th• Rej. in these very dictates, when he reduceth these reductive ceremonies, under the head of immediate worship, for nothing can be immediate worship, whose immediate end is not, that God may be honoured by th• performance of it. The same appeareth out of th•• which the Rej. pag. 313. affirmeth, viz. that the prope• end of preaching is edification of men, if that be joined, which he every where teacheth, that the prope• end of significant Cerem. is edification: Of such Ceres ▪ therefore may well understand. Melanchthon, not only i• this place alleged,¹ but also Tom. 2. p. 142. The wor• understands not, how great a sin it is to forge worship wit• out Gods command: And P. 107. Idolatrous worships o• all they, which are appointed without the command of G•• Here is no distinction betwixt worship of it self, or b• it self and by accident reductively &c. The Rej. his test• monies being such as have been declared, there canno be much force in his examples, if they be agreeable t his rules, whereof he hath brought such cross witness The first example is, of free will offerings,