A19142:585
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.
The Def. and Rejoinder say it is not good, except ⟨p. 24⟩by not commanding, be understood, forbidding as Lev. 10.1. Deut. 17.3. Which is thus far true, that except some forbidding be included or (as the Rejoinder speaketh) imported in that not commanding, not commanding cannot m•ke a thing unlawful. But that is the very question whether in things proper to religion, not commanding, doeth not include some kind of forbidding.
The Def. and Rejoynder say it is not good, except ⟨p. 24⟩by not commanding, be unde•stood, forbidding as Lev. 10.1. Deut. 17.3. Which is thus farr true, that except some forbidding be included or (as the Rejoynder speaketh) imported in that not commanding, not commanding c•nnot m•ke a thing unlawfull. But that is the very quaestion whether in thinges proper to religion, not commanding, doeth not include some kinde of forbid•ing.
2. The place mentioned by the Rejoinder: out of Lev. 10.1. doeth most strongly make against him. For the sons of Aron are there condemned, for bringing strange, or ordinary fire to Gods worship, as doing that which God had not commanded, and yet had not otherwise forbidden, then by providing fire proper to his worship, and not appointing any other to be used in the tabernacle, and this is the very plea which we make against Ceremonies of humane institution, in Gods worship. The scope of that text we are taught, by an English Bishop, Babington, in his notes upon that place: We may hence learn and settle in our hearts, with what severity the Lord challengeth and defendeth his authority, in laying down the way and manner of his worship, not leaving it to any creature, to meddle with, but according to prescription and appointment from him. Content he is, that men shall make laws for humane matters etc, But for his Divine worship, he only will prescribe it himself, and what he appointed, that must be done, and that only, or else Nadb and Abibu their punishment expected, that is, Gods wath expected, in such manner as he shall please.