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.…

What should a man say to such Rejoyners, that know full well our meaning, and yet will never leave threaping another meaning upon us.

What should a man say to suche Rejoyners, that know full well our meaning, and yet will never leave threaping another meaning upon us.

We never said, or thought, that all particular rites pertaining to order and decency, are punctually determined in the Scripture. We never dreamed that all such rites being beside the particular determination of the Scripture, are against it, we speak of double or treble rites as the Rejoinder stileth them, which no mere order and decency doeth necessarily require, but only the mere will of man enjoin.

Wee never sayd, or thought, that all particular rites pertaining to order and decencie, are punctually determined in the Scripture. Wee never dreamed that all suche rites being beside the particular determination of the Scripture, are against it, wee speak of double or treble rites as the Rejoynder stileth them, which no mere order and decencie doeth necessarily require, but onely the mere will of man injoine.

All this the Rejoinder knoweth: and yet he ceaseth not to beat the air, with endless repetitions of this imputation, gilded over with some variety of taunting phrases, that it may be the easier, swallowed by his unwary ⟨p. 30⟩reader. 2. It is secondly answered by the Def. that the ancient writers speak of doctrines, not of ceremonies. Whereunto the Repl. granting that to be true for the most part yet answereth, that the trueth of their sayings may be taken so generally, as to include all religious Ceremonies. Here the Rejoinder objecteth that limitation (for the most part) is only to abuse the simple, and that the ambiguous term of religious Ceremony, is a bush to hide I know not what in.