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.…

Others of this rank, plead the love of their people,¹ the necessity of preaching, & hope of doing good: how precious mens pains are, & what need of labourers in the vineyard. And therefore conclude, if all men should sit do wur in silence, as some do, the ruin of the Church must needs follow. They confess (its true indeed) these popish relics, which are the bane of the Churches peace, being unprofitable & needless, nay scandalous & offensive, should be removed. But when they weigh that heavy charge: Woe if I: preach not the Gospel, they are then willing to bear all, rather then to deprive the Church of the benefit, & the souls of Gods people, of the profit & comfort of their ministry:² whereas alas all this pretence of mercy is a miserable mistake, & commonly that worldly watch word (of favour thy self) lies closely covered under these curious flourishes of care & compassion for the common good. For the question is not, whether preaching be precious, or the pains of faithful Ministers profitable? But the doubt here is, whether we may come to do lawful things, by unlawful means? To sin, that we may do service? As though ⟨image 16⟩the Lord had need of my lye; or else that he could not bring his servants to his owe haven, without the devils boat; or that Christ could not uphold his own kingdom without the pains & preaching of some men; now I conceive, it is undeniably evident, that the suffering, in the time of Queen Mary's days, did more settle & enlarge the bounds of the Gospel, then all the preaching did in King Edward the sixth his reign.

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