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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.
Nay if he be put hard to, it vvil appear he hath, none: yea he is not acquainted with the things he doth, if he come to give an account, of what he hath done. Only you must believe, he hath private arguments, which do overpower his judgement: Otherwise he must grant, he doth practise without ground & reason: The sum in short is, he hath gotten a perspective about him, and perceives that ease, & liberty is good, & therefore, (Issachar like) is resolved to sit under his burden: he sees the way by swallowing o• ceremonies, how to sleep in a whole skin, & that •ourse he takes.
Nay if he be put hard to, it vvil appeare he hath, none: yea he is not acquaynted vvith the things he doth, if he come to give an account, of vvhat he hath done. Only you must beleive, he hath private arguments, vvhich doe overpovver his judgement: Othervvise he must graunt, he doth practise vvithout ground & reason: The summe in short is, he hath gotten a perspective about him, and perceyves that ease, & liberty is good, & therfore, (Issachar like) is resolved to sit under his burden: he sees the vvay by svvallovving o• ceremonyes, hovv to sleepe in a vvholle skinne, & that •ourse he takes.
1If some searching truth delivered in public, press him, or some sincere hearted friend persuade him to a further inquiry, he seeks after the truth, as a coward doth for his enemy, being a frayd to find it. Loath he is, to be in the society of such, whom he conceives, to be either Judicious in their dispute, or Zealous in their course, against this trash. Secretly desirous, that other should not occasion conference, or that such should not enter into serious communication of these things, & if they do, he is weary of it,2 & blames the Author of the discourse, as that more savoury or seasonable talk were shut out: When he goes for counsel, and direction, it is to some such Authors, who write for the things he would